- •Entry test 1
- •Укажите правильный вариант временных форм глаголов в скобках:
- •Выберите правильный артикль:
- •Выберите правильный предлог:
- •Выберите соответствующее местоимение:
- •Выберите правильный вариант перевода следующих предложений:
- •I. Improve your word power.
- •Read the words, put the right stress and guess the meaning of the words:
- •Remember the words:
- •The passive voice
- •1. Study the general models of the Passive constructions. Say what tenses are used and translate into Russian:
- •III. Reading Comprehension.
- •1. Read the text, find all sentences with Passive Voice and translate them. Building materials
- •2. Answer the following questions:
- •High scale of construction
- •Improve your word power.
- •Read the words, put the right stress and guess the meaning of the words.
- •Lime and sand
- •2. Answer the following questions:
- •Housebuilding combine
- •2. Read and translate into Russian using a dictionary. Egyptian pyramids
- •Improve Your Word Power.
- •Read the words, put the right stress and guess the meaning of the words.
- •Translate the following groups of words into Russian:
- •Arrange the following in pairs of synonyms:
- •Arrange the following in pairs of antonyms:
- •2. Answer the following questions:
- •Comprehension and Word Study.
- •Fill in the blanks with one of the following prepositions: of, in, to, according, into, between, from.
- •Where did primitive people look for protection?
- •Put the following sentences of the text in a chronological order.
- •I. Improve your word power.
- •1. Read the words. Put the right stress and guess the meaning of the words:
- •4. Translate the following groups of words into Russian:
- •7. Arrange the following in pairs of antonyms:
- •1. Read and translate the text: cement
- •7. Fill in the blanks with one of the following prepositions: due to, of, to, in, on, by.
- •2. Write 10 questions to the text.
- •3. Read and translate into Russian:
- •Improve Your Word Power.
- •Read the words, put the right stress and guess the meaning of the words:
- •1. Pay attention to the different forms of the infinitive and their meaning.
- •2. Read and translate the sentences in which the Infinitive is used as:
- •3. Look for the Complex Object and translate the sentences.
- •4. Look for the Complex Subject. Translate the sentences.
- •5. Translate the sentences with Infinitive:
- •III. Reading Comprehension.
- •Read and translate the text: types of portland cement
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Comprehension and Word Study.
- •Translate into Russian:
- •Translate into English:
- •White cement
- •Pozzuolana
- •I. Improve your word power.
- •1. Read the words, put the right stress and guess the meaning of the words:
- •3. Form the adjectives from the following nouns with the help of the suffixes: -ic, -ive, -ous, -cy, -ness, -ing, -tion.
- •II. Reading Comprehension.
- •1. Read and translate the text “Classes of cement”.
- •Progress test 2
- •2. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов:
- •3. Определите, соответствуют ли следующие утверждения действительности. Поставьте знаки t (True – верно ) или f (False – неверно ).
- •Entry test
- •Выберите правильную форму в следующих предложениях:
- •Поставьте слова в правильном порядке:
- •Укажите правильный вариант перевода подчеркнутых грамматических явлений:
- •I. Improve Your Word Power.
- •1. Read the words, put the right stress and guess the meaning of the words.
- •2. Study your active vocabulary:
- •4. Translate the following groups of words into Russian:
- •II. Reading Comprehension.
- •2. Answer the following questions:
- •III. Comprehension and Word Study.
- •1. Remember what Russian words have the same roots as English ones, match equivalents on the right:
- •The participle
- •Translate the following sentences paying attention to the forms and functions of the Participle:
- •Insert the appropriate form of the Participle from brackets; translate the sentences.
- •Lime mortar
- •2. Write 10 questions to the text.
- •3. Read and translate into Russian.
- •I. Improve your word power:
- •1. Read the words, put the right stress and guess the meaning of the words:
- •4. Arrange the following in pairs of synonyms:
- •6. Translate the following groups of words into Russian:
- •II. Reading Comprehension:
- •Read and trandlate the text properties of mortar
- •Answer the following questions:
- •III. Comprehension and Word Study.
- •Ask questions to all points of the following sentence:
- •2. Ask questions to the following sentences in pairs. Use the expressions: I wonder, I want to know, as far as I know, in fact, it’s hard to say, to my mind, in my opinion, I believe, I suppose.
- •Make the sentences interrogative and give short answers:
- •Translate into Russian paying attention to the Nominative absolute Participial Constructions:
- •Special kinds of heavy concrete.
- •I. Improve your word power:
- •1. Read the words, put the right stress and guess the meaning of the words:
- •1. Read and translate the sentences in which the Gerund is used as:
- •2. Point out the gerunds; translate the sentences:
- •III. Reading Comprehension.
- •Read and translate the text: concrete
- •4. Ask questions to the following sentences in pairs. Use the expressions: I wonder, as far as I know, in fact, it is hard to say, to my mind, I believe, I suppose.
- •5. Say whether it is true or false:
- •VI. Supplementary Reading.
- •1. Read and retell the text: water
- •Water in cement
- •I. Improve your word power:
- •1. Read the words, put the right stress and guess the meaning of the words:
- •4. Translate the following groups of words into Russian:
- •II. Reading Comprehension:
- •III. Comprehension and Word Study.
- •1. Make up sentences with the following word-combinations:
- •2. Translate the following word combinations into English:
- •Gas concrete
- •I. Improve your word power:
- •1. Read the words, put the right stress and guess the meaning of the words:
- •4. Translate the following words into Russian:
- •5. Chose the adjectives from column 2 to the nouns in column 1:
- •Aggregate
- •3. State what part of speech the –ing forms in bold type belong to ; translate the sentences:
- •Colour of aggregate
- •I. Improve your word power:
- •1. Read the words, put the right stress and guess the meaning of the words:
- •Reinforced concrete
- •Bonding new concrete to old
- •2. Answer the following questions to the topic:
- •Vocabulary
3. State what part of speech the –ing forms in bold type belong to ; translate the sentences:
1) The building of the bridge is coming to the end. 2) He insists on building the bridge in that place. 3) The builders examined the project carefully before concluding the contract. 4) The students visited one of the largest plants producing new building materials in our country. 5) This tensile stress should have a counterbalancing resistance in the bottom. 6) It was always desirable to design structures which didn’t require constant painting, cleaning, repairing.
IV. Post-reading activities:
1. Find the sentences expressing the main ideas of each logical unit in the text.
2. Write a summary of the text
3. Make up a dialogue using the text “Aggregate” according to the following steps:
a) Natural and crushed aggregate. b) Storage of aggregate.
V. Supplementary Reading.
1. Read and translate the text:
Colour of aggregate
A wide variety in the colour of aggregate is possible and attention should be paid to the opportunities of obtaining decorative results. The traditional examples of this, is the use of marble aggregate to form terrazzo, but many interesting effects can be obtained from less expensive materials. It is now common practice to use a wide variety of coloured aggregates in facing concrete. These special aggregates are usually confined to thin surface layers with addition of more ordinary materials.
LESSON 12
I. Improve your word power:
1. Read the words, put the right stress and guess the meaning of the words:
Steel, material, minimum, maximum, column, position, accurately, corrosion, section, temperature, compression, construction, economic (uneconomic).
2. Study your active vocabulary:
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beam
балка
conventional
традиционный
damage
повреждение
flexure
сгиб, изгиб
plain
простой, обычный
plate
пластина
slab
плита
steel
сталь
weak
слабый
vulnerable
уязвимый
embed
укреплять, укладывать
dimension
размер
girder
балка, ферма
retaining wall
подпорная стенка
bin
бункер
pavement
дорожное покрытие
dome
купол
3. Match Russian equivalents for the following word combinations on the left and learn them:
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1) plain concrete
1) предопределенное положение
2) in excess
2) значительно выше, больше
3) valuable building material
3) прогибающиеся части
4) predetermined position
4) обычный бетон
5) flexural members
5) подпорная стена
6) wire mesh
6) железобетонные плиты
7) runway pavement
7) проволочная сетка
8) retaining wall
8) дорожное покрытие
9) highway pavement
9) шоссейное покрытие
10) reinforced slabs
10) ценный строительный материал
4. Give adjectives to the following nouns in the first column:
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1) concrete
1) coarse
2) material
2) building
3) position
3) plain
4) members
4) predetermined
5) aggregate
5) flexural
6) valuable
7) reinforced
5. Put stress in the following words:
Compression, vulnerable, temperature, valuable, corrosion, accurately, reinforcement, construction, uneconomic, present.
6. Analyze the suffixes in the following words and translate them into Russian:
Compression, valuable, flexural, accurately, conventional, usually, practically, essentially.
II. Reading Comprehension.
Read and translate the text: