3. Make a sentence out of the two parts.

1. Nowadays electronic devices	1. airplanes, ships, trains and cars having built-in electronic circuits and instruments.
2. We are surrounded	2. is being used more widely at home and in office.
3. There are	3. without electronically con- trolled machine-tools.
4. A personal computer	4. with electronics everywhere in everyday life and at plants and factories.
5. People are carried by	5. scientific research without computers.
6. The modern production is unthinkable	6. are in general usage
7. It is impossible to imagine	7. electronic watches we wear, telephone, radio, and TV sets we speak, listen to and watch.

4. Speak about:

1. The application of electronics in everyday life.

2. New developments in computers.

Use exercise 2,3 and the following words and word combinations for your topic:

to be in general usage, research is going on, throughout the world, further development, high speed electronic circuits of the highest quality, according to some researchers, a photon computer, by means of light, advantage over, in a few decades.

5. Comment on the following statement.

Electronic games are very popular today. There are already up to 10,000 different computer games in the world.

Iw # 4.2 modal verbs

1. Write the following sentences in the Past Simple and Future Simple.

1. We can help you.

2. I can do this work myself.

3. She can translate the article into Russian.

4. I can buy a dictionary for you.

5. He can go to the library with you.

6. They can read English texts.

7. I must do my exercises.

8. He must be at the Institute at 9 o’clock.

9. You must learn the story by heart.

10. We must walk fast to get to the station in time.

11. She must do it at once.

12. I must wait for him.

2. Поясніть вживання can і could в наступних реченнях і перекладіть на українську мову.

1. I can easily carry this trunk to the station.

2. He said that he could ship the goods in September.

3. When he was young , he could run a mile in less than five minutes.

4. He can’t have done it, it is very unlike him.

5. I could do it tomorrow if I were free.

6. Why did you stop at a hotel? You could have spent the night at my house.

7. I said that he could not have missed the train, as he had left the house very easily.

8. If I had received his letter last week, I could have helped him.

2. Поясніть вживання may і might в наступних реченнях і перекладіть на українську мову.

1. You may take any book you like.

2. I have told you this so that you may take precautions.

3. She told him that might go home.

4. He may come to-night, but I’m not sure.

5. I gave him the text-book so that he might learn his lesson.

6. It is strange John isn’t here.He may have forgotten about our appointment, or he may have come while I was out.

7. If he made haste, he might catch the train.

8. I said that he was not in the house, but he might be in the garden.

9. If you had tried harder, you might have succeeded.

10. I may come and see you next summer, but my plans are not fixed.

11. May I have another cup of tea?