3. Герундий (The gerund)

Герундий – это неличная форма глагола, обладающая как свойствами существительного, так и глагола.

Образование: основа глагола + ing например: speaking

Функции герундия

подлежащее	Reading English is necessary for every engineer	Чтение (читать) по-английски необходимо каждому инженеру.
сказуемое	His hobby is reading.	Его любимое занятие – чтение.
дополнение	I am fond of reading.	Я люблю читать.
определение	I like his way of reading.	Мне нравится его манера читать.
обстоятельство	Before reading the text you must learn this rule.	Прежде чем прочитать текст вы должны выучить это правило.

Вариант № 1

1. Перепишите предложения, переведите их на русский язык. Определите функции глаголов to be, to have, to do.

1. The signals were sent in Morse code.

2. Marconi does receive radio signals over Atlantic.

3. Scientists had to transmit energy to space by using laser.

2. Перепишите и переведите следующие предложения. Определите функцию инфинитива.

1. Marconi experimented with electromagnetic waves to send signals.

2. The telegraph wire was the quickest way to get massages from here to there.

3. Signals to be measured must be strong enough.

3. Перепишите и переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на инфинитивные обороты.

1. Making experiments with electric telegraph Morse noticed a pencil make a wavy line when connected to an electric wire.

2. The first pocket-size colour television sets were reported to have been developed.

3. We knew Marconi to patent his system in 1901.

4. Найдите герундий и определите его функцию. Перепишите и переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. Instead of hearing the usual dots and dashes of Morse code, the listeners heard an eerie Silent Night.

2. On designing a transmitter Marconi managed to send signals over several miles with no wires.

3. Marconi was only twenty-one years old when he succeeded in transmitting signals by radio waves.

5. Прочитайте текст. Будьте готовы прочитать и перевести любой абзац текста без словаря.

Marconi receives radio signals over Atlantic

1. Late in the nineteenth century, Guglielmo Marconi began experimenting with electromagnetic waves to send signals. At that time, the, telegraph wire was the quickest way to get messages from here to there, using Morse code. He designed a transmitter to send and a receiver to detect radio waves. By the end of the century Marconi had managed to send signals over several miles with no wires, and the idea was taking hold with naval officials. In 1898 he sent a wireless message across 18 miles. In 1900 he patented his system.

2. On December 12, 1901, Marconi attempted to send the first radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean, in spite of predictions that the radio waves would be lost as the earth curved over that long distance. He sent up a specially designed wireless receiver in Newfoundland, Canada, using a coherer (a glass tube filled with iron filings) to conduct radio waves, and balloons to lift the antenna as high as possible. The signals were sent in Morse code from Poldhu, Cornwall in England.

6. Прочитайте текст по специальности (стр. 41) и переведите его письменно.

7. Прочитайте и подготовьте пересказ текста «Science and technological progress» (стр. 39).