- •Английский язык в профессиональной коммуникации
- •Предисловие
- •Text 1.The importance of learning foreign languages
- •Choose the right answer using information from the text.
- •Translate the following sentences into Russian, pay attention to the modal verbs and their equivalents.
- •Point out the reasons for learning foreign languages described in the text. Think of your own reasons for that. Discuss it with the other students in class.
- •Render the text using the following plan:
- •Text 2. Planning a career
- •Say if the statements are true or false.
- •Match the words from the text and the definitions given below.
- •Make up a dialogue between undergraduates about their future career. Discuss the following questions:
- •Text 3.
- •I. Give the text the proper title.
- •II. Match the phrases from the text with their Russian variant.
- •III.Answer the following questions:
- •IV.Enlarge upon the following topics:
- •Text 4. Teaching as a Profession
- •Match the words and definitions
- •II. Choose between “to educate”, “to bring up” and “to teach” to complete the following sentences.
- •III. Insert the appropriate nouns and adverbs in the following sentences.
- •Speak about your typical day as if you were a teacher. Text 5. A teacher’s lot is certainly a different one
- •I. Choose the right answer or continue the statements given below.
- •Discuss the peculiarities of the teaching profession. Why is it so different from the other jobs?
- •A friend of yours is going to become a teacher. Using the active vocabulary inform him/her about advantages and disadvantages of his/her future profession. Text 6.
- •Put these events in the order in which they happened.
- •Find in the text expressions which mean the same as the following:
- •Text 7. Archimedes
- •Read and translate the following international words:
- •Form Present, Past and Future Simple Passive from the following expressions:
- •Give the correct translation of the underlined part.
- •Speak about the story about Archimedes described in the text. Text 8.Euclid
- •Give the correct translation of the underlined part.
- •Answer the following questions.
- •Form Present, Past and Future Simple Passive from the following expressions.
- •Speak about Euclid and one of his famous books which is called “Elements”. Text 9. Albert Einstein
- •Find international words in the text and guess their meaning.
- •Give the Russian equivalents to the following words and word combinations:
- •Speak about a. Einstein’s greatest discoveries. Signs used in Mathematics
- •Text 10.
- •Match the words in column a with their equivalents in column b.
- •II. Fill in the blanks with the proper words.
- •III. Choose the right answer to the question.
- •IV. Choose the proper title to the text.
- •V. Give the correct translation of the underlined part.
- •Text 11.
- •I. Match the words in column a with their equivalents in column b.
- •II. Fill in the blanks with the proper words.
- •III. Choose the right answer to the question.
- •IV. Choose the proper title to the text.
- •V. Give the correct translation of the underlined part.
- •Text 12.
- •I. Match the words in column a with their equivalents in column b.
- •II. Fill in the blanks with the proper words.
- •III. Choose the right answer to the question.
- •IV. Choose the proper title to the text.
- •V. Give the correct translation of the underlined part.
- •Text 13.
- •Match the words in column a with their equivalents in column b.
- •Fill in the blanks with the proper words.
- •III. Choose the right answer to the question.
- •IV. Choose the proper title to the text.
- •V. Give the correct translation of the underlined part.
- •Text 14. Four Basic Operations of Arithmetic
- •Answer the following questions to the text:
- •Translate the following sentences into Russian:
- •Text 15. Microsoft.
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Choose the right answer to the questions:
- •Insert the required word or a phrase.
- •Render the article using the following plan:
- •Text 16.
- •Introduction to the www and the Internet
- •Define the following words using a dictionary:
- •Match the sentences with the required words:
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Discuss the following:
- •InternetResources
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Answer the following questions:
How old is Microsoft
Who are the founders of Microsoft?
What languages did Bill Gates and Paul Allen invent?
What was the most successful product of Microsoft?
What did Microsoft celebrate in 1985?
What do people say about Microsoft products?
Choose the right answer to the questions:
What was the name of the computer Bill Gates and Paul Allen ordered in 1975?
IBM 475 B. MITS Altair 600 C. Pentium IV
Windows appeared in … .
1993 B. 1995 C. 1983
The early version of Windows didn’t work well …
but computer users were happy with MS-DOS.
and computer users were dissatisfied with MS-DOS.
and only a small part of computer users were happy with MS-DOS.
By 1985 the annual sales of Microsoft were …
$1 million B. $140 million C. $354 million
5 Some people say that the best Microsoft products have been developed …
very quickly and therefore had many drawbacks.
for a long time but were very complicated and user-unfriendly.
from ideas created by others.
Insert the required word or a phrase.
One of the richest and most … businesses in the world is only 35 years old.
In 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen were both undergraduates at … University.
Some months later they founded a … under the name of Microsoft.
Microsoft’s big … came in 1981 with Microsoft MS-DOS.
Windows … a graphical “point and click” operating environment.
Render the article using the following plan:
The article / text I’d like to comment on is taken from … .
The text is headlined … .
The text is about … .
The main idea is … .
The purpose / aim of the article / text is to give the reader some information on … / to compare / to provide the reader with some material on… .
The text is divided into … parts. The first part deals with … . The second part is about … . The third part touches upon … . The forth part includes… ,
The article makes us thinking about … .
It enables us to draw a conclusion that … .
I find the article / text worth discussing / worth thinking over / interesting / uninteresting / important / of no value / easy / hard to understand.
Text 16.
Introduction to the www and the Internet
Millions of people around the world use the Internet to search for and retrieve information on all sorts of topics in a wide variety of areas. People communicate through electronic mail (e-mail), social networks, chat channels and other means of information exchange. They share information and make commercial and business transactions. All this activity is possible because tens of thousands of networks are connected to the Internet and exchange information in the same basics ways.
The World Wide Web (WWW) is a part of the Internet. But it’s not a collection of networks. Rather, it is information that is connected or linked together like a web. You access the information through one interface or tool called a Web browser.By using a computer terminal (hardware) connected to a network that is a Part of the Internet and by using a program (software) to browse or retrieve information that is a part of the World Wide Web through the local providers have access to the variety of information. Each browser provides a graphical interface. You move from place to place, from site to site on the Web by using a mouse to click on a portion of text, icon or region of a map. These items are called hyperlinks or links. Each link you select represents a document, an image, a video or an audio file somewhere on the Internet.
All sorts of things are available on the WWW. One can use Internet for recreational purposes. Many TV and radio stations broadcast live on the WWW. Essentially, if something can be put into digital format and stored in a computer, then it’s available on the WWW.
Just a little bit of exploring the World Wide Web will show you what a lot of use and fun it is.