- •Методические указания по английскому языку для студентов 1 курса Unit 5
- •Practice exercises Present Continuous
- •Present Continuous or Present Simple
- •Специальный вопрос
- •Test: Present Simple vs Present Continuous
- •Variant I
- •Variant II
- •Grammar: Alternative Question, Disjunctive Question Text2. My Free Time hobbies
- •Verbs and Verbal Phrases
- •A hobby is a favourite pastime of a person. Hobbies differ like tastes. If your have chosen a hobby to your liking, lucky you are: you have made your life more interesting.
- •Practice exercises Alternative and Disjunctive Questions
- •Text3. Mass Media
- •Practice exercise: Past Continuous.
- •Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
- •Future Continuous.
- •Text4. Great Britain
- •England
- •Text5. Traditions and Customs
- •Text6. Holidays of gb
- •Practice exercise: Modal verbs
- •4. Choose the best option
- •Variant I
- •Variant II
- •Text7. Political System of uk
- •Text8. State System of the Russian Federation
- •Practice exercises. Modal Verbs and their Equivalents
- •Variant I
- •1. Complete the sentences. Use can, can’t, could, couldn’t
- •2. Rewrite the sentences in Past and Future Tenses.
- •3. Make sentences from the following words and translate them.
- •Variant II
- •1. Complete the sentences. Use can, can’t, could, couldn’t
- •2. Rewrite the sentences in Past and Future Tenses.
- •3. Make sentences from the following words and translate them.
- •Unit 10 Addition and Subtraction
- •Multiplication and Division
- •Practice exercises.
Методические указания по английскому языку для студентов 1 курса Unit 5
Text: Science and technology
Grammar: Present Continuous, Special questions
Text.1.Science and technology Science and technology play an important part in our life. Scientists investigate the laws of the universe, discover the secrets of nature, and apply their knowledge in practice improving the life of people. As the years go forward a lot of new things appear, our mind develops and it cannot stop.
Many centuries ago people even couldn’t imagine that we will be able to exchange information using telephone, fax, Internet as long as they couldn’t think that there are a lot of planets except our earth and that people can fly their. Sometimes we don’t think about the inventions and their role in our everyday life, because we can’t imagine our life without radio and television, without electricity and central heating. During the centuries people tried to invent things to make our life easier.
A great invention such as transport plays one of most important roles in our life. We live in flats, can appear in different parts of earth within a day, can say hello to people who live in another part of the world. All those things are a product of technical progress and it doesn’t stop to grow and develop.
During the 20th century a great amount of inventions and discoveries had been made.
First of all it was the atomic age due to the discovery of the splitting of the atom.
Then it became the age of the conquest of space , because finally a man overcame the gravity and entered the Universe.
And now we live in the information era when the computer connects not only the countries and space stations but a lot of people all over the world. And from day to day appear more end more new things. And we don’t think about how the firs inventions were created. The only thing we know we never will return to the life which people lived a lot of centuries ago because there is no way back. Vocabulary to learn:
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Answer the following questions: 1. What do scientists investigate? 2. Are inventions important in our life? Why? 3. Why did people make new inventions? 4. What new things appeared during the 20th century? 5. What is the most important invention? 6. Why do we call the 20th century the atomic age? 7. When was space time? 8. Why do we call the 21st century an information era?
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