- •Part I scientific work and studies unit I. Training Scientists in Russia
- •Words and word combinations to be memorized
- •Exercises
- •1. Answer the following questions on the text.
- •2. Form nouns from the following verbs, translate into Russian:
- •8. Work in pairs asking these questions. Give both short and full answers.
- •Unit II. Postgraduate Studies in England
- •Words and word combinations to be memorized
- •Exercises
- •1. Answer 10 “What questions” on the text:
- •2. Form nouns from the following verbs, translate into Russian.
- •7. Translate into English.
- •Unit III. At a Scientific Seminar
- •Words and word combinations to be memorized
- •Exercises
- •1. Answer the following questions on the text:
- •2. Form nouns from the following words with the help of suffixes used for people’s activities, specialities or professions. Translate into Russian, think of your own examples.
- •9. Work in small groups. Ask your partners questions about the theoretical part of their work. Use the following words and expressions.
- •Part II
- •International Business trip Unit I. An Invitation
- •Increase your vocabulary
- •2. Match the English words with their Russian equivalents:
- •3.4. Study the ways of concluding the letter:
- •3.5. Choose the correct way to close your letter depending on the greeting:
- •4. Write a letter of acceptance of an invitation according to the following plan:
- •1. Fill in the blanks with prepositions where necessary:
- •2. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •Unit II. Arriving in England
- •Increase your vocabulary
- •Listen and practise a. Meeting at the airport
- •1. Listen to the conversation at the airport and answer the questions:
- •2. Work in pairs. Change some of the details in the conversation (names, jobs, places, the reasons for the visit, etc.). Act out the scene, then swap roles.
- •B. Checking in at the hotel
- •1. Alex Samarin and Paul Davis are checking in for the room at the hotel. Listen to the conversation and decide where the questions “a-e” go.
- •R.: Thank you. (2) ………………………………….?.
- •2. Work in pairs and act out this conversation.
- •3. Match the English words with their Russian equivalents:
- •Reception
- •1. Fill in the gaps with prepositions where necessary:
- •2. Translate from Russian into English:
- •Unit III. The First Day in London a. Speaking on the phone
- •Increase your vocabulary
- •2. Act out the conversation:
- •3. Match the English words with their Russian equivalents:
- •4. Decide which of the verbs fit best in the following sentences. What other verbs could you use instead?
- •Are you ready to order? How much is that?
- •3. Match the English words with their Russian equivalents:
- •1. Fill in the blanks with prepositions where necessary:
- •3. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •Unit IV. Conference Registration
- •A. Getting registered.
- •1. Samarin is getting registered for the conference. Listen to the conversation and decide where the questions “a-d” go. A. Do you mean I must have it typed?
- •B. Looking through the file.
- •2. Read the dialogue and check your answers:
- •4. Work in groups. Find out about your partners’ experiences of looking after an English-speaking visitor. Ask questions about:
- •1. Match the English words with their Russian equivalents.
- •Unit 5. The Opening Session.
- •Increase your vocabulary
- •2. Fill in the empty spaces with these words:
- •3. Write the English equivalents of the following phrases and complete the sentences with your own ideas.
- •4. Act as a chairman giving an opening address at an international conference. Include the following points:
- •B. Outlining the conference programme
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •3. Imagine that you are the chairman of the scientific committee speaking to the participants of a conference. Address the audience and give general information about the conference:
- •1. Fill in the blanks with prepositions where necessary:
- •2. Translate into English.
- •Unit VI. A Working Group Session
- •Increase your vocabulary
- •A. Presenting a paper.
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •B. Holding the discussion
- •3. Recollect the phrases from “Increase your vocabulary” which can be used during the discussion in order:
- •2. Translate into English.
- •Unit VII. Good-bye, London
- •Increase your vocabulary
- •A. Confirming the flight
- •B. Saying good-bye
- •2. Imagine that you are parting with an English colleague. Act out the farewell.
- •3. Learn the dialogue b and act out the parting following this conversation. Revise
- •1. Match 1-7 to a-g
- •2. Translate from Russian into English:
- •Part III
- •Grammar in scientific context
- •Unit I. Tenses in the Active Voice
- •The present simple tense
- •The past simple tense
- •The future simple tense
- •The present continuous (progressive) tense
- •The past continuous tense
- •The future continuous tense
- •The present perfect tense
- •The past perfect tense
- •The future perfect tense
- •The past perfect continuous tense
- •The future perfect continuous tense
- •Revision of tenses
- •Unit II. The passive voice
- •Unit III. The Sequence of Tenses
- •Unit IV. Modal verbs
- •Unit V. Conditional sentences
- •Unit VII. The gerund
- •Unit VIII. The participle
- •Unit X. The Complex Sentence
- •Unit XI. Multifunctional Words
- •Text I Scientific imagination.
- •Text II National Research Council
- •1. Read the text and write an abstract of the text in 3 sentences.
- •Text III New trains, new business
- •1. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each
- •Text V Eurobot designed to handle mundane tasks in space
- •1. Read the text and decide if the following statements are true (t) or false (f):
- •Text VI Sound-activated toys
- •1. Read the texts. Refer to the list below and fill in the blanks with the best word(s).
- •Text VII a new gene
- •1. Read the texts. Refer to the list below and fill in the blanks with the best word or words.
- •Part V supplement Opening phrases
- •List of words and expressions
- •List of questions
- •Simulation Game
- •International Scientific Conference “Modern Technologies”
- •1. The Opening Address
- •2. Outlining the symposium program.
- •3. Plenary Session
- •K.B.: Ms Poslamovskaya, what is of particular interest in your work?
- •4. Break Socializing during the break
- •(After the break)
- •5. Working Group Session on Chemical Engineering.
- •6. Closing notice
- •Grammar Reference Система видо-временных форм английского глагола в действительном залоге
- •Группа времен Simple
- •Present Simple
- •Past Simple
- •Future Simple
- •Группа времен Continuous (Progressive)
- •Группа времен Perfect
- •Present Perfect
- •Past Perfect
- •The Sequence of Tenses
- •Modal verbs
- •Глагол can (could)
- •Глагол may (might)
- •Глагол must
- •Глаголы should и ought to
- •Conditional sentences
- •The infinitive
- •The gerund
- •The participle
- •Список литературы
- •Содержание
- •400131, Г. Волгоград, пр. Ленина, 28
- •400131, Г. Волгоград, ул. Советская, 35
Unit VII. The gerund
Exercise 1. Read and translate the sentences into Russian paying attention to the forms and functions of the gerund.
1) Studying foreign languages is necessary for future specialists. 2) Recognizing a problem is the first step to its solution. 3) Original scientific thinking is very important for every researcher. 4) He likes asking all sorts of questions, but he doesn’t like being asked questions. 5) Putting the discovery to use is sometimes more difficult than making it. 6) I remember having recorded the data. 7) You must aim at obtaining accurate results. 8) Today we can’t help witnessing a tendency in science to direct the collective efforts of a research team at the achievement of a common goal.. 9) Their intention of repeating the experiment is well known of. 10) Pointing out their mistakes to some people is often quite difficult. 11) Can you recall having mentioned the fact to anybody? 12) His research resulted in establishing a new mechanism of the process. 13) The aim of studying foreign languages is receiving more information on one’s speciality. 14) We know of any object being prevented from moving at constant speed by air friction.
Exercise 2. Translate the sentences into Russian paying attention to the gerund after prepositions in, on, without.
1) On pressing the button you will get the information desired. 2) Without waiting for an answer he went away. 3) On being set on a proper orbit completely free from the Earth’s gravitation a satellite keeps on moving forward through space. 4) By repeating experiments one gets more data which allows us to arrive at the right conclusions. 5) On being heated to a sufficient temperature any body becomes a source of light. 6) In using this method you can overcome some difficulties quite easily. 7) Without proper understanding the major laws of mechanics it is difficult for them to take part in research. 8) On arriving in Germany Kovalevskaya began to read privately and succeeded not only in covering the University course but also in getting her PhD.
Exercise 3. Complete the sentences using by + gerund. Use one of the following verbs: drive too fast; borrow too much money; break a window; put some posters up on the walls; stand on a chair; turn a key; not eat property; read more.
She made herself ill ……
The burglars got into the house ……
You can improve your English ……
I was able to reach the top shelf……
You start the engine of a car ……
Kevin got himself into financial difficulty ……
You can put people’s lives in danger ……
We made the room look nicer ……
Exercise 4. Make sentences with worth + ing or not worth + ing. Choose one of these verbs: consider; keep; read; repair; see; visit; go to bed; take a taxi
It was so late when we got home, it was __
I live only a short walk from here, so it’s __
The film isn’t very good. It is __
It would cost too much to repair this watch. It is __
If you have time, you should go to the museum, it is __
It’s quite an interesting article in the paper today. It is __
It’s an interesting suggestion. It is __
We can throw these old clothes away. They are __
Exercise 5. Make up sentences of your own, using the following word combinations-as adverbial modifiers.
without knowing it;
after publishing the article;
by promising that he would keep it secret;
on hearing the news,
in making such experiments;
before coming to any conclusion;
without being invited,
in spite of being busy
Exercise 6. Complete the sentences using gerund of the following verbs: use, pay, pass, interrupt, play, solve, be made, be supplied. Pay attention to the prepositions.
Many useless experiments were prevented from … by an adequate theory.
It took us a long time but we succeeded in … this problem.
The idea of … this technique is new and somewhat unexpected.
Forgive me for… you but may I ask you something?
I’m sorry we’ve had to cancel our game of tennis tomorrow. I was really looking forward to … .
They insisted on … for the meal.
I congratulated Ann on … the exam.
Our success depends on … with the necessary equipment.
Exercise 7. Translate into Russian paying attention to the gerund constructions.
1) Success in science often results from the scientist’s confining his/her attention to one problem over many years. 2) Mendeleev’s having established a periodic law of nature has entered his name into the history books of world science. 3) A brain-storming session consists of everybody’s proposing as many and as wild ideas as possible without being concerned as to whether they are workable. 4) We have heard of Newton having been suggested to have put down on paper his ideas. 5) The results of the experiment depended upon his having applied the proper technique. 6) Immediate recognition of a discovery depends largely on its being made at the proper moment. 7) Einstein, being awarded the Nobel prize in physics, soon became widely known. 8) His having carried out the measurements so easily doesn’t surprise us. 9) Their having failed to distinguish between these phenomena seems strange enough. 10) Her having mastered two languages helped her in her work. 11) He insists on his device being tested. 12) One cannot carry out experiments without proper laboratory technique having been mastered.
Exercise 8. Translate into English.
1) Он настаивал на том, чтобы его устройство протестировали. 2) Я помню, что читал об этом в какой-то другой статье. 3) Не стоит тратить на это время. 4) Странно, почему она избегает говорить на эту тему. 5) Мой научный руководитель настаивает на том, чтобы я принял участие в конференции. 6) Он боялся, что его неправильно поймут. 7) Он признался, что неверно информировал нас. 8) Часы нужно отремонтировать. 9) Им удалось объяснить это явление. 10) Вы будете возражать против участия в этом семинаре? 11) Он привык работать в таких условиях.