- •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
Text III New trains, new business
1. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each
space. Use only one word in each space.
Just as the railway looked like running out of surprises, someone decided to build a track under the sea! However it could so easily (1) …been a different story. The French and British Governments received a number of suggestions for the cross channel link, varying from a combined bridge and submerged tube system (2)… a motorway suspension bridge. But these were not to be. As Rocket and Mallard had excited past generations, so the tunnel has intrigued today’s and such an interest in trains couldn’t have come at a better time for the railway. For some years it had been struggling with ever-increasing competition from both air (3) … road transportation, but that was about to change.
Consisting (4) … three tunnels (a rail tunnel each way and a central service tunnel) and measuring 31 miles (5) …, with 23 of those under the seabed, the tunnel is an incredible feat of engineering. The idea of tunneling under the English Channel was not a new (6) … . It had been dreamt about since the mid eighteenth century. The plan to join the British Isles to the European continent (7)… boring a tunnel under the sea between Dover and Calais was proposed several times and was rejected because (8)… the estimated cost, the military risks, and the doubt as to the feasibility of construction. Finally, in the 1980s, the proposal was accepted and tunneling began. So it took until 1994, over 200 years and £8,5 billion later, to become a reality.
During its construction, the French were also busy building a new high-speed rail link (9) … Calais and Paris. The new track meant trains could reach speeds of 186 mph (300km) on that section of the journey – a speed England hopes to match in the (10) … future.
Currently, (11) … Eurostar train can travel from London Waterloo to Folkestone, through the tunnel to Calais and on to Paris in just three hours. Needless to say, the new route has been welcomed by freight companies. By 1998 Railfreight Distribution was, (12) … average, sending 20 trains a day through the tunnel to France and beyond. In addition, regular shuttle trains ferry cars and lorries along the same journey.
2. Answer the following questions on the text:
1) What were the suggestions for the cross channel link?
2) Why is the tunnel an incredible feat of engineering?
3) How long did it take to build a tunnel?
4) What were the reasons for rejecting the proposal?
5) What is the highest speed the trains could reach?
Text IV
Marinnation
1. Read the text and answer the following questions on the text:
1) What kind of city will Marinnation be?
2) What are the problems of Marinnation focused on?
3) Where will it be built?
4) When could Marinnation be ready for habitation?
5) Would people want to live in Marinnation? Why?
6) Is the tone of the passage judgmental or informative? How can you prove it?
A Japanese construction company plans to create a huge city-state, akin to the legendary Atlantis, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The city, dubbed ‘‘Marinnation,’’ would have about one million inhabitants, two airports, and possibly even a space port. Marinnation, if built, would be a separate country but could serve as a home for international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Bank.
Aside from the many political and social problems that would have to be solved, the engineering task envisaged is monumental. The initial stage requires the building of a circular dam 18 miles in diameter attached to the sea bed in a relatively shallow place in international waters. Then several hundred powerful pumps operating for more than a year, would suck out the sea water from within the dam. When empty and dry the area would have a city constructed on it. The actual land would be about 300 feet below sea level. According to designers, the hardest task would be to ensure that the dam is leak proof and earthquake proof.
If it goes well, it is hoped that Marinnation could be ready for habitation at the end of the second decade of the twenty first century. Whether anyone would want to live in such an isolated and artificial community, however, will remain an open question until that time.