- •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
9. Work in small groups. Ask your partners questions about the theoretical part of their work. Use the following words and expressions.
1) A theory, theoretical, theoretically, in theory, a theoretician.
2) To advance/to develop/ to suggest/to put forward/ to work out a theory.
3) The theory is based upon ...
4) The theory predicts /explains/ describes/ proves/ supports/disproves something.
5) According to the theory...
6) The theory is valid (for), is true (for), agrees with, is in agreement with ...
7) To advance/to put forward/ to propose/ to formulate/ to check a hypothesis.
*10. Answer the following questions about your scientific work.
1) Are you a theoretician or an experimenter? (Are you doing theoretical or experimental work?) 2) What do you investigate? 3) Do you work in a team or have you an individual topic? (Do you work alone or in collaboration with your colleagues?) 4) What methods of investigation do you use in your work? 5) How do you collect the data? 6) What do you usually do when the experiment is over? 7) What do you do with the data obtained? 8) Is it difficult to analyze the results? 9) Do the data obtained enable you to come to important conclusions? 10) When are you supposed to read your thesis? 11) What scientific degree will you get? 12) Where can the results of your research be used in future?
Part II
International Business trip Unit I. An Invitation
Increase your vocabulary
To receive = to get a letter
To participate in = to take part in
To hold / to attend a conference/symposium/congress
To accept an invitation/ to decline an invitation
To present a paper / to make a report / to lecture
To be aimed at fostering international scientific cooperation
To pay registration fee/living expenses
To look forward to the trip/hearing from smbd./smbd.’s reply…
To convey/pass/give regards/wishes to …
To appreciate highly
The deadline is …
Considerable interest in the topic area
Exchange of achievements/experiences/ideas
READ AND PRACTISE
Here is a letter Dr. Samarin, Professor of Volgograd State Technical University, received from England. It invites him to participate in a conference to be held in London. Read it and study the layout of a formal letter and the ways of writing the addresses, opening and closing sentences, putting the date and the signature. Translate into Russian.
The Royal Society
6-9 Carlton House Terrace
London SW1 Y 5AG
England
Volgograd State Technical University
28 Lenin Avenue
Volgograd 400131
Russia
06/11/2009
For the attention of Dr. Samarin
Dear Dr. Samarin
In conjunction with King’s College of London the Royal Society presents a 3-day conference on Nanotechnologies Application to be held in London on May 19-21, 2010. The conference is aimed at fostering international scientific cooperation and encouraging better communication between scientists and specialists working in the area of Nanotechnologies.
We would like to invite you to present a paper at the conference on your latest research in the field of nanomaterials. We would highly appreciate your presence, as you are one of the leading scientists in the area of microelectronics. We suppose that there will be considerable interest in this topic area.
We hope that you will accept our invitation and we are willing to pay your registration fee and living expenses during the conference. The proceedings are planned to be published before the beginning of the conference.
We are looking forward to your reply. If you have any questions, please contact me or John Brown at King’s College.
Yours sincerely,
Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson
Organizing Committee Secretary