Нулевой артикль. Артикли не употребляются:

1. Если какое-либо существительное употребляется в самом обобщённом значении.

Crime is a problem in most big cities. Преступность как таковая, а не какое-то конкретное преступление. Life has changed a lot in the last two years. Жизнь как таковая, вообще.

2. Перед именами собственными:

England, Russia, London, Mr.Johnson, Tuscany.

Однако перед фамилиями, употребляемыми во множественном числе для обозначения членов одной и той же семьи, употребляется определённый артикль.

The Johnsons. Семья Джонсонов.

3. Перед названиями времён года, месяцев и дней недели..

He always goes to the South in summer. English classes are on Monday.

Вопросы для повторения:

1. Что такое артикли?

2. Какие артикли существуют в английском языке?

3. Когда употребляется неопределенный артикль?

4. Когда употребляется определенный артикль?

5. Когда артикли не употребляются (нулевой артикль)?

Список используемой литературы

(данные учебные и интернет пособия могут помочь вам при изучении данной темы):

1. Murphy Raymond. “Essential Grammar in Use” Cambridge University Press. – 2007.

2. Murphy Raymond “English Grammar In Use”. Cambridge University Press 2007.

3. Dooley Jenny, Evans Virginia. GRAMMARWAY. Учебно-методический комплект (Student's Book, Teacher’s Book, Picture Flashcards). – Newbury: Express publishing, 1999.

4. К. Н. Качалова, Е. Е. Израилевич Практическая грамматика английского языка с упражнениями и ключами М.: ЮНВЕС, 1998

5. Н.А. Кобрина, Е.А. Корнеева, М.И. Оссовская, К.А. Гузеев. Грамматика английского языка. Морфология. Синтаксис. Санкт- Петербург, 2001

6. В. К. Мюллер «Новый англо-русский словарь» Москва. Издательство «Русский язык» 1999 г.

Полезные сайты:

1. http://ru.wikipedia.org – интерактивная энциклопедия

2. http://www.classes.ru/grammar/15.Grammatika_angliyskogo_yazyka/index.html

3. http://www.study.ru/index.html

Приложение 1.

Тренировочные упражнения

Раздел 1. Аудирование

Вы услышите 6 высказываний. Установите соответствие между высказываниями каждого говорящего 1 — 6 и утверждениями, данными в списке А — G. Используйте каждую букву, обозначающую утверждение только один раз. В задании есть одно лишнее утверждение. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Вы услышите запись дважды.

You will hear six people talking about travelling.

A There are no real travellers any more.

B I would prefer to stay at home.

C Being comfortable is essential.

D I wouldn't go anywhere without a guidebook.

E It is too expensive.

F The best trips are for work or study purposes.

G Extreme travelling is the best.

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Утверждение

Раздел 2. Чтение

Установите соответствие заголовков А —G абзацам текста 1 — 6. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую букву только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.

GLASS: CAPTURING THE DANCE OF LIGHT

A Growth in the market for glass crafts E Exciting innovations in fibre optics

B What makes glass so adaptable F A former glass technology

C Scientists' dreams cost millions G Everyday uses of glass

D Architectural experiments with glass

1 Glass, in one form or another, has long been in noble service to humans. As one of the most widely used of manufactured materials, and certainly the most versatile, it can be as imposing as telescope mirror or as a marble rolling across dirt. The uses of this adaptable material have been broadened dramatically by new technologies glass fibre optics carrying telephone and television signals across nations, glass ceramics serving as the nose cones of missiles and as crowns for teeth; tiny glass beads taking radiation doses inside the body to specific organs, even a new type of glass fashioned of nuclear waste in order to dispose of that unwanted mate­rial.

2 On the horizon are optical computers. These could store programs and process information by means of light - pulses from tiny lasers - rather than electronics. Today fibre optics are used to obtain a clearer image of smaller and smaller objects than ever before — even bacterial viruses. A new generation of optical instruments is emerging that can provide detailed imaging of the inner workings of cells. It is the surge in fibre optic use and in liquid crystal displays that has set the US glass industry (a 16 billion dollar business employing some 150,000 workers) to building new plants to meet demand.

3 But it is not only in technology and commerce that glass has widened its horizon. The use of glass art, a tradition spins back at least to Roman times, is also booming. Nearly everywhere, it seems, men and women are blowing glass and creating works of art.

4 But now all the glass technology that touches our lives is ultra-modern. Consider the simple light bulb: at the turn of the century most light bulbs were hand blown and the cost of one was equivalent to half a day's pay for the average worker. In effect, the invention of the ribbon ma­chine by Corning in the 1920s lighted a nation. The price of a bulb plunged. Small wonder that the machine has been called one of the great mechanical achievements of all time. Yet it is very simple: a narrow ribbon of molten glass travels over a moving belt of steel in which there are holes. The glass sags through the holes and into waiting moulds. Puffs of compressed air then shape the glass. In this way, the envelope of a light bulb is made by a single machine at a rate of 66,000 an hour, as compared with 1,200 a day produced by a team of four glassblowers.

5 The secret of the versatility of glass lies in its interior structure. Although it is rigid, and thus like a solid, the atoms are arranged in a random disordered fashion, characteristic of a liquid. In the melting process, the atoms in the raw materials are disturbed from their normal position in

he molecular structure gives the material what engineers call tremendous "formability" which allows technicians to tailor glass to whatever they need.

6 Today, scientists continue to experiment with new glass mixtures and building designers test their imaginations with applications of special types of glass. A London architect, Mike Davies, sees even more dramatic buildings using molecular chemistry. As for the glass changing col­ours instantly, that may come true. Glass as instant curtains is available now, but the cost is ex­orbitant.

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