15.Make a three-minute speech on the topics:

Professional qualities of a good specialist.

Your future speciality. What has influenced your choice.

The most important subjects for a would-be specialist.

Importance of knowledge of foreign languages for an engineer.

Unit 19.

LABORATORIES

1. Read and translate the text: laboratories

In earlier day’s people called places intended for carrying out experiments «workshops». There the prepared drugs, made technological inventions or even tried to discover «a philosopher a stone», as alchemists did. Some people thought them to be practicing black magic, and destroyed their workshops.

At present, the word “laboratory” (from Latin “laboro”, i.e. “I work”) is used to denote any room or building intended for experimental investigation in technologies and sciences for the purpose of advancing man’s knowledge. The word “laboratory” is also used to denote the work-room of a chemist, or special premises at an industrial enterprise or research institute for designing and testing new devices. Among the most famous laboratories of the world we can mention the laboratory of the Royal Institution established in Britain in 1800 and devoted to apply and pure sciences. Such outstanding scholars as M. Faraday and I. Tyndall carried out experiments there. The first physics laboratories founded for students appeared in 1846.

2. Remember the words:

according to / in accordance with – згідно, відповідно achieve – досягати acquaint – ознайомлювати acquire – набувати cope with – впоратись be engaged in – займатися handle – оперувати be intended for – призначатися, бути призначеним quality – величина simulate – моделювати solve – вирішувати, розв’язувати technique – метод, спосіб transfer – передавати value – величина, цінність

3. Fill in the gaps with the proper forms of these words:

1. apply (застосувати) ; application (застосування)

The_____ of harmful production technologies should be banned.

Here students learn how to ______ their theoretical knowledge to practice.

2 .create (Створювати) ; creative (Творчий)

The first electronic computing machine was _______ in Kyiv In the 1950s.

Graduates of the university are both competent and ______ experts in their filed.

3 .deal (dealt, dealt) with (Мати справу з)

These lab exercises ______ measurement of different quantities.

4. equip (оснащувати, обладнати, устаткувати); equipment (оснащення, обладнання, устаткування)

How many computers is this study room _____ with?

All the laboratories institute are provided with modern ______.

5. install (встановлювати); installation (установка)

a) you will have to______ this programmer on your computer

b) there are several ______ for carrying out experiment in this lab

6. skill (навичка майстерність,уміння)

a) in this lab students can perfect their computer______.