1. Переведите следующие словосочетания:

Технический перевод, технические книги и журналы, значение термина, англо-говорящие люди, получать информацию, наука и техника, последние достижения, современная жизнь.

2. Прочитайте и переведите текст письменно.

EXERCISES:

1. Прочитайте следующие существительные. Назовите от каких глаголов они образованы и переведите на русский язык:

Translation, application, information, addition, demonstration, invention, transformation, transmission, observation, creation, contribution.

2.Поставьте глаголы, данные в скобках во временах группы Simple (Present, Past, Future).

1. Albert Einstein (to be) born in 1879 in Germany. When he was 12, he (to begin) his study of mathematics and physics.

2. My friend (not to like) physics.

3. This diagram (to help) to solve your problem.

4. These elements (to have) different colours but their chemical properties (to be) the same.

5. We (to know) the results of this experiment tomorrow.

6. Einstein never (to prove) his discoveries experimentally.

3. Выберите соответствующую форму глагола. Переведите на русский язык.

1. We ….. machine-tools last week.

   1. get; b) gets; c) got; d) will get

2. Next term we…. to study two new subjects.

   1. begin; b) begins; c) began; d) shall begin

3. At present our workshop …. many different instruments.

   1. produce; b) produces; c) produced; d) will produce

4. …. you work at a plant now?

a) do; b) did; c) does.

LESSON 1.

S C I E N C E.

What is science? Science is a collection of facts, rules and laws (phenomena). Science tries to understand the essence of phenomena, generalize and interpret them.

Science makes progress. How much it had been done by the people to reach the present state of the development of the human society.

Scientists are the people who makes research of phenomena prove them by experiments and make discoveries. It’s necessary to say that great contribution of the world science had been made by famous scientists and inventors.

Thanks to Tsiolkovsky man could win space. Great American scientist Edison invented the gramophone and the electric lamp, a recording machine (our record player).

Great English scientist Faradey was father of the magnetic generator making electricity. Thanks to science we use radio, TV, telephone, computer, new medicine in our every day life.

Words and word combinations:

science – наука

rule – правило

law – закон

phenomena – явления (phenomenon –явление)

essence – сущность

to try - пытаться

to reach – достигать

development – развитие

contribution – вклад

record player – проигрыватель

to invent – изобретать

inventor – изобретатель

ASSINGMENT:

1. Найдите в тексте перевод следующих словосочетаний:

благодаря науке, великий английский ученый, как много было сделано, сущность явлений, человеческое общество, в нашей повседневной жизни, необходимо сказать, огромный вклад.

2.Заполнить пропуски, пользуясь содержанием текста:

1. Great English …. Faradey was father of the magnetic generator.

2. Science is a ….. of facts, rules and laws.

3. ……. are the people who makes research of phenomena prove them by experiments and make discoveries.

4. ……. makes progress.

5. Thanks to ……man could win space.

3. Напишите шесть (6) любых вопросов к тексту.

4. Кратко перескажите текст.

EXERCISES:

1. Подберите правильный перевод для слов левой колонки.

1. add 1. применять

2. produce 2. решать

3. develop 3. достигать

4. invent 4. добавлять

5. reach 5. изобретать

6.solve 6. развивать

7. prove 7. производить

8. apply 8. доказывать