• work. Temperatures on the absolute, or Kelvin, scale are related to Celsius temperatures by .

3. Read the following solar and terrestrial data.

Speed of sound (dry air, 200C)
Mass of earth	kilograms
Volume of earth
Mean radius of earth
Mean density
Earth to sun, mean distance
Mean orbital speed of earth about the sun
Sun, mean radius mass	kilograms
Moon, mean radius mass	kilograms
Earth to moon, mean distance

Grammar focus

English is a word order language. The meaning of what you say depends on the word order.

The Simple Sentence The basic word order

3

Object

(Дополнение)

2

Predicate

(Сказуемое)

1

Subject

(Подлежащее)

0

4

Adverbial

Modifier

(Обстоятельство)

Sentence Forms

A sentence can take one of the following forms:

● a statement: We argued against this method.

● a question: Are you good at languages?

● a command: Be careful!

● an exclamation: What a good idea!

In the passage below you will find all sentence forms. Can you name them?

A poet once said, “The whole universe is in a glass of wine.” We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets, do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth’s rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe’s age, and the evolution of stars. What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts – physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on – remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

(from Six Easy Pieces by R. Feynman)

Review of Tenses. Active Forms

1. Check whether you know the basic forms of the English verb.

	Infinitive	Past Simple	Past Participle	Present Participle
Regular verbs	to study to work to act	studied worked acted	studied worked acted	studying working acting
Irregular verbs	to do to make to come to have to write	did made came had wrote	done made come had written	doing making coming having writing