Contents:

Unit 1: Grammar: Word Order. Types of Questions.

The Category of Number. The Use of Articles.

Present, Past, Future Simple (Active Voice).

Text A: Scientific and Technological Progress.

Text B: Engineers in the 21st Century.

Unit 2: Grammar: Past Participle, Simple Tenses (Passive Voice).

Pronouns: personal, demonstrative, possessive.

Text A: Potential and Kinetic Energy.

Text B: Energy.

Unit 3: Grammar: Present Participle, Continuous Tenses (Active, Passive).

Text A: Force, Work, Energy and Power.

Text B: The Victim of Overwhelming Numbers.

Unit 4: Grammar: Perfect Tenses (Active, Passive).

The Numeral. Cleft Sentences: it is (was)…that (who).

Text A: Mathematics – the Language of Science.

Text B: The Victim of Overwhelming Numbers.

Unit 5: Grammar: Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs.

Text A: Solar Power.

Text B: The Energy of the Sun’s Rays…

Text C: Scales of Temperature.

Revision 1

Unit 6: Grammar: Modal Verbs and their equivalents.

Nouns as Attributes.

Text A: Radar.

Text B: Radar Guides Harbour Traffic.

Text C: Radio Waves.

Unit 7: Grammar: Sequence of Tenses.

Imperative Mood.

Quantifiers (much, many, little, a little, few, a few, some, any, no) and their equivalents.

Text A: Albert Einstein.

Text B: It is interesting to know...

Text C: Einstein’s Photoelectric Law.

Unit 8: Grammar: Infinitive (forms and functions).

Text A: Exploring the Ocean.

Text B: Underwater TV Camera.

Text C: Wave Motion and Sound.

Unit 9: Grammar: Gerund (forms and functions).

Text A: Semiconductors.

Text B: Semiconductor Laser.

Unit 10: Grammar: Ing-forms: Participle, Gerund, Verbal Noun.

Text A: Transistors.

Text B: Transistors and Semiconductor Devices.

Revision 2

Unit 11: Grammar: Participle (Passive and Perfect Forms).

Text A: Radio and Television.

Text B: Radio in Astronomy.

Text C: The Story of Radio.

Unit 12: Grammar: Nominative Absolute Participle Clause; Participle + Infinitive.

Text A: Fundamental Problems of Television.

Text B: The Social History of Television as a Technology.

Unit 13: Grammar: Infinitive (Passive and Perfect Forms).

Text A: What Can Computers Do?

Text B: Electronic Computer Evolution.

Unit 14: Grammar: Complex Subject.

Text A: Superconductivity.

Text B: Liquid Helium Surprises.

Text C: Cryogenic Propellants.

Unit 15: Grammar: Complex Object

For + Noun (Pronoun) + Infinitive.

Text A: The Modern Theory of Light.

Text B: Modern Light – Wave Communications Technology.

Revision 3

Unit 16: Grammar: Gerund. Gerund Clauses.

Text A: K.E. Tsiolkovsky.

Text B: Application of Electric-Propulsion System.

Text C: From Radio Valves to Cosmic Communications.

Unit 17: Grammar: Verbals.

Text A: An Efficiency of Nearly 100 Per Cent.

Text B: Laser Technology.

Text C: Laser in the Clothes – Making Industry.

Unit 18: Grammar: Subjunctive Mood.

Conditional Sentences

Modals + Perfect Infinitives.

Text A: The Colour Spectrum.

Text B: Communicating Through the Earth.

Unit 19: Grammar: Inversion.

Text A: Computers.

Text B: The Automated Factory.

Text C: Integrated Circuits.

Unit 20: Grammar: Elliptic Sentences.

Text A: Cosmic Rays.

Text B: Exploring Our Sun.

Revision 4

Additional Reading

Text 1: Age of Thinking Machines.

Text 2: Atoms and Nuclear Fuels.

Text 3: The Neutron.

Text 4: Algebraic Language.

Text 5: Radioactivity.

Text 6: How Radar Works.

Text 7: The Electron Theory.

Text 8: Sonic Techniques for Industry.

Text 9: Semiconductors.

Text 10: The structure of the triode transistor.

Text 11: Radio Waves.

Text 12: Brief Analysis of the Television System.

Basic Structure of a Picture.

Text 13: Operating Systems.

Text 14: Superconductivity at Room Temperature.

Text 15: Optical Fibres.

Text 16: Reliability of Missiles and Space Vehicles.

Text 17: Reliability of Electronic System.

Text 18: Propagation of Light. Reflection and Refraction of Light.

Text 19: Notions of Intelligence.

Text 20: Expert Systems.