- •Федеральное государственное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования
- •Предисловие
- •Unit 1. Introduction to profession
- •1. Remember the following words and phrases read the text; be ready to speak about your Academy
- •My University
- •2. Some questions you are interested in:
- •3. Test yourself and match the words
- •Unit 2. Shipping
- •1. Read and translate the text:
- •2. Test yourself, match the words
- •3. Translate into English:
- •4. Answer the questions:
- •5. Read the text and discuss: Transportation
- •6. Test yourself, choose the correct variant:
- •Unit 3. Commercial work
- •1. These words and phrases can be used in practical speech. Remember them:
- •2. Read the text, translate it and reproduce it in English: Commercial activities in shipping business
- •3. Improve your knowledge by doing these exercises:
- •4. Express the same in English:
- •5. Complete the dialogues using vocabulary of this unit. Model:
- •2. Read the text and speak about English as an international commercial language: foreign languages
- •3. Answer the questions:
- •4. Agree or disagree:
- •5. Speak about the importance of the English language for you.
- •6. Complete the tag-questions and let your groupmates answer them.
- •7. Discussing the Topic!
- •8. Imagine that your friend doesn’t want to learn English. What will you tell him or her to encourage their learning English?
- •9. Discuss what you would like to do at your English lessons. Discuss this in group.
- •10. In order to study effectively, it is useful to make a plan for yourself. Look at these two examples.
- •11. Now make your own plan for learning English. Did you know that… …the shortest sentence in English containing all the 26 letters of the alphabet is “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs”?
- •Unit 5. Ship’s crew
- •1. Memorize the following words.
- •2. Read and translate the text. Ship’s crew
- •3. Find in the text the English equivalents for the following:
- •6. Ask your friend and let him answer the following questions:
- •8.Speak about Ship’s Crew. Unit 6. In the Port
- •1. Memorize the following words:
- •2. Read the text, translate it and retell: organization of operations in a merchant sea port
- •3. Read the text and be ready to render it. Put down key questions to this text:
- •In the port of Yejsk
- •4. Memorize these words and sentences from “imo Standard Marine Communication Phrases”:
- •5. Translate and remember!
- •Unit 7. Russian Merchant Marine
- •1. Use these words while translating a text:
- •2. Read a text and translate it. Russian merchant marine
- •3. Answer the following questions:
- •4. Testing grammar!
- •5. Discuss in pairs the following topics:
- •2. Read about the port of Novorossiysk. Memorize the following words:
- •To leave the port – покидать порт
- •The port of novorossiysk
- •The seaport of Novorossiysk is situated in the north-eastern part of the Black Sea, at the top of the Novorossiyskaya (Tsemesskaya) Bukhta (Bay).
- •3. Read the following texts, translate them and be ready to speak about them. The port of sochi
- •The port of archangel
- •The port of st. Petersburg
- •The port of kholmsk
- •The port of murmansk
- •The port of nakhodka
- •4. Translate the following sentences into Russian:
- •5. Ask your freind about:
- •Unit 9. Great britain
- •1. Read the text:
- •Grab crane – грейферный кран the port of london
- •4. Speak about the port of London.
- •5. Read text about the port of Liverpool. The port of liverpool
- •6. Find the information about any British port. Tell your group about it. Unit 10.Types of ships
- •1. Memorize these words:
- •2. Read the text, translate it:
- •3. Answer the questions:
- •4. Retell the text about types of ships.
- •5. Testing grammar! Express future in English:
- •Are you ready for examination?
- •If you want to be successful in English you will have to take the exams. These questions will help you prepare for this.
- •Glossary
- •Библиографический Список литературы
- •Оглавление
2. Read the text and speak about English as an international commercial language: foreign languages
Learning a foreign language is not an easy thing. It is long and slow process that takes a lot of time and efforts. Nowadays it is especially important to know foreign languages. Some people learn languages because they need them for their work, others travel abroad, for some people studying languages is just a hobby. Everyone who knows foreign languages can speak to people from other countries, read foreign authors in original. It’s fun. It is not surprising that many intellectuals and well educated people are polyglots. The great German poet Goethe once said: “He, who knows no foreign language, does not know his own one.” That’s absolutely right. If we want to understand ourselves and environment we should study foreign languages.
As for me, I study English. English is an international language, it is the main language of business, science, politics and cultural relations. Nowadays 750 million people all over the world use it. Over 300 million people speak it as a mother tongue. The native speakers of English live in Great Britain, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. Besides, English is one of the official languages of the Irish Republic, Canada, the South Africa, India and many other countries of the world.
English is the main language of computers and technology. Three quarters of the world’s mail are in English. It is the language of sports. I should say that English is a wonderful language, it is the language of great literature, the language of William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens.
There are many ways of learning a language. In order to master English, to brush it up and to keep it up we practise grammar together with vocabulary, we have a lot of drills at our English lessons. Practice helps us to memorise words, up-to-date idioms and phrasal verbs. We also read texts, translate them, write tests and dictations, make up and act out dialogues, speak about different things and we learn social English to know what sort of English to use in different situations. At our English lessons we pay much attention to English intonation and pronunciation because if you get it wrong, people think you are rude. It is important to learn how to ask for information, how to be polite.
I guess it is helpful to read English books, to watch English films, to have private lessons, to use educational computer programmes and it seems to me that the most effective way is going to English speaking country. I want to know English because I like speaking English.
I want to use English in my future job. I want to use computer programmes in English, besides I want to travel to Britain or to the USA and meet a lot of people and to talk to them in English.
Do you have any problems while learning English? (Answer a question using these sentences)
I find grammar (learning words) far more difficult (hard).
I have no problems while (learning, reading, memorizing words, idioms, phrasal verbs).
I have most problems with vocabulary (grammar, speaking…).
I feel confident about pronunciation (listening, reading…)