Пособие к учебнику технического английского языка «Nuclear English. Language Skills for a Globalizing Industry»

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Ex.6. Complete the sentences. Put the verbs into Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect.

1. The workers (tidy) the place and then they (clean) their protective clothing. 2. I (shut) down the reactor that morning. 3. Julia (type) some letters when the reactor manager (ask) her into the checking room. 4. By

6 o‟clock the David (stop) Block C. 5. Don (prepare) personal protective equipment when the phone rang, so he (not / answer) it. 6. Kate (report) near misses, but when she saw a safety officer she (stop). 7. The door was unlocked. Steve (wonder) who (leave) the door open. 8. Alex (never / like) putting on protective clothing and glove before the accident. 9. When I (start) working here, a safety officer (tell) me about all safety procedures. 10. She (train) a lot and (to look) very tired. 11. When he (arrive) at the plant he (discover) that he (leave) all the papers in a car. 12. Yesterday afternoon a reactor (still / check) when a reactor manager (finish) tests. 13. James (be) nervous, he (never / prepare) protective clothing before. 14. The workers (be) on a strike for three days when the agreement (to be reached). 15. He (check) his workplace when a safety officer (come) in.

Ex.7. Choose the correct tense.

1. Les Finlayson had broken / was breaking his leg, so he couldn't investigate the accident at a plant. 2. Lucy was happy. She was winning / had won first prize in the competition among medical engineers. 3. They were already buying / had already bought the first aid kits when the safety checking started. 4. They had stood / were standing outside when top-managers came out the control room. 5. Mary was singing / had sung as she was cleaning her workplace. 6. It was raining / had rained while they were repairing atomic blocks. 7. I was running when I slipped / was slipping on the wet floor. 8. James was opening / opened the box and looked inside. 9. I phoned Jack because I wanted / had

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wanted him to check leak tests. 10. Ben was happy to hear that she was getting / had got the job.

Ex.8. Complete the sentences using the Past Perfect tense of the verbs below.

1.The workers started working better after …

2.They rebuilt the radiation block after ...

3.David shut down the reactor after …

4.I fell asleep after ...

5.I fastened the belts after ...

6.A safety manager phoned me after ...

7.I began to read a safety manual after ...

8.The employer reduced a dose after ...

9.We found the cause of an accident after …

10.Workers understood all the health risks after ...

Ex.9. Rewrite the text into Past Tenses. Summarize it. Nuclear safety and security

Nuclear safety is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency

(IAEA) as “The achievement of proper operating conditions, prevention of accidents or mitigation of accident consequences, resulting in protection of workers, the public and the environment from undue radiation hazards”. The IAEA defines nuclear security as “The prevention and detection of and response to, theft, sabotage, unauthorized access, illegal transfer or other malicious acts involving nuclear material, other radioactive substances or their associated facilities”.

This covers nuclear power plants and all other nuclear facilities, the transportation of nuclear materials, and the use and storage of nuclear materials for medical, power, industry, and military uses.

The nuclear power industry has improved the safety and performance of reactors, and has proposed new and safer reactor designs. However, a perfect safety cannot be guaranteed. Potential sources of problems include human errors and external events that have a greater impact than anticipated: The designers of reactors at Fukushima in Japan did not anticipate that a tsunami generated by an earthquake would disable the backup systems that were supposed to stabilize the reactor after the earthquake. The Fukushima I nuclear accidents have cast doubt on whether even an advanced economy like Japan can master nuclear

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safety. Catastrophic scenarios involving terrorist attacks, insider sabotage, and cyber attacks are also conceivable.

Nuclear weapon safety, as well as the safety of military research involving nuclear materials, is generally handled by agencies different from those that oversee civilian safety, for various reasons, including secrecy. There are ongoing concerns about terrorist groups acquiring nuclear bomb-making material.

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

THE FUTURE

FUTURE SIMPLE is used:

Adverbs of frequency and time expressions

Tomorrow, day after tomorrow, in a day / week / month, soon, “next” construction: next week / month / year, ect.

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Adverbs of frequency and time expressions

Tomorrow, day after tomorrow, in a day / week / month, soon, “next” construction: next week / month / year, ect.

FUTURE CONTINUOUS is used:

Time expressions

Tomorrow, day after tomorrow, in a day / week / month, soon, “next” construction: next week / month / year, ect.

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FUTURE PERFECT is used:

Adverbs of frequency and time expressions

Before, by, by then, by the time, until (in negative sentences)

For regular verb: V3 = V + -ed

For irregular verb: V3 = V3 (the last column)

Ex.1. Choose the correct answer

1. I (will go/am going) to exchange the night shifts timetable tonight. Would you help me? 2. According to the scientific article everything (will plan/is going to plan) tomorrow. 3. What are you taking the bag for? I (will buy/ am going to) buy some extra details. 4. Oh! I‟ve lost my passwords to the central computer. Don‟t worry, you (will find/are going to find) them soon. 5. Have you cleaned the control room, Mike? No, I (will do/ am going to do) it tomorrow.

Ex.2. Complete the sentences about Charles. Use the verbs below in the future continuous or the future perfect.

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1. Charles _________ home early on Sunday evening because of night shifts. 2. He _______ home by 8 p.m. 3. Charles _______ the flowers this evening in the control room. 4. He ________ the flowers by the end of the shift. 5. Charles _________ the house after he comes back home. 6. He ________ the house by the end of the evening. 7. Charles

_______ sports on Friday afternoon. 8. By Friday evening, he ________

sports. 9. Charles ________ a DVD with some colleagues on Wednesday evening. 10. By the end of the day, he ________ a DVD with some colleagues. 11. Charles _______ a special meal for his friends on Sunday afternoon. 12. He ________ a special meal for his friends by the time they visit him.

Ex.3. Interview your partner about his future plans.

What will he / she be doing: this time next week, at 10 a.m. next Saturday, at 6 p.m. this evening?

What will he / she have done: by the age of 25 and 50, by the end of the month, before going home today?

Ex.4. Nina is going to see the station manager. Write the questions using the following words and phrases.

Access control, check the status of the plant, automate as much of work as possible, delegate jobs to other people, use a good scheduling programme, prepare for the outage.

Ex.5. Complete the sentences. Write the endings with correct future form.

1.By the time a shift manager comes to the control room a supervisor _______.

2.It‟s still not clear if the control rods ______.

3.When an operation engineer enters a plant he _____ for ______.

4.We ______ the mail turbine in 2 weeks.

5.The workers ______ over on a reactor tomorrow afternoon.

6.Engineers ______ maintenance by 2025.

7.When you come to the plant an outage manager ______.

8.By the time he returns, we ______ here for 3 days!

9.You ___________ the meeting tomorrow morning.

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10. A manager ___________ to radiological protection this evening.

Ex.6. Put the verbs into Future Simple, Future Continuous or Future Perfect.

Ex.7. Put the verb in brackets into correct future tense.

1. When he (write) the safety manual? 2. By Friday the station (supply) these towns the electricity. 3. A reactor manager (meet) an outage manager at the airport at 10 on Monday. 4. Jim (leave) the plant by this time tomorrow. 5. Look! She (control) the operation phase. 6.

Nick (translate) this article by 6 o‟clock this afternoon. 7. Her contract is not finished. She (work) here. 8. My hands are dirty after a shift. I (wash) them. 9. Mike (control) the process from 7 till 10 this evening. So at 8.30 this evening he (communicate) with shift manager. 10. It is 8.45. David is leaving his house. He has to be at work at 9, but the journey takes 30 minutes. He (be late). 11. The night shift (start) at 10 tonight. 12. This test is so arduous, that I (not/complete) it in two days. 13. This test operation (probably/not/finish) until ten. 14. Are you going out this evening? No, I (prepare) my articles to publishing. 15. When he comes, I (invite) him to the plant.

Ex.8. Write 10 predictions about future of a nuclear reactor. Try to use all future tenses.

PASSIVE VOICE

PASSIVE VOICE is used:

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Ex.1. Write the correct form of the verb “inspect”.

1.The pellets ____________ at the moment.

2.The pellets _______ by 5 p.m. tomorrow.

3.The pellets _______ by the time of this night shift.

4.The pellets _______ by the time when the uranium dioxide powder was pressed.

5.The pellets __________ yet.

6.The pellets______ just ______.

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7.The pellets _________ while the reactor manager was controlling the process.

8.The pellets __________ two weeks later.

9.The pellets __________ when the worker entered the room.

Ex.2. Open the brackets, put the verbs into Present, Past, Future Simple Passive.

1. Car parking (limit) and workers (not encourage) to come by car as the plant (serve) by a new bus service. 2. This work (complete) tomorrow. 3. The new block of oxide fuel company (officially / open) last year. 4. Many stages of fuel manufacturing (describe) in this book. 5. Many experiments (do) under water next two days. 6. The degree of enrichment depends on the reactor where the fuel (use) more than 10 %. 7. The leak tests (do) next month. 8. An atomic nuclear station (surround) with a forest. 9. We (invite) to a meeting with engineers last Monday. 10. The equipment for enrichment (not damage) in the accident. 11. The pellet manufacturing (situate) outside the city that‟s why it (be) necessary to include main living facilities. 12. Nick (to send) to a uranium mine next year. 13. A safety manual (translate) at the last working session. 14. Many blocks of a station (build) near a town every year. 15. Pellet insertion (finish) in an hour.

Ex.3. Rewrite the sentences in the Passive Voice. Pay attention to the propositions.

1. We often speak about uranium enrichment. 2. We thought about shipping uranium concentrate from miners around the world all the time. 3. The manager of a control room sent for the workers. 4. Nobody lived in that old house near the station. 5. Everyone listened to the station manager with great attention. 6. The group of experts spoke to the bodies yesterday. 7. The engineers and workers looked after their health with great care. 8. After the accident a doctor will operate on him in a week. 9. The secretary asked for the call. 10. They looked for information about fuel manufactoring everywhere.

Ex.4. Try to guess what object can be described by the words. Write the sentences what the object is and what it is used for.

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