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3.8. Put in the right prepositions:

a) 1. Have you ever been … Sochi?

2. I am the student … the university.

3. Your seat is … front … the door.

4. Tom spent his summer holidays … the seaside.

5. My mother likes to pick up mushrooms … the forest.

6. Have you forgotten … my birthday?

7. There is a postcard … my friend.

8. I reminded you about it the day ... yesterday.

9. Had you written a letter … 5 o’clock yesterday?

10. We are going … the restaurant now.

b) Dear Stuart,

Many thanks for your letter … May 3 and … your offer to meet me … the airport. I am flying … Atlanta … Moscow … Monday, the 11 th … August. I’ll arrive … Moscow … 3:10 p.m. Best wishes, Douglas Reiner.

IV. Grammar Review

4.1. Point out sentences with the Simple Passive in the text.

4.2. Change the active sentences to the passive ones:

1. The head engineer is conducting negotiations now.

2. The laboratory assistant is making all the necessary measurements.

3. The workers are installing various apparatus and devices.

4. We are preparing instruments.

5. The computer is processing the data.

6. They were building the house for 5 years.

7. The device was making computations at that moment.

8. They were registering the voters from 3 to 5 yesterday.

9. When we entered the room they were checking the contract.

10. The specialists were studying new materials for many years.

V. Brush up your talk

5.1. Read the proverb and say:

The workman is known by his work.

Yes, a man is known by his work. We are proud of those who have made a name for themselves as outstanding workers in their trade or profession.

Say how young persons can become leading engineers in their activity.

5.2. Read and dramatize the dialogues with your partners. Make up your own dialogues on these models:

1) - Hello, Peter!

- Hi, Andrew! Where are you hurrying?

- To our university. You know, we are meeting today.

- The lectures are over. What are you going to do?

- By the way, I’m a member of our optional class in Engineering. Our professor promised to show us some experiments in his lab.

- That sounds very inviting, and what kind of work do you do there?

- Generally, we take a deep study of certain topics and problems we are interested in. Sometimes we carry out experiments.

- Oh, it’s a series work, isn’t it? So, I see you’ve definitely made up your mind to take up engineering as a career, haven’t you?

- I believe so. It really attracts me.

2) - I say, Ann, why have you chosen engineering as a career? You know, it’s a very difficult job and a bit boring to my mind.

- Nothing of the kind. It’s the most stimulating and rewarding job.

- Are you fond of solving technical problems?

- Yes, of course. I’m fond of repairing mechanical items.

- Oh, fine! You seem to have a talent for technique.

- I hope I have. I believe I should be a good engineer.

5.3*. Role-play the following situations:

1. A father/a mother and a son/a daughter are discussing his/her future career. The student is willing to become an engineer, the parents are trying to talk him out of it. Both are giving pros and cons of the engineering career.

2. Two people are discussing the profession of an engineer. The question is: may a woman be a good engineer?

3. The profession of an engineer is for those who enjoy solving various technical problems. Do you agree with it?

5.4. Tell about engineering using all information you have got.

UNIT 8. OUTSTANDING PEOPLE IN THE

ENGINEERING, TRANSPORT AND ARCHITECTURE

Genius is 1 percent inspiration

and 99 percent perspiration.

TEXT 1. IVAN KULIBIN (1735 – 1818)

I. Before you read

1.1. Read the words properly:

Mechanic, inventor, childhood, mechanisms, special interest, prolific imagination, egg-shaped clock, Catherine II, to assign, pocket-clock, current, month, design, miniature, microscopes, girder, push-cycle cart, lantern, source, industrially, lighthouses, flywheel, gearbox, roller bearing, prosthetic device, entrepreneur, screw, feasible, cargo, poverty.

1.2. Give the Russian equivalents:

Mechanical tools, clock mechanisms, prolific imagination, egg-shaped clock, complex automatic mechanism, to be in charge of, the Academy of Sciences, «planetary» pocket-clock, miniature clock-in-a-ring, push-cycle cart, one-arch bridge, roller bearing, sailing upstream, to display an inte-rest, realization, to inspire, current moon phase, to facet, flywheel, screw mechanisms, prosthetic, to reject, span.

Богатая фантазия, часы овальной формы, часовой механизм, механические станки, быть ответственным за что-л., Академия наук, «планетарные» карманные часы, миниатюрные «часы в кольце», механический экипаж с педальным приводом, автоматический механизм, роликовый подшипник, одноарочный мост, плыть против течения, проявить интерес, осуществление, способствовать, винтовой механизм, текущая фаза луны, совершенствовать, маховое колесо, пролёт (моста), протезный, отклонять.

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