- •Answer the questions:
- •Exercises
- •Translate the following words paying attention to the prefixes:
- •Translate the sentences paying attention to the adverbs:
- •Translate the sentences paying attention to the adverbs: e xtremely difficult problem яка? проблема
- •Translate the sentences paying attention to the participles:
- •Translate the sentences paying attention to verb “involve” and the participle “involved”:
- •Translate the sentences paying attention to the verb “provide” and the noun “provision”:
- •Translate the sentences paying attention to the words “point” and “view”:
- •Translate the sentences paying attention to the words in bold type:
- •Translate the sentences paying attention to the meaning of the words “provided”, “ provided that”, “ providing”:
- •Translate sentences paying attention to the function of the words “ provided ” and “ providing ”:
- •Translate sentences paying attention to the meanings of the noun “succession”:
- •Translate the sentences paying attention to the meaning of the verb “locate”:
- •Text 12 b The Social History of Television as a Technology
- •Study the text. Try to understand all details. Use a dictionary if necessary:
- •Say whether the following statements are true or false:
Say whether the following statements are true or false:
The invention of television was no single event or series of events. 2. In each of the stages the development of television depended on inventions made with other ends in view. 3. It is not difficult to separate television, in its earliest stages, from phototelegraphy. 4. The means of transmitting still pictures and moving pictures were discovered. 5. There was great rivalry between systems, but there is no controversy about contributions and priorities. 6. The decisive transformation of industrial production created new needs and possibilities.
Answer the questions on paragraph 1:
Has television altered our world? 2. Did the invention of television depend on a complex of inventions and developments in other fields of science? 3. Television has developed as a specific technological enterprise, hasn’t it?
Find the information dealing with scientists’ contribution to the development of television. Say it to your group-mate.
Make an outline of the article.
Speak about the history of television.