- •Міністерство освіти і науки україни
- •Удк 802 ббк 81.2 англ.
- •Introduction welcome to the course of special english for the future specialists in the field of civil engineering!
- •Contents
- •Supplementary Texts for Discussion:the system of education in great britain and america
- •R e a d I n g Key terms
- •1. Study key words and their definitions before reading Text a:
- •2. Match these terms with their definitions:
- •3. Make up all possible questions:
- •1. Make up infinitive phrases using the texts:
- •2. Choose the correct questions to the italicized words:
- •1. Analyze main issues:
- •2. Analyze the details:
- •1. Read and translate into Ukrainian the following English phrases:
- •2. Read and translate into English the following Ukrainian phrases:
- •3. Make up sentences using the given words:
- •3.1. Translate two abstracts in a written form.
- •1. Agree or disagree with the statements using the following
- •2. Discuss the information about:
- •In pairs ask and answer questions about:
- •R e a d I n g
- •2. Match these terms with their definitions:
- •3. Answer the questions using the key terms and their definitions:
- •International words
- •1. Read and give Ukrainian equivalents:
- •1. Match English and Ukrainian equivalents :
- •2. Choose the phrases in the Text a to complete the following sentences:
- •4. Answer the questions to Text a:
- •1. Make up infinitive phrases using the texts:
- •2. Choose the correct questions to the italicized words:
- •1. Analyze main issues:
- •1. Read and translate into Ukrainian the following English phrases:
- •2. Read and translate into English the following Ukrainian phrases:
- •W r I t I n g
- •1. Agree or disagree with the statements using the phrases given in brackets: indeed, of course, certainly, that goes without saying
- •2. Discuss the information about:
- •3. Make an overview of the issues:
- •1. You are a participant of the conference “Role of a transport engineer in modern city”. Be ready to take part in the discussion. Use the information given below as a guide:
- •3. Make a presentation of the profession of environmental engineer, which is crucial for the present and future well-being of the planet.
- •R e a d I n g
- •2. Match these terms with their definitions:
- •1. Make up infinitive phrases using the text:
- •2. Choose the phrases in Text a to complete the following
- •3. Make up all possible questions:
- •4. Answer the questions to Text a:
- •1. Match English and Ukrainian equivalents:
- •2. Choose the correct questions to the italicized words:
- •1. Analyze main issues:
- •2. Analyze the details:
- •1. Read and translate into Ukrainian the following English phrases:
- •2. Read and translate into English the following Ukrainian phrases:
- •3. Make up sentences using the given words:
- •3.1. Translate two abstracts in a written form.
- •4. In pairs ask and answer questions about:
- •Specialized Roles of Computers
- •1. Learn the meaning of these terms and use them when discussing the topic.
- •2.Learn the following words and phrases and use them when discussing the topic.
- •3.Learn the following English-Ukrainian topical glossary to understand the text and discuss the topic.
- •Give /conduct examination Проводити (приймати) екзамен
- •I. Read, translate and discuss the text
- •2. Match the following words with their respective definitions:
- •3. Look through again and answer the following comprehensive questions:
- •4. Complete the following sentences, selecting words from the list given below:
- •5. Look through the text again and render it in English.
- •6. Prepare a short presentation about:
- •Text 2. The British Universities
- •1.Read and discuss text 2
- •Text 3. A National Institution with International Perspectives
- •1.Read and discuss text 3
- •2. What did you know from the text about:
- •8. Using the above conversational phrases and English-Ukrainian glossary discuss the following topics:
- •9. Begin your questions with phrases like:
- •10. Read and learn the following interview and make up a similar interview of an English student about university education in Ukraine.
- •Text b College Life in England
- •The Open University
- •R e f e r e n c e s
- •English for civil engineers
Give /conduct examination Проводити (приймати) екзамен
Strict (demanding) examiner Cуворий (вимогливий) екзаменатор
Examination board Екзаменаційна комісія
Examination record Екзаменаційна відомість
Give grades ( take marks) Ставити (отримувати) оцінки
Enter the mark Записувати оцінку (в залікову книжку)
Excellent, good, Відмінна, добра, задовільна, прохідна
satisfactory, passing (mark) оцінка
Unsatisfactory Незадовільна оцінка
/poor/ failing (mark)
To earn a scholarship Заробити стипендію
(grant, allowance)
To graduate with Закінчувати вуз з відзнакою distinction
Challenge Складна задача (проблема), виклик
Challenging Складний, перспективний
Text 1. Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture
I. Read, translate and discuss the text
The Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (till August 13.1993 - the Kyiv Civil Engineering Institute) was created in 1930 on the basis of factory and communal construction branch of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and the Kyiv Art Institute.
In the years of its existence this higher educational establishment has trained many thousands of engineers and architects, including specialists for 70 countries of the world. The University's graduates who got the diplomas within its wall work on construction sites, at plants and factories, in government and communal bodies as foremen and managers, leading specialists and organisers of the country's national economy.
The training of specialists is effected in such directions: construction, engineering of natural environment, engineering mechanics, automation and computer-integrated technologies, computer sciences, geodesy, cartography and land management, architecture, depletive art, management. The main departments of the University are as follows: construction, architecture, automation and complex mechanisation, city development, construction-technological, sanitary engineering.
The department (chair) of foreign languages provides teaching of foreign languages: English, German, French and Spanish. Special courses are provided for postgraduate students and those who wish to master a second foreign language.
All instruction, educational and scientific work is organised and carried out by more than 40 chairs numbering about 700 highly-qualified instructors, among them more than 100 doctors of sciences, professors and over 350 candidates of sciences, assistant professors (docents). Many of them are authors of text - books and manuals used in the University teaching process. The University's instructors and scientists have made and are making a considerable contribution to the national and world science in the branches of construction and architecture.
Three scientific-research institutes, two scientific-research complexes and a centre of economic investigations and forecasting function at the University. Specialised scientific councils confer scientific degrees of doctors and candidates upon applicants in construction and architecture, modern technology.
About 7000 Students including those preparatory departments and special faculties study at the University which ensures their fundamental and general-branch education. The University's theoretical and practical basis provides them with the possibility of acquiring the educational qualification levels of Bachelor, Specialist and Master of Science. Postgraduate courses in about 30 specialities are in store for those who choose to continue their professional and scientific training under the guidance of experienced advisers.
Scientific-research work is done at the University not only by the teaching staff and post-graduates but also by the students. New vistas opening up on every side in R&D (Research and Development) are a real challenge to our students. For it they have the Engineering Design Centre, i. e. a laboratory where challenging design problems can be attacked on an interdisciplinary basis. Research is done in well-equipped laboratories, in specialised classrooms, in a computing centre, in libraries and reading-halls. There are numerous spacious lecture theatres, laboratories, study rooms with up-to-date equipment, design studies, computing facilities, etc.
Besides studies and scientific work the students have living accommodations and full facilities for rest and recreation: halls of residence, hostels, refectory, a modern sports complex with a stadium and a swimming-pool, a sporting camp, a preventorium and other facilities.
In training engineers and architects the University uses various methods of instruction, giving them the most up-to-date theoretical and practical level of training in accordance with the demands of the time.
The introduction of research elements into the instruction process (lectures, laboratory and practical studies, the course and diploma designs) promotes the students further scientific growth, enables them to make their contribution to the scientific and technical progress in our country. The student's works are often awarded medals, prizes, and diplomas at Olympiads, conferences and competitions.
The instructors, assistant professors (docents) and professors of the University work at perfecting the instruction process, at improving the existing system of training, introducing new progressive methods of work into classroom and laboratory activities.
The scientists of the University have extensive scientific contacts with specialists from many countries at international level taking an active part in numerous conferences, symposia, and seminars, meetings sponsored by various scientific organisations in the country and abroad. Such scientific contacts are of mutual interest as they promote exchanging views on many problems of research, give the opportunity to share the results of investigations, advance further scientific and technological discoveries. An international exchange of students grows from year to year as well, and has already become common practice in raising the future specialists’ qualification, in perfecting their professional skills.
Scientific work and pedagogical process conducted at the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture are deeply interconnected. They embrace research in the field of construction, investigating different problems of natural sciences, training highly professional future specialists.