- •Chapter 1
- •Text 1 Metals in Perspective
- •Task 1 Phonetic Exercise
- •Task 2 Lexical Exercises
- •Task 3 Focus on Grammar
- •Articles
- •Text 2
- •Hephaestus
- •Task 2 Comprehension Check
- •Oral Practice
- •Unit 2 Text 1
- •The Importance of Iron and Advent of Steel
- •Task 1
- •Phonetic Exercise
- •Task 2 Lexical Exercises
- •Task 3. Focus on Grammar
- •Degrees of Comparison
- •The sooner you finish this work,the better it will be for you.
- •Text 2
- •Some of the Great Names in the History of Metallurgy
- •Task 2 Comprehension Check
- •Unit 3 Text 1
- •Iron in the Middle Ages
- •Task 1 Phonetic Exercise
- •Task 2. Lexical Exercises
- •Task 3. Focus on Grammar
- •Text 2
- •The Coming of the Vikings
- •Task 2. Comprehension Check
- •Unit 4 Text 1
- •Iron - Smelting without Charcoal
- •The First Blast Furnaces
- •Task 1. Phonetic Exercise
- •Task 2.
- •Lexical Exercises
- •Task 3. Focus on Grammar
- •Indefinite and Distributive Adjectives and Pronouns
- •Text 2
- •The Crusades
- •Task 2. Comprehension Check
- •Oral Practice
- •Chapter 2
- •Task 1. Phonetic Exercise
- •Task 2. Lexical Exercises
- •Task 3. Focus on Grammar
- •Present Perfect And Perfect Continuous
- •This tense is used for an action which began in the past and is still continuing (usually with for and since):
- •Я жду уже целый час, а он еще не пришел.
- •Exercise 1.Translate into Russian. Comment on the use of Tenses.
- •Text 2
- •A Tight Little Island
- •Task 2. Comprehension Check
- •Supermarket sweets handcream
- •Unit 2
- •Text 1 More Progress in Steel Production
- •Task 1. Phonetic Exercise
- •Task 2. Lexical Exercises
- •Task 3. Focus on Grammar
- •Text 2
- •Task 2 Comprehension Check
- •Lincoln
- •Directions
- •Prepositions
- •Unit 3 Text 1 Steel Production in Sheffield
- •Task 1. Phonetic Exercise
- •Task 2. Lexical Exercises
- •The blast furnace
- •Task 3. Focus on Grammar
- •Text 2.
- •Task 2. Comprehension Check
- •Student Grants
- •Unit 4 Text 1 The British Steel Industry Today
- •Task 1. Phonetic Exercise
- •Task 2. Lexical Exercises
- •Task 3. Focus on Grammar
- •Text 2
- •Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
- •Task 2. Comprehension Check
- •Merry Christmas! Поздравляю с Рождеством
- •Is your writing narrow?
- •Task 1. Phonetic Exercise
- •Task 2 Lexical Exercises
- •Task 3. Focus on Grammar
- •Text 2 British Customs and Traditions
- •April Fools’ Day
- •Task 2. Comprehension Check
- •The Mount Everest is8,848 metreshigh.
- •Unit 2 Text 1 Precious Metals
- •Task 1. Phonetic Exercise
- •Task 2. Lexical Exercises
- •Task 3. Focus on Grammar
- •Text 2
- •Land and Climate
- •Task 2. Comprehension Check
- •Inviting. Eating out.
- •Unit 3 Text 1 The Alchemists
- •Task 1. Phonetic Exercise
- •Task 2. Lexical Exercises
- •Task 3. Focus on Grammar
- •Text 2
- •New York
- •Task 2. Comprehension Check
- •Unit 4 Text 1 Silverware and Plate Industry
- •Task 1. Phonetic Exercise
- •Task 2. Lexical Exercises
- •Task 3. Focus on Grammar
- •Text 2 The us Government
- •Task 2. Comprehension Check
- •Chapter 4
- •Task 1. Phonetic Exercise
- •Task 2. Lexical Exercises
- •Task 3. Focus on Grammar
- •Simple to give to be given
- •Text 2 Results of Immigration
- •Task 2. Comprehension Check
- •Unit 2 Text 1 Basic Metallurgy of Cast Iron
- •Task 1. Phonetic Exercise
- •Task 2. Lexical Exercises
- •Task 3. Listening Comprehension
- •Task 4. Focus on Grammar
- •Text 2
- •Education
- •Task 2. Comprehension Check
- •Unit 3 Text 1 Alloy Steels
- •Task 1. Phonetic Exercise
- •Task 2. Lexical Exercises
- •Task 3. Focus on Grammar
- •Text 2
- •The us Customs and Traditions Thanksgiving Day
- •Information Letter. Going on a Business Trip
- •Unit 4 Text 1
- •Aluminum
- •Task 1. Phonetic Exercise
- •Task 2. Lexical Exercises
- •Task 3. Focus on Grammar
- •Text 2
- •American English
- •Task 2. Comprehension Check
Task 2. Comprehension Check
Exercise 1. Agree or disagree with the following statements.
1. The majority of youngsters in Great Britain proceed to higher education.
2. Oxford and Cambridge are the only ancient universities in Britain.
3. Very few of British students leave university without finishing their courses.
4. The Bachelor’s degree is usually taken at the end of the fifth year.
5. University education is the only way to obtain technical education.
6. There are many colleges of further education in Britain.
7. Adult education has no age limit and enjoys high popularity in Britain.
Exercise 2. Enlarge on the following:
Bachelor of Arts (BA); Bachelor of Science (BSc); Master of Science;
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD); first-class honours; a ‘red-brick’ university;
evening institute; a part-time student.
Exercise 3. Arrange the jumbled text given below
Student Grants
1. The Conservative government has tried to replace grants with a loan system. This means that students would have to finance their own higher education in much the same way as students in many European countries and in the USA.
2. Most students who gain a place at a recognized institution of higher education are awarded
a financial grant from their local authorities.
3. This is supposed to be enough to cover most of the fees and living expenses of a course during term time. But the size of the grant depends upon parental income (means test). This means that some students with rich parents may receive no grant, while others with less rich parents will be given a partial grant.
4. It seems likely that a modified loan scheme may be introduced in the near future by the government. But there is a strong feeling in Britain that higher education should be free for those who are qualified to take advantage of it.
5. The grant is reduced progressively at present as parental income passes 10,000 pounds. After this level, the parents are supposed to make a contribution to their children’s grants. But almost 50 per cent do not make any contribution. Many students who receive a full grant complain that it is not enough to cover all expenses, and the grant has declined in real terms since the 1960s.
Exercise 4. Translate the following proverbs and quotations into
Russian. Explain them.
They know enough who know how to learn. (Henry Adams)
An investment to knowledge pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin)
Happy is he that is happy in his children.
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. (W. Churchill)
To know is nothing at all, to imagine is everything. (Anatole France)
A little learning is a dangerous thing. (A.Pope)
Will and intellect are one and the same thing. (B.Spinoza)
Oral Practice
Describing People’s Appearance
Patterns
What does he look like? - Как он выглядит?
General appearance:
tall, short, medium-height; fat, plump, thin, slim, well-built;
beautiful, nice, plain, attractive, good-looking, pretty, handsome.
Hair:
blonde, brown, black, red, ginger, white, grey, salt-and-pepper, fair;
straight, wavy, curly, short (-cut), long, bold (boldish),
moustache, beard.
Eyes:
black, grey, hazel, brown, blue, green, wide, slantish
Nose:
large, small, thin and long, up-turned, short, hawked.
Chin:
clean-shaven, pointed, dimpled, square
Exercise 1. Learn the dialogues by heart. Make dialogues of your own
using the patterns.
I
Ben: Hello, Peter. How are you?
Susan: Thanks, fine. And you?
Ben: Thanks, fine too. Have you seen Kate?
Susan: Kate? I think, I don’t know her.
Ben: You do. Do you remember that attractive girl at Peter’s party?
Susan: There were many attractive girls there. What does she look like?
Ben: She is slim and she’s got hazel eyes and long dark hair.
Susan: Oh, yes, now I remember her. I haven’t seen her since that party.
II
Peter: Have you taken after your mother or after your father, Kate?
Kate: After both of them. I’ve got wavy fair hair like my mother’s and
a long thin nose like my father’s.
Peter: Is your father tall?
Kate: Just average.
Peter: Has he got a beard or a moustache?
Kate: Neither of them.
Exercise 2. Play a game. One person thinks of a member of the class.
The rest of the group ask questions to guess who it is.
Exercise 3. One student describes a person and the rest of the class try
to draw a picture of this person.