- •Міністерство освіти і науки України
- •Lesson 1
- •Дієслово to be в Indefinite Active
- •Notes to the Text
- •British Universities
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Lutsk National Technical University
- •Key dates in science
- •Lesson 2
- •Ступені порівняння прикметників
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Sсience and Technological Progress in Modern Society
- •Notes to the Text
- •Text 2b Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- •Notes to the Text
- •Vocabulary notes
- •I am a Student
- •Key dates in science
- •Lesson 3
- •Відмінювання стандартного дієслова to work у Past Indefinite
- •Відмінювання нестандартного дієслова to write у Past Indefinite
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Is there an End of the Computer Race?
- •Notes to the Text
- •From the history of computer.
- •Vocabulary notes
- •English Language
- •Key dates in science
- •Lesson 4
- •Відмінювання дієслова to tell в часах групи Indefinite Passive
- •Vocabulary notes
- •The Internet
- •Notes to the Text
- •Programming Languages
- •Notes to the text
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Music, Television, and Video Games as a Way of Spending Leisure Time
- •Key dates in science
- •Lesson 5
- •Відмінювання дієслова to work у Present Continuous Active
- •Відмінювання дієслова to work у Future Continuous Active
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Environmental Protection in Ukraine
- •Key dates in science.
- •Lesson 6 Grammar. Часи групи Continuous Passive
- •Відмінювання дієслова to tell в часах групи Continuous Passive
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Notes to the text
- •Yuri Kondratyuk and the Moon
- •Notes to the Text
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Science in Ukraine
- •Key dates in science
- •Lesson 7
- •Відмінювання дієслова to write у часах групи Perfect Active
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Electricity
- •Notes to the Text.
- •Notes to the text
- •Vocabulary notes
- •The youth of America.
- •Key dates in science
- •Lesson 8
- •Відмінювання дієслова to tell в часах групи Perfect Passive
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Changes in Matter
- •The Science of Ice
- •Notes to the Text
- •Vocabulary notes
- •The Engineering Profession
- •Key dates in science
- •Lesson 9
- •Узгодження часів
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Television
- •Notes to the Text
- •Telegraph
- •Vocabulary notes
- •1. Mass media засоби масової інформації
- •Mass Media
- •Key dates in science.
- •Lesson 10.
- •Форми модальних дієслів
- •Еквіваленти модальних дієслів
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Made in Space
- •Notes to the text
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Ukraine’s Economy
- •Key dates in science
- •Lesson 11
- •Форми дієприкметника теперішнього часу
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Transport for Tomorrow.
- •Notes to the Text
- •Text 11b How It Works.
- •Notes to the text
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Key dates in science
- •Lesson 12
- •Утворення форми дієприкметника минулого часу
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Time Travel and New Universes
- •Notes to the Text
- •The Role of Gravity
- •Notes to the text
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Lesson 13
- •Форми інфінітиву
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Notes to the Text
- •Text 13b Optical Technology
- •Notes to the text
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Developing the Telecommunications
- •Notes to the Text
- •Key dates in science.
- •Lesson 14
- •Форми герундія
- •Vocabulary notes
- •A New Era for Aircraft
- •Notes to the text
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Vocabulary notes
- •The Economy of the usa
- •Key dates in science
- •Lesson 15.
- •Об’єктний інфінітивний комплекс
- •Суб’єктний інфінітивний комплекс
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Notes to the Text
- •Notes to the text
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Industry of Great Britain
- •Key dates in science
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Descending to New Ocean Depths
- •Notes to the Text
- •Types of Submersible
- •Notes to the Text
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Money in the Modern World
- •Key dates in science
- •Префіксів та суфіксів
- •Lesson 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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Notes to the Text
1. to have a look – глянути, подивитися
2. to break out – початися, вибухнути
3. pocket-size – кишеньковий
4. liquid-crystal display – пристрій зображення на рідких кристалах
5. once a week — один раз в тиждень
6. high-definition television (HDTV) – телебачення з високою чіткістю зображення
7. high resolution television – телебачення з великою розрізнювальною здатністю
8. width-to-height ratio – відношення ширини до висоти
9. plasma display panel technology – виробництво плазмових панелей
Exercise 10. Answer the following questions on the text.
1. What invention was the center of attention at the World Fair in New York in 1939? 2. Were people interested in the new invention? 3. What stopped the TV production? 4. What is cable television? 5. What is digital television? 6. What is high-definition television? 7. What influence has had television on people’s life and way of thinking? 8. What kinds of TV exist now? 9. What is the latest and the most im_portant stage in the development of television since the appearance of colour television? 10. What is the ad_vantage of high-definition television? 11. What technology makes HDTV commercially practicable now?
Exercise 11. Choose the correct translation of the following words.
surprisingly – подив, дивовижний, дивно;
evident – очевидно, очевидний, очевидність;
invention – винаходити, винахід;
communication – повідомляти, зв’язок, компанійський;
continuous – продовжувати, безперервний, безперервно;
essentially – істотний, по суті, суть;
brightness – яскравий, прояснятися, яскравість;
practicable – практичний, здійсненний, практика;
recorder – запис, записувати, реєструючий пристрій;
convenient – зручність, зручний, зручно;
attention – уважний, уважно, увага;
numerous – численний, кількість, число
Exercise 12. Read the following sentences and write T if the sentence is true; write F if it is false.
1. A lot of people owned television sets in the first years after its invention. 2. First television black-and-white pictures were excel_lent. 3. Only few people owned television sets in the next few years after their appearance. 4. Black-and-white television was rapidly replacing colour television. 5. First television black-and-white pic_tures were not very good. 6. Only a few years ago colour television was rapidly replacing black-and-white television. 7. When the war was over, TV sets stopped coming off factory assembly lines. 8. Af_ter World War II TV sets began coming off factory assembly lines.
Exercise 13. Search text 9A for the sentences where the rule of the Sequence of Tenses is used. Translate the sentences.
Exercise 14. Read the following sentences and point out the ways of connecting object clauses with the principal clause.
1. It was reported in 1939 that the first TV set was shown at the World Fair in New York. 2. The students wanted to know whether colour television sets were produced at that plant. 3. After the war when the mass production of TV sets began, people realized they wanted to have a TV set at home. 4. Experiments proved that elec_tricity could travel instantly over a long piece of wire. 5. Can you tell me whether satellites are used for telephone communication? 6. It became clear television had a great influence on people’s life. 7. Russian newspapers informed that about 2,000 satellites had been launched into the orbit. 8. We did not know whether the de_velopment of television had continued during the war. 9. We know he works at the problem of space communication.
Exercise 15. Read the sentences and find those ones where the rule of the Sequence of Tenses is used.
1. Some years ago India began its Satellite Instructional Televi_sion Experiment. This experiment showed (that) satellite television programs had been a success with schoolchildren, their knowledge level had increased considerably. It was found that children could remember and speak about programs which they had seen several weeks back. 2. Many experts could not decide whether so much TV was harmful to the individual’s health and mental activity or not. 3. Specialists did not know if it was possible to continue modernizing the electronic equipment of this kind – the costs were too high. 4. There appeared some reports that we had technical means to use much more channels on a TV set and we should be able to see many sports and news programs from all parts of the world soon. 5. At first it was not clear whether new telephone and teletype communication with ships via six satellites was economical and re_liable or not. 6. It was announced that the cryogenic cable had been invented in Russia. 7. We know different transmitters are used in a television system – one for the sound channel and the other for the picture channel. 8. We learnt from the lecture that electricity was still considered the main source for new technological developments.
Exercise 16. Pick out: a) synonyms;
antonyms;.
tiny – small, to disappear – to appear, a lot of – many, dif_ferent – various, next – following, short – long, to watch – to see, program – show, commonly – usually, less – more, possible – im_possible, true – untrue, small – large, nowadays – at present, large – tremendous, advance – progress, to start – to begin, major – main, to report – to announce, to occur – to take place, convenient – suitable
Exercise 17. Write the initial forms of the following words which can be found in a dictionary.
boxes, matches, beginning, tinier, owned, boundaries, possibly, replacing, less.
Exercise 18. Find in a dictionary the suitable meaning of the following words and word-combinations in bold type.
A. 1. The Japanese companies developed the first pocket-size colоur television set. 2. Man first set foot on the Moon in July, 1969. 3. Special telephone sets are used at plants in tropical sea climate. 4. A great Russian scientist A.N. Krylov took an active part in the work of the first Atomic Commission set up at the Optical Insti_tute. 5. It was Popov who constructed the first radio set. 6. One of the global tasks nowadays is to set up solar power plants on high orbits. 7. Ships are equipped with radar sets helping them to ori_ent at sea.
B. 1. New directions of research in robotics were discussed at the last conference. 2. There is no direct connection between those processes. 3. This program is directed toward the scientific study of various physico-chemical processes. 4. Our scientists must direct their attention to the development of new technologies. 5. Further human progress is directly connected with the scientific and tech_nological progress. 6. Our task is to develop technological pro_cesses without a direct participation of man. 7. The future of mankind depends on the direction in which scientific and techno_logical progress will be developing. 8. There is a direct communi_cation between spacecrafts and the Earth, and between spacecrafts as well.
Exercise 19. Read and translate the text without consulting the dictionary.
Recently it was reported in the press that the USA was trying to build bigger, better and much more expensive TV sets. Experts de_clared that it was the most important change in television since the invention of colour television. They informed that a new kind of television had images so clear that watching it was like looking through a window.
But it became known that Japanese specialists had started their work on HDTV when nobody else in the world was thinking how to improve TV. The inventors expected that their standard for high-definition television would be used throughout the world. However, the Europeans have announced that they would set their own standard. And now it is not clear whether the Japanese stan_dard will be used or not. Some people consider that a single high-definition TV standard will allow to exchange news and may bring nations together.
Task III. Read and translate the text.
Text 9B.