4. Answer the questions on the text:

1. What does the further development of production and the society depend on?

2. What kind of skills should a young specialist have?

3. How many Ukrainian students are engaged in scientific work nowadays?

4. What must authors and co-authors get for their inventions?

5. In what way does the scientific work help students in their study?

6. What kind of scientific research do students of your department carry out?

7. What scientific research are you interested in?

8. What would you like to describe in your term-paper?

5. Point out the sentence which expresses the main idea of the text:

Today over a million students are engaged in various forms of scientific work in Ukrainian higher schools.

Recently many students became co-authors of some important innovations.

At present science and education have become inseparable from each other in Ukraine.

4. Students work as specialists in the professions they are being trained, and this practice has been dubbed the "labour term".

5. The graduates of Soviet higher educational institutions must be trained to meet the demands of modern production, science, technology and culture.

6. Point out the sentence in which the word 'graduates' and the word 'change' is a verb

1. Graduates of our institutes are engineers all around the world. 2. My best friends are graduates from the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute.3. If he graduates from the Institute with honours, he will stay in Moscow_. 4. Our institutes and universities equip their graduates for independent work. 5. Strain is equal to a change in the length divided by the original length. 6. The external forces acting upon a body change its original size or form. 7. The molecular forces resist the change in the form of the body. 8. Plasticity is a change of the shape of a solid body without rupture.

7. Open the brackets using the verbs in Passive Voice according to the model. Change the Tense into Past or Future where necessary

Model: Bread (to eat) every day.

Bread is eaten every day.

1. Many houses (to build) in our district every hour.

2. My question (to answer) yesterday.

3. This text (to translate) next lesson.

4. We (to invite) to a concert last Saturday.

5. Hockey (to play) in winter.

Model: The letter (to write) now.

The letter is being written now.

1. Tennis (to play) by them from four till five.

2. The trucks (to load) by workers at twelve o’clock.

3. These newspapers (to look through) by my father at 8 a.m. this morning.

4. A bridge (to build) over the river by them.

5. The documents (to type) by secretary now.

Model: This rule (to explain) by our teacher already.

This rule has been explained by our teacher already.

1. He (to see) in the university today.

2. Your report (to divide) into two parts.

3. The work (to finish) by six o’clock.

4. They (not to give) any interesting book yet.

5. Helen (to show) the nearest way to the theatre.

8. Choose the correct form

1. The new principles of public education (proclaimed, were proclaimed) in our country in 1918. 2. Our scientists (have solved, have been solved) a lot of important problems. 3. When he entered, an interesting experiment (was making, was being made).  4. Listen! The student (is making, is being made) a 

report. 5. This law (had been discovered, has been discovered) by the end of the 19th century. 6. The young specialists (must train, must be trained) to meet the demands of modern technologies. 7. The latest methods of scientific research (used, were used) by our scientists. 8. Many students of our University (engaged, are engaged) in various forms of scientific activity. 9. This practical contribution (has made, has been made) by a group of creative specialists recently. 10. This compound (was obtained, has been obtained) some time ago. 11. The results of applying different instruments and devices (are introducing, are being introduced) into production this year. 12. This experiment (will be made, will have been made) by the end of the lesson. 13. This substance (will be decomposed, will have been decomposed) at our next lesson.