Exercises

1. Listen and repeat after the speaker. Practice the pronunciation of the following.

[α:] department, participant, seminar, advanced, last; [æ] nationality, programming, graduate, academic, exam; [eι] radio, training, apparatus; [׃ב] automation, taught, autumn, qualified; [aι] specialized, finance, environment, divide, enterprise, scientific, society, library, kind, provide; [k] telemechanics, mechanics, descriptive, electrical.

2. Read and translate the following words and word combinations:

A first-year student, secondary school, nationality, day department, establish, correspondence, specialized field, philology, foreign language, course, drawing, industry, laboratory works, lectures, research, hostel, reference-book, literature, specialists.

2. Read and try to memorize the following active word combinations:

1. to enter a University поступить в Университет

2. to be established быть основанным; быть созданным

3. day-time department дневное отделение

4. correspondence department факультет заочного отделения

5. training course учебный курс

6. academic year учебный год

7. to last длиться, продолжаться

8. to take an examination (a test) сдавать экзамен (зачет)

9. practical know-how производственная практика

10. to attend classes посещать пары

11. to be engaged in research вести научно – исследовательскую работу

12. reference book справочник

13. basic (general) subjects основные предметы

• higher mathematics высшая математика

• chemistry химия

• physics физика

• descriptive geometry начертательная геометрия

• theoretical mechanics теоретическая механика

• heat engineering теплотехника

• electrical engineering электротехника

• drawing черчение

• strength of materials сопромат

2. Try to arrange the following words in pairs of synonyms and translate them:

1. free education 1. oral test

2. term 2. to take part in

3. practical training 3. scholarship

4. to do well at the exams 4. apparatus

5. to be founded 5. free of charge

6. department 6. semester

7. quiz 7. to be established

8. to participate in 8. faculty

9. stipend 9. to pass with distinction

10. instrument 10. practical know-how