8. Write the following sentences in the Past Simple:

1. The train starts at 10 o’clock.

2. The operator will start the engine

3. The research institute of electronics designs produces electronics-mechanical table-clocks of highest precision.

4. Many workers of our plant work in the daytime and study in their spare hours.

5. The young operator of the machine will join the Culture University classes.

6. In our experiment we apply the latest instruments.

7. As the researchers work hard they achieve good results.

8. This famous newspaperman always reports very interesting news.

9. When the controller examines the machines they operate normally.

9. Put the following verbs in the Past Simple:

To be, to predict, to blow, to get, to drop, to come, to have, to know, to leave.

10. Communicative situations:

1. Make up a dialogue on the topic “The science of electronics, its help and broad application in industry”.

2. Make a short report on the topic” Electronics in the life of our society”.

11. Retell the text. Topic: the first solar power station grammar: future simple

1. Learn the new words and word combinations:

accumulated	накопичена
desalinator	опріснювач
conversion	обертання
photoelectric	фотоелектричний
installation	установка
is expedient	доцільно
desert	пустеля
rated capacity	встановленна потужність
efficient	рентабельний
phototransformers had proved their worth	фотоперетворювачі виявилися доцільними
to raise	піднімати
to freshen	оcвіжати
well	криниця
solar rays	сонячні промені
rotate	обертатися, повертатися

2. Read and translate the text: The first solar power station

Over the last million years of its existence the Earth has accumulated less than a hundredth part of the energy radiated by the Sun yearly.

Scientists are working on solar desalinators and air conditioner; are studying high temperature physics, the concentration of solar energy and its conversion to mechanical energy.

On the order of the day are power stations employing principles of direct conversion of solar energy into electricity. The world's first photoelectric solar power station designed by scientists has been put into operation in Turkmenistan. To use solar energy installations is expedient only where it is difficult or impossible to organize a centralized power supply – as it is, for instance, in the Kara-Kum Desert, where the first station has been built. Its capacity is small.

Designing efficient and reliable solar energy installations had been going on for years. In outer space, phototransformers had proved their worth but the thing was to see how they would behave themselves on the Earth, how long they would operate. It was necessary to design installations which would operate automatically and require no servicing, to study their electric power and operating characteristics in “natural” conditions. These tasks were solved by a team of scientists and engineers. They designed and built the first experimental watering installation using solar energy to raise and to freshen water.

The station can raise 15 cubic metres of water a day from a twenty metre deep well. The rated capacity of the solar freshener is 10 cubic metres a day. Solar rays fall on concentrating mirrors which have batteries of photoelements. The mirrors automatically rotate with the batteries in the direction of the Sun. In the morning, with the first rays of the sun, the installation turns east by itself.