- •Do you know that:
- •Exercise 1. Decide what parts of speech these words belong to and translate:
- •Exercise 2. Match synonyms:
- •Exercise 3. Match opposites:
- •Exercise 4. Translate the word-combinations and make up the sentences of your own with them:
- •Exercise 5. Match the word with its definition:
- •Exercise 6. Find the derivatives from the words and translate the text: hobby, regular, to manufacture, to win, to participate, original.
- •Exercise 7. Fill in the gaps with the word in the right form. Translate the sentences:
- •Exercise 8. Translate the word-combinations:
- •I. Gerund
- •Exercise 9. Translate the sentences:
- •Exercise 10. Find the sentences with Gerund and translate them:
- •Exercise 11. Find and translate sentences with Gerund in the text:
- •Exercise 12. Put the verbs in brackets in the form of Gerund:
- •Exercise 13. Complete the sentences with Gerund. Use the verbs from your active vocabulary where possible:
- •Exercise 14. Translate English proverbs and sayings and give equivalents if possible:
- •Exercise 15. Translate the sentences:
- •Exercise 18. Compose sentences according to the model:
- •Exercise 19. Translate the sentences:
- •Task 1. Think over the answers to the following questions:
- •Task 2. Read an translate the text:
- •Task 3. Answer the questions using the information you have learnt from the text:
- •Task 4. Discuss the problems:
- •Task 5. Make possible word-combinations which can be ab or ba. For example exhaust gases or road safety:
- •Task 6. Write questions to the answers:
- •Task 7. Translate the sentences:
- •4. Read do's and don'ts of safe driving again. Make a summary of them without looking into the text.
- •1. Translate the word-combinations to understand the text:
- •2. Skim the text and find the answers to the questions after it:
- •3. Find the key sentences and speak on the text.
- •1. Read the text:
- •2. Make a short report on the necessity to avoid using alcohol while driving.
- •Task 1. Open the brackets and put the word in the right form: Some interesting facts about the car-making process
- •Outstanding people
- •Listen to the dialogue twice and reproduce it.
- •Do you know that:
- •Exercise 5. Choose the right word for each sentence:
- •Exercise 6. Translate the word-combinations:
- •I. Infinitive
- •Exercise 7. Translate the sentences:
- •Exercise 8. Complete the sentences with your own ideas according to the models:
- •Exercise 9. Translate the word-combinations:
- •Exercise 10. Translate the sentences:
- •II. Complex Object
- •Exercise 11. Translate the sentences:
- •Exercise 12. Translate the sentences:
- •Task 3. Read and translate the text:
- •Task 4.Write the nouns in the correct column in the table. Translate them:
- •Task 5. Answer the questions concerning each of the three groups of means of transportation:
- •Task 6. Translate the phrases in brackets using Complex Object:
- •Task 7. Translate the sentences:
- •Task 10. You are going to travel around the world. Get divided into groups of three and give arguments in favour of the kind of transportation you have chosen to travel by.
- •1. Look through the text and arrange the parts of the text in the chronological order:
- •2. Find the key sentences and speak on the text.
- •1. Read the text. Are the statements below true or false?
- •2. Give a brief outline of the problems in modern transportation and ways to solve these problems.
- •Improving london
- •1. Listen and choose the best answer to the questions:
- •Do you know that:
- •Exercise 1. Translate the derivatives:
- •Exercise 2. Match synonyms:
- •Exercise 3. Match opposites:
- •Exercise 4. Translate the word-combinations:
- •Exercise 5. Match the words to their definitions. Translate them:
- •Exercise 6. Give English equivalents to the following:
- •Exercise 7. Translate the sentences:
- •Exercise 8. Transform the sentences according to the model:
- •Exercise 9. Translate the sentences:
- •Exercise 10. Fill in the blanks with Future Simple, Future Progressive and Future Perfect:
- •Exercise 11. Compose sentences with different time signals. Use the active vocabulary:
- •Exercise 12. Translate into English. Put different types of questions to the sentences:
- •Task 1. Think over the answers to the following questions:
- •Task 2. Read and translate the text.
- •Task 3. Say whether the statements are true or false:
- •Task 4. Find the right answer:
- •Task 5. Complete the sentences with the information from the text:
- •Task 6. Make up sentences:
- •Task 7. Choose the right form of the verb:
- •Task 8. Translate the sentences using Complex Object, Future Perfect and Perfect Progressive.
- •Task 9. You are walking along the street with small children. Children always put a lot of questions. They ask you “What were the first roads like?” Having read the text you can tell a lot about this.
- •1. Look through the text and choose the titles given below corresponding to the content of each passage of the text.
- •Supplementary vocabulary:
- •2. Here are the definitions of some words from the text. Find these words:
- •3. Summarize the text to produce a short report on road construction.
- •1. Skim the text to outline the main stages of history of asphalt:
- •2. Put the questions to the answers:
- •1. Mind some special terms to understand the text properly:
- •2. Read the text and match the type of the bridge with one of the features given below:
- •Listen to the text and think of some other outstanding people in the history of road construction.
- •Do you know that …
- •Exercise 1. Translate the derivatives:
- •Exercise 2. Match synonyms:
- •Exercise 3. Match an opposite to the first word of the line:
- •Exercise 4. Translate the word-combinations:
- •Exercise 5. Fill in the gaps with the right verb from the box in the correct form:
- •Exercise 6. Translate the word-combinations:
- •Exercise 7. Translate chains of words:
- •I. Subjunctive mood
- •Exercise 8. Translate the sentences:
- •Exercise 9. Match a line in a to a line in b:
- •Exercise 10. Put the verb in brackets in the correct form:
- •Exercise 11. Rewrite these sentences using sentences of unreal condition:
- •Exercise 12. Restore the questions and answer them:
- •Exercise 13. Complete these sentences using Active Vocabulary:
- •Exercise 14. All people have dreams. Tell other students about your dreams and desires:
- •Exercise 15. Translate the sentences:
- •Task 4. Give definitions of the following:
- •Task 5. Here are the answers to some questions on computers. Write the questions:
- •2. What are the advantages of the portable computer? Name as many as you can.
- •1. Skim the text and get ready to discuss the main stages of the development of the computer:
- •5. Imagine one day of your life in 5 years. How will automatic ma-chines help you to live through this day? Write a composition of 10-15 sentences.
- •Translate the questions given above into English (in the written form) and ask your partners.
- •It’s interesting to read …
- •Listen to Tapescript 8 and complete each sentence:
- •Do you know that …
- •Exercise 1. Translate the derivates:
- •Exercise 2. Match synonyms:
- •Exercise 4. Translate the word combinations:
- •Exercise 5. Read the formulae and match them to their English equivalents:
- •Exercise 6. Study Fig. 9.1. Find out the sources of:
- •Exercise7. Answer the questions making use of the following words and word combinations. Study Fig. 9.1, Fig. 9.3:
- •Exercise 8. Study Fig. 9.2 and speak on how mercury reaches people. Use the verbs:
- •I. Subjunctive mood Exercise 9. Fill in the blanks with adverbs from the box; ask and answer the questions on the information:
- •Exercise 10. Translate the sentences given after the tables:
- •Exercise 11. Match a line in a with a line in b to make statements:
- •Exercise 12. Make unreal conditional sentences for the following situations:
- •Exercise 13. Complete the sentences using the Active Vocabulary of the lesson:
- •Exercise 14. Find and correct one mistake in each sentence:
- •Exercise 15. Decide what parts of speech are words in bold type. Translate the sentences:
- •Task 1. Give your opinion on the following:
- •Task 2. Look through the text and divide it into five parts. Give titles to each part. Task 3. Read and translate the text:
- •Task 4. Answer the questions:
- •Task 5. Make word-combinations. Match nouns to verbs (a) and adjectives to nouns (b):
- •Task 6. Decide which words do not go along with these key words:
- •Task 7. Speak on the harm done to the environment . Use the table:
- •Task 8. Fill in the gaps with the words from the box to complete the sentences:
- •2. Here are the answers to some questions. Work out the questions:
- •3. Continue the list of causes of environmental pollution and explain the ways in which people pollute their surroundings:
- •2. Skim the text and check your answers:
- •1. Before reading the text, fill in the following table:
- •2. Look through the text and give your opinion on the following:
- •Listen to Tapescript 9 and do the following tasks:
- •I. Say what the following numbers refer to:
- •II. Choose the right ending to each sentence below:
- •Do you know that …
- •Active vocabulary
- •Exercise 1. Translate the derivatives:
- •Exercise 2. Translate the word combinations:
- •Exercise 3. Match synonyms:
- •Exercise 4. Match opposites:
- •Exercise 5. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct form. Translate the sentences:
- •Exercise 6. Translate into English to parts in brackets to complete the sentences:
- •Task 4. Answer the questions:
- •Task 5. Mind the following abbreviations of electronic correspondence:
- •Task 6. Translate the word combinations:
- •Task 7. There is an example of one type of messages. Read and translate it, answer the questions given after the message:
- •Task 8. Below are 3 messages. Write them in the form of fax or e-mail:
- •Task 9. Look through the following fax. This is an example of an informal message. Translate it:
- •Task 10. Fax your own messages on:
- •Task 11. Translate the sentences:
- •1. Restore the questions, concerning your c.V. (Resumé) and answer them:
- •2. Before reading text 10 b give your opinion on:
- •3. Read, translate and memorize the recommendations concerning resumé:
- •4. Look through the layouts of cv (1), cv (2) and resumé (3). Find their common features:
- •5. Interview an applicant. You want to begin with the questions about:
- •9. Translate the sentences:
- •10. This is a sample covering letter (or a letter of interest). Read, translate and write your own covering letter and a resumé:
- •1. Think of the answers to the following questions:
- •2. Skim the text:
- •II. The Functional Resumé.
- •4. Compare two tables with salutations and complimentary closes of different letters in British English and American English. Remember the differences:
- •5. Look through the structure of the following business letters and indicate the following parts: the letter-head, references, per pro, company position enclosure. Translate the letter:
- •6. Compose your own business letter.
- •8.Translate into English.
- •9. You want to continue your education abroad (choose any country, college or University). Write your own covering letter for this purpose.
- •In respect of/to-
- •Підрядні додаткові речення: that (щоб, що), whether, if (якщо, якби) Підрядні речення часу:
- •Умовні підрядні речення
Listen to the text and think of some other outstanding people in the history of road construction.
JOKES AND ANECDOTES
* * *
The decrepit old car drove up to the toll-bridge.
"Fifty cents," – cried the gentleman.
"Sold", – replied the driver.
* * *
A 'Drive Safe' sign: The driver is safer when the road is dry. The road is safer when the driver is dry.
Science is organized knowledge
Herbert Spencer
(1820 – 1903)
Unit 8
COMPUTERS
Do you know that …
…the first electronic digital computer was built in 1946 and filled a huge room?
…the smallest digital computers are so tiny they can pass through the eye of a needle?
…computers are found inside wrist watches, pocket calculators, and other devices?
…soon the computer industry is expected to be the second largest industry in the world in terms of annual revenue, only agriculture will be larger?
…the United States has the largest computer industry in the world, employing more than 1 million people?
…the first people to coin the term 'Internet' were two scientists, Vinton Cerf and his partner, Bob Kahn, who in 1974 devised a means by which data could be transmitted across a global network of computers?
Active Vocabulary
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accuracy (n) –
accurate (adj) – |
точність, правильність точний |
to perform with accuracy;
accurate data |
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astonishing (adj) – |
дивний |
astonishing results; astonishing report; astonishing experience |
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combine (v) – |
сполучити(ся), об'єднувати |
to combine efforts; to combine various characteristics |
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compare (v) – |
порівнювати |
to compare results; they can’t be compared |
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convert (v) – |
перетво-рювати, конвертувати |
to convert the enterprise; to convert currency |
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data (n) – |
дані |
to receive data; data of great importance |
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digit (n) – digital (adj) – |
цифра цифровий |
to draw a digit; Roman digit; to work with the digital computer |
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display (v) – |
показувати, виставляти, демонструвати |
to display goods at the exhibition; to display his best features; to be displayed at the show |
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efficiency (n) – |
ефективність, продуктивність |
efficiency of production; to increase efficiency, to work with stable efficiency |
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equation (n) – |
рівняння |
unsolved equation; to present in the form of the equation; to figure out the equation |
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fail (v) – |
потерпіти невдачу, не мати успіху |
to fail in mathematics; his attempt has failed |
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fascinating (adj) – |
чарівний, чудовий, дивний |
fascinating appearance; fascinating flowers; fascinating quickness |
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feature (n) – |
риса, особливість |
special features; attractive features; features of character |
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to figure out (v) – |
розуміти, осягати, обчислювати |
to figure out the problem; to be figured out easily; not to be able to figure out the speed |
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hardware (n) – |
комп'ютерне обладнання |
to supply hardware, updated hardware |
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keyboard (n) – |
клавіатура |
keyboard with Latin alphabet; to touch the keyboard; to search for a right letter on the keyboard |
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mail (n) – |
пошта |
to send by air mail; to receive the morning mail; to look through the mail |
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network (n) – |
мережа |
road network; network of communication; to set up a network of shops |
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perform (v) – |
виконувати |
to perform operations, to perform successfully
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precision (n) – |
точність, чіткість, акуратність |
to describe with precision; to lack precision |
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predict (v) – |
передвіщати |
to predict consequences; to predict future steps; to be predicted with accuracy |
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process (v) – |
обробляти |
to process the information, to be processed by the computer |
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rely on (v) – |
покладатися на |
to rely on his honesty, he is not the man to be relied on; reliable device |
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quantity (n) – |
кількість |
unknown quantity; to increase quantity; big quantity of consumer goods |
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remove (v) – |
усувати, видаляти |
to remove the traces of the accidents; to remove damaged parts |
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retrieve (v) – |
знайти (знову), повернути, узяти назад |
to retrieve information; to be retrieved immediately; to retrieve data after some manipulation |
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screen (n) – |
екран |
to display on the screen; wide screen |
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separate (adj) – |
окремий |
to join separate parts; to examine every separate piece of the substance |
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simplify (v) – |
спрощувати |
to simplify rules; to simplify procedure; to simplify the task |
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software (n) – |
програмне забезпечення |
to provide software, different kinds of software |
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store (v) – |
зберігати, запасати |
to store data in the computer; to store food for the winter; to be stored in big quantity |
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subtract (v) – |
віднімати |
to subtract two from twenty; two subtracted from twenty is eighteen
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switch (n) – switch on (v) – switch off (v) – |
вимикач вмикати вимикати |
a number of switches on the panel; to switch on the radio; to switch off the electricity |
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tiny (adj) – |
дуже маленький, малесенький |
tiny device; tiny piece; tiny room |
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type (v) – |
друкувати |
to type important documents; to be typed on the computer |
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widespread (adj) – |
широко розповсюд-жений |
widespread information; to be widely spread throughout the world |
LEXICAL EXERCISES