Lesson 16. My Department

16.1.Розмовна тема. Мій факультет

Вправа 1. Доповніть текст даними про ваш факультет.

The department of ___ was founded in ___.

It trains specialists for ___ industry.

It closely cooperates with industrial enterprises such as ___.

Besides training specialists our department conducts research and scientific work.

Many well-known scientists such as ___ worked at our department.

At present time the department trains specialists in ___ specialities. These specialities are: ___.

Graduates of our department work at ___.

Прочитайте про різні факультети деяких університетів світу (див. Appendix I).

16.2. Письмове завдання

Вправа 2. Дайте відповіді на запитання про один з факультетів вашого ВНЗ.

1. When was the department founded? 2. What industry does it train specialists for? 3. What industrial enterprises does it cooperate with? 4. Who of well-known scientists worked at the department? 5. How many specialities are there at the department? 6. Where do graduates of the department work at?

16.3. Читання

Прочитайте текст зі словником.

What Does the Large Hadron Collider Do?

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is currently being installed in a 27-kilometer ring buried deep below the countryside on the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland. It started its operation in 2007, and became the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. During the experiments, high-energy protons in two counter-rotating beams are smashed together in a search for signatures of supersymmetry, dark matter and the origins of mass.

The beams are made up of bunches containing billions of protons. Traveling at a whisker below the speed of light they are injected, accelerated, and kept circulating for hours, guided by thousands of powerful superconducting magnets.

The experiments’ detectors will watch carefully as the energy of colliding protons transforms into thousands of exotic particles. The detectors could see up to 600 million collision events per second, with the experiments trying to obtain the data for signs of extremely rare events such as the creation of the much-sought Higgs boson.

Виберіть правильний варіант.

1. The Large Hadron Collider is a powerful ___.

a) laser b) particle accelerator c) atomic power plant

2. The LHC is built in ___.

a) Switzerland b) France c) America

3. During the experiments, the beams of high energy ___ collide.

a) molecules b) protons c) electrons

4. The scientists try to observe the creation of ___.

a) Dirac’s positron b) Rutherford’s atom c) Higgs boson

16.4. Граматика. Особливості перекладу пасивних конструкцій

В англійській мові пасивний стан вживається частіше, ніж в українській. Існує декілька випадків, коли переклад присудка у пасивному стані становить певні труднощі.

1. Якщо у пасивному стані є носій дії (by somebody), то при перекладі можна вживати особову форму дієслова в активному стані:

The news is brougt by my sister. – Новину принесла моя сестра.

2. Якщо присудок у пасивній конструкції виражений дієсловом з прийменником, то підмет перекладають додатком з відповідним прийменником, а присудок – неозначено–особовою формою дієслова.

The doctor was sent for. – Послали за лікарем.

The child is being looked after. – За дитиною доглядають.

Запам’ятайте дієслова з прийменником!

to look for – шукати	to wait for – чекати
to look through – переглядати	to pay attention to – звертати увагу на
to work on – працювати над	to listen to – слухати
to refer to – посилатися на	to rely on – покладатися на

3. Безособові конструкції перекладають наступним чином:

It is known that ... – Відомо, що ...	It is expected that ... – Чекають, що ...
It is said that ... – Говорять, що ...	It should be mentioned that ... – Слід згадати, що ...

Вправа 3. Перекладіть речення. Зверніть увагу на дієслова, які потребують після себе прийменника.

1. He was listened to with great attention. 2. The child was looked for everywhere. 3. The documents were sent for a week ago. 4. Her children will be taken care of. 5. She is always waited for. 6. Tsiolkovsky’s works are often referred to at present. 7. He doesn’t like to be laughed at. 8. The results of the last experiment were constantly referred to by the professor.

Вправа 4. Поставте дієслово в дужках у необхідному часі.

1. The inventor of the radio, Popov, (to bear) in 1859. 2. The work (to do) by students at the laboratory. 3. The mother (to tell) not to worry about her sick boy. 4. He (to examine) soon by the doctor. 5. The cat (to call) Pussy, but my little sister (to call) it Push. 6. Great progress (to make) in radio engineering since that time. 7. The first two-electrode valve (to make) in 1904. 8. Great progress (to achieve) in the field of electronics. 9. I (to give) a kitten last week.

Вправа 5. Розкрийте дужки та поставте дієслова у Passive Voice.

1. Soon he (to send) to a sanatorium. 2. The book (to discuss) at the next conference. 3. The composition must (to hand) in on Wednesday. 4. Yesterday he (to tell) to prepare a speech. 5. The article (to publish) last week, if I am not mistaken. 6. The lectures (to attend) by all of us. 7. A taxi (to call) fifteen minutes ago, so we are expecting it any moment. 8. The young man (to introduce) to me only a couple of hours ago, but it seems to me that I’ve known him for years.

Вправа 6. Передайте речення у Passive Voice.

1. They broke the window last week. 2. When I came home, they had eaten the sweets. 3. We will do the work in the evening. 4. He wrote this book in the 19th century. 5. They were playing tennis from four till five. 6. They have made a number of important experiments in this lab­oratory. 7. Livingstone explored Central Africa in the 19th century. 8. By the middle of autumn we had planted all the trees in the orchard. 9. They will stage this play at the beginning of the next season. 10. They have forgotten the story.

Вправа 7. Перекладіть речення англійською.

1. Вже послали за ліками? – Так, їх зараз шукають. 2. Його виховала сестра. 3. Не турбуйся, йому допоможуть в роботі. 4. Нажаль, в нашому районі вирубують багато дерев. 5. Цей міст ще будується. Він вже будувався, коли я побачив його вперше. 6. Коли файл копіювався, раптом виключили електрику. 7. Коли я прийду додому, обід ще буде готуватись. 8. Це явище широко обговорювалось у науковій пресі.