He is a man of huge strength.

2. Работа со словарем. Прочтите предложения. Определите исходную форму вцд_е- ленных слов, часть речи, к которой они относятся, и найдите соответствующие зна­чения этих слов в словаре.

Ца) A greater part of the research has been completed.

2. They parted after they graduated from the Institute.

3. He divided the apple into two parts.

2. a) The trees were covered with snow and the forest looked beautiful.

2. It’s raining hard, we must get under cover, quick!

3. This book needs a new cover.

2. a) The man tied his horse to the tree.

2. Family ties are often very strong.

3. I can’t help you today. I’m too tied up with other things.

2. a) It was getting dark and I could not see the shape of the building

clearly.

2. He shaped a piece of clay into a ball.

3. He likes to watch clouds of different shapes in the sky. ^ .

2. a) The house is well placed, not far from the river.

2. They hoped that the horse would get the first place in the race.

3. Place the books in the right order.

2. a) Storms sometimes cause great damage.

2. Several valuable pictures were damaged by fire.

3. The accident didn’t do much damage to the motor-car.

2. a) There were large crowds in the streets.

2. People quickly crowd round when there is a street accident.

3. The pupils crowded round the teacher to ask questions.

2. a) Concrete is widely used for bridge construction.

2. Concrete units have been brought to the site.

3. The word car is a concrete noun.

2. a) High quality goods are manufactured at this plant.

2. The steel manufacture has been considerably increased in the last years.

3. The shop manufactures engines for motor-cars.

2. Прочтите следующие интернациональные слова вслух и, основываясь на значевя** соответствующих русских слов, определите их значения.

climate [ klaimit] standard ['staendad]

tent [tent] pyramid [ piramid]

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sphinx [sfinks] tourist f'tusnst] technique [tek'ni:k] industrialize [in'dAStrialaiz] season ['si:zn]

4. Выберите правильный перевод слов из предложенных вариантов. Найдите в каждом ряду слово, перевод которого дан в начале ряда.

1. огромный a) advanced, b) flat, с) huge, d) convenient

2. продолжитель- a) advantage, b) duration, с) establishment, ность d) length

3. дорогой a) main, b) concrete, c) previous, d) expensive

4. кроме того a) in turn, b) furthermore, c) without, d) still

5. отапливать a) to heat, b) to tie, c) to increase, d) to extend

6. главный a) shallow, b) recent, c) main, d) huge

7. преимущество a) shortage, b) strength, c) effort, d) advantage

8. вытягивать, рае- a) to assemble, b) to expect, c) to extend, d) to ширять rise

9. резать a) to perform, b) to cut, c) to beat, d) to shake

10. единица a) place, b) unit, c) shape, d) hole

11. собирать a) to put up, b) to solve, c) to wear, d) to

assemble

12. передовой a) advanced, b) expensive, c) ordinary, d) similar

13. нехватка a) duration, b) damage, c) shortage,

d) strength

14. связывать a) to cut, b) to cover, c) to arouse, d) to tie

15. толпа a) part, b) piece, c) crowd, d) unit

5. Выберите слово, противоположное по значению.

1. empty a) proper, b) full, с) dry, d) total

2. shallow a) flat, b) huge, c) similar, d) deep

3. easy a) above, b) difficult, c) main, d) successful

4. to destroy a) to arouse, b) to cut, c) to build, d) to heat

5. huge a) small, b) main, c) concrete, d) numerous

6. complicated a) advanced, b) expensive, c) permanent,

d) simple

7. to assemble a) to cover, b) to part, c) to extend, d) to

manufacture

8. to remain a) to assemble, b) to place, c) to leave, d) to put

up

9. strength a) weakness, b) crowd, c) hole, d) brick

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10. always

11. to damage

6. Прочтите н переведите следующие словосочетания на русский язык

to depend on quality in the middle of the wood to tie together

the top of a wooden house £... to appear on the horizon [&* J the middle of the day a shallow hole to have no shape a flat ground to put up a tent a stone wall to do something in turn the strength of the material thick wood

to serve as an explanation to destroy the city great effort advanced workers steel and concrete numerous units to manufacture tubes

to assemble houses the North Region to be made of bricks a new flat to arouse interest in the wrong direction shortage of water the assembly of aggregates the duration of the crises a number of advantages to extend the road to heat the house expensive means huge scale

to play an important part to take part in the concert to take place to be damaged by storm a damaged car an overcrowded bus a crowded street

6. Решите кроссворд.

1. The ... of Moscow is over

10. million.

2. The highest part of a mountain.

3. A construction material which was widely used in ancient times

4. The main city of a country.

5. To put several parts together.

6. A waterway which links two seas.

7. To make something shorter.

8. A part of a country.

9. An outside covering on the top of ^a building.

10. One of the qualities of ^fl

construction material.

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А;

1. Reading English technical magazines is important for an engineer.

2. He remembers having added some water to the mixture.

3. They finished installing the apparatus only on Saturday.

4. They began making the experiment in May.

5. After failing his examination in January he had to take it again in February.

6. After graduating from the Institute he worked in the Far North.

7. At the meeting they discussed different ways of improving their work.

8. There are different ways of obtaining the substance.

9. The organizers of the conference were informed of his refusing to take part in it.

1. remember his having been interested in languages in his* childhood.

Б.

1. know of his having been sent to work to the Far East.

2. What is the reason for his having left our city so suddenly?

3. We heard of the experiment having been started last week.

4. He improved his report by changing the end.

5. They objected to his staying at home.

6. Instead of restoring the old theatre they decided to build a new one m the centre of the town.

7. New possibilities for applying atomic energy open up. _f

8. It is possible to set up power stations based on utilizing the heat о the Sun.

9. The idea of creating a multi-stage rocket belongs to Tsiolkovsky.

10. Before being sent up the balloon was filled with a special gas.

11. What apparatus do we use for measuring air pressure?

12. Science requires experimenting.

13. Speaking foreign languages is important for every educated man.

11. (обзорное). Переведите следующие предложения на русский язык, обр*®** внимание на fog-формы.

1. The monument needs restoring.

2. The monument of what century are you restoring?

3. The monument of what century is being restored?

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Б.

1. haven’t received an answer to my letter.

11. She didn’t answer my last letter.

1. Concrete has become an important construction material.

2. The large hole was concreted over.

3. He carefully studied shape of the stones.

4. Clay is easily shaped.

5. There is no need to heat the substance.

6. I’m suffering from the heat. .

7. The region is cut into two parts by the river.

8. There was a deep cut on his hand.

9. We couldn't find a dry place anywhere.

10. Why have they placed die bridge here?

11. The child read the book from cover to cover.

12. Rivers are covered with ice in winter.

13. а) Назовите русские значения следующих предлогов: abow, on, tp, until throughout, in front of about, in, of, with, from, within, without.

б) Составьте словосочетания с этими предлогами.

LISTENING PRACTICE

1. Sometimes people find themselves in desperate situations, but manage to find a way out.

1. Listen to the story “A Frenchman in London”. This story is about a man

who found himself in a desperate situation.

Think of the advice you could give him.

2. Listen to the story up to the end and compare your plan for solving^{1 c} problem with the Frenchman’s actions. Whose plan is better in У opinion?

3. Answer the following questions:

1. Who came to London?

2. How did the Frenchman spend his first day in London?

3. Why couldn’t the Frenchman find the way back to the hotel?

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ORAL PRACTICE

1. Topic. One of the most beautiful buildings in the world.

Seven human creations are considered to be wonders of the world. Now it is possible to enlarge this number to include one more extraordinary building either from Russia or abroad. Say a few words about it giving information on

1. when and where it was built;

2. who it was designed by;

3. how it looked before and how it looks now;

4. the construction materials which were used;

5. how the building was used before and how it is used now;

6. why you think it should be considered one of the wonders of the

2. Pairwork. Victor and his friend Paul have moved into a room in a new hostel. The girls,Ann and Julia,are very curious about it.

1. Listen to their conversation.

ANN: Is your room large enough?

VICTOR: Yes, I think it’s rather large.

JULIA: Have you got any furniture there?

PAUL: We have a sofa and a bed in it.

JULIA: What about armchairs?

PAUL: We haven’t got any armchairs yet. But it’s a good idea to have an armchair, isn’t it? Now we’ve four chairs and a writing table near the window.

ANN: Don’t you have a TV set?

VICTOR: Not in our room, but in the hall on the same floor.

ANN: That’s not very convenient, is it?

PAUL: That’s not quite right. We have so much fun when we watch 1 together with our friends. .

VICTOR: 1 suggest going to our room now and the girls can ^sCC

everything with their own eyes.

PAUL: Let’s go.

Paul: Your room is 4 m long and 3 m wide. You also-lTave a balcony. You have a sofa, a desk, two armchairs, a bookshelf, a tape-recorder. Don’t forget to invite your cousin to your house-warming party.

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1. a) Architecture is both science and art. Опт life and our mood sometimes depend on the buildings around us. Read the text about the history of architecture and rearrange the illustrations on p. 183 according to the contents of the text.

TEXT 7 A THE HOUSE

1. Man has always been a builder. The kind of house he built depended upon the climate, upon his enemies, and upon the building materials at hand. The first houses in many parts of the world were made of wood, for in those days the greater part of the Earth was covered with forests. Men tied together the tops of several trees and covered them with the skins of animals or with leaves and grass. So a tent, or hut, was the first house of the primitive people who lived where there was much wood.

In other regions the most convenient building material was stone. Men began building houses out of stone very long ago. Although they were built without cement, the remains of a few of them still exist.

It appears that the most ancient homes on the territory of Russia were earthenhouses. One such home was discovered near Voronezh in 1927. It consisted of a shallow hole of oval shape. The floor was covered with limestone slabs.¹ The roof had been conical and stood on poles (столб) covered by branches or animal skins. Such dwellings existed in that part of the country in the Upper Paleolithic Period (from 40,000 to 12,000 years ago).

2. The ancient Egyptians built very simple houses, by present standards. Having dried the bricks in the sun, they put up four walls, and above these they placed a flat roof. The roof was flat because there was very little rain in Egypt. Although their buildings were simple in construction, the Egyptian art of building was very beautiful. Their pyramids and monuments,

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