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I. Reading Exercises:

Exercise 1. Read and memorize using a dictionary:

Digit, supplanted by, distress calls, distinctive, essential, money-saving benefits, constant communication

Exercise 2. Answer the questions:

  1. By which year were all the major passenger liners equipped with radio transmitters?

  2. Who and why did promote the money-saving benefits of radio?

  3. Which code was adopted by Germany for signifying distress?

  4. What has made passengers feel much more safer on a transatlantic liner anywhere in the world?

Exercise 3. Match the left part with the right:

1. In the opening chapter of his book, Collins

1. covered the basics for operating a Marconi shipboard radio installation.

2. The book- General Information

2. reviewed how radio now kept vessels on transatlantic voyages in nearly constant communication with shore stations.

3. Wireless telegraphy was

3. was referred to as "S5S".

4. In some U.S. practice the distress signal

4. recognized as an essential part of the equipment of ocean-going passenger vessels.

Exercise 4. Open brackets choosing the right words:

The 1916 (edition/book) of Brown's Signalling (notes/noted) that "Any book dealing (after/with) signalling in general (was) is (complete/incomplete) without a reference to wireless telegraphy (who/which), for mercantile (signaling/signaling), (offered/offers) so many advantages over other methods of signalling" in its The Quenched Spark System section, which(features/ featured) a shipboard installation (read/offered) (from/by) Siemens.

The Speaking Module

II. Speaking Exercises:

Exercise 1. Describe these words: (Digit, distress calls, money-saving benefits, constant communication) using the suggested words and expressions as in example:

analogue signal

is varied; with respect to; transmission; degraded by noise

example:

In an analogue signal, the signal is varied continuously with respect to the information. During transmission the information contained in analogue signals will be degraded by noise.

digit

three-dashes, unlike, in some, for example, Popular Mechanics.

distress calls

adopted at, international standard, slow to conform, supplanted by, international ratification.

money-saving benefits

large passenger liners, radio transmitters; edition, promoted, proclaiming that, rapidly increasing, smaller craft.

constant communication

opening chapter, radio, vessels, shore stations.

Exercise 2. Ask questions to the given answers:

1) Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer: In the opening chapter of his book, Collins reviewed how radio now kept vessels on transatlantic voyages in nearly constant communication with shore stations.

2) Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer: The book- General Information covered the basics for operating a Marconi shipboard radio installation.

3) Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer: Wireless telegraphy was recognized as an essential part of the equipment of ocean-going passenger vessels.

4) Question: ___________________________________________ ?

Answer: In some U.S. practice the distress signal was referred to as "S5S".