24. Английский юмор:

In one of college classes the professor was unable to stay for the class, so he placed a sign on the door which read as follows: “Professor Blank will be unable to meet his classes today”.

Some college lad, seeing his chance to display his sense of humour after reading the notice, walked up and erased the “C” in the word “classes”. The professor noticing the laughter turned around, walked back, looked at the student, then at the sign with “C” erased – calmly walked up and erased the “L” in “lasses”, looked at the flabbergasted student and proceeded on his way.

erase – стирать

lasses – девушки

asses – ослы

flabbergasted – ошеломленный

Урок 13 engineering as a profession

Грамматика: Степени сравнения прилагательных

Текст: Engineering as a profession

1. Прочтите вслух следующие слова:

– diverse, design, device, fibre, despite, diversity, divide, high, analyse, optimizing, amplifying, binary, timing, tiny, type, kind, hydraulics, thermodynamics, blind

– application, state, laser, radar, data, station, operation, enable, integration, generate, indication, unabated, demodulating, telecommunication, creating, automated, related, creation, sophisticated, trained, alteration, safety, operator

– electrical, electronic, development, circuit, system, ability, distribution, significant, specific, digital, silicon, lithography, dimensional, military, peripheral, build, individual, eliminate

– subject, among, superconductor, introduction, unprecedented, recover, inductor, bulky, other, ultraclean, current, structure, pump, become, cover, cutoff

– circuit, robotics, specific, synchronization, vacuum, package, increasing, mechanical, mechanism, mechanics, accidental, accident, technology

– concern, circuit, since, reducing, central, efficiency, frequency, processing, receive, unprecedented, specific, capacitor, science, processor, certain, accident, procedure

– engineering, largest, subject, imaging, generating, voltage, generation, adjusting, digital, passenger, intelligent, intelligence, language, generally, engine, energy, metallurgy, procedure, suggesting, dangerous

– machinery, proportionately, efficiency, efficiently, mission, chassis, machine, speciality

2. Прочтите следующие слова, обращая внимание на ударение:

design [ ], variable [ ], frequency [ ], explosive [ ], chassis [ ], semiconductive [ ], lithography [ ], micro-manipulator [ ], ion-beam [ ], exotic [ ], peripheral [ ], artificial [ ], sophisticated [ ], micro-miniaturization [ ], variety [ ], pneumatics [ ], typical [ ], agricultural [ ], hazardous [ ].