- •Министерство образования и науки Российской Федерации
- •Module 1 education
- •Introduction
- •Unit 1 higher education in britain
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Do you know that…..
- •Further and higher education
- •Vocabulary
- •Put these under the proper heading.
- •11. Make the list of advantages and disadvantages of further higher education in the uk.
- •Unit 2 students’ life in the uk (great britain)
- •Vocabulary
- •Students’ life in the uk (great britain)
- •3. Ask questions to the following statements:
- •5. Finish the sentences by choosing a word or phrases from the brackets:
- •International Student
- •Unit 3 higher education in russia
- •Vocabulary
- •Higher education in russia
- •I. Vocabulary
- •Novosibirsk state technical university (nstu) mission statements
- •3. What do these numbers from the text refer to?
- •7. Asking the Way. Can you find your way around the university?
- •II. Presentation techniques
- •Module 2 ecological problems unit 5 pollution
- •Vocabulary
- •Pollution - no easy answers
- •Vocabulary
- •High tech pollution
- •4. Intelligent d. Old-fashioned
- •Speaking
- •7. What do these numbers from the text refer to?
- •Unit 6 ecological problems of big cities and their solution
- •Vocabulary:
- •1 Do you know that:
- •Vocabulary
- •Waste not, want not
- •Vocabulary
- •The answer is blowing in the wind
- •II. Main body
- •Los angeles - the city of angels
- •Nightlife – Restaurants – Shops – Hotels – Sights
- •Vocabulary
- •Australian cities – a trip to australia
- •Vocabulary
- •The statue of liberty – the world-famous attraction
- •Vocabulary
- •Module 4 science and technology unit 8 great scientists
- •I. Vocabulary Study:
- •C) The scientist who saw the solution on a bus
- •4. Science
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •Zhores Alferov – Nobel Prize Winner
- •6. Writing
- •Unit 9 great inventors and inventions
- •Vocabulary Study: machines, gadgets, devices, appliances
- •Vocabulary
- •Thomas alva edison (1847–1931) the lights still burn
- •Vocabulary
- •Discussing Edison’s Personality
- •Unit 10 research and development scientific achievements: study of space
- •Vocabulary
- •(Extracts from the journal of dk Munro, Astronomer)
- •5. A New Telescope
- •Sports in school
- •Ceremonies in school
- •Supplementary materials to Module 3 Cities
- •Novosibirsk
- •Vocabulary
- •Novosibirsk
- •Museums of Novosibirsk
- •8. Read the text about the longest undergrounds in the world. Compare Novosibirsk Metro line with other undergrounds. Some spotlights
- •Список литературы
- •Contents
- •Английский язык
(Extracts from the journal of dk Munro, Astronomer)
I can hardly wait – tomorrow Hubble comes online and we will move into a new era of astronomy. Ever since Galileo identified the planets in the 17th century we have looked at the stars and been disappointed. We have spent years looking for the best place to site our telescope, to minimize the distortion caused by the earth’s atmosphere, to find the clearest skies. Though telescopes have improved over the years, stars still appear to twinkle. We know that they don’t, it’s just the way the light comes into atmosphere. Now with a telescope in space we can see stars as they really are.
In a couple of hours, I will be able to see the first images from Hubble. All those years of planning – NASA and the European Space Agency have been working together for almost twenty years, beginning in the 1970s, and have pooled their resources to build this telescope. The space shuttle Discovery was deployed to put Hubble 600 kilometres above the earth. Any time now we can expect the clearest images of the moon, the planets and the stars.
I’ve just had a look at the first of Hubble’s images and all I can say is ‘Oh, dear!’ The pictures are no clearer than the ones taken through a telescope on earth. There seems to be a problem. Have we been wrong all this time and stars really twinkle? I don’t think so. There could be any number of reasons why Hubble’s images are out of focus. The people at NASA are checking the software, but it looks as if the problem is something to do with the mirror.
I’m hoping today will be a good day. The Shuttle arrives at Hubble and the astronauts will spend as much time as they can fixing the mirror. They have to fix the mirror so that it moves in and out to focus accurately. If they can do that, then we can try to look at the stars again and hopefully this time we’ll see them in crystal clarity.
At last, the astronauts have repaired the mirror and looking at images is just like being out there.
I wish Edwin Hubble could see these pictures. He was the scientist who first realized that the universe was expanding and would had been overjoyed to see the stars as clearly as I can see them now. Although Edwin Hubble expanded our outstanding of the universe, the telescope named after him will increase our knowledge of the planets, stars and galaxies we can now see properly.
1. Which project was run jointly by NASA and the European Space agency?
2. What place was chosen to site the Shuttle telescope?
3. What new technologies were deployed by investigators to get images from space?
4. What problem arose with the telescope? How was the problem solved?
5. Why was the telescope named after Edwin Hubble?
6. Could astronomers In American high schools, there is often much interest in other students make new discoveries by using the Hubble telescope?
3. Read the text again and choose the best ending for the sentence.
1. Images of the stars are unclear because …
A of poor quality telescopes.
B stars twinkle.
C of the light coming into the atmosphere.
D the sky isn’t always clear.
2. Hubble was built …
A by the Americans.
B by the Europeans.
C over a 20 year period.
D in space.
3. A space shuttle …
A sent back clear images.
B launched the satellite.
C built the telescope.
D put Hubble into orbit.
4. There was a problem ….
A with Hubble’s mirror.
B with the Space Shuttle program.
C repairing the telescope.
D deploying the telescope.
5.Edwin Hubble was the first to ….
A notice that the universe was getting larger.
B say how old the universe is.
C discover new planets.
D see another universe.
4. Match the words with the definitions.
1 identify a. use something for a specific purpose
2 site b. get bigger
3 pool c. combine or share
4 deploy d. recognize someone or something
5 expand e. put something in a particular place
Writing