5. Which form will you use in these sentences – Past Simple or “used to”?

1. Our university … (be called) the institute.

2. Our family … (go) to the countryside when I was small.

3. The first magazine … (be) very interesting but the second was awful.

4. My teacher … (draw) a very complicated diagram on the whiteboard, we couldn’t understand it.

5. When my parents were schoolchildren, they … (wear) a uniform to school.

6. Write some 5-6 sentences with “used to” about what you usually did or didn’t do when you were younger.

Technical Reading.

7. Words and expressions to know.

skilled trade to deal with distinct step to edit computer knowledge important means installation console to make a decision schedule

advertising to invent to enhance to perform research graduate to pass a qualification test around the world to award to emphasize autodidact

8. Read and translate into Russian the information about the profession of a sound engineer.

Sound Engineer

A sound engineer is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of equipment for the commercial production of a recording. There are four distinct steps to it: recording, editing, mixing and mastering. The field contains a lot of artistic and professional areas including electronics, acoustics, psychoacoustics and music. A sound engineer is a proficient with different types of recording media such as analog tape, digital multitrack recorders and workstations and computer knowledge.

It is becoming more and more important for the sound engineer to be skilled in the understanding of software and hardware integration from synchronization to analog (mechanical) to digital means. Usually sound engineers know the design, installation and / or operation of sound recording, sound reinforcement or sound broadcasting equipment including large and format consoles.

Sound engineering includes the creative and practical aspects of sounds and music because in the recording studio environment the sound engineer works with the help of different technical means to realize an artist’s or record producer’s creative vision. In typical sound reinforcement application sound engineers often carries out the role of a producer making artistic and technical decisions and sometimes even scheduling and budget decisions.

In larger productions a sound engineer is responsible for the technical aspects of a sound recording or other sound production and works together with a record producer or director but the engineer’s role may also be integrated with that of the producer. In smaller productions and studios the sound engineer and producer is often one and the same person.

While usually associated with music production, a sound engineer deals with sound for a lot of applications including post-production for video and film, live sound reinforcement, advertising, multimedia and broadcasting. When referring to video games a sound engineer may also be a computer programmer. A lot of sound engineers invent new technology, equipment and techniques to enhance the process and art.

People who design acoustical simulations of rooms, shaping algorithms for digital signal processing and computer music problems, perform institutional research on sound and other advanced fields of sound engineering are most often graduates of a college or a university, or have passed a difficult qualification test.

Sound engineers come from fine arts, broadcasting, music or electronics. A lot of colleges and institutions around the world offer degrees in sound engineering. Some music schools have sound engineering programs, usually awarding a Bachelor of Music degree emphasizing the use of sound technology as opposed to the mathematics and physics of acoustics and electrical engineering that is a part of a traditional engineering program at an engineering college or department within a university. Some sound engineers are autodidacts with no formal training.