- •Unit I
- •Improve your pronunciation:
- •Passive structures and their message
- •Ambiguous Ved forms
- •Vocabulary
- •Learn to use proper words
- •Study and research
- •V1. Translate into Russian:
- •V2. Translate into English:
- •V3. Read and translate Text 1 about scientific research in Supplementary reading. Pick up words and expressions which can be of use for you.
- •II. Рассмотрим перевод некоторых грамматических конструкций, содержащих ing-формы.
- •Pure and applied science
- •Automation in the research process
- •Ambiguous combinations of Ving and n
- •Vocabulary
- •Learn to use proper words
- •Experimental work
- •V1. Translate into Russian.
- •V2 Translate into English.
- •V3. Read and translate Text 2 about empirical research in Supplementary Reading. Pick up the words and expressions which might be of use for you.
- •Improve your pronunciation:
- •The infinitive
- •Инфинитивные обороты
- •Vocabulary
- •Learn to use proper words
- •Showing and proving
- •V1. Translate into Russian:
- •V2. Translate the words in brackets. Then translate the sentences into Russian:
- •V3. Translate into English:
- •V4. Read and translate Text 3 about evaluation of research results in Supplementary reading. Pick up the words and expressions which might be of use for you.
- •V5 Write a piece of 5-7 sentences to characterize the process of evaluating the data that you have obtained in the course of your research. Use grammar structures and vocabulary studied. Unit 4
- •Improve your pronunciation:
- •Modal verbs and their equivalents
- •Summary chart of modals and similar expressions
- •Vocabulary
- •Learn to use proper words
- •Obtaining and analysing results
- •V1. Translate into English:
- •V2. Read and translate text 4 about analysis of research results in Supplementary Reading. Pick up the words and expressions which might be of use for you.
- •Conditionals without if
- •Sentences with as if, as though
- •Object clauses with subjunctive
- •Vocabulary
- •Learn to use proper words
- •Describing trends and tendencies
- •V1. There are a lot of verbs and nouns describing changes in size, number, price, value etc. Find the verbs that indicate an upward, downward or horizontal movement:
- •V2. Describe the rate and size of change observed:
- •V3. Complete the sentences with the prepositions: of, per, at, by, from…to.
- •V4. Translate into Russian:
- •V5. Read the example of a scatter graph description. Pick up words and expressions which might be of use for you.
- •V6. Write 5-7 sentences describing some trends in the field of your research. Unit 6
- •Improve your pronunciation:
- •Word building
- •Suffixes of the noun
- •The noun
- •2. Множественное число некоторых заимствованных из других языков существительных образуется по правилам этих языков:
- •3.Существительное в роли определителя: правило ряда
- •Vocabulary
- •Learn to use proper words
- •Comparing and contrasting
- •V1. Translate into Russian:
- •V2. Translate into English:
- •V3. Read and translate text 5 where fundamental science and experimental science are compared. Pick up the words and expressions which might be of use for you.
- •V4. Write an essay of 5-7 sentences comparing :
- •Improve your pronunciation:
- •Word building
- •Grammar слова-заместители
- •3) This, these:
- •Vocabulary
- •Emphasizing
- •Concluding
- •V1. Translate into Russian.
- •V2. Write an essay about your research work using all grammar structures and vocabulary studied. Unit 8
- •Improve your pronunciation:
- •Prepositions and conjunctions
- •Наиболее употребительные составные предлоги:
- •Наиболее употребительные составные союзы
- •Cлова, на которые следует обратить особое внимание
- •Vocabulary
- •Learn to use proper words
- •V1. Translate the sentences
- •V2. Make up a story about a scientist using idioms and expressions with the word “time”. You might start as follows:
- •To make and to do
- •V3. Complete the sentences with to make or to do in the proper form. Then translate them into Russian.
- •V4. Translate the sentences
- •V5. Continue the story about the scientist but this time try to use the verbs “to make” and “to do”. Unit 9 word building
- •Complex sentence
- •Vocabulary learn to deduce the meaning of english words:
- •Supplementary reading
- •Research
- •Empirical research
- •Evaluation and improvement
- •Aspects of validation
- •Analysis of research results
- •The process of data analysis
- •1. Data cleaning
- •2. Initial data analysis
- •3. Main data analysis
- •Fundamental science and applied science compared
- •Supplementary information most widespread abbreviations
- •Linking words and phrases
- •Table of mathematical symbols
- •Main sources of information
Инфинитивные обороты
H. Pattern: ....P...+ O...+ Inf...
Examples: Most scientists expect major developments in the near future to take place in biology. - Большинство ученых ожидают, что основные открытия в ближайшем будущем произойдут в биологии.
Itissometimesvery difficultto make people seeyourpoint. - Иногда очень трудно добитьсятого,чтобыдругие (люди) поняли, что вы хотите сказать.
Experienceshowsthis strategyto have producedbetterresultsthanmoretraditionalalgorithms. – Опыт показывает,что этастратегияприводилак лучшим результатам, чем традиционные алгоритмы.
При переводе таких конструкций между сказуемым и дополнением ставятся союзы чтобы,что, как. Подлежащее со сказуемым образуют главное предложение; дополнение становится подлежащим, а инфинитив – сказуемым придаточного предложения, время которого определяется с учетом времени сказуемого английского предложения и формы инфинитива.
Примечание: Глаголы, передающие физическое восприятие, употребляются в этой конструкции без частицыto:feel,hear,see,watch,observe,notice, а также глаголыhave,makeв значении : сделать так, чтобы; заставить.
1. One can assume this to be self-evident. 2. One can expect the scope of research to expand steadily. 3. Nowadays we see many new areas of research come into being as a result of unexpected breakthroughs. 4. One can watch more and more people move into biology from other areas of research. 5. An efficient laboratory head always knows how to get his people to do their work properly and on time. 6. If one is really interested in science, one doesn't like any problem, however difficult, to be left unsolved. 7. Most scientists regard biology, rather than physics, as the likely central ground of scientific advance in the near future. 8. One of the major problems at present for a university is to have young people interested in long-range problems. 9. We know him to have established a school of his own. 10. We do not expect him to throw away an opportunity like this. 11. We know him to have objected to this style of research on previous occasions. 12. This allowed him to follow the rules. - This allowed the rules to be followed. 13. This information enabled the scientist to make a forecast for the next few years. - This information enabled forecasts for the next few years to be made. 14. This analysis permitted them to tackle the problem directly. - This analysis permitted the problem to be tackled directly.
I. Pattern: ... for...+ O...+ Inf...
Example: There is an apparent tendency for science to become more and more mathematical. - Существует явная тенденция к тому, чтобы наука все более математизировалась.
1.This decision reflects a desire to make it as easy as possible for members of the association to attend the congress. 2. For any scientific gathering to be a success, the organizing committee must be firm on more than one point. 3. There was a prevalent feeling at that time that for the laboratory to revive its past glory no efforts were intensive enough.
J.Pattern:... N... +P...(by/with-phr)...+ Inf...
Examples: Nowadays science is known to contribute to every aspect of man's life. ( It is known that nowadays science contributes to every aspect of man’s life). - Известно, что в наши дни наука вносит свой вклад во все аспекты нашей жизни.
With the advent of nuclear weapon some people seemed to be disappointed in science.(With the advent of nuclear weapon it seemed that some people were disappointed in science). - С появлением атомного оружия некоторые люди, по-видимому, разочаровались в науке.
Molecular biology is likely to dominate science in the years to come. (It is likely that molecular biology will dominate science in the years to come). - Весьма вероятно, что молекулярная биология займет в будущем доминирующее положение в науке.
При переводе предложения с таким оборотом сказуемое выносится вперед и переводится главным предложением (обычно неопределенно-личным: говорят, известно, сообщается); подлежащее английского предложения становится подлежащим, а инфинитив – сказуемым придаточного предложения, которое вводится союзамичтоиличтобы.
В этих конструкциях часто используются следующие глаголы:
To appear- иметь вид, казаться, оказаться
To chance; to happen - случайно оказаться
To prove- в конечном счете оказаться
To seem- создавать впечатление, казаться
To turn out- обернуться, неожиданно оказаться
To be likely - вероятно;
To be unlikely - маловероятно
To be sure- наверняка, обязательно
A., B.
1. Science is known to affect the lives of many people. 2. The results of these experiments are found to overlap. 3. The data are assumed to correlate with the present theory. 4. The work is likely to contribute to the solution of the problem. 5. He is sure to argue about it. 6. He is said to have graduated from Oxford University. 7. He is said to avoid all sorts of arguments. 8. They seem to have taken advantage of the favorable conditions.9. He seems to mention the problem in the last chapter.10. He appeared to have lost interest in physics altogether. 11. The story may appear to be oversimplified. 12. He does not appear to be concerned with the problem. 13. He was not expected to spoil the sample. 14. He is not believed to represent the majority. 15. The discussion is not claimed to cover the whole range of present-day research.
Revision
B, C
1. He was deeply disappointed with the final results which turned out to be not what he had expected. 2. The data found to correlate with more than one interpretation; they attempted to approach the problem from a different view-point. 3. By that time younger people thought to be brilliant physicists had left the laboratory. 4. How the application of his discovery will affect man is sometimes rather hard for the scientist to foresee. 5. His idea was fruitful enough for others to take it up and develop it further. 6. For an original idea to be a product of one man's genius is quite natural. But for an idea to be transformed into a product, many people's effort is required. 7. The half-life period is the number of seconds for the radioactivity to fall to half its original value, i.e. for half the atoms to break up. 8. At that time it seemed that the research could be counted upon as leading to a better understanding of the process. 9. At first sight the procedure outlined above may appear to be rather crude. 10. This phenomenon does not appear to have been studied. 11. The reaction, however, is not expected to continue indefinitely. 12. In this chapter we present a small selection of problems which are believed to constitute a representative sample. 13. The experiment believed to have proved successful, will be discussed at the conference. 14. The apparatus likely to give the results is being repaired. 15. We want this meter to be tested under very severe conditions. 16. The use of this technique permits more accurate calculations to be performed.