- •Ю.Н. Сидоренко и.Н. Чурилова теплоэнергетика
- •Module I The Participle
- •Participle I
- •Participial constructions The Absolute Participial Construction
- •I The Absolute Participle Construction with p I (non-prepositional)
- •II The Prepositional Absolute Participle Construction with Participle I
- •III The Absolute Participle Construction with Participle II (non-prepositional)
- •IV The Prepositional Absolute Participle Construction with Participle II
- •Self-Training Exercises
- •Translate the sentences into Russian and explain the difference between Participle I and Participle II. Define the functions
- •Translate into English using the Participle II
- •3. Define the Participial construction with Participle I after the determinate word. Note that Participles should be translated in the tense in which the predicate of the main clause is used
- •Define the Participial constructions with Participle I, translate the sentences
- •Translate the sentences. Define the Participial constructions with Perfect Participle
- •Active Words and Expressions
- •Electrical Current Serves Us In a Thousand Ways
- •Translate the following sentences paying attention to the participle
- •Form four sentences using the words given below
- •Give short answers to the following questions
- •Translate the following sentences
- •Text 2 Energy Active words and expressions
- •Exercises
- •Find the participle in the text and define its function
- •Translate the following sentences paying attention to the participle
- •Compare a and b and define the function of the participle
- •Translate the following sentences paying attention to the Absolute Participle Construction
- •Give short answers to the following questions
- •Module 2 The Gerund
- •Признаки герундия
- •Перевод герундия на русский язык
- •The Gerund can be used:
- •Text 1 Lightning Active Words and Expressions
- •Translate the following sentences, paying attention to the Gerund
- •Complete the following sentences using the Gerund according to the model given below
- •Find the Gerund in the text, define its function
- •Put questions to the words in bold type
- •Form verbs from the following nouns
- •Translate the following sentences paying attention to the words in bold type
- •Text 2 Active words and expressions
- •Atmospheric Electricity
- •Exercises Complete the following sentences using the Gerund
- •Translate the following sentences using the Gerund
- •Find the Gerund in the text, define its function
- •A) Fill in the blanks with suitable verbs, wherever necessary
- •What questions are answered by the words in bold type in the following sentences?
- •Translate the following sentences paying attention to both, both…and
- •Fill in the blanks with prepositions
- •Translate into Russian
- •Form five sentences combining suitable parts of the sentence given in Columns I and II
- •Describe Franklin’s kite experiment
- •Give a short summary of the text
- •I. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the Infinitive
- •II. Translate the following sentences paying special attention to the words in bold type
- •III. Translate the following sentences paying special attention to the Infinitive
- •IV. Fill in the blanks with the words one or for
- •IX. Explain the meaning of the following compound words
- •X. Retell Volta’s biography Text 2 Electric Current
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •Exercises
- •1. Translate the following sentences and define the infinitive constructions
- •2. According to the models given below form sentences combining suitable parts of the sentence given in Columns 1,2,3,4
- •3. Translate the following sentences using the infinitive
- •4. Make up questions and answer them. Work in pairs
- •Explain why
- •Define the meaning of the following words
- •7. The following statements are not true to fact. Correct them
- •8. Give headings to each paragraph of the text
- •9. Put two questions to each paragraph of the text. Ask your partner to answer them
- •10. Give an abstract of the text
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Fill in the blanks with prepositions
1. It is dangerous to go … a stormy day. 2. Lightning is a very great flash … light resulting … a discharge … atmospheric electricity. 3. Protecting building … lightning was the first discovery … the field … electricity used … the good … mankind. 4. … thousands … years people knew nothing … thunderstorms. 5. Lightning flashes are followed … thunder which can be heard … kilometers around. 6. There is always some danger … a thunderstorm … a very high building or a man standing … the open field. 7. It is difficult to see a single drop … water … the sea. 8. Some scientists … the past melted metals … the help … solar furnaces. 9. Modern civilization cannot do … electrical appliances. 10. The electric current is necessary … the operation … trolleybuses, buses and modern trains.
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Translate into Russian
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the only son; the only example known; the only method of solving the problem; only you can do it for me; coal is not only a source of heat, but also a source of valuable chemical substances; the letter was sent only yesterday;
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many students were present; at the present time; the present article; he is in Moscow at present; that is all for the present; good-bye for the present.
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Form five sentences combining suitable parts of the sentence given in Columns I and II
I II
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Generator 1. measures the temperature of hot melted metals.
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Lightning conductor 2. lifts objects weighing thousands of tons.
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Battery 3. turns electrical energy into mechanical energy.
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Electric crane 4. protects buildings from lightning strokes.
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Pyrometer 5. turns mechanical energy into electrical energy.
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Describe Franklin’s kite experiment
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Give a short summary of the text
Module 3
Infinitive
Text 1
From the History of Electricity
Active words and expressions
at rest в состоянии покоя
static статический, не динамический
condition режим
in motion в движении
flow струиться, течь
as well as так же как, а также
behaviour режим (работы)
previously ранее
rubbing трение, натирание
substance вещество, нечто реальное
discharge разряжать(ся)
in no time быстро
unlike charges разноименные заряды
electric current электрический ток
try the experiment проводить эксперимент
generate вырабатывать
unit единица измерения
continuous current непрерывный ток
dissimilar metals разнородные металлы
steady неизменный, постоянный
to increase увеличивать, усиливать
thus так, таким образом
voltaic гальванический
pile батарея
layer слой
copper медь
moisten увлажнять, смачивать
wire электрический провод
There are two types of electricity, namely, electricity at rest or in a static condition and electricity in motion, that is, the electric current. Both of them are made up of electric charges, static charges being at rest, while electric current flows and does work. Thus they differ in their ability to serve mankind as well as in their behaviour.
Let us first turn our attention to static electricity. For a long time it was the only electrical phenomenon to be observed by man. As previously mentioned at least 2,500 years ago, or so, the Greeks knew how to get electricity by rubbing substances. However, for practical purposes static electricity was not much more useful than lightning. Indeed, the electricity to be obtained by rubbing objects cannot be used to light lamps, to boil water, to run electric trains, and so on. It is usually very high in voltage, difficult to control; besides it discharges in no time.
As early as 1753, Franklin made an important contribution to the science of electricity. He was the first to prove that unlike charges are produced due to rubbing dissimilar objects. To show that the charges are unlike and opposite, he decided to call the charge on the rubber – negative and that on the glass – positive.
In this connection one might remember our Russian Academician Petroff. He was the first to carry on experiments and observations on the electrification of metals by rubbing them one against another. As a result he was the first scientist in the world who solved that problem.
So far, almost nothing was said about the electric current. Who does not know that the first man to produce it was Volta. His discovery developed out of Galvani’s experiments with the frog. Various writers retell that story in quite different ways. In fact, Galvani observed that the legs of a dead frog jumped as a result of an electric charge. He tried his experiment several times and every time he obtained the same result. He thought that electricity was generated within the leg itself.
This thought was not so very strange because he could not help remembering the electric fish which possessed the property of giving more or less strong shocks.
As previously mentioned, the discovery of the electric current was made possible owing to Volta after whom the unit of electric pressure, the volt, was named.
Volta was born at Como, in Italy, February 18, 1745. For some years he was a teacher of physics in his home town. Later on he became professor of natural sciences at the University of Pavia. After his famous discovery he travelled in many countries, among them France, Germany and England. He was also invited to Paris to lecture on the newly discovered chemical source of continuous current. In 1819 he returned to Como where he spent the rest of his life. Volta died at the age of 82.
Volta took great interest in Galvani’s researches. He began to carry on similar experiments and soon found out that the electric source was not within the frog’s leg itself, but was the result of the contact of both dissimilar metals used during his observations. However, to carry on experiments of such a kind was not an easy thing to do. He spent the next few years trying to invent a source of a steady, continuous current. To increase the effect obtained with one pair of metals, Volta increased the number of these pairs. Thus the voltaic pile consisted of a layer of copper and a layer of zink placed one above another with a layer of flannel moistened in salt water between them. In this way the voltaic pile looked like a thick sandwich containing copper, zinc, flannel moistened in salt water, copper, zinc, flannel, and so on. A wire was connected to the first disc of copper and to the last disc of zinc.
The year 1800 is a good date to be remembered: for the first time in the world’s history a steady, continuous current was generated.