- •English for computer science students (Part I)
- •Contents
- •Предисловие
- •Unit 1 let’s get acquainted! english for you and me
- •Text a. About myself
- •Vocabulary
- •Add to your active vocabulary
- •Text b. Student's working day
- •Vocabulary
- •Nick's usual working day
- •Text c. Alex sidorov’s family
- •Text d. Hobbies and leisure time
- •Vocabulary
- •Video games
- •Text e. Foreign languages in the life of a modern man
- •Vocabulary
- •Grammar
- •§ 1. Неопределенный и определенный артикли
- •I like coffee and tea. Friendship is very important in our life.
- •I told Jane about that.
- •I have read page eight of the magazine.
- •I don't know the name of this pupil.
- •Grammar Exercises
- •1. Translate into Russian. Explain the use (использование) of definite (определенных) and indefinite (неопределенных) articles:
- •2. Insert (вставьте) the article where necessary:
- •3. Use the articles a, an, the where it is necessary:
- •4. Use the articles a, an, the where it is necessary:
- •5. Insert the article where necessary:
- •6. Put in the definite or the indefinite article where necessary.
- •7. Translate these sentences. Explain the absence of the article with the nouns in bold type.
- •§ 2. Глагол to be
- •§ 3. Глагол to have
- •Grammar Exercises
- •13. Open the brackets using the necessary form of the verb. Underline the subject and the predicate of the sentence.
- •15. Write sentences in the negative form using the texts from Ex. 14.
- •16. You came back to your native town some years later and noticed that everything had changed. Make up sentences according to the model.
- •17. Make the sentences negative and interrogative.
- •18. Imagine your future office.
- •§ 5. Личные и притяжательные местоимения (Personal and Possessive Pronouns)
- •Grammar Exercises
- •19. Choose the appropriate pronouns.
- •20. Fill in the gaps with personal pronouns in the appropriate form.
- •21. Translate the possessive pronouns into English.
- •22. Fill in the gaps with possessive pronouns in the appropriate form.
- •23. Put in my or your.
- •25. Complete the paragraph with the Possessive Adjectives our or their and the Pronouns we or they.
- •26. Put in Possessive Adjectives.
- •27. Translate the sentences into English.
- •§ 6. Образование множественного числа имен существительных.
- •Grammar Exercises
- •37. Put the following sentences in plural and write them down. Pay attention to the changes of the verb:
- •§ 7. Притяжательный падеж существительных
- •38. Use the Possessive Case of the Nouns.
- •39. Use the Possessive Case instead of “of-phrase”.
- •41. Translate into English.
- •42. Answer the questions using the nouns in the possessive case.
- •§ 8. Числительные
- •43. Say it in English.
- •Forms of address (формы обращения)
- •Illustrative Dialogues
- •Exercises
- •Unit 2 education in russia and english speaking countries student’s life
- •My University
- •Словообразование
- •Industry – industrial; profession – professional; person – personal;
- •Vocabulary
- •Text а. Higher education in russia
- •Vocabulary
- •Text b. Ann's academy
- •Vocabulary
- •Add To Your Active Vocabulary
- •Moscow state university
- •Conversations
- •Text c. Higher education in the uk
- •Vocabulary
- •Add To Your Active Vocabulary
- •Cambridge
- •Text d. Computing qualifications in britain
- •Notes to the text
- •Text e. Higher education in the usa
- •Grammar
- •§ 1. Возвратно-усилительные местоимения
- •§ 2. Неопределенные местоимения some, any, every, отрицательное местоимение по и их производные
- •§ 3. Местоимения many, much, little, few и местоименные выражения a little и a few.
- •4. Translate into English.
- •5. Insert much, many, little, a little, few, a few.
- •6. Translate into English:
- •7. Insert much or many:
- •8. Translate into English:
- •§ 4. Степени сравнения прилагательных и наречий
- •Interesting – more (less) interesting – the most (least) interesting
- •Grammar Exercises
- •9. Give the positive degree:
- •11. Give comparative and superlative degree:
- •12. Choose correct variant.
- •13. Compare.
- •14. Translate into Russian.
- •§ 5. Порядок слов в английском предложении
- •15. Build the sentences from the words and make them negative:
- •§ 6. Основные типы вопросов, используемые в английском языке
- •Grammar Exercises
- •16. A) Ask questions to the sentences.
- •17. Read and translate into Russian.
- •19. Read and translate the sentences.
- •20. Translate the sentences into English.
- •21. Write down alternative questions to the following sentences.
- •§ 7. Английские времена группы Indefinite (Simple)
- •§ 8. Английские времена группы Continuous (Progressive)
- •Grammar Exercises
- •22. Explain the usage of Continuous forms, translate the sentences.
- •23. Choose the correct form of the verb.
- •24. Use the necessary form of the verb to make up sentences.
- •25. Open the brackets using the necessary forms of the verbs.
- •26. Translate the sentences.
- •Everyday english expressing opinion
- •Illustrative Dialogues
- •1. Peter speaks about Latin with his friend John.
- •2. David Bennett has a business meeting with his colleagues at the hospital.
- •3. Susan Bennett invites her husband to dinner:
- •Exercises
- •Unit 3 science and scientists: famous people in the history of it
- •Text a. John napier(1550-1617)
- •Text b. Blaise pascal (1623 – 1662)
- •Text c. Gottfried wilhelm leibniz (1646–1716)
- •Text d. Joseph marie jacquard (1752-1834)
- •Text e. Isaac newton’s mistake
- •I. Translate the sentences into Russian paying attention to Tenses.
- •II. Put the verbs in the brackets into the correct forms.
- •Словообразование
- •Grammar
- •§ 1. Особенности употребления дробных чисел в английском языке
- •§ 2. Обозначение времени
- •Grammar Exercises
- •1. Write the decimal / common fractions in English.
- •2. Tell the time in English.
- •3. Check the correct translation.
- •4. True or false?
- •5. Choose the correct word.
- •6. What's the correct time?
- •7. Look at the monthly planner and follow the instructions.
- •Grammar Exercises
- •10. Fill in the correct preposition in, at or on.
- •11. Translate from Russian into English.
- •12. Fill in the gaps with the correct preposition at or on.
- •13. Translate into English using the correct preposition at, on, in, to.
- •14. Translate into English.
- •15. Translate the following word combinations into English.
- •16. Translate into English.
- •17. Translate into English.
- •18. Fill in the gaps with the correct preposition.
- •§ 4. Think-Question (Вопрос со словами "Как вы думаете...")
- •Grammar Exercises
- •Grammar Exercises
- •22. Make the sentences negative.
- •23. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
- •24. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- •§ 6. Безличные и неопределенно - личные предложения
- •Неопределенные подлежащие one, they
- •Grammar Exercises
- •§ 7. Эмфатические конструкции
- •Grammar Exercises
- •32. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the construction it is ... That (who, which).
- •33. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the emphatic do.
- •§8. Английские времена группы Perfect
- •Grammar Exercises
- •34. Translate into English using Present Perfect.
- •35. Open the brackets using Present Perfect, Past Indefinite, Present Indefinite or Present Continuous.
- •36. Translate into English using Present Perfect.
- •37. Translate into English using Past Perfect.
- •38. Open the brackets using Past Indefinite or Past Perfect.
- •39. Open the brackets using Past Indefinite, Past Continuous и Past Perfect.
- •40. Open the brackets using Present, Past, Future Indefinite; Present, Past, Future Continuous; Present, Past Perfect.
- •41. Open the brackets using Future Indefinite, Future Continuous, Future Perfect.
- •42. Open the brackets using Present Indefinite, Present Continuous, Present Perfect.
- •43. Translate into English using the correct tense.
- •Everyday english making and accepting invitations
- •Making suggestions
- •Practice / dialogue At the office
- •At home
- •Conversation Practice
- •Список литературы
- •English for computer science students (Part I)
4. Use the articles a, an, the where it is necessary:
1. ... Volga is ... longest river in ... Europe. 2. ...History and ... Literature were ... my favourite subjects at ... school. 3. What is ... nearest way to ... Drama Theatre? 4. ... butter and ... cheese are made of... milk. 5. Usually I get up at... 7 o'clock in ... morning. 6. ... Rostov is situated on ... Don. 7. Will you have ... cup of ... tea? 8. What ... good friend you are! 9. We shall go to ... cinema ... next week together with ... Petrovs. 10. This is ... book, ... book is very interesting. 11. Do you see ... sun in ... sky today? 12. He is ... engineer by ... profession.
5. Insert the article where necessary:
Three men came to ... New York for ... holiday. They came to ... very large hotel and took ... room there. Their room was on ... forty-fifth floor. In ... evening ... friends went to ... theatre and came back to ... hotel very late.
“I am very sorry”, said ... clerk of ... hotel, “but ... lifts do not work tonight. If you don't want to walk up to your room, we shall make ... beds for you in ... hall”. “No, no”, said one of ... friends, “no, thank you. We don't want to sleep in ... hall. We shall walk up to our room.”
Then he turned to his friends and said: “It is not easy to walk up to ... forty-fifth floor, but we shall make it easier. On ... way to ... room I shall tell you some jokes; then you, Andy, will sing us some songs; then you, Peter, will tell us some interesting stories.” So they began walking up to their room. Tom told them many jokes; Andy sang some songs.
At last they came to ... thirty sixth floor. They were tired and decided to have ... rest. “Well,” said Tom, “now it is your turn, Peter. After all ... jokes, I would like to hear ... sad story. Tell us ... long and interesting story with ... sad end.” “... story which I am going to tell you,” said Peter, “is sad enough. We left ... key to our room in ... hall.”
6. Put in the definite or the indefinite article where necessary.
1. They learned English for half ... hour and then began to read ... historical novel. 2. Does ... sun shine brightly in ... winter? No, it doesn’t. 3. He is ... chief of the book-keeping department of ... large organisation. 4. Will you please give me ... pen and ... sheets of paper. 5. Is there ... letter for me? 6. What ... strange man! 7. Yesterday I spoke to ... man who had just returned from ... Arctic expedition. 8. Here is ... book you need. 9. He is ... man whom we all admire. 10. Students from foreign countries of ... Europe, ... Africa and ... Latin America study in Kyiv. 11. ... clock in ... hall is slow. 12. Is that ... man whom they are looking for? 13. ... English people often talk about ... weather. 14. Autumn is ... season of harvesting. 15. ... Thames flows through London. 16. Is ... ring made of ... gold? Yes, it is.
7. Translate these sentences. Explain the absence of the article with the nouns in bold type.
1. He never showed any fear in face of danger. 2. What cold rainy weather we are having! 3. We turned west and soon sighted land in the distance. 4. When tea was ready we sat down to table. 5. Winter is almost gone; spring is coming soon. 6. The apple tree was in full blossom. 7. Elbrus is the highest mountain in the Caucasus. 8. Snow covered the ground.