- •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)
Text c. Higher education in the uk
Education after 16 is voluntary in United Kingdom. Students, who live in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland must take at the age of 16 the examinations for the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). In Scotland students receive the Scottish Certificate of Education. After this exam students can choose to stay on in school or attend colleges of further education.
British universities are self-governing and are guaranteed academic independence. Funding for education and research is provided by funding councils set up by Parliament. The number of universities jumped in 1992 when polytechnics and some other higher education establishments were given the right to become universities. By the end of 1994, there were some 90 universities, almost half of them former polytechnics, including the Open University.
Many of the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge universities were founded in the 12th and 13th centuries. All other universities in Britain were founded in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Open University, based in Milton Keynes, England, was founded in 1969. It uses extension techniques of correspondence courses, television and radio programmes, and video cassettes, supported by local study centres and summer schools, to provide higher education opportunities to a wide variety of people.
During the 1960s there was a significant increase in the number of new universities, reflecting a fast growth in student numbers. During the 1980s, an expansion in higher education places led to another large jump in student numbers. In the 1992-1993 academic year there were more than 1,4 million students in full or part-time higher education in Great Britain, compared with just under 850,000 a decade earlier. About one quarter of young people are in higher education in England, Wales, and Scotland; one third in Northern Ireland. About 90 per cent of students get state grants to cover tuition fees and living costs.
The size of the grant is determined by parents income. Since the late 1980s, however, grants have been frozen; students can apply for a student loan.
Vocabulary
voluntary – добровольное
attend – посещать
self-governing – самоуправляемый
funding – финансирование
funding councils – советы по финансированию
to set up – основывать
significant – значительный
polytechnics – политехнические институты
extension techniques – технологии дистанционного образования
to reflect – отражать
decade – десятилетие
state grants – государственные гарантии
tuition fee – плата за обучение
parents income – доход родителей
student loan – студенческий заём
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high-school diploma – школьный аттестат
graduation ceremony – выпускной экзамен
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) – бакалавр естественных наук
Bachelor of Art (B.A.) – бакалавр гуманитарных наук
Master of Art (M.A.) – магистр искусств
Master of Science (M.S.) – магистр естественных наук
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) – доктор философии
undergraduate student – студент 1-4(5) курсов
graduate student – студент 5-6 курсов
graduate school of robotics – магистратура (аспирантура) по специальности робототехника
room (lodging) and board – проживание и питание
personal expenses – личные расходы
books and supplies – книги и материалы
to be eligible for admission – быть подходящей кандидатурой для поступления
to enrol – зачислять
enrollment – зачисление
admissions office – приемная комиссия
student services office – департамент по работе со студентами
university bursar's (казначей) office – бухгалтерия университета (офис казначея)
Exercise 29. Translate into English.
1) В возрасте 16 лет каждый житель Великобритании обязан сдать экзамены на получение Сертификата о среднем образовании.
2) Британские университеты являются полностью самоуправляемыми.
3) В 1992 году Политехническим институтам была предоставлено право стать университетами.
4) Открытый университет, широко известный своими технологиями дистанционного обучения, был основан в 1969 году.
5) В 60-е годы в Соединенном королевстве наметился значительный рост числа университетов.
6) Размер гранта на обучение определяется исходя из дохода родителей.
Exercise 30. Be ready to speak about Higher Education in the UK.
Exercise 31. Read the text. Speak about the peculiarities of getting education in Cambridge.