- •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)
Interesting – more (less) interesting – the most (least) interesting
easily – more (less) easily – most (least) easily.
3. Ряд прилагательных и наречий являются исключениями:
good, well (хороший, хорошо) – better (лучше) – (the)best (самый хороший)
bad, badly (плохой, плохо) – worse (хуже) – (the) worst (самый плохой)
little (маленький, мало) – less (меньше) – (the) least (наименьший)
many (much) – more – (the) most
far – farther (о расстоянии), further (о времени и расстоянии) – (the) farthest (furthest)
near – nearer – (the) nearest (о расстоянии), (the) next (о порядке следования)
late – later – (the) latest (о времени), last (о порядке следования)
old – older (о возрасте), elder (о старшинстве) – the oldest (the eldest)
Существительное, определяемое прилагательным в превосходной степени, всегда имеет определенный артикль: the largest building.
Теперь о том, как всем этим пользоваться:
1) Когда сопоставляются равные вещи:
This program is as iпteresting as that оnе. (так же ... как и...)
2) Koгда сопоставляются вещи для сравнения:
Тhis program is not so iпteresting as that оnе. (не такой ... как ...)
This program is more iпteresting than that оnе. (... чем...)
3) Когдa сопоставляются вещи для подчеркивания уникальности:
This program is the most iпteresting оf all I saw. (... из ...)
4) much, fаr, bу fаr + прилaгательное – Haмнoro более, гораздо + прилaгательное в сравнительной степени:
а much easier way – rораздо более леrкий путь
5) Чем..., тем...:
The mоrе уоu have, the mоrе уоu want. Чем больше ты имеешь, тем больше ты хочешь.
The colder it is, the better I feel. Чем холоднее, тем .лучше я себя чувствую.)
6) Все более ...:
Your English is getting better and better. Ваш английский становится все лучше.
It was getting darker and darker. Становилось все темнее.
Grammar Exercises
9. Give the positive degree:
larger; better; earliest; redder; nearest; higher; nearer; deeper; smaller; harder; easier; fewer.
10. Give the wordgroups with the opposite meaning:
а bad model; а more reliable method; the nearest way; the worst variant; а least effective device; а better way; а less reliable device; а more interesting document.
11. Give comparative and superlative degree:
a) large, tall, long, easy, hot, big, cold, nice, bad, strong, short, wide, good, happy, high, low, busy, well, little, many, far;
wonderful, necessary, quickly, interesting, comfortable, popular, active, famous, pleasant, beautiful, slowly, clearly.
b) fast compression; а good and easy way; much information; (менее) reliаblе device; few disks; bad results.
12. Choose correct variant.
1) BASIC is popularest / more popular оn microcomputers. 2) BASIC is оnе of more easy / the most easy / the easiest) programming languages. 3) The purpose of computers is to solve most / main complex problems. 4) What is а good / а better / the best way to compile а program? 5) А bit is а small / the smallest / the small unit of information. 6) Much fewer / less details are necessary for the new model. 7) BASIC is а low / high level programming language. З) Higher / high mathematics is а basic subject.