- •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 e. Foreign languages in the life of a modern man
You can't imagine an educated person who doesn't know any foreign language. It is especially important nowadays. Some people learn languages because they need them in their work, others travel abroad, for the third studying languages is a hobby.
Every year thousands of people go from one country to another either on business or for pleasure. And the knowledge of languages opens the door to any foreign country and gives them a possibility to communicate, to understand people and to be understood.
A real professional cannot do without knowing languages, especially English as it is the international language. You don't need to know Japanese when you go to Japan or Hindi when you visit India. English is spoken all over the world. You can hear it everywhere: in a street, in shops, at restaurants.
Over 350 million people speak it as a mother tongue. The native speakers of English live in Great Britain, in the United States of America, Australia and New Zealand. English is one of the official languages in the Irish Republic, Canada and South African Republic. As a second language it is used in the former British and US colonies.
It is the major international language for communication in such areas as science, technology, business and mass media. English is used as one of the official languages of the United Nations Organisation and other political organisations. It is the language of computer software, literature, education, modern music and international tourism.
A modern engineer or even a worker deals with instruments and machines from other countries. He must be able to read the instruction which is usually written in English. Half of the world’s scientific literature is in English. It’s the language of computers technology.
Scientists and scholars must understand English well because they use foreign literature to write their articles and books. They must speak English fluently to make speeches at international conferences.
Diplomats need foreign languages in their work too. They make contracts, conclude treaties, and hold negotiations.
If you want to be a stewardess, a pilot or a businessman you must learn English, the language of international communication. Even a shop girl or a cashier in a big department store must know at least some phrases in English to understand a foreign customer.
Foreign languages develop our mind. They help us to get acquainted with new customs and traditions, make it possible to read many books in the original. The great German poet Goethe once said, “He, who knows no foreign language, doesn’t know his own one”.
Besides, languages are very helpful in establishing friendly relations between peoples and nations. Children and young people will underhand each other better if they speak one language. That's why all the pupils and students should master English or other foreign languages to become top specialists in any branch.
Vocabulary
cannot do without – не может обойтись
to deal [diːl] with – иметь дело с…
to make contract – заключить контракт
to conclude [kən'kluːd] treaties ['triːtɪ] – заключать договоры
to hold negotiations [nɪˌgəuʃɪ'eɪʃ(ə)n] – вести переговоры
at least – по меньшей мере
to get acquainted [ə'kweɪntɪd] with – знакомиться
to master English – овладеть английским
in any branch [brɑːnʧ] – в любой области
Exercise 24. Reading comprehension: answer the questions.
Why do people learn foreign languages nowadays?
English is the international language, isn’t it?
Must a modern engineer know English?
Why is it especially important for scientists to learn English?
Do the diplomats need foreign languages?
What can we profit from knowing foreign languages?
How many people in the world speak English?
What English-speaking countries do you know?
In what areas is English mostly used?
What are the main difficulties for you in learning foreign languages?
What do you need English for?
Exercise 25. Speak about the role of foreign languages in the life of a modern man.