Unit 4. Higher education [2]

Grammar:

1. Numerals § 12

2. Функции слова It § 29

3. Past Indefinite Active § 10

4. Indefinite Tenses, Passive Voice § 19

1. 1. Recollect your school vocabulary

big большой bread хлеб corner угол door дверь forest лес from из, от high высокий hot жаркий ice лед lake озеро ocean океан river река sea море sun солнце watch часы window окно

act действовать blackboard доска capital столица difficult трудный example пример freedom свобода friendship дружба green зеленый large большой middlе середина mistake ошибка notebook тетрадь picture картина pink розовый rich богатый warm теплый

animal животное beautiful красивый body корпус, тело, массив continue продолжать factory фабрика, завод floor пол, этаж, перекрытие grеаt большой, великий ground земля, площадка hеrе здесь, сюда, вот hospital больница please пожалуйста see – saw – seen видеть sit – sat – sat сидеть story рассказ, история travel ездить, путешествовать wash мыть, омывать

2. 1. Choose the right variant

505	a) five hundred five	45,781	a) forty five thousand, seven hundred and eighty one
	b) five hundred and five		b) forty five thousand, seven hundred eighty and one
478	a) four hundred and seventy-eight	3,563	a) three thousand and five hundred sixty three
	b) four hundred seventy-eight		b) three thousand, five hundred and sixty three

3. B. 2. Read the numbers

103, 245, 1890, 2568, 46984, 31256, 15498, 573509, 4568736

A. 2. Translate the following international words

profession, industry, hospital, tunnel, reconstruction, theatre, person, class, instructor, construction, distance, hall, industrial

A. 3. Learn new words

bridge мост palace дворец peace мир plant завод quickly быстро site площадка staff персонал	civil гражданский construct строить experience опыт gain приобретать occupy занимать offer предлагать vary различаться			diverse разнообразный embrace охватывать, заключать exceed превышать spacious просторный undergraduate студент variety разнообразие vast обширный, громадный
build – built – built строить building здание, строительство civil engineering строительство fine прекрасный, красивый full-time занятый все время graduate [grædjuit] выпускник graduate student аспирант house помещать, вмещать major крупный, главный outstanding выдающийся			civil engineer инженер – строитель find – found – foundнаходить, обнаруживать gymnasium = gym спортивный зал instructor преподаватель вуза, руководитель mean – meant – meant иметь в виду, означать research associate научный сотрудник second-year student второкурсник space пространство, космос, место square площадь, сквер, квадрат well-equipped хорошо оборудованный
found основывать residential жилой		certain определенный, один, некий, некоторый reconstruct реконструировать, перестраивать
dam дамба	faculty member член профессорско-преподавательского состава

B. 3. Translate the sentences paying attention to IT

1. It is hot in summer. 2. It is late. It is ten o'clock. 3. It is a new subject. We shall study it for two years. 4. Mathematics is studied at all technological Institutes because every engineer must know it well. 5. It is important to use computers in your work. 6. It is difficult to speak English. 7. We are students of a civil engineering institute. It trains civil engineers. 8. It is impossible to live without water. 9. It is necessary to study foreign languages. 10. It has become evident that ecological problems can be solved only on the global level.

B. 4. Put the verbs in the correct columns

1. [t]	2. [d]	3. [id]
based	lived	heated

increased, applied, lifted, related, called, changed, checked, used, advanced, counted, continued, measured, played, studied, gathered, worked, wanted, supplied, ended, completed, pointed, utilized, graduated

B. 5. Translate the sentences

1. They completed the work last week. 2. Did you find any solution to this problem? 3. Prominent scientists worked in the library of the British Museum. 4. He got higher education at Moscow State University. 5. Who founded the first Russian University in Moscow? 6. He told us about the latest achievements in physics. 7. The scientists developed new synthetic rubber products. 8. Scientists achieved surprising results in the development of electronics. 9. They tested this new machine last week. 10. The scientist wrote this article not long ago.

B. 6. Name the infinitive of the following verbs: made, felt, meant, had, knew, took, began, said, went, got, understood, found, read, saw, became, wrote, dealt, heard, did, thought, was / were, built, put

B. 7. Put the sentences into Past Simple: 1) They work at the plant (yesterday) – They worked at the plant yesterday.

1. The students work at the construction site (last summer). 2. My brother studies Mechanics (two years ago). 3. She doesn't study French (at school a year ago) 4. The Institute trains specialists in this field. (5 years ago). 5. The lab assistant helps us with the experiment (yesterday). 6. The equipment requires further improvement (last year).

2) They eat bananas for breakfast. – They ate bananas for breakfast.

1. They leave their car in the garage. 2. They meet at the festival every year. 3. He comes home by taxi. 4. We go to the supermarket on

Sundays. 5. I have dinner at 2 o’clock. 6. He writes postcards to all his friends. 7. He does his morning exercises. 8. There are different types of motors. 9. I often lose my passport. 10. They usually buy souvenirs. 11. I drink coffee for breakfast. 12. They fly to Moscow by air.

2. B. 8. Translate the sentences paying attention to passive voice

1. The books were taken from the central library. 2. An interesting problem was discussed at the lecture. 3. All the work will be done by automatic machinery. 4. When was this University founded? 5. He was asked many questions at the exams. 6. They will be shown a new film tomorrow. 7. Much time is devoted to the study of the new method. 8. The experiments will be completed by the end of the week. 9. New houses are built everywhere: in cities, towns and villages. 10. A lot of problems were discussed at the conference.

A. 4. Translate the following groups of derivatives:

special – specialist, science – scientist, instruct – instructor, construct – construction, found – founder – foundation, reconstruct – reconstruction, occupy – occupation, equip – equipment, build – builder – building, train – training, engineer – engineering, industry – industrial, technology – technological, culture – cultural, space – spacious, vary – various – variety, offer – to offer, head – to head, house – to house, research – to research