- •Министерство транспорта Российской Федерации
- •Подписано в печать Формат 60х84 1/16. Бумага писчая. Печать офсетная. Усл. П. Л.
- •Mind the prepositions
- •About after at [3] for [2] from in [3] into [2] of [7] on to [2] with [3]
- •Grammar review
- •Present, Past, Future Indefinite Active and Passive)
- •Lilliputian train*
- •Samara state railway academy
- •A) The school I went to
- •B) Entering the Academy
- •C) You are a freshman now
- •Cambridge
- •Students' life
- •1) What are students “sconced” [штрафовать] for?
- •2) What do the so-called “Bulldogs” do if a student whom they come up to runs away?
- •3) In what case is “Boredom Button” pushed?
- •Traveling by train
- •Mind the prepositions
- •According to at [3] by [3] for [6] forward to from [3] in [5] on [6] of [3] to [4] with without
- •Grammar review (Modal verbs and their equivalents; Present, Past, Future Continuous Active and Passive)
- •On the platform
- •Mistaken identity (after m. Twain)
- •To arrive to depart to catch to stop to cost to get to go to last to travel to board to miss to leave to propose to reach to take
- •Dialogue 1
- •Dialogue 2
- •Dialogue 3
- •Dialogue 4
- •The man who took notice of all the notices
- •How to avoid traveling (after g. Mikes)
- •4.50 From paddington (after a. Christie)
- •From the history of railway transport
- •Mind the prepositions
- •According to [4] as far as [2] because of [2] by means of [3] due to in addition to [2] in front of in order to [3] on account of owing to in spite of [3]
- •About at [2] before by [4] for from [3] on of [2] to [4] with
- •Grammar review
- •(Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs;
- •Present, Past, Future Perfect Active and Passive)
- •From the history of railway transport Part 1
- •(A) начало строительства железных дорог в россии
- •(B) the oldest railway in russia
- •The stephenson family
- •The brunels family
- •George westinghouse (1846 – 1914)
- •Casey jones (1864 – 1900)
- •The trans-siberian mainline
- •The rise and fall of the american rail system
- •Underground railways
- •Grammar review (Indefinite, Continuous, Perfect Active and Passive; Participle I, Participle II)
- •8) If ___ alone, the dog could spoil many things at home.
- •10) When ___ the street, be careful at the crossroads.
- •6) Having entered the room f) through the locked door.
- •Underground railways
- •London underground Part 1
- •Moscow underground
- •Метро в самаре
- •Modern railways
- •Mind the prepositions
- •Against [2] at because of for [2] in [2] instead of of [3] on with grammar review (Gerund; attributive groups)
- •To answer to change to finish to fly to go to help to install to lose to make to pass to pay to see to show to take part to take up to test to think
- •After [3] before [3] by [2] for [3] instead of on [2] without [4]
- •The analysis
- •Kuibyshev railway
- •Российские железные дороги
- •Rio revives the commuter rail network
- •India’s railway project
- •Usa (Dallas) light rail* arrives in the lone star state
- •Tunnels and bridges
- •Движение исследование неудача оставаться [2] паром переходить приводить к проект следовать стоимость шум экстренный
- •Grammar review (Infinitive; Complex Object; Complex Subject; attributive groups)
- •Channel tunnel (Part 1)
- •(Part 2)
- •Progress in tunnel engineering
- •Bridge construction
- •Computers
- •Access e-mail error fax machine file hard disk keyboard mouse processing remote control rewind screen screen saver sounded spread switch on
- •Grammar review (Conditional Clauses. Different functions of the verbs to be and to have. Compound Conjunctions.)
- •Computer systems
- •Feed in english, print out in french
- •Heartless unfeeling soulless indifferent inhuman liable to error/ subject to error to provide an enormous variety of choice to reduce the element of risk it depends
- •Viruses and vaccines
- •Mother should have warned you!
- •Hackers of today
- •Keep clicking!
- •Surfing the net
- •10 Программистов
- •How modern are you? (pop quiz)
- •Add up your score and read the analysis
- •The analysis
- •Supplementary texts
- •[1] Railways
- •[2] Passenger transportation in the usa
- •[3] The battle of the gauges Part 1
- •[4] Development of american railroads
- •[5] Sleeping cars in the usa
- •[6] Monorail
- •[7] Street railway*
- •[8] Building the railroad
- •[9] French transport
- •[10] Australian transport
- •[11] Сhinese railways
- •[12] Japanese transportation
- •[13] Railroad modernization
- •[14] Advances in transportation
- •[15] Bridges
- •[16] Charles babbage (1792–1871)
- •[17] Automation in transportation.
- •Краткий грамматический справочник
- •§ 1. Глагол to be
- •§ 2. Глагол to have
- •§ 4. Функции глагола to be
- •§ 5. Функции глагола to have
- •§ 6. Основные формы глагола
- •§ 7. Времена групп Indefinite, Continuous, Perfect в действительном и страдательном залогах
- •Спряжение глагола to ask в действительном залоге
- •Перевод глагола to write в разных временах
- •Спряжение глагола to ask в страдательном залоге
- •§ 8. Согласование времён (Sequence of Tenses)
- •§ 9. Модальные глаголы (Modal Verbs)
- •§ 10. Эквиваленты модальных глаголов (Equivalents of Modal Verbs)
- •§ 11. Порядок слов в утвердительных предложениях
- •§ 12. Порядок слов в вопросительных предложениях
- •Порядок слов в вопросительных предложениях с простым сказуемым
- •§ 13. Порядок слов в отрицательных предложениях
- •§ 14. Притяжательный падеж имени существительного (The Possessive Case)
- •§ 15. Степени сравнения прилагательных и наречий (Comparison Degrees of Adjectives and Adverbs)
- •§ 16. Личные и притяжательные местоимения (Personal and Possessive Pronouns)
- •§ 17. Причастие (The Participle)
- •Participle I
- •1) Часть составного глагольного сказуемого в Continuous.
- •Participle II
- •1) Часть составного глагольного сказуемого.
- •§ 18. Герундий (The Gerund)
- •Формы герундия
- •Функции герундия в предложении и способы его перевода на русский язык
- •§ 19. Функции слов с окончанием -ing в предложении
- •§ 20. Функции слов с окончанием -ed в предложении
- •§ 21. Инфинитив (The Infinitive)
- •Формы инфинитива
- •Функции инфинитива в предложении и способы его перевода на русский язык
- •§ 22. Инфинитивная конструкция “Сложное дополнение” (The Complex Object)
- •§ 23. Инфинитивная конструкция “Сложное подлежащее” (The Complex Subject)
- •§ 24. Условные предложения
- •§ 25. Разные способы выражения определения в английском языке
- •Список использованной литературы
- •8) If [to leave – participle II] alone, the dog could spoil many things at home.
- •10) When [To repair – participle I] the street, be careful at the crossroads.
8) If ___ alone, the dog could spoil many things at home.
a) leaving b) left c) having left
9) About 80 million passengers are ___ by the Kuibyshev Railway annually.
a) carrying b) carried c) having carried
10) When ___ the street, be careful at the crossroads.
a) crossing b) crossed c) having crossed
11) Sleeping cars ___ with an air-conditioning system are very comfortable for long-distance
travel.
a) equipping b) equipped c) having equipped
12) They spent the whole day, ___ the equipment.
a) packing b) packed c) having packed
13) The number of cars ___ a passenger train is much less than that of a freight train.
a) forming b) formed c) having formed
14) An unusual locomotive ___ for the movement on ice was developed in Great Britain in the
18th century.
a) building b) built c) having built
15) This unusual locomotive was sent to Russia for the transportation of freight on sledges
across ___ lakes.
a) freezing b) frozen c) having frozen
*The results of the test: If your score is 14-15 correct answers, you are doing just great; 11-13 stand for good knowledge; 8-10 mean you have some problems; if the number of your correct answers is less than 8, learn the rules.
Ex.21. Match the two parts of the sentences below. Pay attention to Participles.
1) When speaking English, a) we left the exhibition.
2) Having rememberedsuddenly that b) I felt the change in the atmosphere
she had not locked the door, at once.
3) CAV – is a British firm c) unlesspressed by time.
4) They were speaking d) if needed.
5) He never hurries, e) I often make mistakes.
6) Having entered the room f) through the locked door.
7) Seeing nothing there that could interest us, g) she rushed back home.
8) Here is my address where I can be found h) producing diesel engines.
9) One should be very careful i) trying to repair his car.
10) He wasted the whole afternoon, j) when crossing the street
1) Having passed the last exam, a) when driving.
2) The plane flyingat a great speed b) ifallowed.
3) When giving advice to others, c) he’ll tell you a lot of interesting things
about his life in England.
4) The destroyed bridge d) he began to look for a job.
5) Not knowing where to go e) my car hit a lamp post.
6) I shall certainly help you with it, f) I turned to the passer-by.
7) He is very attentive g) was soon reconstructed.
8) Having packedour suitcases, h) leaves behind a stream of white smoke.
9) While turning a corner at a high speed i) think whether you would follow it
yourself.
10) If asked, j) we hired a taxi and hurried to the airport.
Ex.22. Say whether the right Participles are used in the following sentences. Correct the wrong ones. Be very attentive!
1) We were walked down the path leading to the station. 2) Don’t forget to oil the moving parts of the machine regularly. 3) Having missed the 10 o’clock train, he had to send a telegram to his friends waited for him. 4) The porter went in, carrying two suitcases. 5) It is impossible quickly to stop the train moving at such a high speed. 6) Worked as a clerk, painter and bus driver, Neil decided to go back to University. 7) Refrigerator cars are used for the transportation of freezing meat and other perishable commodities. 8) The received information was not correct. 9) When commenting on the recent developments in the Middle East, the correspondent presented a number of interesting facts. 10) Tank cars having transported gas or cement should be made of aluminum or stainless steel. 11) All the computers installed at our office were produced in Japan. 12) The Toyota Co. has recently deciding to spend $800 million a year on the development of the new electric automobile. 13) While crossed the street, I saw an accident. 14) When typing the article, she tried to be very attentive. 15) The plane had to make a forcing landing. 16) The Internet is a global computer network having millions of users all over the world. 17) They experimented with the device, not known that it was out of order. 18) Having taken the wrong bus, Tony found himself in an unfamiliar town.
TEXT A
Before reading and translating the text match the Russian equivalents to the English word combinations (do it in written form).