- •Департамент образования и науки
- •Предисловие
- •Contents
- •Unit1. Education and Career
- •1. Answer the questions using words and word -combinations from the box:
- •2. Read and translate the following words:
- •3. Make up your own sentences using these words.
- •4. Read the text and translate it using a dictionary. Education and Career
- •5. Insert the following words in the gaps in the text below.
- •6.Project work: Applying for a job and cv .
- •Unit 2. Inventions and inventors
- •1. Read and answer the questions:
- •2. Test your general knowledge. Do the quiz! Match the items in column a(who, when) and column b(what).
- •3. Study the following chart: The Passive Voice
- •4. Make up your own sentences using this chart as a model and verbs from the box.
- •5. Read and translate the texts about British inventors:
- •6. A) Find the examples of the Passive Voice in the text.
- •3. Read and translate the text. Pros and Cons of High-Tech Life
- •4. Project work: Make a report. Think about a high-tech thing that is very important for you. Write down its advantages and disadvantages. Unit 4.Small Business
- •1. Read and answer the questions:
- •2. Study the active topical vocabulary.
- •3. Match the new words from Ex. 1 with their definitions:
- •4. Read and write a note.
- •5. Open the brackets using Present Perfect Tense in the following sentences:
- •6. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English using Present Perfect Tense:
- •7. Match English word-combinations with their Russian equivalents:
- •8. Before reading the text study the meaning of the following new words:
- •9. Read the text. Small Business Discovers Its Strength
- •10. Translate verbs with Present Perfect form.
- •11. Answer the following questions.
- •12. Render the article.(Use Supplement 3)
- •3. Guess the meaning of the word “business” in the following sentences:
- •4. Read the text and answer the questions:
- •5. Translate the underlined words in bold type.
- •3. Find English equivalents to the following words and word combinations and write them down.
- •4. Make a table about types of design:
- •5. Read and translate this text in written form. Design and business
- •6. Make a rendering.(Use Supplement 3)
- •7. Project work. Choose one type of design and make a presentation. Follow the plan:
- •Supplements
- •I. Introduction
5. Insert the following words in the gaps in the text below.
Applicant,
application, application form, apply, candidate, curriculum vitae or
CV, employment agencies, interview, job description, job vacancies,
references, short-listed
Many people looking for work read the (1)………..advertised by companies and (2)…………in newspapers or on the Internet. To reply to an advertisement is to (3)………….for a job. (You become a (4)…………..or an (5)……..) You write an (6)……….., or fill in the company’s (7)………, and send it, along with your (8)………and a covering letter. You often have to give the names of two people who are prepared to write(9)……..for you. If your qualifications and abilities match the (10)…….., you might be (11) ………, i.e. selected to attend an (12)……… .
6.Project work: Applying for a job and cv .
One day, you will apply for your first job. Unfortunately, many of your classmates, as well as lots of people you don’t know, will probably also apply for the same job. Your experience and qualifications will probably be quite similar to those of most of the other candidates. You have to know how to write your curriculum vitae to get the job.
Write your Curriculum Vitae using Notes on Curricula vitae and Model for CV. (Supplement 1)
Unit 2. Inventions and inventors
1. Read and answer the questions:
1. What inventions do you know?
2. What inventions did you use today?
3. What invention is the most useful for you?
2. Test your general knowledge. Do the quiz! Match the items in column a(who, when) and column b(what).
A B
|
Who |
When |
What |
|
Benjamen Franklin |
1780 |
photography |
|
Nicephore Niepce (France) |
1829 |
the telephone |
|
Samuel Morse |
1837 |
a sewing machine |
|
Isaak Singer |
1851 |
the phonograph |
|
Alexander Graham Bell (USA) |
1876 |
the telegraph |
|
Thomas Edison (USA) |
1887 |
the world’s first petrol-driven motor car |
|
Karl Benz (Germany) |
1885 |
bifocal lenses for eyeglasses |
|
The Lumiere brothers (France) |
1895 |
the first vacuum cleaner |
|
L. Biro (Hungary) |
1905 |
traffic lights |
|
Wilbur and Orville Wright (USA) |
1903 |
the first ball-point pen |
|
James M. Spangler (USA) |
1908 |
penicillin |
|
Henry Ford (USA) |
1908 |
Cinematography and opened the world’s first cinema in Paris |
|
Garret A. Morgan |
1916 |
the first airplane |
|
Vladimir Zvorykin (USA) |
1924 |
television |
|
Alexpander Fleming (Britain) |
1928 |
the world’s first car assembly line |
|
Igor Sikorsky |
1939 |
developed the idea of cloning |
|
Sergey Korolyev (Russia) |
1957 |
created Microsoft DOS |
|
Bill Gates (USA) |
1981 |
the artificial heart |
|
Jan Wilmat (Scotland) |
1977 |
the helicopter |
|
Robert Jarvik |
1982 |
designed the first artificial satellite |
(Check your answers Supplement 2)