- •270102.65 "Промышленное гражданское строительство"
- •Оглавление введение
- •Part I unit1 Engineering
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •4. A) Name some of the areas in which engineers work. What kind of engineers work in the areas which you have mentioned?
- •Unit II Civil Engineering
- •Text 1 Civil Engineering.
- •Unit III From the History of Building.
- •Text 2 From the History of Building.
- •Unit IV Fundamentals of Construction
- •Fundamentals of construction.
- •Additional vocabulary
- •Unit V Construction Materials
- •Construction materials
- •Additional vocabulary
- •Unit VI Properties and shapes.
- •Describe these buildings and components in a similar way:
- •Now complete these sentences with the properties:
- •Make sentences about other properties of materials from this table.
- •Study the diagrams of building components and classify these building components into three types:
- •Dialogue
- •Unit VII Education in the field of Civil Engineering in Russia and in the Murmansk region.
- •Education in the field of Civil Engineering in Russia and in the Murmansk region.
- •Unit VII Activities of Civil Engineers
- •Activities of Civil Engineers
- •1. So, in pairs look through this discussion on the application of cost control to building contracts and complete these notes:
- •2. Read and translate the dialogue and be ready to describe the sequence of events in the application of cost control to building contracts. Pay attention to the following words.
- •Dialogue
- •Answer these questions:
- •Part II Unit 1 Supplementary Texts
- •Climatic and weather conditions
- •Cladding
- •Concrete (a bit of history)
- •Plan of House a
- •Plan of House b
- •Unit 2 Grammar Exercises
- •14. Make sentences and write sentence chains.
- •Англо-русский словарь
Unit III From the History of Building.
Task 1. In pairs answer the following questions.
Why did people start building houses?
What were the first construction materials?
Do you know who was the first to use concrete in building purposes?
Task 2. Look up the words in a dictionary, find their pronunciation and read them aloud.
aqueduct |
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reservoir |
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manufacture |
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fragment |
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pyramid |
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arch |
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ancient |
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Egyptians |
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pharaohs |
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rectangular |
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Task 3. Learn the new words and phrases.
pillar |
столб |
to embody |
олицетворять, воплощать |
timber |
лесоматериалы |
lime |
известь |
hillside |
в довольно широких масштабах |
arched openings |
изогнутое, куполовидное, арочное отверстие |
on a pretty large scale |
в довольно широких масштабах |
to dwell |
жить, проживать |
to erect |
возводить, строить |
to find out |
обнаружить |
kiln |
обжиговая печь, сушильная печь |
pile |
свая, столб |
remains n pl |
остатки, руины |
tribe |
племя |
the steep peaked roof |
крутая остроконечная крыша |
Task 4. Translate the following words and phrases.
to commemorate |
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rectangular structure |
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art of building |
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dome |
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to be traced back |
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durable concrete |
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to withstand the Thames current |
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Task5. Read the following explanations and translate the underlined words into Russian.
temple |
– a building where people go to worship, i.e. in Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and Mormon religions. |
to dwell |
- to live in a particular place |
tomb |
– a stone structure above or below the ground where a dead person is buried. |
to embody |
– to be a very good examples of an idea or quality - to include something |
impression |
the opinion or feeling you have about someone or something because of the way they seem. |
to enable |
To make it possible for someone to something or for something to happen |
to remain |
- to continue to be in the same state or condition |
to suggest |
- to tell someone your ideas about what they should do, where they should go etc. |
to disappear |
- to become impossible to see any longer |
evidence |
- facts or signs that show clearly that something exists or is true. |
artificial |
- not real or not made of natural things but made to be like something that is real or natural |
concrete |
- a substance used for building that is made by mixing sand, small stones, cement and water |
to borrow |
- to use something that belongs to someone else and that you must give back to them later |
sample |
- a small part or amount of something that is examined in order to find out something about the whole |
Task 6. Make up your own sentences using the words and phrases from tasks 3, 4,5
Task7. Skim the text; say what the general idea of the text is. When skimming, divide the text into parts.
Task 8. Compare your number of the parts with that of your fellow students.
Task 9. Read and translate each part of the text using a dictionary.