- •Part I scientific work and studies unit I. Training Scientists in Russia
- •Words and word combinations to be memorized
- •Exercises
- •1. Answer the following questions on the text.
- •2. Form nouns from the following verbs, translate into Russian:
- •8. Work in pairs asking these questions. Give both short and full answers.
- •Unit II. Postgraduate Studies in England
- •1. Answer 10 “What questions” on the text:
- •2. Form nouns from the following verbs, translate into Russian.
- •Words and word combinations to be memorized
- •Exercises
- •7. Translate into English.
- •Unit III. At a Scientific Seminar
- •Words and word combinations to be memorized
- •Exercises
- •1. Answer the following questions on the text:
- •2. Form nouns from the following words with the help of suffixes used for people’s activities, specialities or professions. Translate into Russian, think of your own examples.
- •9. Work in small groups. Ask your partners questions about the theoretical part of their work. Use the following words and expressions.
- •Part II
- •International Business trip Unit I. An Invitation
- •Increase your vocabulary
- •2. Match the English words with their Russian equivalents:
- •3.4. Study the ways of concluding the letter:
- •3.5. Choose the correct way to close your letter depending on the greeting:
- •4. Write a letter of acceptance of an invitation according to the following plan:
- •1. Fill in the blanks with prepositions where necessary:
- •2. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •Unit II. Arriving in England
- •Increase your vocabulary
- •Listen and practise a. Meeting at the airport
- •1. Listen to the conversation at the airport and answer the questions:
- •2. Work in pairs. Change some of the details in the conversation (names, jobs, places, the reasons for the visit, etc.). Act out the scene, then swap roles.
- •B. Checking in at the hotel
- •1. Alex Samarin and Paul Davis are checking in for the room at the hotel. Listen to the conversation and decide where the questions “a-e” go.
- •R.: Thank you. (2) ………………………………….?.
- •2. Work in pairs and act out this conversation.
- •3. Match the English words with their Russian equivalents:
- •Reception
- •1. Fill in the gaps with prepositions where necessary:
- •2. Translate from Russian into English:
- •Unit III. The First Day in London a. Speaking on the phone
- •Increase your vocabulary
- •2. Act out the conversation:
- •3. Match the English words with their Russian equivalents:
- •4. Decide which of the verbs fit best in the following sentences. What other verbs could you use instead?
- •Are you ready to order? How much is that?
- •3. Match the English words with their Russian equivalents:
- •1. Fill in the blanks with prepositions where necessary:
- •3. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •Unit IV. Conference Registration
- •A. Getting registered.
- •1. Samarin is getting registered for the conference. Listen to the conversation and decide where the questions “a-d” go. A. Do you mean I must have it typed?
- •B. Looking through the file.
- •2. Read the dialogue and check your answers:
- •4. Work in groups. Find out about your partners’ experiences of looking after an English-speaking visitor. Ask questions about:
- •1. Match the English words with their Russian equivalents.
- •Unit 5. The Opening Session.
- •Increase your vocabulary
- •2. Fill in the empty spaces with these words:
- •3. Write the English equivalents of the following phrases and complete the sentences with your own ideas.
- •4. Act as a chairman giving an opening address at an international conference. Include the following points:
- •B. Outlining the conference programme
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •3. Imagine that you are the chairman of the scientific committee speaking to the participants of a conference. Address the audience and give general information about the conference:
- •1. Fill in the blanks with prepositions where necessary:
- •2. Translate into English.
- •Unit VI. A Working Group Session
- •Increase your vocabulary
- •A. Presenting a paper.
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •B. Holding the discussion
- •3. Recollect the phrases from “Increase your vocabulary” which can be used during the discussion in order:
- •2. Translate into English.
- •Unit VII. Good-bye, London
- •Increase your vocabulary
- •A. Confirming the flight
- •B. Saying good-bye
- •2. Imagine that you are parting with an English colleague. Act out the farewell.
- •3. Learn the dialogue b and act out the parting following this conversation. Revise
- •1. Match 1-7 to a-g
- •2. Translate from Russian into English:
- •Part III
- •Grammar in scientific context
- •Unit I. Tenses in the Active Voice
- •The present simple tense
- •The past simple tense
- •The future simple tense
- •The present continuous (progressive) tense
- •The past continuous tense
- •The future continuous tense
- •The present perfect tense
- •The past perfect tense
- •The future perfect tense
- •The past perfect continuous tense
- •The future perfect continuous tense
- •Revision of tenses
- •Unit II. The passive voice
- •Unit III. The Sequence of Tenses
- •Unit IV. Modal verbs
- •Unit V. Conditional sentences
- •Unit VII. The gerund
- •Unit VIII. The participle
- •Unit X. The Complex Sentence
- •Unit XI. Multifunctional Words
- •Text I Scientific imagination.
- •Text II National Research Council
- •1. Read the text and write an abstract of the text in 3 sentences.
- •Text III New trains, new business
- •1. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each
- •Text V Eurobot designed to handle mundane tasks in space
- •1. Read the text and decide if the following statements are true (t) or false (f):
- •Text VI Sound-activated toys
- •1. Read the texts. Refer to the list below and fill in the blanks with the best word(s).
- •Text VII a new gene
- •1. Read the texts. Refer to the list below and fill in the blanks with the best word or words.
- •Part V supplement Opening phrases
- •List of words and expressions
- •List of questions
- •Simulation Game
- •International Scientific Conference “Modern Technologies”
- •1. The Opening Address
- •2. Outlining the symposium program.
- •3. Plenary Session
- •K.B.: Ms Poslamovskaya, what is of particular interest in your work?
- •4. Break Socializing during the break
- •(After the break)
- •5. Working Group Session on Chemical Engineering.
- •6. Closing notice
- •Grammar Reference Система видо-временных форм английского глагола в действительном залоге
- •Группа времен Simple
- •Present Simple
- •Past Simple
- •Future Simple
- •Группа времен Continuous (Progressive)
- •Группа времен Perfect
- •Present Perfect
- •Past Perfect
- •The Sequence of Tenses
- •Modal verbs
- •Глагол can (could)
- •Глагол may (might)
- •Глагол must
- •Глаголы should и ought to
- •Conditional sentences
- •The infinitive
- •The gerund
- •The participle
- •Список литературы
- •Содержание
- •400131, Г. Волгоград, пр. Ленина, 28
- •400131, Г. Волгоград, ул. Советская, 35
The past perfect tense
Exercise 32. Open the brackets using the verb in the necessary tense form.
1) We … (install) modern machine tools by March. 2) He … (submit) his candidate thesis by the end of his post-graduate course? 3) We … (solve) the problem by the end of May. 4) He … (not/complete) his experiment by the time his chief came. 5) She … (pass) all her entrance exams by the 1st of October.
Exercise 33. Make short conversations according to the following model:
- Did you get to the train on time?
- No, I didn’t. By the time I got to the station, it had already left.
Use the following instead of the underlined words:
Conference - to begin, library - to close, plane - to take off, lecture - to end, movie - to start, party - to finish.
The future perfect tense
Exercise 34. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
1) In a fortnight’s time we … (pass) all our exams. 2) I … (write) the report by tomorrow evening. 3) By the end of next year I … (complete) my thesis. 4) By next winter they … (develop) a new method. 5) By the end of the university course I … (attend) 1, 200 lectures. 6) By the end of the term I … (read) all the books on the list. 7) He … (check and adjust) the equipment by the end of the week. 8) I hope you … (not) forget all about the Future Perfect Tense by the next lesson.
Exercise 35. Supply the future perfect or the future continuous.
1) They …… (complete) their research by the end of the year. 2) When I get home my dog …… (sit) at the door waiting for me. 3) She …… (leave) for work before the children get home from school. 4) They …… (finish) work on this project by the end of this decade. 5) I’ll still be here next summer but Mary …… (leave). 6) When Eric arrives, his son …… (go) to bed. 7) Before the end of his holiday he …… (spend) all his money. 8) I …… (wait) for you when you come out.
THE PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE
Exercise 36. Fill in the gaps:
1) I … (work) at this problem for about 5 years. 2) How long ….he …. (live) in Volgograd? 3) She … (work) at her candidate thesis for a year. 4) We … (not/discuss) the results of the experiment since last week. 5) They … (make an experiment) since last April.
Exercise 37. Answer the following questions yourself, and then ask your group mates:
1) How long have you been studying English? 2) How long have you been working at your candidate thesis? 3) How long have you been living here? 4) How long have you been studying at the University? 5) How long have you been reading the book?
Exercise 38. Use the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous.
1) Look! Somebody … (break) the device. 2) I wonder if Jim (forget) my number. I … (expect) him to call me for the past two hours. 3) You look very upset What … (happen)? 4) You … (not / finish) that article yet? You … (write) it since September. 5) He … (to master) five foreign languages. 6) What you ... (do) for the last two hours? - I ... (sit) here working at this problem.
The past perfect continuous tense
Exercise 39. Make up sentences using the verbs in brackets:
1) He (to try) to solve this problem for 5 years before at last he was a success. 2) They (to develop) this project for 2 months when the chief came. 3) He (to work) at this plant for 2 years when he decided to change his work. 4) I (to solve) this problem for a week when I realized I should use another approach. 5) She (to study English) for three months when we met at the Foreign Language Centre.
Exercise 40. Use the Past Perfect or the Past Perfect Continuous.
1) By the afternoon they (to drive) 300 kilometers. 2) We (to discuss) this plan for 3 hours when the director came. 3) By 2000 he (to write) a book. 4)By the time he was 21, he (to finish) the University. 5) They (to date) for two years before they got married. 6) Mr. Smith (to work) for our company for a year before that event. 7) My brother (to serve) in the Army for 3 months when he wrote the first letter. 8) He (to write) the article by that time?