Exercises

1. Answer the following questions:

1. Who does technological and industrial progress depend on?

2. How can the pure scientist make his contribution to progress?

3. Where are the interests of the research engineer?

4. What problems is the technologist concerned with?

5. What is the principal work of the engineer? What does it mean?

6. What characteristics must the engineer combine?

7. What is the most important function of the engineer?

2. Using the dictionary decide which of the following word-combinations are translator's "false friends" and which are international words, translate them into Russian:

Technological progress, industrial progress, specialized assistance, reality, abstraction, concrete object, specific, table, formula, role, modern, principal, to combine, basic, abstract techniques, function, to integrate.

3. Find in the text nouns derived from the following verbs and translate them:

To know, to contribute, to assist, to investigate, to generalize.

4. Make up sentences out of the two parts:

1. The essential triangle consists of ... 2. The scientist makes his contribution to progress through ... 3. Тhе technologist is more interested in ... 4. The principal work of the engineer is ... 5. The most important function of the engineer is ...

a) to design. b) how to do things. c) to integrate the work of the essential triangle. d) scientist, the technologist, the engineer. e) the investigation of the unknown.

5. Choose the definition that fits each word or phrase as it is used in the text:

To translate	to cause a particular situation or result; to change spoken or written words into another language; to change something into a different form.
Solution	a liquid with another substance dissolved in it, so that it has become part of the liquid; the answer to a question in a puzzle, crossword etc; a way to solve the problem or deal with a bad situation.
Table	a piece of furniture that consists of a flat surface held above the floor, usually by legs; a way of showing detailed pieces of information, especially facts or numbers, by arranging them in rows and lines across and down a page.

6. Complete the table using information from the text:

Сфера деятельности	Деятель
new knowledge	scientist
work in the area of applied science and research
translating engineering plans into operating reality
production process
designing products, machines, production systems

7. Speak of the role of the scientist, the engineer and the technologist in technological and industrial progress using the following words and word-combinations:

The essential triangle, to consist of, to make contribution to progress, to investigate the unknown, to deal with the production process, to design new products, to integrate the work.

DISCUSSION

Working in pairs role-play the following situations:

1. You’ve got analytical way of thinking and are interested in purely scientific problems. Discuss the possibility of carrying out research at the University with your scientific advisor.

2. You are a technologist at a machine-building plant. Discuss your responsibilities with the head of your department.

FINAL TEST