Unit 7. Research, discoveries and innovations in Russia

Use unit 6 of appendix 11 for written practice exercises

1) Visit the website given below and a job advertisement for engineers you are interested in. Prepare your CV for this advertisement.

http://www.engcen.com/engineering.asp

2) Prepare a list of sentences (up to 15) for translation from the British National Corpus with the use of the following words from the text: internship, generation, multidisciplinary and use one of them for making up your own concordance. Use the site http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc and an example of this task in the appendix 9.

Warm-up

To rivet Impetus Pinnacle Quark-gluon plasma Beam Charged-particle acceleration Cryogenic To upgrade Exodus To renovate

Приковывать (внимание) Толчок, стимул Апофеоз Кварк-глюонная плазма Луч Ускорение заряженных частиц Криогенный Усовершенствовать Переселение, отъезд Обновлять

1. Do you know any of the Russian inventions? Can you name the most outstanding and important one?

2. Can you name Russian inventions in your sphere of science? What invention is considered to be the most meaningful for the development of your sphere of science?

3. Has the advance of technology brought only benefits?

4. What are some of the major technical advances of the twentieth century?

Is it possible to make inventions nowadays? What sphere of science is the most popular today? Why?

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