Language study. Text-based assignments

Text-based assignments

УЧЕБНО-МЕТОДИЧЕСКИЕ МАТЕРИАЛЫ К ПРАКТИЧЕСКИМ ЗАНЯТИЯМ

Задания для самоконтроля по грамматике

1. Какое действие выражает сослагательное наклонение?

2. В придаточных предложениях какого типа сослагательное наклонение употребляется чаще всего?

3. Какие формы употребляются в главном и придаточном предложениях условного типа, если оно рассматривается говорящим как нереальное и относится к настоящему или будущему?

4. Какие формы употребляются в главном и придаточном предложениях условного типа, если оно рассматривается как неосуществимое и относится к прошлому?

5. Какие союзы употребляются в условных придаточных предложениях?

6. Какие формы употребляются в придаточных сравнительных предложениях после союзов as if, as though?

7. В каких формах ставится глагол в придаточном дополнительном предложении после wish для выражения настоящего (или будущего) и прошлого?

8. Как на русский язык переводятся конструкции с wish?

9. Определите предложение, содержащее глагол в сослагательном наклонении:

1) If he comes he will complete the work.

2) If he came he would complete the work.

3) He said that he would complete this experiment if he came.

10. Какое предложение выражает нереальное действие, которое могло бы произойти в прошлом?

1) If I had worked at the scientific research institute last year, I would have taken part in that experiment.

2) If I worked at the scientific research institute, I would take part in that experiment.

3) If I work at the scientific research institute, I will take part in that experiment.

11. Определите, какое из предложений, содержащих глагол wish, употребляется в сослагательном наклонении:

1) I wish I were an engineer.

2) I wished to be an engineer when I was 22.

3) I wished him joy and happiness.

(TEXT A, ознакомительное чтение)

(A) Exercise 1. Read the international words and guess their meaning. If necessary consult the dictionary.

Profession, engineer, civilization, technician, physics, mathematics, machine, design, theory, idea, problem, process, person, system.

(A) Exercise 2. Analyze the following pairs of words to point out the words that convey more extensive concepts and those expressing more narrow, concrete notions.

engineering	tool-making
car	tractor
skill	occupation
machinery	cultivator
engine	machine
science	physics
industry	manufacture
theory	problem
fertilizer	manure
weeds	plants
maintenance	painting

(B) Exercise 3. Supplement the following table with appropriate nouns from the text A.

verbs	nouns
1.to erect	buildings
2. to find
3. to define
4. to design
5. to test
6. to evaluate
7. to communicate
8. to produce
9.to solve

(B) Exercise 2. Find the word with a general meaning.

craftsman	occupation	technician
tool-making	building	engineering
mathematics	science	theory
solve	test	design
equipment	device	pump
gas	petrol	fuel
crop	rye	barley
tillage	cultivation	leveling

(B) Exercise 3. Read the text and find the words that denote:

1) names of engineering professions;

2) main areas of engineering;

3) the tasks the engineer undertakes while solving a problem.

(C) Exercise 4. Paraphrase:

1. fair or moderate, not expensive price;

2. to find metals;

3. something shared by two or more things or people;

4. to pass the solution to other people;

5. to develop gradually or naturally (e.g. civilization);

(C) Exercise 5. Fill in the gaps with the suitable words given before:

a) solution, solve, solvable, solver

1. It may take a lot of time to find a …to a complex problem in engineering.

2. A computer can … a problem faster than any human being.

3. A computer has often been referred to as a problem ….

b) communication, communicate, communicable, communicative, communicably

1. A computer must be able to … with the user.

2. Fiber optics a new development in the field of ….

3. Some people working in computer installations aren’t very … because they are shy.

c) mechanic, mechanism, mechanize, mechanical, mechanically, mechanistic, mechanics, mechanization, mechanized

1. Today’s computers are less … than they used to be.

2. The … devices in a computer system operate more slowly than the electromagnetic devices.

3. The … of the brain is very complicated but unlike a computer it isn’t ….

d) reliable, reliability, rely on, reliance, reliant

1. He is a qualified specialist and can be ….

2. The … of these materials attract the customers’ attention.

3. The design solution must be safe and ….

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