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.pdfeasily. The letters are still in the same place on a modern computer keyboard.
The inventor of the first telephone was a Scottish-American teacher called Alexander Graham Bell. In 1876 he showed his new invention at an exhibition in Philadelphia. Unfortunately, the public weren’t very interested.
3. Give English equivalents to the following words and expressions.
Установка, бедность, увлечение, чрезвычайно/исключительно, создавать, линии передачи энергии, уменьшать, разрушительный, располагать, продолжать, воровать, обманывать, превращать.
Grammar Card No 10
Open the brackets, using the right verb-forms:
1. When you (to visit) Moscow last?
2.When I (to leave) the house in the morning, it still (to rain).
3.The boys already (to do) his homework, and now he (to watch) TV.
4.He (to be) a student now? – Yes, he (to study) at the University.
5.There (to be) a very good programmer on TV last night. You (to
see) it?
6.If I (to have) a lot of money, I (to travel) round the world.
7.Last week I (to offer) a job at a local bank, but I didn’t accept.
8.After (finishing, finished) our work, we went home.
Report the following sentences:
9. Take a seat.
10. Her name is Isabel and he met her only yesterday.
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РЕКОМЕНДУЕМАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА
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4.Changing Times, Changing Tenses. – New York, 1991.
5.«Читай, познавай, думай!» Книга для чтения на английском языке для инженерных специальностей вузов. – М., Высшая школа,
1985.
6.Полякова Т.Ю., Синявская Е.В., Тынкова О.И., Улановская Э.С. Английский язык для инженеров. – М.: Высшая школа, 2000.
7.Английский язык. Контрольные задания для студентовзаочников высших учебных заведений неязыковых специальностей / Московский Институт коммунального хозяйства и строительства. –
М., 1997.
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Contents |
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Предисловие........................................................................................ |
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Unit 1 .................................................................................................... |
4 |
Grammar: Verb ‘to be’: the Present Tense. ‘There is/there are’. |
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‘Have/have got’. Text: ‘The Moon’. |
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Unit 2 .................................................................................................... |
8 |
Grammar: The Present Simple Tense. Positions of Adverbs of Frequency. |
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Text: ‘Buckingham Palace’. |
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Unit 3 ................................................................................................... |
13 |
Grammar: The Present Continuous Tense. Indefinite pronouns. |
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Text: ‘Working Day’. |
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Unit 4.................................................................................................... |
17 |
Grammar: The present Simple Tense and the Present Continuous Tense. Quantitative Pronouns. Text: ‘A Long Day’s Journey Into Work’.
Unit 5..................................................................................................... |
22 |
Grammar: The Present Perfect Tense. Possessive Case Text: ‘Loch Ness’. |
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Unit 6.................................................................................................... |
28 |
Grammar: The Present Perfect Continuous Tense. Word Order. |
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Question Words. Text: ‘What’s Your Favourite Colour?’ |
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Unit 7.................................................................................................... |
34 |
Grammar: The Past Simple Tense. The Past Tense of ‘to be’: ‘was’ and ‘were’. The repetition word ‘one’. Text: ‘Guy Fawkes’.
Unit 8.................................................................................................... |
39 |
Grammar: ‘Used to’. Past habit with ‘used to’. ‘Used to’ and the Past Simple Tense. Degrees of Comparison. Texts: ‘Transportation Used to Be Much Slower than It Is now’. ‘Sultan of Brunei, One of the Richest men in the World’.
Unit 9................................................................................................... |
45 |
Grammar: The Past Simple Tense and the Present Perfect Tense. Adjectives and adverbs. Text: ‘Dinosaurs’.
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Unit 10................................................................................................. |
50 |
Grammar: The Past Continuous Tense. The Past Simple Tense (Revision). Texts: ‘Noisy Neighbours’. ‘Electronic Car’.
Unit 11 ................................................................................................. |
55 |
Grammar: The Past Perfect Tense. Relative |
Pronouns. |
Text: ‘Nobody Had believed It Was Possible’. |
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Unit 12 ................................................................................................ |
60 |
Grammar: The Future Simple Tense. The construction ‘to be going to’. Modal Verbs ‘may’, ‘might’. Text: ‘The Car of the Future’.
Unit 13 ................................................................................................ |
66 |
Grammar: Modal Verbs ‘must’, ‘have to’, ‘should’. Reported Speech. Texts: ‘Strange Laws’. ‘Race to the South Pole’.
Unit 14.................................................................................................. |
73 |
Grammar: Conditionals. Ing-forms: gerund and Present Participle. |
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Text: ‘Smoking’. |
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Unit 15................................................................................................. |
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Grammar: Passive Voice. – Ing |
and -ed adjectives. |
Text: ‘An Amazing Crime’. |
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Unit 16................................................................................................. |
84 |
Grammar Review: Passive Voice. Texts: ‘Electromagnetic Relay’.
‘The Northern Lights’.
Unit 17................................................................................................. |
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Grammar Review: Participle I, II. Forms and Functions. Texts: ‘Fuses’. ‘Do Great Minds Think Alike?’.
Unit 18................................................................................................. |
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Grammar Review: Gerund, its functions; gerundial constructions. Texts: ‘Components of Electric Circuits’. ‘Cars: Passion or Problem?’.
Unit 19.................................................................................................. |
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Grammar Review: Infinitive Texts: ‘Electric Lines and Their Efficiency’. |
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‘Hackers’. |
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Unit 20................................................................................................. |
104 |
Grammar Review: Complex Object. Complex |
Subject. |
Texts: ‘Substations’. ‘A Legend on Wheels’. |
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Unit 21................................................................................................. |
109 |
Grammar Review: Функции слов ‘one, ones, that, those’. Texts: ‘Hydroelectric Power Plants’. ‘Mobile Phones’.
Unit 22................................................................................................. |
113 |
Grammar Review: Условные предложения. Многозначность слов.
Texts: ‘Transmission Lines’. ‘tsunami’.
Unit 23................................................................................................ |
117 |
Grammar Review: Способы выражения подлежащего и сказуемого. |
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Многозначность слов. Texts: ‘Atomic Power Plant’. ‘Ancient Sreel- |
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Making Secret’. |
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Unit 24................................................................................................ |
122 |
Grammar Review: Составные предлоги. Составные союзы.
Texts: ‘Protection Against Environmental Pollution’. ‘Tunnels’.
Приложение....................................................................................... |
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Список литературы.......................................................................... |
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