Speak about his early architectural projects.
Speak about the most ambitious design of Thon.
Speak about his projects during 1836 – 1851.
5. Speak about the destiny of some Thon’s projects during
the Soviet time.
6. Use the following phrases and word combinations to speak about K. Thon and his projects:
1. As I understood from the text ...
2. According to the text ...
3. According to the author ...
4. As it is described in the text ...
5. As it is said in the text ...
6. If I am not mistaken …
7. According to the figures (data, information) from the text ...
8. As for me I learnt that K. Thon …
5.7*. Read and translate the proverbs. Comment on them:
1. A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
2. Where there is a will there is a way.
3. A cat in gloves catches no mice.
5.8.*Topics for presentations. Pay attention to the tips given in the Appendix I.
1. The outstanding Russian architects of the previous centuries and their master pieces.
2. The famous foreign architects of the previous centuries and their projects .
3. The most important architectural projects of the 21th century.
SUPPLEMENTARY TASKS
Translate the sentences with the Passive Voice.
1.The experiment had been completed by last month.
2.Her plans are changed every day.
3. Her plans have been already changed.
4. The explanation of this fact was given long ago.
5.The explanation of this fact will have been given by tomorrow.
6. This book is written by a famous scientist.
7. Many new books have been published by this scientist lately.
8. The text had been translated before my friends came.
9. The theory was developed in 1920.
10. The theory had been developed by the end of the year.
2. Change the active sentences to the passive ones:
1. The head engineer was conducting negotiations from 11 till 12.
2. The laboratory assistant will be making all the necessary measurements from 5 till 7 pm.
4. We are preparing a report now.
5. The computer processes the data every day.
6. Our neighbours had built the house by 2012.
7. They haven’t registered the voters yet.
8. When we came back the experts were checking a new contract.
9. The specialists will record the new data next week.
10. The director will have signed the documents by the end of the next week.
3. Give the negative and question form of the following sentences:
1. Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile.
2. In 1871 Benz founded his first company with partner August Ritter.
3. The new tools were installed last week.
4. Bertha Ringer bought out Ritter’s share in the company.
5. The spouses Benz were forced to improvise an association with photographer Emil Bühler.
6. Karl Benz finished his creation in 1885.
7. During the last years of the 20th century this enterprise was the largest automobile company in the world.
8. Karl Benz was granted a patent for his design of the first flat engine.
9. This design is still used by Porsche and Subaru.
10. Karl Benz was a member of the new Daimler Benz board of management for the remainder of his life.
4. Insert the modal verbs may or can:
1. The mechanic ... repair the brakes tomorrow if no one bothers him any more.
2. ... we come and see the head engineer next Monday at four o'clock in the afternoon?
3. What time is it? — It ... be about five o'clock, but I am not sure.
4. Only a person who knows the language very well ... answer such
a question.
5. Let me look at your diploma project. I ... be able to help you.
6. The computer class is quite free, and anyone who likes ... work there.
7. ... I take your text book on Higher Mathematics till tomorrow?
8. Take your umbrella with you: it ... rain today.
9. Do you think you ... draw these diagram?
10. My grandfather … very well when he was 10 years younger.
MODULE CONTROL 3
VARIANT 1
1. Find the odd word:
1. a) commitment b) personality c) available d) confidence
2. a) competitive b) huge c) compulsory d) especially
3. a) publish b) discovery c) achieve d) recognize
4. a) device b) poverty c) successive d) employee
5. a) revenue b) wooden c) planetary d) accurate
2. Correct mistakes paying attention to the Present Perfect and Past Simple Tenses:
1) He didn’t meet his classmate since childhood.
2) We have travelled about Greece last year.
3) Were you ever to the Technical Museum?
4) We offered him an interesting job recently.
5) The students already finished their tests.
3. Choose the right variant paying attention to the Active Voice:
1. The students __ great progress in English lately.
a) were making b) have made c) made d) make
2. The group __the scientific project by next month.
a) will have carried out b) will carry out c) carry out d) will be carrying out
3. The engineers __ the equipment when the commission arrived.
a) tested b) have tested c) were testing d) had tested
4. When we entered the room they __ the contract.
a) checked b) had checked c) were checking d) have checked
5. The head engineer __ negotiations now.
a) conducts b) will conduct c) has conducted d) is conducting
6. Karl Benz __ the world’s first practical automobile in the 19th century.
a) designed b) was designing c) has designed d) had designed
7. Tomorrow evening I __a report on professions in the field of engineering.
a) will prepare b) prepare c) will be preparing d) was preparing
8. Why __engineering as a career?
a) had you chosen b) have you chosen c) are you choosing d) were you choosing
9. My scientific adviser __ on a new theory when the conference began.
a) was working b) worked c) have worked d) had worked
10) The engineers __ the necessary data in a week.
a) will have obtained b) will be obtaining c) obtain d) will obtain
4. Choose the right variant paying attention to the Active and Passive Voice:
1. The data __every day..
a) are recorded b) have been recorded c) were recorded d) will be recording
2. All necessary documents __ to us already.
a) had been shown b) are shown c) will be shown d) have been shown
3. The explanation of this fact __ by Russian scientists in the 19th century.
a) had been given b) was given c) will be given d) has been given
4. He __ a new job before he finished the project.
a) is being offered b) is offered c) had been offered d) was offered
5. The annotation __ by the interpreter tomorrow.
a) will be translated b) will be translating c) will translate d) will have been translated
6. New theories __by our team before the project starts.
a) have been developed b) will be developed c) was being developed d) will have been developed
7. The house __ from 2010 till 2013.
a) was building b) was being built c) was built d) has been built
8. What issues __ by the experts at the meeting now?
a) were being discussed b) are being discussed c) are discussing d) discuss
9. When __the term civil engineering __into use?
a) does come b) was come c) has come d) had been come
10. The computer __the data now.
a) is being processed b) is processing c) processes) has been processed
5. Choose the necessary modal verb or its equivalent:
1. They (следует) visit her, she is in the hospital.
2). My friend (пришлось) leave the university.
3. The students (разрешили) redo this test.
4. (Можно) I take your pen for a while?
5. He (в состоянии) do this project alone.
6. You (не нужно) come so early.
7. Who (может) answer my question?
8. The special commission of engineers (должна) test a new device.
9. Nobody (смог) solve this task.
10. He (должен) go home at 9 p.m.
a) is able to
b) should
c) needn’t
d) had to
e) may
f) were allowed to
g) can
h) must
i) could
k) is to
6. Choose the right verb: