English for Engineering Students

Введение 5

READING COURSE 7

Unit 1. COMMUNICATION

Text A. COMMUNICATION 9

Text B. TELEPHONE 16

GRAMMAR: Functions of the Verbs to be and to have (got);

Multifunctional Words one (ones) and it; Adjectives and Adverbs: Degrees of Comparison 23

Unit 2. RADIO

Text A. HISTORY OF RADIO 31

Text B. THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL RADIOTELEGRAPH CONFERENCE 37

GRAMMAR: Tenses of the Active Voice 42

Unit 3. ELECTRONICS

Text A. DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRONICS 49

Text B. VACUUM-CHANNEL TRANSISTORS 55

GRAMMAR: Tenses of the Passive Voice;

Attribute Group; Complex Sentences 61

Unit 4. TELEVISION

Text A. HISTORY OF TELEVISION 72

Text B. INTERNET VS TELEVISION 79

GRAMMAR: Participle I (active forms), Participle II 85

Unit 5. COMPUTERS

Text A. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS 91

Text B. THE VOLATILE FUTURE OF STORAGE 99

GRAMMAR: Gerund and Complex Sentence;

Gerund and Participle I 104

Unit 6. OPTICAL COMMUNICATION

Text A. OPTICAL COMMUNICATION 109

Text B. LASERS AND MASERS 116

GRAMMAR: Infinitive and Gerund Functions; Revising Verbals; Infinitive Constructions 122

ORAL SPEECH COURSE 137

Unit 1. PERSONAL LIFE

Text A. MY FAMILY 139

Text B. PERSONAL TRAITS OF CHARACTER 145

GRAMMAR: Аrticles, Plurals, Рossessive Сase; the Verb to be, the Verb to have got) 151

Unit 2. OUR UNIVERSITY

Text A. Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics 160

Text B. Hhigher Education in Russia 166

GRAMMAR: Present Simple and Present Progressive Tenses;

Conditional I; Past Simple and Present Perfect Tenses 171

Unit 3. THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Text A. THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 181

Text B. TOMSK 185

GRAMMAR: Present Simple Passive; Past Simple Passive 190

Unit 4. THE UNITED KINGDOM

Text A. The United Kingdom 195

Text B. LONDON 199

GRAMMAR: Revising Verbals 205

Unit 5. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Text A. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 211

Text B. WASHINGTON, D.C. 220

GRAMMAR: Revising Verbal Constructions 227

PROFESSIONAL READING 231

Text 1. WHAT ARE TELECOMMUNICATIONS? 233

Text 2. LAN vs WAN 236

Text 3. REMOTE CONTROL 239

Text 4. HACKERS 243

Text 5. SUPERCONDUCTIVITY 247

Text 6. SUPERCONDUCTING DIPOLES 252

Text 7. RISE OF THE NANOWIRE TRANSISTOR 256

APPENDICES 261

APPENDIX A. Corrective Course 263

APPENDIX B. Microtexts for Reading 282

APPENDIX C. How to Give a Successful Presentation? 290

Литература 295