A.S. POPOV - INVENTOR OF THE RADIO

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1. The wireless receiving set or radio is one of the greatest achievements of human genius. Priority in the invention of radio belongs to the Russian scientist Popov. On the 7^th of May we celebrate Radio Day because on that day in 1895 the Russian scientist Alexander Popov demonstrated his first radio set to a meeting of the Russian Physical and Chemical Society.

2. A.S. Popov was born in 1859 in the Urals. While at school he spent all his free time on physics and mathematics. He studied at St. Petersburg University and graduated from it with honours, but was not satisfied with the conditions of the laboratories of the University and accepted the post of a teacher in the Mining School¹ in Kronstadt. There he began his research in electrical engineering.

3. The greater part of his life he devoted to the problem of the application of electromagnetic waves to wireless communication.

4. Popov worked on a sensitive receiving set which could pick up² even the weakest radio waves. The year 1895 is considered to be³ the date of the invention of the radio when Popov demonstrated his radio receiving set in operation. By the end of the year he improved his apparatus. It was the first radio receiving set in the world.

5. Since then, the art of radio communication has progressed a great deal.⁴ Many scientists and inventors made their contributions.

6. The radio has brought great changes to our life. At present our country produces equipment for powerful broadcasting and television centres, and for radio-relay stations, electronic computers, radar stations, telecontrol and telemetric systems, and other purposes.

NOTES

1. the Mining School -	минная школа
2. pick up -	Ловить
3. is considered to be -	Считается
4. a great deal -	много, значительно, сильно

VII. Ответьте на следующие вопросы письменно и будьте готовы к устной беседе с преподавателем о Вас, Вашей семье и работе.

1. What is your name?

2. Where are you from? / Where do you live?

3. When do you celebrate your birthday?

4. What are you? / What is your profession?

5. When did you make your professional choice?

6. What sports do you like?

7. Do you study by correspondence?

8. What do you need the colledge education for?

9. Is it easy for you to combine work with studies?

10. Have you got a family of your own? Describe your family.

ВАРИАНТ 3

I. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык. Определите по грамматическим признакам и запишите, какой частью речи являются слова, оформленные окончанием -s и какую функцию это окончание выполняет, т. е. служит ли оно:

а) показателем 3-го лица единственного числа глагола в Present Indefinite (Simple);

б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного.

1. When is your brother’s birthday?

2. Sue drinks tea but she dislikes coffee.

3. Would you like some apples?

II. Перепишите предложения и подчеркните в них волнистой линией определения, выраженные именем существительным. Запишите перевод предложений на русский язык.

1. The partners signed a payment agreement.

2. The bus stop isn’t very far from the museum.

3. My niece is a twelve-year old girl.

III. Перепишите предложения и подчеркните в них разные формы степеней сравнения, если они имеются. Переведите предложения и письменно поясните, какой степенью сравнения является найденная Вами форма.

1. The twenty-second of December is the shortest day of the year.

2. This exercise is better than the first one.

3. His plan is the most practical of all.

IV. Перепишите предложения и подчеркните в них неопределённые и отрицательные местоимения. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. I saw somebody at the window.

2. He hasn’t told them anything.

3. Nobody knew their address.

V. Перепишите следующие предложения, подчеркните в них все глаголы - сказуемые. Определите видо-временную форму и укажите инфинитив этих глаголов. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. I don’t know the man who is speaking to the director.

2. Tom found this letter last Wednesday.

3. The telegram arrived when I was leaving home.

4. I think Sam will win the competition.

5. I don’t know the time as my watch has stopped.

VI. Прочтите и устно переведите весь текст. Перепишите и письменно переведите 2, 3, 4 абзацы.

ROBERT BURNS

1. Robert was born on 25 January 1759, in Alloway, Scotland, the eldest of seven children.

2. Robert got very little education, since he so often had to help with the heavy work of farming, but he read a great deal. He wrote his first poem, «O Once I Loved, » in 1774, and after that there was no stopping him.

3. Once he met a sailor named Richard Brown who read Robert’s poetry and encouraged him to publish it. Robert agreed, mainly because he had hopes that the royalties would pay his way to Jamaica, where he hoped to make his fortune. The book, printed in 1786, was so successful that Robert decided he could make his fortune right where he was. This book, known as the Kilmarnock Edition, featured mainly satiric and moral poems, not the lyrics he is most known for, but they were both vivid and innovative.

4. He pioneered a new form of satire, combining a traditional Scottish verse form with the contrasting images and ironic rhymes used by the English satirist Alexander Pope.

5. Over the next few years, Robert turned his attention to gathering and writing of Scottish songs. He’d often put his own poems to music he composed, or to traditional Scottish airs, and at this point in time, there was quite a market for that. He edited and contributed to several volumes. He finally hit financial security around 1790, and it was about this time that he started writing what many call his greatest poem, Tam O’Shanter. But just two years later, his health, which had never been great, began to decline further. The fits of depression which had plagued him most of his life got worse. His really good poems became few. He finally died on 21 July 1796 in Dumfries.

1. What is your name?

2. Where are you from? / Where do you live?

3. When do you celebrate your birthday?

4. What are you? / What is your profession?

5. When did you make your professional choice?

6. What sports do you like?

7. Do you study by correspondence?

8. What do you need the colledge education for?

9. Is it easy for you to combine work with studies?

10. Have you got a family of your own? Describe your family.

ВАРИАНТ 4

а) показателем 3-го лица единственного числа глагола в Present Indefinite (Simple);

б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного.

1. You must follow the doctor’s prescription.

2. He reads English books without a dictionary.

3. She left the keys on the table.

1. Who is responsible for the trade talks?

2. This year we observe the meat price decrease.

3. The professor is speaking about the post Second-World-War situation.

1. She is the most experienced teacher in our school.

2. The Earth is larger than the Moon is.

3. They feel worse today.

1. I didn’t meet anybody in the library.

2. He wrote nothing about this accident.

3. Someone left the door open.

1. He doesn’t see if I am looking at him.

2. I think he’ll take part in this work.

3. They were having dinner when she rang up.

4. Last year I often went to the theatre.

5. I have already told you about it twice.

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