Develop Your Reading Skills. Comprehention and Translation Practice = Обучение чтению и переводу (английский язык)

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Предисловие 6 От автора
Part I: Vocabulary and grammar practice
Chapter one
Unit 1. Text: Encyclopedias
Grammar: Present Simple Active, there is/are, Articles
Unit 2. Texts: 1. Adrenalin, 2. The Jutes, the Saxons and the Angles
Grammar: Past and Future Simple Active
Unit 3. Text: Stem Cells
Grammar: Past Participles, Ellipsis
Unit 4. Text: Van Gogh
Grammar: Present Participles
Unit 5. Text: The Gene of Speech
Grammar: Modal verbs: may, can/be able to, must
Unit 6. Text: Man and the Environment
Grammar: Progressive, Perfect and Perfect Progressive Active, Model verbs: to have to
Unit 7. Text: History of Universities
Grammar: Present, Past and Future Simple Passive
Unit 8. Text: A Sophisticated Evaporation Scheme
Grammar: Present, Past and Future Progressive Passive, the Infinitive: Indication of Purpose
Unit 9. Text: Areas of Study
Grammar: The Passive Voice: Difficult Cases
Unit 10. Text: Smallpox
Grammar: Present, Past and Future Perfect Passive, Passive structures with the impersonal 'it', Conditional Clauses, Negation
Unit 11. Text: The Ancestry of Birds
Grammar: Perfect Infinitives after some reporting verbs
Unit 12. Text: Scientific Research
Academic style
Unit 13. Text: Global Warming
Avoiding noun repetition
Unit 14. Text: DNA to Unravel the History of Humans
Grammar: '-ing' Forms
Unit 15. Text: Where Do We Come From
Grammar: Participle Clauses with their own subject
Unit 16. Texts: 1. Gene Therapy, 2. The Human Genome, 3. Climate Change Impact
Grammar: Gerunds, the Infinitive construction 'subject + verb + infinitive', the ... the construction, Negation, Model verbs: will/would
Unit 17. Text: Concrete
Grammar: the Infinitive construction 'subject + verb + noun/pronoun +infinitive'
Chapter two
Unit 18. Text: MyGrid Computer System
Grammar: 'To'- infinitive as the subject, Model verbs: should
Unit 19. Text: Communication Satellites
Grammar: 'To'- infinitive after nouns, Gerunds: construction 'subject + verb + noun/pronoun + gerund'
Unit 20. Text: Death Penalty
Grammar: 'For'- phrase: 'for + noun/pronoun + infinitive'
Unit 21. Texts: 1. Climate Change in Europe, 2. Water and the Earth
Grammar: Model verbs: will/would + Present and Perfect Infinitive, can/could, may/might + Perfect Infinitive, should + Perfect Infinitive, must + Perfect Infinitive, Result Clauses, Infinitives of the verbs 'to give, to form, to make, to produce, to yield' as a connective link
Unit 22. Text: What Influences Success in Higher Education
Grammar: Conditional clauses, Functions of 'would'
Unit 23. Texts: 1. History Teaching in Britain, 2. Symbolic language
Grammar: 'Should' in subordinate clauses, Functions of' 'should', Model verbs: to be to
Unit 24. Texts: 1. Sedimentary Rocks, 2. Language and Thinking
Grammar: Emphasis: Cleft sentences
Unit 25. Text: Problems of Garbage Disposal in Britain
Grammar: Emphasis: 'do' before verbs, Functions of 'do'
Unit 26. Texts: 1. Languages, 2. Water, 3. Governments and Companies, 4. Ethics and Archaeology
Grammar: Inversion, Concessive clauses, 'what' in noun clauses as subject
Unit 27. Text: Ecobalance 212 Grammar: Inversion
Part II: Comprehension practice
Practice test 1: Education 221
Practice test 2: Computer Technology
Practice test 3: Genetic Engineering
Practice test 4: Man and Nature
Practice test 5: Ecology
Practice test 6: Historical Wonders
Practice test 7: Physiology and Diseases
Practice test 8: Language
Practice test 9: Political, Social and Economic Issues
Practice test 10: Unusual Things
Practice test 11: Arts
Practice test 12: Culture
Practice test 13: Some Theoretical Issues and Scientific Discoveries
Key
Grammar index
Glossary
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