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PART I

UNIT 1	THE NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF UKRAINE
Task 1.	List the faculties of the NTUU “KPI” you know. What faculty do you study at? Give some arguments for your choice. What are your first impressions of your studying here?

Task 2.

Working in group discuss the properties a person should have for entering the University. Present your thoughts in a few words.

Task 3.

Before reading the text pay attention to the pronunciation of the letter ‘c’:

a) centre, city, cybernetics, exceed, device, science, civil, facilities, certificate, physicist, decease,;

b) country, education, faculty, college, co-operation, computing, complex, economy, contracts, care, physics, according;

c) special, specialists, specialities, specializations, academician, physician, artificial.

Task 4.

You are going to read about NTUU “KPI”. Seven sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from the sentences (A-H) the one which fits each gap (1-7). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (1).

A. NTUU “KPI” education meets the standards of the world-known universities at a reasonable tuition fee.

B. Many students go in for different kinds of sport according to their liking.

C. Its first president was Academician Vernadsky.

D. 70% of the NTUU “KPI” teachers have scientific degrees.

E. Our University also takes care of students’ leisure for a well-organized leisure is a very important factor in bringing up young specialists.

F. The first enrolment constituted 360 students.

G. Many students are accommodated in 21 hostels.

H. It is well known not only in our country but abroad as well.

The National Technical University of Ukraine “Kiev Polytechnic Institute” (NTUU “KPI”) is one of the oldest and biggest higher educational institutions in Ukraine. 1. ___H___.

This University is situated not far from the centre of the city in a beautiful shady park. At present the number of students in the NTUU “KPI” exceeds 50000. They obtain qualifications on more than 70 specialties. There are 19 educational faculties, 5 educational-research institutes, 15 research institutes and 6 engineering centers in the NTUU “KPI”.

Among them there is the Department of information and computing technique that trains students in such fields of technology as: cybernetics, automation, computing technique. Electric power engineering and automation department trains specialists in electrical networks and electric systems, power plants, high voltage technique, cybernetics of electrical systems. At the Radio-engineering department young people get diploma of the designers of the radio-electric devices. At the Physics-engineering department students will become metallurgists and specialists studying metals and alloys, powder metallurgy and others.

The NTUU “KPI” graduates work at numerous enterprises and research institutions all over the country and abroad.

The teaching staff of our institute consists of highly qualified teachers, professors and scientists. 2. _______. Among them there are academicians and corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences, professors, and merited scientists.

Training of full-time students lasts 5 years and 6 months, of tuition by correspondence - 5 years 10 months. 3. _______. 3 of them are at the disposal of married students. So, almost all non-Kyiv students are provided with hostel facilities.

The Institute was founded in 1898. It had only four departments: mechanical, chemical, agricultural and civil engineering ones. 4. _______.

The first rector of the Institute was Professor V.L. Kirpichov, an outstanding Russian scientist in the field of mechanics and strength of materials.

Some Institutes were organized on the NTUU “KPI” basis. Among them are: the Civil Engineering Institute, Technological Institute of Light and Food Industry, the Institute of Civil Aviation, Automobile and Road Building Institute, Agricultural (now Agricultural Academy) and others. In 1934 - 1944 the KPI was called an Industrial Institute.

A large number of prominent people worked and studied at the KPI: E. O. Paton, the founder of electric welding; M. L. Konovalov, a well-known chemist; L. P. Bardin, the greatest metallurgist in the country; A. M. Luylka, the chief of aeroplane engines and S. P. Korolyov, the great designer of spaceships. President of the First Examining Board in chemistry faculty was Dmitry Mendeleyev.

Scientists of the University are engaged in researching up to date trends of the contemporary development of the human society, as follows:

· Monitoring and protection of environment;

· Liquidation of consequences of nuclear and technological disasters;

· Development of up to date technologies;

· Information networks and development of information telecommunication technologies;

· Aircraft and space technologies;

· Problems of energy saving and development of energy saving technologies;

· Exploration and use of human resources and others.

A number of new economic and humanitarian faculties - Management and Marketing, Law, Sociology, Linguistics, Sports Training, were formed besides traditional technical faculties. They revealed opportunities for young people to obtain besides technical specialties, the second higher education in humanities or economic field and to become qualified interpreter or manager. 5. _______. The University has its Preparatory Department where foreign entrants, within 10 months course study Ukrainian, Russian, English, Mathematics, Physics, Biology and other subjects in the scope that is necessary for further mastering of the university program.

The most active international scientific and technological co-operation is carried out by the departments of the University with the partners from Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Denmark, Lebanon etc. Lately the relations with China, USA, Italy, Vietnam, and Spain have become more active. The University carries out the student’s exchange program according to the agreements on collaboration.

The University has at its disposal a decease-prevention centre for employers and students. 6. _______.

The Knowledge square becomes the centre of the whole NTUU “KPI” complex. It has about 105x100m. Meetings, festivals, consecration into students take place here. In summer the square is decorated with lamps, fountains, flowerbeds.

Great importance is attached to the development of physical culture at our University. There are many sport grounds, football field, volleyball and basketball courts at students’ disposal. 7. _______. It helps them to keep their body healthy and strong. There are lots of rated athletes among the students of the NTUU “KPI”. The names of many of them are well known all over the country.

Task 5.

Find in the text English equivalents to the following Ukrainian words and word combinations:

вищий навчальний заклад, тінистий парк, отримувати кваліфікацію, перевищувати, науково-дослідний інститут, випускники, численні підприємства, викладацький склад, науковий ступінь, студенти денної форми навчання, заочне навчання, бути заснованим, перший набір, ректор, опір матеріалів, електрозварювання, екзаменаційна комісія, сучасні напрямки, захист довкілля, наслідки, інформаційні мережі, енергозбереження, людські ресурси, відкривати можливості, відповідати стандартам, підготовче відділення, співпраця, програма обміну студентами, угоди про співробітництво, мати в розпорядженні, дозвілля, виховання, відбуватись, посвячення в студенти.

Task 6.	Make up word combinations from the following words and translate them into Ukrainian:
	1. teaching	a) institution
	2. numerous	b) engine
	3. outstanding scientist	c) metallurgy
	4. educational	d) athlete
	5. aeroplane	e) enterprises
	6. powder	f) scientist
	7. rated	g) technique
	8. measuring	h) staff

Task 7.

Translate the following words and word combinations into Ukrainian:

one of the oldest and biggest, abroad, to be situated, to exceed, to obtain qualification on, research institute, NTUU “KPI” graduates, numerous enterprises, teaching staff, highly qualified, scientific degrees, corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences, full-time students, tuition by correspondence, to be accommodated in, married students, to be provided with, to be founded, enrolment, mechanics and strength of materials, the founder of electric welding; metallurgist, engine, designer of spaceships, to be engaged in researching, human society, protection of environment, up to date technologies, energy saving, exploration of human resources, to reveal opportunities, higher education, to meet the standards, foreign entrants, to carry out, agreements on collaboration, to have at disposal, decease-prevention centre, to take care, well-organized leisure, bringing up young specialists, consecration into students, to take place, to go in for different kinds of sport, rated athletes.

Task 8.

Translate the following sentences into English:

1. В КПІ студенти отримують кваліфікацію за багатьма спеціальностями.

2. Випускники КПІ стають знавцями в різних галузях: кібернетика, комп’ютерні технології, інженерія, металургія та інше.

3. Студенти вчаться 5 років і 6 місяців та живуть в гуртожитках.

4. В інституті працюють видатні науковці та спеціалісти.

5. Багато студентів КПІ приїхали з різних країн Європи, Африки та Азії.

6. Щорічно КПІ підписує угоди та договори з іноземними партнерами.

7. Кафедри проводять науково-дослідну роботу.

8. Багато відомих спортсменів навчались в КПІ.

Task 9.

Put the verb to be in the necessary form:

1. I _____ the freshman.

2. She _____ very diligent student.

3. Studying at the NTUU _____ hard and interesting task for all students.

4. Our students _____ proud of their University.

5. We _____ the champions in the sphere of knowledge.

6. There _____ a book on the table.

7. There _____ two measuring devices.

8. There _____ an article about atoms and two scientific works.

Task 10.

Put the following words into correct order to make sentences:

1. educational, one, Ukraine, of, higher, the oldest, is, The, institutions, in, KPI.

2. the rector, executive, head, The, a university, of, is.

3. academic, highest, Philosophy, is, the Doctor, The, of, degree.

4. KPI, studied, of, people, at the, number, A, large, prominent.

Task 11. Answer the following questions:

1. When was the Institute founded?
2. How many departments did the Institute have? Enumerate them.
3. Who was the first rector of the Institute?
4. Who was the President of the First Examining Board?
5. What Institutes were organized on the KPI basis?

Task 12.

Make up 10 questions about present-day NTUU “KPI”.

Task 13.

A school leaver is going to enter a University or an Institute and asks for your advice. Tell him about NTUU “KPI”. Don’t forget about the following:

× The place of the NTUU “KPI” among the higher educational institutions of Ukraine;

× Faculties and Institutes of the University;

× Career opportunities for the University graduates.

Task 14.

You are going to take part in the students’ international conference “Modern Education”. Write a report on the topic “National Technical University of Ukraine”.

The following information can be included:

× The foundation of KPI.

× The present day status of KPI.

× What famous people worked and studied in KPI?

× Buildings, hostels, sport facilities.

× The international scientific and technological co-operation of the University.

Words and word combinations to be memorized:
1.	abroad	за кордоном
2.	aircraft technology	авіаційна технологія
3.	annually	щорічно
4.	automation	автоматизація
5.	branch	галузь, підрозділ
6.	department	кафедра
7.	computing technique	обчислювальна техніка
8.	consequence	наслідок, результат
9.	contemporary development	сучасний розвиток
10.	cybernetics	кібернетика
11.	decease-prevention centre	поліклініка, профілакторій
12.	designer	розробник
13.	electric welding	електрозварювання
14.	enterprise	підприємство
15.	entrant	абітурієнт, новачок, відвідувач
16.	to exceed	перевищувати
17.	exploration	дослідження, вивчення
18.	healthy and strong	здоровий і сильний
19.	higher educational institution	вищий освітній заклад
20.	hostel	гуртожиток
21.	metals and alloys	метали і сплави
22.	to obtain	отримувати
23.	powder metallurgy	порошкова металургія
24.	radio-electric devices	радіо електричні прилади
25.	relations	відносини
26.	research institution	дослідницький інститут
27.	scientific degree	науковий ступінь
28.	to sign	підписувати
29.	strength of materials	міцність матеріалів
30.	up to date trends	сучасні напрямки

UNIT 2

SCIENCE IN UKRAINE

Task 1.

List the famous Ukrainian scientists you know. Combine your list with the others in your group and discuss their role in the development of science in Ukraine?

Task 2.

What sciences do you prefer to study? Why? Present you opinion in a few words.

Task 3.

Before reading the text pay attention to the pronunciation of the letter ‘g’:

a) suggest, geological, emergence, mineralogist, geochemistry, geologist, large, bridge, engineering, technologies, metallurgy, energy, digital, engine;

b) slag, gradual, group, organization, significant, gas, recognize, grow, great, big, global, begin, integral, goods, manganese, grain, agriculture;

c) design, sign, foreign, highly, light, tight, night.

Task 4.

You are going to read about science in Ukraine. Seven sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from the sentences (A-H) the one which fits each gap (1-7). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (1).

A. The most prominent philosopher in Ukraine in the 18-th century was H.Skovoroda.

B. British science has a lot of innovations, too.

C. Numerous important researches have been conducted in Ukraine.

D. Together with Oleksander Fersman he was the first to suggest the use of radioactivity in studying geological processes.

E. A fundamentally new and highly efficient method of raising the quality of special steels and alloys, the electro-slag re-melting method has been devised in Ukraine under the direction of B. Paton.

F. The first electronic computing machine in Europe was designed by our countryman S. Lebedev in 1951.

G. Scientific achievements not only crystallise productive experience, but are also precursors of natural production.

H. He is also considered to be the father of electronic welding.

The emergence of science as a system of knowledge of the laws of development of nature and society was preceded by a long period of gradual accumulation of the practical experience of men and the development of their thinking. 1. G.

The Academy of Sciences of Ukraine which up to 1956 was called the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, is the highest scientific institution of Ukraine. In the autumn of 1918 group of well-known scientists, headed by V.Vernadsky, elaborated a project for the organization of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, which was realised in 1919. Its first president was Academician Vernadsky. He was a prominent naturalist, mineralogist, the founder of geochemistry and biochemistry, the creator of the biosphere theory. 2. _______. He was also the first to estimate the age of the most ancient elements of the Earth surface as being 4.5 billion years old.

A significant event in the cultural life of Ukraine was the institution of the Kiev-Mohila College in 1652, which was converted into an academy in 1701. In the 18th century the Kyivo-Mohyla Academy was the main scientific centre of Ukraine whose most famous representatives of that time were N. Maksymovich and O. Shumlyansky. 3. _______. He dreamed of a society based on principles of social equality and democracy.

Ukraine has contributed many outstanding scientists to the world. The 19th and 20th centuries produced such outstanding scientists as the mathematicians M.Ostrogradsky and A. Pohorelov, the linguists O. Bodynsky, A. Potebnya, the historians V. Antonovich, M. Hrushevsky and D. Bahaliy, the orientalist A.Krumsky, the geologist P. Tutkovsky, the physicians V. Obraztsov, M. Strazhesko, V. Filatov, the lawyer M. Vasylenko and many others.

Ukrainians are also proud of the fact that only several months after the nucleus of the atom was split by the English physicists G. Cockroft and E. Walton in 1932, the same result was achieved in one of the laboratories of Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology headed by I. Kurchatov and A. Ioffe. Nobel Prize laureate Academician Lev Landau worked in Kharkiv for many years, heading the Institute of Physics and Technology. Another Nobel Prize laureate Ilya Mechnikov was born in Kharkiv region, studied in Kharkiv National University and worked there for a long time. 4. _______. The famous astronomer Academician Mykola Barabashov made significant discoveries concerning Mars, Moon and Venus. Ukrainian scientists made their contribution into the development of space explorations. The Southern Machine Building plant and Kharkiv “Khartron” designed and launched hundreds of artificial Earth satellites including the famous “Zenith”.

The large body of scientists of Ukraine has contributed greatly to the development of world science. 5. _______. Among the results of such researches are: the development of the first computers in the former USSR, important advances in the field of electric welding, cybernetics, the technology and organisations of industrial production of artificial diamonds. Achievements in geological science and the application of new techniques in geological prospecting in Ukraine have led to the discovery of payable oil and gas deposits that has made it possible to supply gas to most of the large cities and many populated areas of the Republic and to increase its power resources. Ukrainian science develops through mutual enrichment with the experience of the scientific centres of different countries.

Ukrainian scientists have made significant contribution to the development of aerodynamics, the theory of mechanisms and machines, automatic control, filtration theory. Large scale research in mechanics was and is being carried on at university departments in Kiev and Lviv and at polytechnic institutes in Kiev and Odessa.

The world famous Ukrainian scientists are Volodymir Vernadsky and Yevhen and Boris Patons. Yevhen Paton was an outstanding Ukrainian constructor, famous for his contribution in bridge-building and welding. He studied Engineering in Dresden (Germany) and St. Petersburg, and in 1904 became a professor of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute where he headed the bridge-testing laboratory. Evhen Paton designed over 35 bridges, including the famous bridge across the Dnipro River that was named after him. 6. _______. Systematic and fundamental work in the field of electric welding in the Ukraine was started by this eminent scientist on whose initiative the Institute of electric welding was organized in 1954. The institute was universally recognized as one of the centres of world welding science. Work on different problems of welding is carried out by B.Paton, V.Lebedev, B.Medovar, A. Makara and others.

The Institute of Electric Welding the director of which Evhen Paton had been till his very death, developed his theory and mastered the highly productive hidden welding technique which is used world-wide. His son Boris succeeded him and became an outstanding scientist, too. For many years he headed the institute founded by his father and was the President of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. 7. _______. The Ukrainian Institute of Electronic Welding and the American aviation and space firm “Pratt and Wiltny” established a joint research centre and an enterprise to develop the technologies of new materials, using the technique of speed electronic beam evaporation and vacuum condensation. They also founded a joint venture “Paton-Weld” to develop the Ukrainian metal-non-metal, ceramic, and to market them in the USA and other countries.

Research in special alloy and powder metallurgy was started in Ukraine in the mid 19-th century at the Kharkiv and later at the Kiev Polytechnic Institutes.

Great achievements of the Ukrainian school of science are highly appreciated and recognized all the world over.

Task 5.

Find in the text English equivalents to the following Ukrainian words and word combinations:

система знань, поступове накопичення, наукові досягнення, передвісник, біохімія, значна подія культурного життя, земна поверхня, головний науковий центр, видатні представники, пишатися, співвітчизник, штучний супутник, зварювання, автоматичне управління, спільне підприємство, порошкова металургія.

Task 6.

Translate the following English words and word combinations into Ukrainian:

emergence of science, the laws of development of nature and society, to crystallise productive experience, to elaborate a project, the creator of the biosphere theory, the Earth surface, significant event, society based on principles of social equality and democracy, to design and launch satellites, large body of scientists, the field of electric welding, cybernetics, industrial production of artificial diamonds, the father of electronic welding, hidden welding technique, to head, speed electronic beam evaporation, joint venture.

Task 7.

Find in the text antonyms to the following words:

the last, condensation, to decrease, natural, small

Task 8.

Read and translate the following groups of words:

to create – creator, creation, creature, creative, creativity;

to weld – a weld, welder, welding, weldability;

to build – bulder, building, rebuild.

Task 9.	Match the following English words with their Ukrainian equivalents:
	1. alloy	a) представник
	2. knowledge	b) зварювання
	3. powder	c) сплав
	4. representative	d) внесок
	5. exploration	e) порошок
	6. satellite	f) дослідження
	7. contribution	g) знання
	8. welding	h) супутник

Task 10.

Form the nouns (doer of action) to the following words according to the model and translate them into Ukrainian:

Model: to listen – listener - слухач

to develop	-
science	-
to found	-
to research	-
geology	-
to produce	-
mathematics	-
physics	-
to design	-
to conduct	-

Task 11.

Translate the following sentences into English:

1. Поступове накопичення практичного досвіду це основа людського розвитку.

2. В усьому світі використовують наші досягнення в сфері електрозварювання.

3. Науковці проводять масштабні дослідження в таких галузях, як кібернетика, фізика, порошкова металургія та інші.

4. Києво-Могилянська Академія стала серцем української науки.

5. Євген Патон очолював лабораторію тестування мостів.

6. Науковці детально розробляють все нові і нові проекти.

Task 12.

Put the verbs into correct tense form:

1. Scientist ______ (to work) at the laboratory every day.

2. At present more and more forests _____ (to disappear) because of fires.

3. Many people _____ (to recycle) rubbish nowadays.

4. Water ___ (to boil) at 100°C and _____ (to freeze) when the temperature ____ (to drop) below 0°C.

Task 13.

Fill in the table with the names of the Ukrainian scientists and spheres of their research:

Name	Field of research
1. Yevhen Paton	bridge building, welding
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