УДК 42
ББК СГАУ:81.2
ISBN 978-5-7883-0811-1
2
© Самарский государственный
аэрокосмический университет, 2010
UNIT 1
FROM THE HISTORY OF FLYING
Pre-reading
1. a) Brainstorm the words which come to your mind when you think
of flight. <...> Flight
b) Choose those ones that may be related to the human flight and
explain why you have chosen them.
2. <...> Is there any difference between flight of birds
and airplanes?
2) What are the main forces acting on the aircraft in flight?
3) What types of the aircraft do you know?
3. <...> FROM THE HISTORY OF FLYING
A. The desire to fly was one of the oldest desires of man. <...> D. People who like to read books on aviation development may take
interest in the book "On the Flight of Birds" by Leonardo da Vinci. <...> He found that the faster the flow of the air the greater the
lift was. <...> In his device
the pilot had to operate movable wings with the help of his arms and feet. <...> There were the famous flights by the crews of V. Chkalov and M.
Gromov, who flew their planes from the Soviet Union to the United States
via the North Pole and will forever be considered models of courage and
skill. <...> New supersonic jet planes
have replaced the piston-engined aircraft. <...> The time is not far away when passengers aircraft
will be doing regular service on space lines.
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Comprehension Check
1. <...> Which of the following sentences summarize the main idea of the
paragraph D?
a) Human flight is possible due to moving wings.
b) Flight principle was known from the ancient Greeks.
c) Scientific principle of the human flight was recorded by Leonardo da
Vinci.
d) Leonardo da Vinci predicted conquest of outer space.
3. <...> When is the lift of the aircraft greater?
6. <...> Famous person, gas, lifting force, airplane, world record, range,
passenger, supersonic plane.
2. a) In the text find the antonyms for the words in the box.
danger
impossible
lose
irregular
slower
moveless
the newest
impractical
b) Make up sentences with the words from the box.
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3. <...> Leonardo da Vinci discovered that ….. the flow of the air <...>
Развитие_профессиональных_качеств_студентов_технических_вузов_(английский_язык).pdf
МИНИСТЕРСТВО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ И НАУКИ РФ
ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЕ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ
ВЫСШЕГО ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ
«САМАРСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ АЭРОКОСМИЧЕСКИЙ
УНИВЕРСИТЕТ имени академика С.П. КОРОЛЁВА
(НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ ИССЛЕДОВАТЕЛЬСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ)»
О.Б. Салманова
РАЗВИТИЕ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНЫХ КАЧЕСТВ
СТУДЕНТОВ ТЕХНИЧЕСКИХ ВУЗОВ
(АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК)
Утверждено Редакционно-издательским советом университета
в качестве учебного пособия
САМАРА
Издательство СГАУ
2010
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УДК 42
ББК СГАУ: 81.2
С164
Рецензенты: канд. филол. наук, проф. СГАКИ В. И. Т р о ш к и н а,
ст. препод. каф. СГАУ М. В. И в к и н а
Салманова О.Б.
С164
Развитие профессиональных качеств студентов технических
вузов: учеб. пособие по англ. языку / сост. О.Б. Салманова. –
Самара: Изд-во Самар. гос. аэрокосм. ун-та, 2010. – 88 с.: ил.
ISBN 978-5-7883-0811-1
Составлено в соответствии с требованиями программы по
английскому языку, а также в рамках программы «English for Specific
Purposes». Содержит тексты для чтения, пересказа, реферирования и
аннотирования, лексико-грамматические упражнения, тестовые
задания. Использована оригинальная литература по авиации и
космонавтике.
Учебное пособие разработано на кафедре иностранных языков и
предназначено для студентов 1 курса факультета самолетостроения.
УДК 42
ББК СГАУ:81.2
ISBN 978-5-7883-0811-1
2
© Самарский государственный
аэрокосмический университет, 2010
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UNIT 1
FROM THE HISTORY OF FLYING
Pre-reading
1. a) Brainstorm the words which come to your mind when you think
of flight.
Flight
b) Choose those ones that may be related to the human flight and
explain why you have chosen them.
2. Before you read the text try to answer the following questions.
Shear your answers.
1) Why can airplanes fly? Is there any difference between flight of birds
and airplanes?
2) What are the main forces acting on the aircraft in flight?
3) What types of the aircraft do you know?
3. Scan the text and try to guess the meaning of underlined words
from the content of the text.
Reading
1. Read the text and highlight the key ideas of each paragraph.
FROM THE HISTORY OF FLYING
A. The desire to fly was one of the oldest desires of man. But in old times
people knew little about air and its nature.
B. The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that air had weight and
pressed on bodies which were in the air. One of the most famous Greek
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