Задание

Questions:

1. What is the difference between faculties and departments of a university?

2. Who is at the head of each faculty?

3. Who gives lrctures to students?

4. Do all universities admit both men and women?

5. What are the types of colleges in England?

6. What are the oldest universities in England?

7. What are the oldest universities in Scotland?

8. What is the oldest universities in Wales?

9. What is the oldest iniversity in Northern Ireland?

Задание 8.7. Раскройте скобки, поставьте глагол в Past Continuous.

1. I (study) when the called.
2. While I (study), she called.
3. I (watch) TV when she called.
4. When the phone rang, she (write) a letter.
5. While we (have) a picnic, it started to rain.
6. Sally (work) when Joe had the car accident.
7. While John (sleep) last night, someone stole his car.
8. Last night at 6 p.m., I (eat) dinner.
9. I (study) while he (make) dinner.
10. While Ellen (read), Tim (watch) television.
11. They (eat) dinner, (discuss) their plans and (have) a good time.

Задание 8.8. Расройте скобки, выбрав Past Simple или Past Continuous.

12. When her husband (come) home, Anne (watch) television.
13. I (prepare) dinner when the telephone (ring).
14. What (you do) yesterday at 10 p.m.?
15. Julie (learn) to drive when she (work) in London.
16. Where (you sit) when the show (begin)?
17. I (visit) Athens while I (tour) Greece.
18. John (fall) down when he (cross) the street.
19. What (you see) while you (wait) for the bus?
20. Where (you go) when your car (break) down?
21. Julie (meet) Peter when she (walk) in the park.

EXERCISES

1. Answer the following questions to the text.

1. For what purpose are electronic devices used now? What do they help us to do?
2. Industrial electronics plays an important role today, doesn't it?
3. What electronic devices are usually found at home? What can you find at home?
4. What is the difference between electric and electronic devices?
5. Where do you actually see how electricity jumps through space?
6. What were the first electronic devices based on?
7. Did the first computers look like modern ones?
8. Did the next stage come when transistors or cassettes were invented?
9. Why did computers become smaller when microchips were introduced?
10. What is the latest period of the industrial electronics development called?
11. What devices became compatible with the computer?
12. What does electronics mean in our life?
13. Do you think that electronics does only good to people?
14. What will be the next period of the industrial electronics development, in your opinion?

2. Study the Active Vocabulary. Insert the missing words.

1. In lightning, electricity _____ through _____ .
2. What do you like more: watching ____ or listening to the _____?
3. I can't ____ how people lived without ____ devices.
4. Do you have any ____ at home? - No, I have only discs. I'm for ______.
5. Does this camera have much _____? - No, this camera is not digital. It has a 5-millimetre ___.
6. Devices which have _____, and not tubes are much smaller and much more powerful.
7. The number of digital devices ____ every year. We depend on _____ more and more.
8. Many electronic devices are used for _____, not for work.
9. Computers and digital cameras are ____ devices. It means that they can exchange information.