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Учебное пособие. А. Н. Туполева (каи) кафедра восточных и европейских языков (вея) engineering английский язык для студентов технических специальностей учебное пособие
18. NUMBERS
(the material of the module is taken from: “Engineering” Workshop by Lindsey White, OUP;
Unit 25, pg.28; Unit 26; pg.29)
1. Match the Arabic and Roman numbers.
40 500 1000 10 100 50 1 5 800 60
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2. Which numbers are used in mathematics? Why?
3. Match the numbers below with the words (1-9) in the table.
Note: In English, you write a point (.) not a comma (,) in decimal numbers. You say the numbers after the point separately, for example “23.34” is pronounced as “twenty-three point three four”.
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½ 1,000,000 (1m) 2.5 327 2,580 0 ¼ 2/3 3.6 %
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1
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two thirds
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2
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three point six per cent
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3
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a quarter
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4
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zero/nought
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5
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two point five
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6
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one million
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7
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two thousand, five hundred and eighty
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8
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three hundred and twenty-seven
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9
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a half
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4. Read the following text. Complete the text by putting a word or number from the box below in each space (1-10).
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half -5° -40° 88% Hundreds 200 14,000 1989 4000 5000m²
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THE JUKKASJARVI ICEHOTEL
The Jukkasjarvi Icehotel in Sweden is an interesting and cold place for a holiday. It started life as an igloo (a small house made of snow) at an art exhibition in (1) __________ .
(2) __________ of people visited the exhibition and some even slept there, so the builders decided to make it a hotel.
The Icehotel is open for less than (3) __________ of the year. Every May it melts and every November it is rebuilt. It now measures (4)__________ and it needs (5) __________ tons of ice and 30,000 tons of snow to build it. This actually means that it is more than (6) __________ snow.
The temperature inside the hotel is usually about (7) __________ .
Outside in Jukkasjarviitself the temperature can be much lower even as low as (8) __________ !
Last year more than (9) __________ visitors travelled (10)__________ km north of the Arctic Circle to sleep in thermal sleeping bags. They got a cool reception!
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5. Write the following numbers correctly.
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thirty-four point five percent
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2
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six point nine seven
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3
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one third
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4
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four thousand, five hundred and sixty-seven
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5
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three thousand, nine hundred and fifty-eight
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6
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fifty-five percent
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7
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a half
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8
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seven point six five
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6. Search the Internet and find the answers to the following questions.
a) Who introduced Arabic numbers to European maths?
b) Who developed the idea of ‘zero’?
7. Read the following text.
POPULATION IN THE UK
There were (1) twelve point one million children aged under (2) sixteen in (3) two thousand: (4) six point two million boys and (5) five point nine million girls. This is fewer than in (6) nineteen seventy-one, when there were (7) fourteen point three million children.
In (8) two thousand, (9) thirty per cent of children in the UK were under five, (10) thirty-two per cent were aged five to nine years and (11) thirty-eight per cent were aged ten to fifteen. These proportions were similar in the (12) nineteen seventies.
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Now choose the correct answers to the questions (1-3) below.
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1.
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Where is the text from?
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a) A government information leaflet.
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b) A teenage magazine.
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2.
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What is the text about?
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a) how many children watch TV in Britain.
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b) how many children there are in Britain.
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3.
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Who is this information useful for?
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a) people planning educational resources
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b) teachers and parents
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8. Read the text above again and write the numbers in italics (1-12) from the text in figures.
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1
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12.1m (12,100,000)
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7
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2
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8
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3
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9
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4
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10
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5
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11
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6
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12
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9. Read the text again and decide if the sentences (1-3) below are true (T) or false (F).
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There are more boys than girls in Britain.
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T
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F
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2
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The total number of children has increased since a census in 1971.
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T
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F
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3
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In 1971 the same percentage of children were under five.
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T
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F
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Check the knowledge of active vocabulary from this module with the help of
“ACTIVE VOCABULARY” section.
19. SIGNS, SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS
(the material of the module is taken from: “Engineering” Workshop by Lindsey White, OUP;
Unit 23, pg.26; Unit 24; pg.27)
SECTION A
1. What do these abbreviations stand for? Match the abbreviations below with their full forms (1-9) below.
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cm kg l ml g (x)² (x)³ km m
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centimetre
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6
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metre
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2
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gram
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7
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millilitre
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3
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kilogram
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8
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cubic
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4
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kilometre
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9
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square
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5
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litre
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2. Do we have the same words in the Russian language? Why is it useful to have standard international systems?
3. Complete the sentences (1-8) below by putting one word from the box in each space.
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area capacity distance length liquid (quantity) speed weight height
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DID YOU KNOW ?
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The __________of the Eiffel Tower in Paris is about three hundred metres.
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2.
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The __________of the Charles Bridge in Prague is five hundred and sixteen metres.
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The surface __________ of Lake Balaton in Hungary is five hundred and ninety-three square kilometers.
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The maximum __________ limit on expressways in Poland is one hundred and ten kilometers per hour.
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The __________ of the bell in Dubrovnik’s city tower is two thousand kilograms.
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The __________ between Bratislava and Budapest is about two hundred kilometers.
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7.
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A magnum champagne bottle can hold one point five litres of __________.
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8.
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The engine __________of Formula One car is three thousand cubic centimeters.
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4. Match the numbers and abbreviations below with the words in italics from exercise 3 in the following table.
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516m 110kph 3000cc (or cm³) 200km 300m 1.5l 593km² 2000kg
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height
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5
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weight
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2
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length
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6
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distance
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3
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area
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7
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liquid
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4
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speed
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8
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capacity
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5. Rewrite the measurements (1-9) below as numbers and abbreviations.
Note: In English, we say 5m x 7m as ‘five metres by seven (metres)’ when we are talking about area. In mathematics, 5x7 is ‘five times seven’ or ‘ five multiplied by seven’.
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Twenty-two kilometers per hour
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2
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Two litres
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3
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One point five square metres
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4
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Six square kilometers
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5
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Fifty milliliters
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6
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Eighteen kilograms
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7
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One hundred and thirty grams
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8
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One point five metres by fifty centimeters
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9
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Nought point seven five cubic metres
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6. Write true answers to the following questions.
1. How large is your classroom?
2. How tall are you?
3. What is the speed limit on the roads in your country/city/town?
4. How fast can you run?
5. What is the area of your desk?
6. How much does your bag weight?
7. How much did you weight when you were born?
8. How far is it from Kazan to Moscow?
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