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Exercises

1. Give Russian equivalents for:

A PROBLEM maу be basic, chief, main, major, fundamental, essential, important, broad, vast, minor, specific, highly-specific, peculiar, difficult, challenging, complex, complicated, involved, intricate, confusing, puzzling, obscure, vague, attractive, fascinating, interesting, intriguing.

A METHOD (technique, procedure) of the investigation may be: current, modern, up-to-date, modified, new, old, out-of-date, conventional, accurate, adequate, suitable, precise, sensitive, effective, satisfactory, good, useful, valuable, reliable, valid, promising, inaccurate, inadequate, unsuitable, insensitive, ineffective, poor, useless, laborious, time-consuming.

A STUDY (investigation, research) may be initial, pioneer, previous, recent, current, present, further, experimental, theoretical, field, laboratory, full-scale, extensive, careful, detailed, thorough, profound, complete, comprehensive, fundamental, intensive, stimulating, promising, useful, fruitful, successful, interesting, elegant, fascinating.

RESULTS (data, findings) maу be preliminary, previous, recent, new, further, old, out-of-date, basic, chief, main, essential, important, precise, sufficient, explicit, (un)equivocal, conclusive,consistent, valid, confusing, incompatible, fragmentary, (un)reliable, amazing, striking, dramatic, remarkable.

1. Make up sentences, using A-patterns in combination with B-phrases:

A

1. This detailed study is
2. Thatfundamental research was
3. These highly technical studies have been
4. Those preliminary investigations had
5. Multidisciplinary studies of the

biological structure of the oceans are

1. Full-scale studies of the distribution

of zooplankton in the ocean surface layer were

7. The studies we have performed has been

8. This fundamental research that the

authors undertook had

9. That research of many years proved to be

10. Previous studies in this area

В

1) extremely promising end stimulating;

2) highly technical and very thorough;

3) very fruitful end very encouraging;

4) extremely important and highly successful;

5) very detailed and profound;

6) far-reaching implications and brought about further intensive research in the area;

7) only a tentative one and therefore insufficient;

8) only tentative ones and therefore should be further extended;

9) ratherinadequate and therefore inconclusive;

10) rather incomplete and confined to only one aspect of the problem.

3. Name some studies (researches, investigations) or a particular study (research) of which you would say:

MODEL: Precise physico-chemical methods resulted in further protein study.

1)… led to the elucidation of...

2)... helped to clear up...

3)… resulted in...

4)… brought about...

5)… provided invaluable insight into...

6)... provided valuable information about...

7)… provided conclusive evidence for...

8)... provided a clue to...

9)… contributed to a better understanding...

10)… shed much light on...

1l)... led the author to conclude that...

12)... adds to our knowledge of...

1. Complete the following statements:

1. Our chair is mainly concerned with the problem(s) of...

2. I work under the guidance of...

3. The problem I am studying now is related chiefly to (nature, influence, role, effect, measurement...)

4. The main aspect of the problem is (interaction, origin, movement, connection between...)

5. An attempt is made to...

6. The problem involves certain difficulties as to...

7. The problem was first advanced (formulated, raised, posed),

by N (at the beginning of the 20^th century, in 1925, as early as 1960...).

8. Several scientists studied the problem of...

9. At present we have (some, enough, sufficient, little, lack of)…

10.The method used (technique applied, procedure we followed) is known (generally referred to as)...

10. This method allows us to demonstrate (to observe, to detect) …

11. We made some experiments in order to show (elucidate, test) certain phenomena (the mechanisms of, the hypothesis of, the structure of) …

12. Carrying out this research we hoped to find out (discover, revea1, obtain)…

13. Data obtained (do not) show (suggest, indicate, point to the fact) that...

1. Answer the following questions

1. How many chairs are there at your department?

2. Are there any research societies at your department?

3. Do you take part in their work?

4. Are there anу problem laboratories at your chair?

5. What problems does your chair (laboratory ) investigate?

6. Who is your scientific supervisor?

7. What problem interests you most?

8. When was the problem first advanced?

9. Who investigated the problem in our country(abroad)?

10. Is there any information in literature concerning the research?

11. What information sources do you use?

12. What method (technique, procedure) do you use?

13. Is your research connected with any experimental work?

14. What is the aim of your work?

15. What results have you got?

16. Does your work have any practical application?

1. Make a detailed account of your research work according to the plan.

1) General information.

a) Your department,

b) Your chair (laboratory).

c) The problem your chair investigates.

d) Your scientific supervisor.

2) Your research work.

a) The subject of your research.

b) The nature of your research.

c) The aim of your research.

d) The method (technique, procedure) you use.

e) Your accomplishments, results.

f) The advantages and disadvantages of your research work.

1. Try to give an account of the study you have performed mentioning among other things the nature of the problem, the purpose of the research (Table 1), overall results and conclusions (Table 2).