Exercise 1.Choose the correct word in the following sentences.
1. A flat roof is usually covered in roofing felt / skin for protection against the weather.
2. Rooms in a building are divided by interior supports / partitions.
3. To prevent water entering the cavity of the wall, moisture barriers are used on the external surface and vapour / insulating barriers are used on the internal face.
4. The assembly / structure of a building transfers all the loads acting on the building to the ground.
5. The ventilating / acoustical system provides fresh air.
6. Sound-deadening / -barrier material is used to reduce sound passing from one room to another.
7. The foundations for a skyscraper building must be deep / shallow.
8. A spread footing/ caisson piers is / are used when the soil is weak.
Exercise 2.Translate into Ukrainian. Make up questions to all parts of speech.
1. Polythene is a plastic made from ethane.
2. This tool is a metal plate containing a number of holes, successively less in diameter and known as wire dies.
3. Dies are tools used for shaping solid materials, especially those employed in the pressworking of cold metals.
4. Most machining operations generate large amounts of heat, and use cooling fluids for cooling and lubrication.
Exercise 3.Rearrange the following jumbled words and phrases to form sentences.
1. the International / next / to be held / Donetsk / conference / say / in / dedicated / to / construction.
2. deadline / abstracts / is / the / submission of / 15 April / for.
3. and / application / the papers / construction technologies / achievements / dealt with / presented at / their / the latest / the conference / in.
4. take the floor / opinion / participant / voice / may / his / every / and.
5. debate / wander / not / the subject / from / should / under / speakers.
6. leader / workshops / activity / a / are aimed at / the / guided by / participants’.
7. in a certain / provide / to share / scientific conferences / for experts / of knowledge / fresh ideas / field / and discuss / an opportunity.
Exercise 4.Fill in the gaps with the proper words. Translate the sentences.
Equip, equipment, apply, application, install, installation, skill, deal with, create, creative.
a) The ______ of harmful production technologies should be banned.
b) Here students learn how to ______ their theoretical knowledge to practice.
c) Graduates of the university are both competent and ______ experts in their field.
d) These lab exercises ________ measurement of different quantities.
e) All the laboratories of the Academy are provided with modern ___ .
f) You will have to _________ this program on your computer.
g) In this shop engineers can perfect their technological _________.
h) There are several _____for carrying out the experiments in this lab.
i) These new devices _______ for measurement kinetic energy.
Exercise 5.Describe the diagram given above.