Answer the following questions: 1. What engineer officer assist the chief engineer in operating the Engine Department? 2. Can you name by their profession all ratings possibly forming part of the engine department staff? 3. Which of the ratings work a day shift? 4. Name three or four essential types of daily activities performed by the engine department personnel. 5. What may the emergency duties of the engine department personnel be when damage control activities are carried out? 6. What must the chief engineer ensure first of all? 7. What else is he responsible for? 8. What are the chief engineer`s functions as regards engine department documentation? 9. Whom is the chief engineer accountable to aboard and ashore? 10. What engineer officer supervises engine department repair and maintenance work?
11. What machinery, systems and equipment are normally placed in the second engineer`s charge? 12. What are his watchkeeping hours? 13. What are the additional duties of the third engineer officer besides keeping engineering watches? 14. What items is the engineer officer responsible for? 15. For what purpose and in what equipment is electric power used on board ship? 16. What tools does electrical staff use for maintaining and repairing electrical machines and equipment? 17. What is the electrical engineer responsible for when the ship is maneuvering? 18. Whose immediate subordinate is the electrical engineer and what personnel is subordinate to him? 19. Is there an electronics engineer on the staff of each ship? If there is one, what are his duties? 20. What do we call men assigned to watches?
2. calm
3. do you spend (действие происходит регулярно, past simple)
4. are you going (речь идёт о планах, present continuous)
5. leaves (действие происходит регулярно, present simple)
6. more (при сравнении двух предметов к прилагательным добавляют er - small - smaller, есть исключения - good - better, если прилагательное длинное, то перед ним ставится more - beautiful - more beautiful)
7. doesn’t look
8. buzzing
9. didn’t use (структура used to используется, когда речь идёт о какой-либо привычки из прошлого, но отсутствующей на данный момент, didn’t use - отрицательная форма)
10. in
11. were you having (речь идёт о действии продолжавшемся некоторое время, past continuous)
12. curtain
13.called
14. historical
15. had seen
16. up (give up-бросать, прекращать что-либо)
17. makes
18. login
19. thick
20. freezing
21. leaves (расписание)
22. harmless
23. were
24. rise
25. drought
26. false
27. true
28. false
29. false
30. false
31. false
32. true
33. young people don’t take a year off after school.
34. pauline isn’t living in belize.
35. i’m not helping to do research on the fish around the reefs.
36. i don’t want to travel around belize.
37. she doesn’t want to go to university to study spanish.
dear dave,
thank you for your letter. sorry, i haven’t written for so long. i was really busy with my exams.
yes, i have been on package tours many times. package tours are very common in russia. russian tourists usually go to turkey, egypt and spain. as for my plans for holidays, my family are going to italy for two weeks. we are going to have a rest and do some shopping. my dream holiday is to travel to india. i think that there are a lot of places of interest and this country is very beautiful.
i have to finish my letter because i have promised my mum to wash up.
write back soon.
lots of love,
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