English for Specific Purposes

Electronic Engineering 53

 

 

GRAMMAR FOCUS: -ing-forms

 

8. Define the part of speech of the -ing forms as well as their functions. Translate the sentences into Russian. If you need help, use GRAMMAR FILES 5 (p. 113).

 

1. Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific,mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of people.

 

2. A new way of delivering drugs to the brain has been developed by scientists at the University of Oxford.

 

3. Conducting research for assignments and essays can be very time consuming and frustrating.

 

4. The aim of this researching skills tutorial is to give you skills to find materials (books, journal articles, websites, etc) effectively and efficiently using the Library’s resources and the Internet.

 

5. It eliminates the need for messy plaster casting and the waiting time for casts to dry.

 

6. All data is transmitted and stored digitally allowing us to easily reproduce exact replicas of orthotics or prosthetics.

 

7. We offer a complete range of upper and lower limb prosthetic devices including the latest in high-tech energy storing feet.

 

8. Another method of improving the engine performance by increasing the mean effective pressure consists in improving the so-called volumetric efficiency.

 

9. Browse our extensive stock of medical laboratory equipment ranging from autoclaves, centrifuges to hematology analyzers, and water baths.

 

10.Whether you need chemistry lab equipment, research or educational laboratory equipment, we have the right products you are looking for.

 

11. The clinic demonstrates the improved quality of care resulting in cost savings for Medicare.

 

12.A bright flash of gamma rays observed March 28 by the Swift satellite may have been the death rattle of a star falling into a massive black hole and being ripped apart.

 

13. Looking back at previous observations of this region of the cosmos, Bloom and his team couldfind no evidence of X-ray or gamma-ray emissions, leading them to conclude that this is a “one-off event.

 

14. Clinical engineering is responsible primarily for applying and implementing medical technology to optimize healthcare delivery.