Contents

PART I

Unit1 Biology as the Science of Life Grammar: the Passive Voice

Unit2 The Natural World. Plants and Animals

Grammar: the Infinitive

Unit 3 The Classifications of Living Things

Grammar: the Gerund

Unit 4 The Cell

Grammar: the Participle

PART II Supplementary Reading

Unit 1.

Unit 2.

Unit 3.

Unit 4.

Vocabulary

Bibliography ………………………………………………………………

PART I

UNIT 1

Biology as the Science of Life

Reading and Speaking

1.1 You are going to read the text about biology, check the meaning and pronunciation of the words in the dictionary.

Science, scientific, biology, biological, construction, function, information, contribution, method, to control, cure, vaccine, penicillin, sulfa, solution, value, mankind, to increase, variety, disease, prevention, microscope, laboratory, accurate, observation, experiment, explanation, solution.

State the part of speech of the following words. Translate them.

To engage, engagement.

To discover, discoverer, discovery.

To value, value, valuable.

To construct, construction, constructive.

Importance, important.

To know, knowledge.

To develop, developer, development.

To vary, variety, variation, various, variable.

Mystery, mysterious.

Biology, biological, biologist.

Science, scientific, scientist.

сontribute, contribution, contributor, contributory.

Prevent, prevention, preventive.

To acquaint,acquaintance.

To observe, observer, observation.

To specialize, specialist, speciality, special.

Match the phrase from column A with its meaning from column B.

A 1. to be of great value 2. to keep healthy 3.to make a contribution

B a) иметь большую ценность b) сделать вклад c)быть здоровым