English for Master’s students in Innovation

Министерство науки и высшего образования Российской Федерации   

Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное  

учреждение высшего образования  

«Томский государственный университет систем управления  

и радиоэлектроники» 

 

 

E.N. Shilina, Y.G. Yechina 

 

ENGLISH FOR MASTER’S STUDENTS  

IN INNOVATION 

 

Учебное пособие 

 

 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 

Tomsk 
TUSUR 

2019 

УДК 811.111(075.8) 
ББК 81.432.1-923 
 
Ш55 

Рецензенты: 

О.А. Обдалова, д-р пед. наук, проф.; 
А.В. Соболева, канд. пед. наук, доцент 

 
 
  

Шилина, Елена Николаевна 

 
 
English for Master’s students in Innovation : учеб. посо
бие / Е.Н. Шилина, Е.Г. Ечина. – Томск : Томск. гос. ун-т 
систем упр. и радиоэлектроники, 2019. – 98 с. 

 
 
ISBN 
Предназначено для общеобразовательной и профессионально
ориентированной подготовки по английскому языку студентов магистрантов, обучающихся по специальности 27.04.02 «Управление качеством», 27.04.05 «Инноватика», 15.04.06 «Мехатроника и робототехника», 
38.04.01 «Экономика»,38.04.02 «Менеджмент». Тесная взаимосвязь между английским языком и профильными дисциплинами обеспечивает 
успешность освоения иноязычной терминологии, выработку навыков 
чтения, реферирования, формирование умений иноязычной речи по темам данных специальностей, а также позволяет  использовать иностранный язык в производственной и научной деятельности.  

Структура пособия предусматривает поэтапное освоение учебного 

материала, углубляя знания магистрантов по специальности и нацеливая 
их на повышение индивидуальной активности в процессе обучения. 
Сквозной принцип изучения профессионально-ориентированной лексики  
и представление ее в едином глоссарии повышает эффективность освоения материала в рамках данного блока. Пособие поможет расширить 
кругозор студентов, повысить уровень их культуры и владения английским  языком.  

 
УДК 811.111(075.8) 

 
ББК 81.432.1-923 

 
 

ISBN  
 Шилина Е.Н, Ечина Е.Г., 2019 

                                                       Томск. гос. ун-т систем упр. 
 
   и радиоэлектроники, 2019

Ш55

Contents 

 
Part 1 

Unit 1. Scientific and technical progress ................................4 

Unit 2. Networking overview............................................... 11 

Unit 3. Engineering as a profession ...................................... 20 

Unit 4. Automation and robotics .......................................... 32 

Unit 5. Future trends ............................................................ 44 

Part 2 

Unit 6. The organization for economic  co-operation and 
development ........................................................................ 51 

Unit 7. Management in Europe ............................................ 60 

Unit 8. Marketing ................................................................ 69 

Unit 9. Investment ............................................................... 78 

Glossary of terms................................................................. 87 

References .............................................................................. 97 

 
 
 

Part 1 

 

Unit 1. Scientific and technical progress 

 

Task 1. Match the following keywords and definitions: 

1 
up-to-date 
to keep the data 

2 
to grow rapidly 
the authorities are responsible  
for doing smth 

3 
peculiarities 
to make an impact on 

4 
to store the  
information 

to increase quickly 

5 
IT 
breakout 

6 
social values 
to provide jobs for the people 

7 
unemployment 
characteristic features 

8 
to create workplaces
basic arithmetic, such as adding 
numbers 

9 
routine calculations 
important aspects of social system 
playing the main role  
in maintaining the social order 

10 
to give access to 
smth 

modern 
 

11 
to be enforced by 
the government 

to destroy environment 
 

12 
individual enterprises 

computer viruses block important 
programs 

13 
intellectual 
terrorism 

joblessness 

14 
to harm nature 
to create the opportunity for smth 

15 
breakthrough 
private companies 

16 
to have influence on Information Technology 

 
 

 

Task 2. Read the text: 

Scientific and technical progress 

The basis of scientific and technical progress of today is a 

new informational technology which is very different from all 
the previous technologies. Thanks to up-to-date software and 
robots new informational technologies can make many processes much faster and transmit information more quickly. It is important today because the quantity of information grows rapidly. 

New informational society has its peculiarities. Firstly, 

more and more employees work in the sphere of service and information. Secondly, more and more huge databases appear to 
collect and store the information. And finally, information and 
IT become goods and start playing important part in the country’s economy. 

These processes affect social structures and values. 
It becomes important to learn to get new knowledge 

quickly and sometimes to change your qualification. IT can first 
lead to unemployment, but later create even more workplaces 
especially for highly qualified professionals. While the hardest 
work can be performed by robots and routine calculations by 
computers, in the future people with the most creative mind and 
numerous fresh ideas will get better career chances. 

On one hand technology development gives more access 

to professional and cultural information and leads to new forms 
of individual enterprises, but on the other hand there is a danger 
of total control of private life unless special laws are enforced by 
the government. 

Another danger is «intellectual terrorism» when computer 

viruses block important programs. 

There are other directions of technical and scientific pro
gress of today. 

One of them is the development of new ecologically clean 

sources of energy using sun, gravitation, winds or rain. New 
kind of transports and new agricultural methods that do not 
harm our nature are being developed today. 

Breakthroughs in science have led to creation of artificial 

viruses for new medicines and products, body organs for transplantation and productive soils for growing vegetables and 
crops. Many new materials and technologies are being used in 
our everyday life. 

All these innovations may have influence on our life, so
cial relations and globally on our Earth. 

The influence can be very different: from psychological 

and health problems of children who spend too much time 
online to an opportunity to prevent genetic diseases for future 
generations. 

 
Task 3. Answer the questions: 

1. Why is it important today to transmit information  

quickly? 

2. What are the peculiarities of the new informational  

society? 

3. What is IT’s influence on your future career?  
4. What does technology development give us? Name its 

progressive features and dangers. 

5. What have breakthroughs in science led to? 
6. Think about advantages and disadvantages of the  

scientific and technical progress. What are the perspectives of its 
future development? 

Task 4. Give the Russian equivalents to the follow
ing phrases: 

– informational technology;  
– thanks to up-to-date software and robots; 
– to transmit information; 
– the quantity of information; 
– huge databases; 
– to start playing important part in the country’s economy; 
– to affect social structures and values;  
– highly qualified professionals; 
– to get better career chances; 
– new forms of individual enterprises; 
– a danger of total control of private life; 
– intellectual terrorism; 
– new ecologically clean sources of energy; 
– creation of artificial viruses for new medicines and 

products;  

– an opportunity to prevent genetic diseases for future 

generations. 

 
Task 5. Find in the text the English equivalents for 

the following expressions: 

– в основе современного научно-технического про
гресса…; 

– сильно отличаться от предшествующих технологий; 
– работать в сфере информационных услуг; 
– выполнить самую сложную работу; 
– творческие люди со множеством новых идей; 
– с одной стороны…, с другой стороны; 
– направления развития научно-технического прогресса; 

– развитие новых методов ведения сельского хозяйства; 
– плодородные почвы для выращивания овощных и 

зерновых культур; 

– проблемы со здоровьем / психологического харак- 

тера; 

– в повседневной жизни; 
– для будущих поколений. 
 
Task 6. Use the phrases given in Tasks 4 and 5 to 

make up your own sentences. 

 
Task 7. Complete the sentences with the words and 

expressions from the box: 

information and IT’s 
ecologically clean sources of energy 
service and information 
to change your qualification 
genetic diseases for future generations 

up-to-date software 
“intellectual terrorism”
importance      
to collect and store 
robots             

 
1. Sun, gravitation, winds and rain are used to develop 

new …. … … …. 

2. Opportunity to prevent … … … … is one of the posi
tive examples of influence innovations may have on our life. 

3. The danger of blocking important programs by comput
er viruses is called … …. 

4. Many processes are becoming much faster and infor
mation is transmitted more quickly due to … … and … . 

5. The peculiarities of the new informational society are 

the following: employees’ work in the sphere of … …, databases’ ability … … … the information and  … … … becoming 
goods, the increase of their … in the country’s economy. 

6. Nowadays it is very important to learn to get new 

knowledge quickly and even … … … 

 
Task 8. Translate the sentences from Russian into  

English. 

1. Современный  научно-технический прогресс спосо
бен обеспечить прорыв в науке, способствующий развитию 
всего общества. 

2. Обеспечивая доступ к профессиональной и куль
турной информации с одной стороны, развитие технологий, 
с другой стороны, таит опасность появления всеобщего 
контроля над жизнью каждого и «интеллектуального терроризма» – блокировки программ компьютерными вирусами. 

3. Сегодня важным является ускорение технологиче
ских процессов и быстрая передача информации, т.к. объем 
информации постоянно растет. 

4. Развитие информационных технологий может сна
чала привести к безработице, но в дальнейшем будет способствовать созданию новых рабочих мест для высококвалифицированных специалистов. 

5. Шансы получить хорошую работу будут у творче
ских людей со множеством новых идей. 

 
Task 9. Summarize the text in 5-6 sentences. 

Task 10. Give synonyms from the text: 

1. to influence 
6. personal company 

2. quickly, speedily 
7. complete dominance 

3. discovery, advancement 
8. at last, eventually 

4. fertile soil 
9. modern, contemporary 

5. the most difficult work 
10. experts in smth 

Task 11. Give antonyms from the text: 

1. outdated 
6. to have no impact on 

2. in the beginning 
7. unfruitful 

3. the easiest work 
8. absence of absolute power 

4. regress 
9. joint ventures 

5. unskilled specialists 
10. slowly 

 
Task 12. Speaking 

Discuss the latest trends in scientific and technical pro
gress. What are the reasons for their importance? 

 
Task 13. Writing 

Write a short essay (8–10 sentences) on the topic “The 

contribution to scientific and technical progress that I admire”. 
Mind the essay structure: introductory paragraph (1–2 sentences), main paragraph (5–8 sentences), and concluding paragraph 
(1–2 sentences).