Exercise 5. More about word –building: Adjectives

1. Adjectives can be formed from nouns, using the suffixes: -ous, -al, -ic

danger - dangerous period - periodical economy - economic

2. Adjectives can be formed from verbs using the suffix - ing

exite - exiting

3. Form adjectives from the following verbs and nouns:

poison, interest, trade, finance, educate, courage, geography, glory, partonize

4. Define the meaning of the following words:

metal, metallurgy, metallist, metalize, metallic, metallography, metallurgy.

Exercise 6. Translate at sight

1. When James Watt invented the steam engine in the latter part of the eighteenth century, the whole industrial scene changed.. Steam power made possible the ‘Industrial Revolution’ in Britain. Vast quantities of metal were needed for the railways pioneered by the Stevensons, and the huge iron ships and bridges of Brunel. In Sheffield, the centre of the iron and steel industry, the output of metals multiplied fifty times in thirty-five years.

During this expansion, improved tools were invented for use in the factories and many steam-powered tools were invented and developed.

2. In 1886, H.C.Sorby brought to perfection his long and painstaking work with the microscope and finally launched the new science of metallography. Many metallurgists have since worked in Sheffield and passed on ideas and experiments which have played an important part in the stirring record of the production of steels.