B) Transcribe the geographical names used in Text A,

EXERCISES

Proper Names

Word Combinations

Words

ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY (П)

Memory Work

England! with all thy faults, I love thee still,

I said at Calais, and have not forgot it

I like the taxes when they're not too many;

I like a sea-coal fire, when not too dear;

I like a beef-steak, too, as well as any;

Have no objection to a pot of beer;

I like the weather when it is not rainy,

That is, I like two months of every year. George Byron

border n hedge n, υ resort n cattle n

level n rural adj chemicals n machinery n

steppe n cotton n moderate adj stretch υ, n

desert n pasture n taiga n dock n

peak n tool n fence n picturesque adj

tundra n fertile adj range n vast adj

financial adj raw adj

information technology densely (thinly) populated consumer electronics

shipbuilding yards highly developed trading centre

coal (iron) fields rural district offshore oil industry

rich in (smth.) heavy (light) engineering moderate (mild) climate

the Avon Dublin the North Sea

Belfast Eire the Pennines

Birmingham Glasgow Portsmouth

the Bristol Channel the Grampians the Severn

the Cambrians the Hebrides Sheffield

the Cheviot Hills the Orkney Islands Southampton

the Clyde the Shetland Islands the Strait of Dover

the Cumbrians Ireland the Tyne

Leeds the Thames

Manchester

the Mersey

Newcastle

I. Study Texts A and В and a) transcribe the words below:

petrochemicals, commerce, fertile, engineering, iron, in­dustry, equipment, moderate, resort, pharmaceuticals, dairy­ing, rear, rural, picturesque, meadow, ploughing, acre.

II, Pick out front Text A English equivalents of the following:

высокоразвитая промышленная страна, ведущий финансовый центр, тяжелое машиностроение, каменноугольный бассейн, элект­ронное оборудование, судостроительные верфи, ускоряющийся темп перемен, разработки в высокотехнологичном производстве, добыча нефти в открытом море, информационная технология, бытовая элек­троника, страна с высокой плотностью населения, земледелие, хими­ческие продукты из нефтяного сырья, сельскохозяйственный район, плодородные долины, хорошо возделанные поля, живописный пей­заж, мягкий климат, модные курорты.

III. Writte questions about Text A, using the words and phrases from Ex. II. Prepare to discuss the text (Use hemap.)

IV. Read Text С and pick-out English squivalents of the following phrases:

получить общее представление о чём- n., иметь при себе что-л., образовывать естественную границу, насколько я понимаю, мое лю­бимое занятие (мой конек), насколько мне известно, ниже уровня моря, ни в коей мере, непереносимый.

V. Retell Text С in indirect speech. Try and give anadditional piece of information on the topic.

VI. Fill in Use weirds bolder, boundary or frontier. Choose the correct alternative.

Note: The Russian word граница has several equivalents in English: border— пограничная зона или полоса по обе стороны демаркационной линии, е.g. The people living on the border of two adjoining countries usually speak the languages of both.; boundary — граница как разграничительная ли­ния, предел, е.g. This stream forms a boundary between the two farms.; fron­tier — граница как демаркационная линия, государственная граница, е. д, to pass the frontiers, и как пограничная зона или район (в отличие от border) толь­ко по одну сторону демаркационной линии, е.g. to guard the frontiers, frontier station, fortress, incident, dispute,

1. When we went camping, we put up our tents on the... of the lake. 2. The... incident was reported by the newspapers in detail. 3. A... dispute is a quarrel about where a... is or ought to be. 4. The river formed a... between these rural dis­tricts. 5. The half-ruined tower used to be a... fortress. 6. The region along the boundary between England and Scotland is called the.... 7. A hedge is a fence or a row of bushes or low trees, which are planted to form a... round a garden or field. 8. Great Britain's.... northern, eastern and southern, are formed by seas and oceans.

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