Exercise 10. Match the names of the vehicles with their pictures

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relationships with his wife’s family.

1. Great barges stop here to unload rice from Thailand.

2. Grains and milk are transported to the factory from the farming areas around the town.

3. She was a strict mother and enforced severe discipline on her children.

4. Very large wooden earrings dangled from her ears.

5. The Board introduced financial restrictions to save the company’s budget.

6. We can identify only one type of solvents which may wash out this kind of paint.

7. The best land is reserved for such products as coffee, cotton and bananas.

8. British prisoners were transported to Australia.

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4 5 6

a) tipper/dumper truck (Br.E) d) flatbed

dump truck (Am.E)

b) cement mixer/ e) jeep

concrete mixer

c) articulated lorry (Br.E) f) van

tractor-trailer (Am.E)

Exercise 11. You are going to watch the Video transcript “Companies Aim for the Sky and the Road with Flying Cars” (VT 1 ). Correct the mistakes in the sentences below (if there are any) according to the information of the transcript.

1. Crowds at a recent air show in Wisconsin saw vehicles that can be flown.

2. Steve Saint created a company called Information Technologies and Education Center.

3. To get in and out of remote areas, Saint developed a convertible car he calls the Maverick.

4. The Maverick can travel at speeds up to 200 kilometers an hour on the ground.

5. It can also travel up to 150 meters in the air at a speed of 100 kilometers an hour.

6. Saint designed the Maverick to be functional.

7. Anna Dietrich works for the aircraft manufacturer Terrafugia, which developed this vehicle, called the Maverick.

8. I-Tec’s Maverick has flown during testing.

9. Some pilots and airplane lovers are very excited about the current models.

10. Dietrich says Terrafugia is moving forward with the Maverick.

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People have to make journeys,

what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport,

so that they can make a choice about the sort of way

in which they’re going to travel

Theresa May

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