- •Personal identification
- •Relations by birth Кровные родственные связи
- •Relations by marriage Родственные связи по браку
- •Age Возраст
- •Religion [rilid n] Вероисповедание
- •Death Смерть
- •Exercises
- •What Is In a Name?
- •Student information
- •Free of charge - application may be copied
- •Appearance
- •I.V.Kritskaya
- •It’s fun to watch myself in a mirror. A mirror shows me what I look like. A mirror helps me learn about myself. It’s fun to play in front of a mirror. I can make up a poem about that.
- •Character
- •Love is a fallacy By Max Shulman
- •Vitebsk state university
- •V.Ye.Khorovets Part I From the history of the University
- •My University
- •I study at the University (where?…) - Where do you study?
- •The Students’ Life and Studies
- •At the department stores part I
- •Introductory text
- •The Big Stores of London
- •The most famous britain’s department stores
- •Selfridges The original department store
- •Part II
- •Departments (Отделы)
- •In the department store
- •Some Useful Information and Helpful Words and
- •Part III Money
- •Interaction Shopping
- •Follow up
- •Are you being served? a) Ladies’ shoes
- •Topics for Oral Compositions
- •Shopping (food) n.N.Krasovskaya Supermarket
- •Some Food Shops (Stores)
- •Quantities and Package (Количество и упаковка)
- •Some Useful Expressions
- •Idiomatic Expressions
- •Some additional words and expressions
- •Ex. 6.Name 5-10 products you might buy at …
- •Shopping (At the Supermarket)
- •Words and expressions
- •If I need …, I go to the … .
- •At the Supermarket
- •At the Restaurant
- •Words and expressions
- •In the Coffee Bar
- •Topical Vocabulary
- •Exercises The following words are often confused
- •By George Burns
- •Maladies of the 21st Century
- •Here are nine of the most common warning symptoms of stress. First decide if you have ever experienced the symptom. Then try to remember when and why, and make notes.
- •Now report to the class like this:
- •Coping with moods Depression
- •Make sentences like this:
- •Look at the list of jobs and arrange it from the most to the least stressful
- •B) Now work in pairs and compare your ideas with those of your partner’s
- •Your Place in the Stress League
- •What do you think?
- •Cfs. Tired All the Time
- •How does the illness usually start?
- •Is cfs contagious?
- •Tired All the Time: cfs
- •Conversation practice
- •Complete the dialogues:
- •Translate into English
- •The republic of belarus
- •Слова и словосочетания к тексту «The Republic of Belarus»
- •The Republic of Belarus
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Belorussian National Culture
- •Belarus
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •Efrosinya Polotskaya
- •Vocabulary
- •Vitebsk is an Ancient Town
- •I am afraid you are mistaken.
- •I am sorry but I disagree with you.
- •I think you are right. .
- •Part II
- •Architectural monuments and Museums of Vitebsk
- •Part III Obligatory list of words:
- •Vitebsk as a Cultural Centre
- •Дом, открытый для всех
- •Part IV Obligatory list of words:
- •Vitebsk as a Centre of Industry and Education
- •Higher education
- •In great britain and in our country
- •Obligatory list of words: Ex.1.Read the words correctly, practise your sounds. Learn the words.
- •Higher Education. Universities.
- •British Universities
- •III. Making the summary System of Education in Great Britain.
- •V.A.Boiko Obligatory list of words:
- •School Education in Belarus
- •Sanctions
- •A) between two teachers
- •B) between a teacher and a parent
- •C) between the classmates
- •My future profession
- •Lawyer - юрист
- •A model teacher
- •Now do some exersises
- •Pupils as they are Ex. 12. Read the following list of words and divide them into 2 groups (positive
- •Ex. 18. Read the story and say what you think of this teacher. While translating use a dictionary if necessary. Flowers are red by Harry Chapin
- •Ex. 19. Read the following sayings about teacher’s profession and choose those you like best. Give your reasons. Teacher
- •Family matters
- •Ex. 3.Choose and say what you want your pal to do and what you don’t want
- •The Scholarship from “Green Years” by a.J. Cronin
- •Dating Customs
- •Will You Go out with Me?
- •Engagements, weddings, births and funerals getting engaged
- •Divorces rise and fewer get married
- •R Yes. First my family spoke to him, and then they called me in, and we talked for four, four or five minutes. My father decided immediately.
- •I Now you have two sons, don’t you, one twenty-one and one fifteen. Are you going to arrange their marriages?
- •Ex. 11.A) Read the text about different types of families and think of advantages
- •Nuclear Family, Extended Family
- •Relative Values
- •My Father
- •Is there a generation gap in your/your friend’s family? What are the reasons of conflicts? ecological problems
- •Ex. 5.Read and translate the following words of the same root. Determine the part of speech they belong to. Memorize them:
- •Ecological Problems
- •The Greenhouse Effect
- •The Destruction of the Ozone Layer
- •Acid Rain
- •Deforestation
- •The forest resources of the countries in the Baltic Region
- •Endangered Species
- •The Energy Trap
- •Measures to Be Taken
- •What You Can Do to Help!
- •The European Environment Agency (eea)
- •Оглавление
The Destruction of the Ozone Layer
The protective layer of the Earth, the ozone layer, which protects the Earth from the sun’s destructive ultra-violet rays, is being damaged by CFCS (chlorofluorocarbons). They are released by the daily use of industrial and household products: refrigerators, air conditioners, foam insulation, cleaning chemicals, food packaging. In the ozone layer they attack the ozone molecules making a “hole”, which allows more UV rays to penetrate to the Earth. It contributes to global warming, increasing the risk of skin cancer, eye cataracts, weakens the immune system of people. Besides, UV rays influence the oceans, the growth of plankton, cause skin and eye problems in animals too, reduce economically important crops (rice, cotton, soy beans).
Acid Rain
One of the most alarming forms of air pollution is acid rain. It results from the release into the atmosphere of sulphur and nitrogen oxides that react with water droplets and return to earth in the form of acid rain, mist or snow. Acid rain has caused much damage in Europe and the US. Forests in Vermont are dying because of the pollution from the power station in Ohio. The trees in Europe are dying too –64 per cent of them in Britain and 50 per cent in West Germany, Chechoslovakia, Greece, Sweden, Belgium and Holland are also badly affected. The acid rain has dissolved metals and other pollutants and washed them into the water. It washes metals into drinking water to and this can cause serious illness. It has acidified lakes and streams and they cannot support fish, wildlife, plants or insects. Many buildings and even railway lines, are being destroyed by acid rain.
Deforestation
Thirty years ago, forests covered a quarter of the Earth’s land area. Today they cover only a fifth – a sixth. The tropical rain forest is a special cause for worry as it is a natural recycler, provider and protector for our planet. It recycles carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, helps determine temperature, rainfall and other climatic conditions and supports the most diverse ecosystem in the world. These unique habitats took 100 million years to develop and yet it’s taken just 40 years to destroy half of them. These forests in Amazonia, South-East Asia and West and Central Africa are being destroyed at an alarming rate of 42 million acres per year. Deforestation destroys topsoil, leaving large areas of land much less fertile. Besides, it could cause one forth of all species on Earth to vanish in the next 25 years and weather patterns to change.
The forest resources of the countries in the Baltic Region
|
Exploitable closed forest (1000 ha) |
Growing stock (m3/ha) |
Increment (m3/ha/year) |
Denmark |
434 |
198 |
7.7 |
Sweden |
23 365 |
83 |
3.0 |
Finland |
19 335 |
86 |
3.2 |
Karelia (Russia)1 |
5 661 |
132 |
2.75 |
Estonia2 |
1 600 |
108 |
2.66 |
Latvia2 |
2 100 |
155 |
4.05 |
Lithuania2 |
1 500 |
160 |
3.16 |
Kaliningrad Ob. |
158 |
140 |
4.48 |
Belarus |
5 341 |
133 |
4.21 |
Poland |
7 938 |
163 |
3.4 |
Nothern Germany3 |
571 |
190 |
5.7 |
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1 Does not include the area than constitutes an administrative oblast north and north-east of Ladoga.
2 These figures should be considered as rough estimations, in recognition of translation problems emanating from an old classification system.
3 The data roughly represent Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.