After text activity
I. Reading Exercises:
Exercise 1. Read and memorize using a dictionary:
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Quid, utility, industry, blackout, congestion, breakup, shutdown |
Exercise 2. Answer the questions:
What did the utility companies object to?
When was a certificate of incorporation filed?
Where was the first high-voltage transmission line built?
What for was the wheeling power used?
Exercise 3. Match the left part with the right:
1. They were built a) this potential anarchic
use
2. The first sector to be b) regulated utilities to
deregulated was increase the reliability of
regional grids
3. The utility companies objected c) by the utility company
to
.
4. The wheeling of power d) the network of high-
was used by voltage transmission wires
Exercise 4.
Other legislation (did/made) it incumbent upon utilities (to supply/provide) universal service, and (take/gave) the states overall regulatory oversight. Each (state/country) regulated its utility (companies/industry).
