4. Translate the following words and word combinations:

Rock-coal, great reserves, extraction, mineral fertilizers, sea level, moderately con­tinental, considerable progress, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, cabbages, vessel, to create, internal market.

5. Use proper tense-forms of the verbs. Translate the sentences.

1. Ukraine (to have) many rivers.

2. The Dnipro (to divide) Ukraine into two parts: Left-bank and Right-bank territo­ries.

3. Ukraine (to take) a leading place in iron ore extraction, production of steel, cast iron, tractors, mineral fertilizers, sugar, and grain.

4. Twenty-seven thousand kilometers of railroads (to intertwine) throughout the ter­ritory of Ukraine.

5. In spite of great reserves of coal, the importance of rock-coal in the energy bal­ance (to decrease), and this tendency (to continue) in the future because the layers are lo­cated very deep and their extraction (to become) more and more costly.

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6. Steppes and plains (to compose) the most part of the territory of Ukraine.

7. The top soils (to be) mainly black.

8. Natural and human recourses (to be) sufficient for creating a developed internal market and becoming a friendly and equal partner in the world market.

W. Practice Drills:

1. Speak on the topic "Geographical Position of Ukraine

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Use the chart.

Ukraine (geography, general information)

Capital: Kyiv

Territory:

603.700 sq.km

Main Rivers:

The Dnipro The Desna The Dniester The Donets The Bug

Industry:

Heavy industry

Metallurgical

Coal-rnining

Population:

49mln.

Location: country in south-eastern Europe

Washed by:

The Black Sea, the Sea of Azov

Borders:

Belarus, Russia (in the north), Moldova, Romania, Hungry, Slovakia and Poland (in the west)

Main Lake:

Swityaz

Main Mountains:

The Carpathians The Crimean

Peaks:

Hoverla(2061m/h)

Roman Kosh

(1545m/h)

Natural resources:

Coal, iron, metals, oil, gas, marble, different ores

Industrial Centers:

Kiev, a capital of Ukraine Kharkiv, a former capital of Ukraine;

Donetsk, a coal-mining cen­ter;

Odessa, a big sea port and resort center; leading center of sea trade

Lviv, a large industrial scien­tific and cultural center; Zaporizhya, a metallurgical center;

Dnipropetrovsk, a large ma­chine-building and important metallurgical center; Kherson, a center of ship­building and textile industry, agricultural machine-building

Agriculture main products: grain, sugar beet, flax, sunflow­ers; potato

I. Pre-reading stage:

1. Study the following words and combinations:

1. a sovereign state - суверенна держава

2. legislative - законодавчий

3. executive - виконавчий

4. judicial - судовий

5. to be accountable to - підпорядковуватися

6. rectangular - прямокутний

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7. trident - тризубець

8. the National Anthem - національний гімн