Vocabulary practice
Highlight the English equivalents for the following expressions and
word-combinations:
1) на метро;
2) проехать всего лишь одну остановку ;
3) прямо у парадной двери;
4) места, привлекательные для туристов;
5) надо надеяться;
6) легко и быстро путешествовать по городу;
7) недавно введенный;
8) разговаривать с незнакомцами;
9) плата за въезд в центр Лондона;
10) неблагоприятные условия;
11) становиться ограниченным;
12) по-настоящему многонациональный;
13) улучшать ситуацию;
14) преимущества;
15) несмотря на;
16) опасаться стать жертвами преступлений;
17) разного происхождения;
18) во-вторых;
19) самый высокий уровень преступности;
20) общаться с…;
21) посещать достопримечательности;
22) спортивное событие;
23) перегруженный транспортом;
24) полагаю;
25) музей Мадам Тюссо;
26) загрязненный;
27) дети;
28) в конце концов / наконец;
29) главная проблема;
30) столичные города ;
31) не являться барьером для дружеских отношений;
32) всегда есть что-то;
33) универмаги;
34) ж/д вокзалы;
35) проблема транспорта;
36) несомненно;
37) люди недружелюбны;
38) это может тебе стоить…;
39) отрицательные моменты / пункты;
40) вынуждены платить;
Read the text once again and match the paragraphs (a-i) with the titles offered below:
Conclusion
Crime and People’s Attitude
Environmental Problems
Introduction
Leisure Choices
Multicultural London
The Cost of Living
Famous Sights
Transport
Speculate about pros and cons of living in big cities and small towns/villages. Make use of the following word-combinations and distribute them into those characteristic for big cities and those, which can be used in describing the life in small towns/villages. (Consult the dictionary in case the word is unfamiliar to you):
URBAN LIFE
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RURAL LIFE
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to mix with; 2) people from different backgrounds; 3) to be truly
cosmopolitan; 4) a tourist attraction; 5) a major problem; 6)to be polluted;
7) to be congested with traffic; 8) to become narrow-minded; 9) a department store; 10) a place for entertainment; 11) to make the sightseeing; 12) to travel across the city; 13) highly populated; 14) fresh air; 15) busy roads; 16) much space; 17) people are always in a hurry; 18) noisy streets; 19) rush-hours; 20) road accidents; 21) people are under the stress; 22) exhaust fumes; 23) crowded buses; 24) no place to hide; 25) travel at high speeds; 26) walk to work; 27) slow life; 28) gardening; 29) enjoy nature; 30) beautiful countryside; 31) quiet life; 32) bicycling; 33) healthy life-style; 34) to provoke senses; 35) to be close to nature; 36) to watch sunsets and sunrises; 37) to feel an integral part of nature; 38) to unite with nature; 39) to lead rural not urban life
VIII. Write a paragraph about the contrast between rural and urban life in Ukraine. What problems do people face when they live in the cities or in the countryside?
IX. Close your booklets and listen to the dialogues about London and New York on the tape. Open your booklets and study the vocabulary. Close your booklets and listen to the dialogues one more time.
DIALOGUE №1
“A TALK ABOUT NEW YORK” (p. 31-32)
tremendously
to be open till 10 o’clock
to work and lead a normal life
to be not open until about 10 or 11 o’clock
everything is open on Sundays and holidays
to make life much easier
to be cosmopolitan
to stay in one’s own areas
the Russian Section
the German Town
in German shops all German speaking
the major difference is the height
to be up/faster
to be much ruder
fights about getting on a bus
to push in the streets
to queue on the bus stops
taxi-drivers must be the rudest in the world
to be very friendly
to be angry with smb.
to be quite a different place
to be aware, that…
subways are unusable
to make friends
to be more opened
to speak one’s mind
to tell smth directly
to think one thing and say another
DIALOGUE №2
“TALKING ABOUT LONDON” (p.32-33)
obviously the biggest difference is…
the average English man is…
to start conversation with people in the street
to be more enthusiastic and spontaneous
to improve
to get to know smb
to make a friend
to take a very long time
to be very respected
to want to talk to smb
to be inquisitive
to love the accent
to be thought to be a little inferior
to get excited by everything
to think everything to be so cute
to move away
to move backwards
to stand closer
life is a lot easier
to make money
to spend money
to be open all the time
you have to race to reach a supermarket
the private life is very important
work is the most important
to seem to be longer
to close down for two weeks
in this respect
to live to work
to look forward to coming back
to find life safer
to be more relaxed and much more enjoyable
to use smth and to feel safe
to be wonderful
to tell smb one’s life story
to know every street in London
to have the dramatic beauty of the States
to get into English habit
to find smth comforting
X. Now make a comparison between these cities, fill in the table, focusing your attention on:
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XI. Tell your neighbour group mate what you have learnt about major differences between these two global cities.
XII. Study some extra-vocabulary on the topic
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Motorway
автомагистраль
Traffic jam
автомобильная пробка
Road repairs
ремонты дорог
In both directions
в обоих направлениях
The curse of the XX th century
проклятие ХХ столетия
Advertisements for cars
реклама машин
Masculinity
характерные для мужчин особенности (мужественность)
To be /get stuck in…
застрять
To be injured
пострадать, травмироваться
Major cause of death
основная причина смерти
Two-level roads
двухуровневые дороги
To travel at hundreds of miles an hour
путешествовать со скоростью сотни миль в час
Either way
в любом случае
To double
удваиваться
Environmentalist
эколог (специалист по защите окружающей среды)
Public transport
общественный транспорт
To be crowded
быть переполненным
A race on the move
раса в движении
XIII. Team work. Arrange yourselves in teams of 3 or 4 students. Fill in the gaps choosing the words from the above table (XII). Write a literary translation of the text. The best one will be highly assessed.
The Road to Ruin
The M 25, _______________, around London, was opened in 1986. Today people call it the biggest car park in Europe. Every morning on the radio we hear about jams, __________________, crashes, and which part of the M 25 to avoid. One day soon we will hear: ‘There is a ___________________ all the way round the M 25 in ______________________. If you are driving to work, we advise you to go back home’.
Winston Churchill described the car as the _____________________ century. This will probably be true of the next century too. It can be very funny to compare _______________________ with the reality of driving them. Cars are symbols of freedom, wealth and _________________. But when you are ________ in a traffic jam, all cars are just little metal boxes to sit in.
5,000 people a year a killed on British roads, and 40,000 are ______________ . For children, road accidents are a _______________________ of death.
Cities and towns all over the world have a huge problem, and no government really knows what to do. For once it is not a matter of technology, which is stopping us. If we want to build ___________________, we can do it. If we want trains, which can travel at _________________________, we can build them.
The problem is a question of principle. Should the Government, or private companies, control them? And either way, who should pay?
The people, who believe in roads, say that cars represent a personal choice to travel when and where you want to. But on trains and buses – public transport – you have to travel when the timetable says you can. These people think that if you build more roads, the traffic will move more quickly, but research shows that if there are more roads, there will be more cars to fill them.
By 2010, the number of cars on our roads will ______________. ___________ are saying that we should put more money into _________________________.
Cars often carry just one person. If the public transport system works, more people will use it. If trains carry more people, the roads won’t be so _________, and cars pollute the air more than trains.
By 2025, just to park all cars in Britain will need an area larger than London.
One characteristic of the people of the XX th century is that we are a race on _____________. But it is just possible that soon we won’t be able to move another inch, and we’ll have to stay exactly where we are! [Headway; p. 69].
XIV. Comprehension check. Answer the following questions:
1. Why is the text called ‘The Road to Ruin’? Give your reasons.
2. Why is the M 25 called the biggest car park in Europe?
3. Why does driving a car add masculinity to a driver?
4. Why do advertisements for driving a car differ gradually from the reality of driving it?
5. Why are the cars called ‘little boxes to sit in’ in the text?
6. What measures does the author of the text offer to make traffic on British roads less busy?
7. Will putting more money to the public transport solve the situation with overcrowded roads?
8. Discuss all possible ways to improve the situation on busy roads.
9. Write a complaint to your City Mayor about transport situation in Mariupol. In your complaint enlist every detail you would like to improve and possible ways to change the situation for the better.
10. Tell about the most usable and popular kind of transport among students. How do you get to your University? Is it the best way?