Vocabulary:

1. eagerly look forward to - з нетерпінням чекати

2. honour - вшановувати

3. events - події

4. movable - перехідний

5. Holy Trinity - Свята Трійця

6. ordinary - звичайний, пересічний

EXERCISES

1. Make up sentences:

seen you summer holidays

going to the seaside weekend

8. March

1 January 24 August 14 February

8. May

I

You are

They is eagerly looking forward to We am

He

New Year's Day St. Valentine's Day

Victory Day is celebrated on

Women's. Day Independence Day

3. Translate the poem and learn it by heart

A Birthday

by Chr. Rossetti My heart is like a singing bird Whose net is on a watered shoot;

My heart is like an appie-tree

Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;

My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea;

My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN UKRAINE

The protection of nature has become one of the most actual problems of the 20th century. The Earth provides people with mineral resources, rivers, forests, fields -everything that makes the foundation of industrial and agricultural production. The development of industry had a bad influence on the nature of the whole world People often do the things which pollute¹ lands and waters greatly. It is very dangerous because it hurts' the health of the people and provokes³ different diseases. High rates of occupational diseases are documented mostly among the coal miners. Many heavy-metal and chemical-exposure- related incidents⁴ and illnesses have been reported in industrialised areas, mainly in Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Lugansk.

The intensive development of industry results in air pollution. High concentrations of pollutants³ in ambient air⁶, including dust oxides of nitrogen are documented in considerably higher concentrations - than in previous years. Metallurgical plants in a number of cities account for most of their total air pollutants⁷. The appearance of supersonic jet airliners⁸ has presented many problems too. These airliners use up tons of oxygen⁹ and throw out over 150,000 tons of water vapour¹⁰ into stratosphere every day.

The living resources of the sea are also coming to an end. We have failed to protect our seas and lakes which are dying because of reducing^I their raw materials. It is very important to ensure¹² pure air, oceans and seas by improving technological processes, the quality of raw materials and fuel, to do everything possible to protect people and nature from radioactive and air pollution. The only way to overcome a catastrophe¹³ is to put the air, oceans, great seas and lakes under greater international control, perhaps under that of the United

і tie accident at the Chomobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986 caused radioactive contamination ⁴ of a vast area around the plant. We have to undertake drastic measures to neutralise the perilous effect¹⁵ of radiation on the environment. That's why environmental protection is a great concern of the Ukrainian Government. The Ministry of Environmental Protection was founded in Ukraine. Their tasks are to control the state of environment and sources of pollution, to protect the water resources of Ukraine, to extend the network¹⁶ of nature reserves and to maintain co-operation with international ecology organisations

Campaign for environmental protection is supported by public organisations and individuals. The Ukrainian Green Pany is very active today. «Zeleny Svit» is the Ukrainian ecological newspaper. It calls on protection of the natural wealth and on using it in a more careful and economical manner for the benefit of the present and future generations.