Motorway and main highways

Ex.1. Read the poem. / Прочитайте вірш:

The Road

In every country there is way

These are highway and super way.

On me all traffic sway

Small or big, thin or tall, all drives gay

Some drive scooters and some drive cars

Buses and rickshaws move through the hours.

All day and night, they drive along

With head lights off and on.

Traffic rules are there to obey

And go on, go on every day.

I care for the safety of young and old

So, follow the rules as told.

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Ex.2. Read the text and translate into Ukrainian. / Прочитайте та перекладіть текст на українську мову:

I. Motorway is a term for both a type of road and a classification or designation. Motorways are high capacity roads designed to carry fast motor traffic safely. In the United Kingdom they are predominantly dual-carriageway roads, with a minimum of two lanes in each direction.

Common criteria

For a road to be classified as motorway a number of conditions must be fulfilled. Although they may vary from country to country, the following conditions generally apply:

• to be a dual-carriageway

• accessed at junctions by slip roads off the sides of the main carriageway;

• joined by link-roads at an interchange, the object of which is to allow traffic to change route without stopping or slowing significantly;

• traffic lights are not permitted (except at toll booths and certain interchanges);

• have signposted entry and exit points at the start and end;

• certain types of transport are banned, typically pedestrians, bicycles, learner drivers, horses, agricultural vehicles, underpowered vehicles (e.g. small scooters, invalid carriages).

Motorway speed limits are generally higher than those on single-carriageway roads, and some types of vehicle, such as heavy goods vehicles, may be subject to lower limits.

II. A highway is a main road intended for travel by the public between important destinations, such as cities and towns. In law the word highway is often used as a legal term to denote any public road, ranging from freeways to dirt tracks.

International Highways (Ukraine)

International Highways (Ukraine) – are the roads in Ukraine on the route involving international transport corridors and/or highways that are part of the European network of basic, intermediate, and the roads connecting branches and a corresponding international indexing (numbering), and provide the international road transport. The total length of 23 routes international roads in Ukraine is 8080.1 km.

List of International Highways in Ukraine

International HighwayM01 (Kyiv - Chernihiv - Novi Yarylovichi) to Homel, Belarus Length 205.6 km (with additional roads - 224.3 km) - Exit to Chernihiv city, length - 13.7 km - Exit to Brovary, length - 5 km

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International Highway M02 Kipti - Glukhiv - Bachivsk) to Bryansk, Russia Length 242.5 km

International Highway M03 (Kyiv - Kharkiv - Dovzhansky) to Rostov on Don, Russia Length 844.2 km (with additional roads - 858.9 km) - Exit to International Airport "Boryspil", length - 2.8 km - Exit to International Airport "Kharkiv", length - 10.9 km - Exit to Kharkiv city, length - 1 km

International Highway M04 (Znamyanka - Luhansk - Izvaryne) to Volgograd, Russia through Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk Length 566.9 km

International Highway M05(Kyiv - Bila Tserkva - Uman - Liubashivka - Odesa) Length 453.3 km (with additional roads - 478 km) - Exit to Round near Odesa city, length - 24.7 km

International Highway M06 (Kyiv - Chop) to Budapest, Hungary through Lviv, Mukacheve, Uzhhorod Length 821.5 km (with additional roads - 846.2 km) - Exit to Zhytomyr city, length - 10 km - Exit to Novohrad-Volynskiy city, length - 5.6 km - Exit to Lviv city, length - 5.7 km - Exit to Rivne city, length - 3.4 km

International Highway M07 (Kyiv - Kovel - Yahodyn) to Lublin, Poland Length 486.5 km (with additional roads - 488.4 km) - Exit to Custom-control Terminal "Yahodyn", length - 1.9 km

International Highway MO8 (Round Uzhhorod city - Custom-control Terminal Uzhhorod) Length 13.8 km

International Highway M09 (Lviv - Rava Ruska) to Lublin, Poland Length 62.5 km

International Highway M10 (Lviv - Krakovets) to Krakov, Poland Length 62.1 km (with additional roads - 77.3 km) - West Round Lviv city, length - 15.2 km

International Highway M11 (Lviv - Shehyni) to Krakov, Poland Length 72.1 km

International Highway M12 (Striy - Ternopil - Kirovohrad - Znamyanka) Length 746.7 km (with additional roads - 756.1 km) - Exit to Vinnytsya city, length - 1.4 km - Exit to Khmelnitskiy city, length - 8 km

International Highway M13 (Kirovohrad - Platonove) to Chisinau, Moldova Length 254.4 km

International Highway M14 (Odesa - Melitopol - Novoazovsk) to Taganrog, Russia Length 624.3 km (with additional roads - 652.5 km) - Exit to Kherson city, length - 4.9 km - Exit to Mykolayiv city, length - 6.5 km - Round Melitopol city, length - 16.8 km

International Highway M15 (Odesa - Reni) to Bucharest, Romania Length 244.4 km (with additional roads - 726.5 km) - Exit to Izmayil city, length - 38 km

International Highway M16 (Odesa - Kuchurhan) to Chisinau, Moldova

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Length 58.7 km

International Highway M17 (Kherson - Djankoy - Feodosiya - Kerch) Length 423.6 km

International Highway M18 (Kharkiv - Simferopol - Alushta - Yalta) Length 682.6 km (with additional roads - 726.5 km) - Exit to International Airport "Kharkiv", length - 8.1 km - Round Simferopol city, length - 12.1 km - Round Novomoskovsk, length - 23.7 km

International Highway M19 (Domanove - Kovel - Chernivtsi - Terebleche) to Bucharest, Romania Length 503.9 km (with additional roads - 509.1 km) - Exit to Lutsk city, length - 5.2 km

International Highway M20 (Kharkiv - Shcherbakivka) Length 28.5 km

International Highway M21 (Zhytomyr - Mohyliv-Podilskiy) trough Vinnytsya Length 220.9 km (with additional roads - 221.4 km) - Exit to bridge "Druzhba" on the Dnister river, length - 0.5 km

International Highway M22 (Poltava - Oleksandriya) Length 186.5 km

International Highway M23 (Berehove - Vynogradiv - Velyka Kopanya) Length 49.5 km.

Ex.3. Answer the following questions. / Дайте відповіді на питання:

1. What is a motorway?

2. What are the common criteria of motorway?

3. What is highway?

4. Does Ukraine have international highways? What are they?

5. What is the total length of 23 routes international roads in Ukraine?

Ex. 4. Ask as more questions as possible to the text. / Поставте до тексту якомога більше питань.

Ex.5. Using new vocabulary retell the text. / Використовуючи нову лексику перекажіть текст (впр.2).