Part 3. Industry and Agriculture
Vocabulary training
1. Read and remember the following words and word-combinations.
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to obtain – получать to increase – увеличивать to develop – развивать to be famous for – быть известным чем-либо to receive – получать to provide – обеспечивать to manufacture – производить to destroy – разрушать to devote – посвящать production – производство variety – разнообразие deʼposit – месторождение exʼpansion – расширение vehicle – транспортное средство dairy-farming – животноводство |
grain crops – зерновые культуры barley – ячмень wheat – пшеница arms expenditure – военные расходы resources – ископаемые limestone – известняк china clay – каолин, фарфоровая глина oil shale – нефтеносный сланец fuel – топливо, горючее well - нефтяная скважина employment – занятость extreme – чрезвычайный naval – морской coal-mining – добыча угля |
Read the following international words and compare them with
corresponding Russian ones.
Capitalist, colony, decade, industrial, export, import, production, electrical, textile, television, radio, motor, resources, centre, manufacture, port, expansion, military, sector, fund, million, product.
Match the words in A with those in B.
A B
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change vehicle barley steel to obtain to manufacture deposit budget products decade independence electrical goods |
сталь ячмень месторождение независимость бюджет десятилетие электротовары получать изменение производить транспортное средство продукты |
Read the words and say what parts of speech they belong to.
ʼExport – to exʼport; ʼimport – to imʼport; ʼincrease – to inʼcrease; ʼindustry – in ʼdustrial; ʼproduct – proʼduction.
Match up the words which have a similar meaning.
to obtain; to manufacture; to receive; to produce; district; products; goods; expansion; region; extention.
Produce word-combinations.
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a variety to devote to to be the centre to produce the extreme expansion |
of the military sector of mineral resourses of steel industry electrical goods arms expenditure |
7. Give Russian equivalents.
Car industry, state budget, extreme expansion of the military sector, coal deposits, variety of mineral resources, have greatly increased, last decades, to obtain independence, cotton industry, everything one needs in life, to provide employment, all over the world.
8. Translate the sentences into Russian.
1. After the Second World War Great Britain has lost almost all it’s colonies. 2. During the last decades there has been a great change in the structure of British industry. 3. Now British export of machinery and electrical goods has increased greatly. 4. Many of new branches of industry have developed in the last decades. 5. One-third of the state budget has been developed to arms expenditure.
Complete the sentences with English words instead of their Russian equivalents.
1. The country (известна) its car industry. 2. Clydeside and Belfast (известны) their ship-building. 3. There is no (разнообразия) of mineral resources in Great Britain. 4. Today the development of British industry is destroyed by the (чрезвычайным расширением) of the military sector. 5. Military industry (получает) more state funds. 6. The main branch of British agriculture is (молочное животноводство). 7. The main (зерновые культуры) are (пшеница) and (ячмень).