Canadian economy

According to the annual statistics of the UNO, in 2008 Canada was on the first place in the world in the list of the countries considered the best on several major criteria (general standard of living, ecology, culture and art, education, crime rate, etc.). Canada is one of the most ecologically safe countries in the world. In the UNO report in 2008 devoted to the living standards of population in many countries, it was mentioned that Canada had surpassed all the other countries.

Macroeconomic parameters of the country are the following: with the population about 31 million people at the beginning of 2008 the total internal product of the country was equal 633.2 billon of American dollars, or $21.000 per one citizen.

The structure of Canadian economy is also of particular interest. 15% of able-bodied population is engaged in the services sphere, 14% - in industrial enterprises, 4% - in agriculture, 3% - in construction and 4% - in some other spheres.

The program encouraging foreign investments into Canada was adopted. As a result, the country drew a lot of foreign money to its economy. Due to this program, investments into Canadian industry increased from 62 to 110 million of Canadian dollars. That enabled to develop new technologies, to organize new industrial spheres, to employ more workers and to train new technical specialists and managers.

Due to its favorable geographical position, Canada has close trade relations with many Asian countries of the Pacific Ocean region. Canada exports coal, wood, copper concentrate and some other enriched raw materials. The main trade collaborates of the country in the USA. In 2007, the share of Canadian export to the USA was 40%, what equal 7 billion American Dollars.

Canada is the largest manufacturer of newsprint in the world. Only 7% of soil is suitable for agriculture, but they consist million hectares of fertile ground. About 80% of Canadian farms is situated in prairies. The country is one of the biggest granaries. Almost all the minerals necessary for the development of modern economy are occurred in Canada. It is one of the leading extractors and exporters of nickel, zinc, plaster, potash, sulfur, aluminum, gold, copper and iron ore.

67% of all electricity in Canada is produced by hydroelectric power stations. Canadian rivers contain 10% of the world stock of river water. The country is also the leader in development of hydroelectric power stations, transformers and distributive system constructions.

Now read the text and answer these questions:

1. What are major criteria that put Canada on the first place in the world in the 2008?

2. What are macroeconomic parameters of Canada?

3. What is the structure of Canadian economy?

4. What is the result of the program encouraging foreign investments into Canada?

5. Why does Canada have close trade relations with many Asian countries of the Pacific Ocean region?

Agree or disagree. Correct wrong statements:

1. According to general structure of living and some other criteria Canada is on the first place in the world.

2. Ecological situation of Canada is one of the best in the world.

3. Due to the program encouraging foreign investments into Canada the country lost 110 million of dollars.

4. Canada is the largest producer of energy in the world.

5. Prairies are places of Canadian farms.

Complete the table with the derivatives:

Verb	Noun	Adjective	Adverb

Consider, different, equality, depreciation, move (2), increasing, incorporate, mean, imply, progressive, movable, increase (2), investor, differ, consideration, meaningful, considerable, progress (2), depreciate, increasingly, equally, investment, implicit, movement, difference, implication, invest, differently, corporation, implicitly, progressively, corporate, equal (2), depreciatingly, meaning, considerably.

Вариант 9.

Задание 1.

Подберите к следующим вопросам ответы:

1. Which car is yours?  1. I have.

2. Do you have any money? 2. No, I don't.

3. Have you or your friend written this letter? 3. Yes, they do.

4. Do fares increase with distance? 4. That one. 

Образуйте вопросы по образцу:

You cannot speak Spanish. – You can't speak Spanish, can you?

5. Your cousin lives in Munich.

6. You have not been in Moscow.

Cоставьте вопрос, на который это предложение может быть ответом:

7. Yes, there is a good library at our University.

Поставьте глагол Past Perfect, Past Simple или Past Continuous и переведите предложения:

8. My dad (to come) home by 8 o’clock.

9. When I (to ring) him up, he already (to do) his homework.

10. Suddenly I (to remember) that I (to leave) her exercise book at home.

Заполнить пропуски, поставив глагол в скобках (в будущее совершенное время):

11. The police … (arrest) the thief by the next morning.

12. The girl … (finish) his essay by three o’clock in the morning.

Задание 2.

Вставьте соответствующие предлоги:

1. Elephants are found ____ India and Africa.

2. The boat was carried _____the waves _____ the open sea.

3. There is a monument _____Pushkin in the Square _____Arts.

4. It is clear ____ me that you don't know your lesson.

He was short ____ money and lived ____ hand ____ mouth.

Переведите на русский язык предложения с фразовыми глаголами:

5. Come on, what is on your mind?

6. I will not be able to visit you tonight if something else comes up.

7. Water turns into ice at 100 C.

8. Why don’t we just put the trip off until the next month?

Поставьте в предложения подходящие фразовые глаголы с предлогом out в необходимой грамматической форме: watch – find — eat — break – make — blow – clear — go – turn — count

9. … out! The monkeys are going to attack.

10. If you go to the party tonight, ……. me out. I won’t go.

11. We couldn’t … out the meaning of her poem.

12. Mike … out a successful designer.

Задание 3.

Поставьте глагол в Present Simple или Present Continuous:

1. What your sister (to do) now?

2. There (to be) horse races and shows in Florida in July.

3. Today you (can try) a regatta, boating, playing the harp and other things.

4. Why you (speak) so loudly? You ... at a lesson

Исправьте:

5. On Fridays, I going to the restaurant. I not like cooking very much.

Составьте вопросительное предложение Past Simple из данных слов:

6. meet/ your/ boyfriend/ you/ did/ in/ Munich?

Вставьте слова will / to be going to:

7. Linda ... catch a fox in the forest.

Измените предложения, употребляя to be going to по образцу:

My intention is to watch a TV film tonight. I am going to watch a TV film tonight.

8. I want to invite Jane to our party.

Раскройте скобки:

9. My parents (to cook) dinner now.

Переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание Participle I

10. The children watched the boys playing football.

Раскройте скобки, употребив Participle I. Переведите предложение

11. My task (to finish), I went to bed. 

Выберите правильный вариант:

12. Jane (______) for her exam on Philosophy tomorrow evening.

work

is working

will be working

Задание 4.

Употребите следующие предложения в Past Progressive, уточняя действие наречиями:

Образец: I went to the cinema yesterday. – I was going to the cinema yesterday at 3.

1. Jane wrote a letter to her parents.

Поставьте вопросы, на которые нижеследующие предложения могут быть ответами. Образец: No, I was not playing chess at 6. – Were you playing chess at 6?

2. Yes, my sister was watching TV at 8 p.m.

Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в Past Indefinite или Past Continuous

3. We (to play) computer games from 12 until 14 yesterday.

4. She (to play) computer games yesterday evening.

УпотребитеPresent Perfect:

5. You … not … (to shut) the window yet.

6. My sister ... (not to go) out the all day long yesterday.

Допишите предложения при помощи слов: already, just, since, for, ever, yet

7. They haven’t seen him … ages.

8. Have they … been to London?

Исправьте ошибки и напишите правильный вариант:

9. I loving his sister.

10. He just wrote a letter.

11. We know each other for many year. He is my best friend.

12. He go to the library every week

Задание 5.

Поставьте предложение в соответствующее будущее время:

1. They (come) to see us next Sunday.

Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на перевод модальных глаголов и их эквивалентов:

2. May I invite my friends to the party?

3. You have to work hard at your English, if you want to go to the USA.

Вставьте can илиbe able to

4. I used to _______ stand on my head but I can’t do it now.

Вставьтеneedn’t/ have to/ mustn’t/ didn’t need to/ have to или needn’t have

5. They _____ buy a cooker and a fridge as the flat they rented was furnished.

Вставьте подходящий модальный глагол:

6. _____ I smoke here?

Вставьте подходящий модальный глагол или модальный оборот could, was / were able to или couldn’t:

7. My grandmother loved music. She _______ play the piano very well.

Вставьте подходящий модальный глагол или модальный оборот mustn’t’t or don’t/ doesn’t have to

8. She _______ get up so early. She gets up early because she prefers to.

Переведите предложения на английский язык

9. Ольге нужно уделить больше внимания занятиям по английскому языку. 10. Я не уверен, но возможно он неправ. Вставьте подходящий модальный глагол или модальный оборот:

11. Jane has got a headache. He … sleep well recently.

a) can’t

b) couldn’t have

c) hasn’t been able to

12. I … sleep for hours when I was a little girl.

a) could

b) am able to

c) can

Задание 6.

Переведите письменно текст, выполните задания к тексту

Before you read

- What kind of state is Canada?