VII. Translate into English:

1. Ciльське господарство — один з найважливiших секторів еко­номіки Великобританiї. 2. Країна сама себе забезпечує молоком, яйцями і значною мiрою м’ясом, картоплею та пшеницею. 3. Великобританiя iмпортує масло, сир, цукор, чай, фрукти та iншi сiльськогосподарськi продукти. 4. Фермерськi господарства рiзнi в рiзних регiонах. 5. На сходi країни фермери вирощують такi культури, як ячмiнь, пшениця, цукровий буряк та картопля. 6. На заходi клiмат сприятливий для розвитку тваринництва. 7. Сiльське господарство Великобританiї є ефективним, оскiльки воно ґрунтується на сучасних технологiях та дос­лiдженнях.

Communicative situations

1. You have an exam. Your question is: «Great Britain as an industrial country»

2. You are at the conference. The theme of your report is: «The role of services in British economy»

3. Your English friend tells you about Great Britain as one of the largest trading nations in the world.

4. You have just come from Great Britain. Make a report in your class: «Agriculture — one of the most important sectors in British economy»

GRAMMAR EXERCISES

Participle I

I. Remember the spelling of ing-forms:

a) sit — sitting run — running begin — beginning	b) listen — listening speak — speaking read — reading	c) lie — lying tie — tying die — dying
d) write — writing come — coming give — giving	e) see — seeing do — doing fly — flying

II. Form Participle I of the following verbs:

to develop, to control, to manage, to manufacture, to play, to rise, to get, to be, to build, to produce, to have, to account, to include, to govern, to provide, to go, to accept, to offer, to come, to trade, to work, to grow, to buy.

III. Translate into Ukrainian:

a smiling girl; a writing boy; a laughing baby; playing children; a falling tree; a sleeping man; the people waiting for you; a walking couple; a developing country; an increasing proportion; reading audience; a trading nation.

IV. State the functions of Participle I:

1. The dean of our faculty is speaking to the students. 2. He is coming in two days. 3. I came up to the students discussing their time-table. 4. Applying fertilizers, farmers increase crop yields. 5. Farmers applying fertilizers obtain high yields of farm crops. 6. Do you know the man speaking to the students? 7. They are discussing an important problem now. 8. Ukraine is developing its economic contacts.

V. Open the brackets, using the Participle I. Retell the passage:

Great Britain is situated on the British Isles, (to cover) an area of 244,000 sq km. It comprises the island of Great Britain, (to consist) of England and (to occupy) most of the southern two-thirds of the island; Scotland, (to occupy) the northern one-third of the island; and Wales, (to lie) to the west of England — and Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, (to lie) in the northeastern part of the island of Ireland.

The capital of Great Britain is London. It is a great industrial city, an international center of finance, the world’s third largest city, (to rank) after Tokyo and New York City.

The land area of the United Kingdom is about evenly divided between lowlands and uplands with some 5 per cent (to consist) of highlands. England has three hill regions in the north, west, and southwest and two lowland regions in the southeast and east. The countryside, (to connect) these five regions, is composed mainly of rich agricultural plains.

The climate of the United Kingdom is temperate, (to be) warmed by the North Atlantic Current and by southwest winds.