- •U n I t 3
- •Reading drills
- •1. Practise the pronunciation of the following words:
- •Comments
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •I. Find equivalents:
- •II. Give the corresponding nouns to the following verbs:
- •III. Fill in the blanks with prepositions or adverbs if necessary:
- •IV. Fill in the blanks below with the most appropriate terms
- •V. Ask someone
- •VI. Translate into English:
- •VII. Give the characteristic of British economy using
- •Reading drills
- •1. Practise the pronunciation of the following words:
- •Comments
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •I. Name the word-building elements (suffixes, prefixes) and
- •II. Give the English equivalents for:
- •V. Match each term in Column a with its definition in Column b:
- •VI. Answer the following questions:
- •VII. Translate into English:
- •Reading drills
- •1. Practise the pronunciation of the following words:
- •Comments
- •IV. Match the synonyms:
- •V. Fill in the blanks with prepositions or adverbs if necessary:
- •VI. Answer the following questions:
- •VII. Translate into English:
- •Communicative situations
- •The Present Continuous Tense
- •VI. Make the following sentences interrogative and negative:
- •VII. Give short and full answers:
- •VIII. Do as you are told and say what you are doing:
- •X. Use the Present Continuous Tense as in the pattern:
- •XV. Translate into Ukrainian:
- •XVI. Use the Present Continuous or Present Indefinite:
- •XVII. Translate into English:
- •The Construction «to be going to»
- •XVIII. Make the following sentences interrogative and negative:
- •XIX. Put the verbs in brackets into the «to be going to» form:
- •XX. Complete the sentences by using «to be going to»:
- •Exercises for individual work
- •I. Replace the Infinitives in brackets by the Present Continuous:
- •II. Change the following sentences using «to be going to»:
- •III. Use the Present Continuous or Present Indefinite:
- •IV. Translate into English:
U n I t 3
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TOPIC: ECONOMY of GREAT BRITAIN TEXT A TEXT B TEXT C GRAMMAR: Participle I. The Present Continuous Tense The Construction to be going to The Functions of the Verb to be |
Reading drills
1. Practise the pronunciation of the following words:
a) stress the first syllable:
naval, power, primarily, public, private, enterprise, industry, nationalize, government, ferrous, transport, manage, sector, service, share, agriculture, vital, rise, workforce, company, nation, partly, presence, mineral, marble, granite, tin, slate, lead, copper, zinc, valuable, textile, science;
b) stress the second syllable:
economy, industrial, developed, electric, demand, account, predominate, technology, metallurgy, percentage, deposit, accessible, considerable, employ.
Text A
Great Britain is a highly-developed naval and industrial power. Its economy was primarily based on private enterprises. However, some industries were nationalized after World War II. Now it has a mixed private- and public-enterprise economy1. The government controls the coal-mining and electric power industries, ferrous metallurgy and shipbuilding. Part of public transport, civil aviation and national bank are also managed by the state.
The main sectors of British economy are manufacturing, services and agriculture. The share of industry in GNP2 is 11 times more than that of agriculture. Manufacturing plays a vital role in British economy. It accounts for 1/5 of the GNP and employs less than 1/3 of the workforce3. Small companies predominate, though companies with 500 or more employees employ a larger percentage of the workforce.
The rise of Great Britain as an industrial nation4 was partly due to5 the presence of considerable mineral resources, the most important of them being coal and iron. Next to coal and iron the chief minerals found on the British Isles are the building stone, marble, granite, slate, lead, tin, copper, zink, salt and china clay. But in the course of the last hundred years many of Britain’s most valuable and accessible deposits have been worked out.
Coal-mining, metallurgy, textile, shipbuilding are the older branches of industry. The new industries are the chemical, electrotechnical, automobile, aeromissile and electronics. The new industries have developed hand in hand6 with science and technology and are equipped to meet present technical demands.
Big cities and towns such as London, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield and Birmingham have enterprises of nearly all branches of industry. The main centres of cotton and woolen industry are Leeds, Bradford and Manchester.
Comments
1. mixed private- and public-enterprise economy — змiшана економiка,
що ґрунтується на приватному та державному пiдприємництвi
2. GNP — ВНП (валовий нацiональний продукт)
3. workforce — робоча сила
4. industrial nation — промислова держава
5. due to — зумовленo
6. hand in hand — плiч-о-плiч