Industry of ukraine lead - in activity

Task 1. Short discussion.

1. What main branches in industry of Ukraine can you list?

2. What products does Ukraine export?

3. How does the geographical position of Ukraine affect the state of industry of our country?

4. What have to be done to develop the industry of Ukraine?

Task 2. Agree or disagree with such opinions:

1. Ukrainian young people are generally optimistic about themselves and their future. They have a desire to stay and make their careers and raise their families in Ukraine.

2. Ukraine is interesting, wild and free country.

3. Visits to the Ukraine consist mainly of those travelling to work or visiting relations.

4. Ukraine is rich in natural resources.

READING

Task 3. Read the following words and give their Ukrainian equivalents. Make up sentence with these words.

approximately, multi-branch, non-ferrous metallurgy, bituminous coal, high-capacity, customer goods, in addition, for instance.

Task 4. Read and translate the text:

Industry of Ukraine

Ukraine is an industrial and agricultural country. Most of the gross national product comes from metallurgy, chemical industry, machine building and food industry.

Ukraine has extremely rich mineral resources in high concentrations and close to each other. Rich iron ore reserves located near Kryvy Rih, Kremenchuk, Bilozerka, Mariupol, and Kerch form the basis of Ukraine's large iron and steel industry. Energy for thermal power stations is obtained using the large reserves of brown coal in the Dnipro basin (north of Kryvy Rih) and the bituminous coal deposits of the Lviv-Volhynian Basin north of Lviv. The 3 major natural-gas and petroleum producing areas in Ukraine are the Sub Carpathian region, the Dnipro-Donets region and the Crimean region.One of the richest areas of manganese-bearing ores in the world is located near Nikopol.

Ukraine fully satisfies its needs in minerals but it still has to import some of them. So, oil and gas are imported from Russia and Turkmenistan as the oil and gas deposits of Ukraine cannot satisfy country’s needs in these energy resources.

By the mid-80s a multi-branch, developed industry was created in Ukraine covering about 20 major industries, namely power generating, fuel, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, chemical and petrochemical and gas, machine-building and metal-working, light, food and others.

Ukraine has four nuclear power stations with fifteen reactors. In addition there are 47 thermal power stations, 6 large hydraulic power stations on the Dnieper and 55 small stations on other rivers.

In the coal-mining industry, more than 300 mines are operated in three coal-mining regions. Approximately 200 large enterprises are operating in ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, pipe and rolling industry. These include the world largest complexes for the production of cast iron, steel, rolled stock and pipes in Dniepropetrovsk, Zaporozhje, Donetsk, Makeevka, Mariupol and other cities.

The mechanical engineering sector is represented by enterprises producing metallurgical, oil, chemical, mining, power generating, railway, road construction and transportation equipment, machinery for agriculture, light and food industry, metal-cutting machine tools, instrumentation.

Altogether, the industry of Ukraine includes more than 10000 state and joint stock enterprises, which operate in various industries.