Unit 6 Text Study: Traffic Control Additional text: State Automobile Inspectorate of Ukraine

Grammar: Participle 1 and Participle 11

Absolute Participle Complex.

Text Study

1. Pre-reading exercises.

Exercise 1.Practice connected reading. Translate the following word-combinations .

Urban areas, peak-hour traffic, street widening, pedestrian subways, the congestion in urban areas, tendency for drivers, for the local traffic, a directional control, normal speed, all signs and symbols, different levels, expensive to construct, fast and slow traffic, the heavier and faster traffic, fly-over structures, urban traffic control.

Exercise 2. Memories the essential vocabulary and translate the sentences containing it.

1. pedestrian –пішохідний перехід; for the convenience of pedestrians, to avoid creating a barrier to pedestrian movement, to road sing for pedestrians to cross.

2. ownership – власність; володіння; land ownership, to own many automobile plants, the owner of the car.

3. propel – приводити; привести в рух; надавати руху; to propel a vehicle, vehicle propelled by electric motors, a self-propelled vehicle.

4. arrange -- розташовувати, розміщати, розподіляти; улаштовувати; організовувати

to arrange everything for the expedition, the arrangement of engine cylinders

5. devise – придумувати, вигадувати; винаходити, вигадати; розробляти, опрацювати

to devise various ways to improve stability of soil, a new method of calculation devised by a young engineer, a device for regulating pressure

6. moisture – вологість, вогкість; волога, сирість

to retain moisture in the soil, the moisture contained in the plants, reduction of moisture

7. harden -- твердіти, тверднути; надати твердості; гартувати, загартувати

to harden the soil by adding cement, to harden the metal at high temperature

8. auxiliary – допоміжний, додатковий

to be provided with auxiliary parts, to build numerous auxiliary structures, to know the auxiliary verbs well

9. performance - - робота, дія, діяння

the engine characterized by noise and slow performance, to develop a unit with highly efficient performance, owing to bad performance of the ignition system.

10. accustomed – звичний, звичайний, звичайне явище

to be accustomed to get up early, to get accustomed to the life in the North, drivers accustomed to conventional gasoline car engines

Exercise 3. Read the following international words and give their all possible Ukrainian equivalents.

Administrative, local, regulation, international, adequate, tendency, factor, model, reservation, industry, industrial, production, plan, section, communal, territory, effective, trolley-bus, traditional, complex, public, vertical.