Comprehension of the Text

III.1. Read the text again and translate it into Russian orally.

2. Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) in relation to the information in the text. If you think a statement is false, change it to make it true.

1. Great Britain is an agricultural country.

2. Great Britain is rich in natural resources, such as oil, copper, zinc and others.

3. Great Britain exports raw materials.

4. Very few people are employed in the mining and manufacturing industries in Great Britain.

5. Britain’s industry produces mostly cheap low quality goods.

6. Britain’s industry is concentrated in one area.

3. Answer the following questions :

1. What are the main industries in Great Britain?

2. What are the main industrial centers of Great Britain?

3. What kinds of farms are there in Great Britain?

4. What arable crops are grown in the country?

5. What does Britain import and export?

6. What is the characteristic feature of Britain’s industry?

Speaking

IV.1. Retell the text in English.

2. Say how you assess the economic situation in our country.

Activity work № 3

The topic: Public Holidays and Celebrations in Great Britain

The objective: Comprehension of the text.

Oral and written utterances on the topic studied.

Literature:

1. Английский язык для инженеров: Учеб./ т.Ю. Полякова, е.В. Синявская, о.И. Тынкова, э.С. Улановская. – 5-е изд., стереотип. – м.: Высш. Шк., 2000.

2. Большой англо-русский словарь (любой издание).

3. Читаем. Говорим. Слушаем. Деловой английский для начинающих.- Любимцева С.Н., Памухина Л.Г. М.: ГИС, 1998.

4. Учебник английского языка для сельскохозяйственных и лесотехнических вузов/ и.З. Новоселова, е.С. Александрова, л.Е. Гринцева и др. – 4-е изд., перераб. – м.: Высш. Шк., 2010.

5. О Соединенном Королевстве Великобритании и Северной Ирландии.-Е. Костина.-М.: Московский Лицей, 2000.

The work consists of four stages:

Stage 1 (Preparatory) to revise grammar you will touch in the text

Stage 2 (Lexical and Grammar Exercises on the Text) to read, to translate the text and to do the exercises.

Stage III (Comprehension of the text): to do textual exercises.

Stage IV (Speaking): to prepare and to speak about the topic.

Preparatory Stage

I.1. Revise the following grammar:

Tenses: a) Present Simple Active and Passive [1, p. 336 – 367, 369-370],

[4, p. 53- 58, 66-70, 81-85, 147-152]

b) Present Perfect Active and Passive [1, p. 376-379], [4, p. 131-134,

150- 151]

c) [1, p. 383-386], [4, p. 118,130-131]

Word – building: suffixes of nous, adjectives and adverbs [1, p. 355-361, 409]

2.Before you start working at the text translate the following words. Try to remember them:

Christmas Day

Boxing Day

Good Friday

Easter Monday

Spring Bank Holiday

Pancake Day

Lexical and grammar work on the texts

II.1.Read and translate: Public Holidays and Celebrations British Holidays

There are many holidays in the United Kingdom. They are espe­cially rich in old traditions and are different in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. For example, Christmas is a great English national holiday, and in Scotland it is less popular and all the shops, mills and factories are working. But six days later, on New Year's Eve, the Scotch begin to enjoy themselves. All tie shops, mills and factories are closed on New Year's Day. In England New Year's Day is not popular, in spite of the Day's symbolic significance.

Pancake Day, on the eve of Lent, was traditionally a day to make pancakes in order to use up all the butter and eggs that would not be allowed during Lent. In an annual race held in Olney since 1945, women run 380 metres, each carrying; a pan and a pan­cake that must be flipped three times.

Mothering Sunday, traditionally the fourth Sunday in Lent, is a day to visit one's mother, bearing a cake or flowers.

On the second Sunday in November, Remembrance Day com­memorates those who died in World Wars I and II and later con­flicts. Red paper poppies are sold by the British Legion to raise money for veterans.

There are three traditional Mondays, on which banks and other businesses close in Britain. These are the so-called «Bank Holidays».

The bank holidays include Easter Monday, Whit Monday and the last Monday in August.

The British spend these holidays in different ways. They like to go out of town into the open air. They go to the seaside or to amusement parks.

Londoners often visit the Zoo, outside London, but the residents of the working people part of London (who are called «cockneys») like to visit Hampstead Heath, a large natural park, where there is a big fair on the Bank Holidays. There are many different amusements for children and young people at these fairs — merry-go-rounds, swings, a puppet show. Everybody buys bright balloons and paper hats and this makes everybody merry. A very important event is the com­ing of the Pearly Kings and Queens — these are cockneys who have sewed pearl buttons all over their dresses and suits. And their hats also have many pearl buttons on them. Those of them that have the most beautiful costumes are named Pearly King and Queen for one year.