- •City cadastre
- •Orenburg State University
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Look through the text and find English equivalents for the following word combinations:
- •Read the sentences and correct them if the information is wrong
- •The Concise Reference of the Orenburg Region.
- •Arrange items for plan according to text.
- •Great Britain
- •The largest city of the world
- •Washington, d. C. – Capital of the usa
- •My specialty
- •The individual and society
- •Main directions in land use planning
- •Comprehensive planning and major steps
- •Rural and agricultural land use planning
- •Bottom-up and top-down planning
- •Implementing Land Use Planning in Development Co-operation
- •Documentation of land use planning
- •Land suitability mapping
- •Land use planning as an instrument of the technical co-operation
- •Different Views
- •Core of land use planning
- •Matching land use requirements with land qualities
- •Irregular Verbs_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The largest city of the world
London, situated at the head of ocean navigation on the Thames estuary, is Britain’s capital and main communication centre. It is one of the world’s important financial centres, one of the world’s five largest cities (with Mexico City, Tokyo, Shanghai and New York) and one of the world’s three largest ports (with New York and Rotterdam).
Greater London has a working population of over seven million, of whom over a third are in manufacturing industry. London is the main centre in Britain of the clothing and food industries, of printing, of cinema production, and of the manufacture of furniture, materials for the arts, different instruments and many other specialized products. Small firms predominate in many of these industries. London is also, especially its outer ring, an important area for light engineering, chemicals and consumer goods and has some heavy engineering plants and a number of reading research establishments. It is a city of great contrasts and old traditions, of richness and poverty, of numerous museums, art galleries, theatres, beautiful squares and slums, the poor and unemployed hardly manage to make both ends meet. This is London.
Lesson 6
Read the text
USA
The United States of America (USA) is situated in the southern half of North America. The area of the USA is 7.839.000 kms without Alaska. The area of the United States is much larger than that of Europe, but almost three times smaller than that of Russia. The population of the USA is 246.8 (1989) million people.
The United States of America is a federation of states (now there are 50 states) which was established by the Constitution in 1787. Each state has its own government and its own capital city and within each state there are smaller subdivisions, of local government such as countries, townships, cities and villages. The capital of the USA is the city of Washington in the District of Columbia.
Stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, the USA borders on Canada in the north and on Mexico in the south.
The territory of the United States may be divided into three main parts: the Appalachian Mountain system in the east; the Cordillera system – in the west and the Central Plain between them.
The Great Lakes, situated on the US-Canada border, are the world’s largest fresh water basin. They are five in number, namely: Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario.
The biggest river of the United States is the Mississippi with its tributaries – the Ohio, the Missouri, and the Arkansas Rivers.
The territory of the United States is rich in natural resources. The reserves of coal, oil and metals in the USA are very large. The main iron ore deposits are concentrated near Lake Superior.
The main cities of the United States are New York, which together with its suburbs has a population of 12 million people, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Detroit.
Retell the text according to your plan