7. Look through the text to find out who this text is intended for:

1. general reader;

b) students in veterinary;

c) professionals.

8. Concentrate on discovering the author’s main idea. Select the statement which best expresses the author’s main idea.

1. А partial import ban will improve the quality of food we eat.

2. Chicken imports to Russia were a sticking point in talks between Moscow and Washington.

3. Russia is one of the South American country's most important markets for steak.

4. Russia has been developing its own meat production.

9. Re-arrange the sentences in a logical order and write a summary of the article:

1 Chicken imports to Russia were a sticking point in talks between Moscow and Washington, preventing Russia's accession to the World Trade Organisation.

2. Russia is still dependent on meat imports .

3. Despite being home to some of the most fertile land in the world, Russia continues to import 40pc of its food products.

4. Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance, Rosselkhoznadzor, has partially banned meat and pork imports from Europe and the US.

5. Brazil has been hardest hit by recent bans on beef imports to Russia, which is one of the South American country's most important markets for steak.

6. Rosselkhoznadzor has ordered tighter control over beef consignments imported from Brazil and Moldova due to high proportions of anaerobic and facultative anaerobic organisms in the meat

7. . Rosselkhoznadzor claimed that it had found "excessive amounts of antibiotics" in the meat from the US.

10. Make a review of the article (Use essential vocabulary from Appendix 2 on p. )

11. Make a report about the measures to improve the situation with meat production in Russia as if you were: - a member of the Government;

• a Chief Veterinary Officer;

• a person who likes meat

(use the information from the article)

Text C

Write a letter to your friend in which tell him/ her what interesting things you’ve learnt from one of the texts below (see Appendix on p. )

It Is Interesting To Know

The chief topics of discussion in a conference room at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are ground beef, eggs, salad, almonds, and cilantro. This is no conversation about the lunch menu but a review of outbreaks nationwide of disease caused by food. At the table are 26 epidemiologists—medical detectives charged with investigating the mysterious links between contaminated food and the illness it causes.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention( CDC), each year in the United States 76 million people suffer from food-borne disease; 325,000 of them are hospitalized and 5,000 die. In the developing world contaminated food and water kill almost two million children a year. The epidemiologists are keenly aware that behind the numbing, cold-potato statistics are real people, particularly the very young and the very old, who have suffered debilitating, even lethal, disease from what most of us consider one of life's less risky activities: eating.

Among the agencies that oversee the safety of the U.S. food supply is the Department of Agriculture (USDA), charged with regulating meat and poultry and foods that contain them. It also regulates pasteurized egg products. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) addresses the safety of all other foods, including fresh produce, canned and imported foods, milk, shell eggs, seafoods, and any processed foods that do not contain meat and poultry. These agencies post periodic alerts about hazards in food—chemical contaminants, food additives, unlabeled allergenic ingredients. These are matters of serious concern. But most government officials and health experts agree: The greatest hazards today in the American food supply are not pesticide residues or dioxins or even hidden allergens but food-borne pathogens—bacteria, viruses, parasites—with the potential to harm or kill us.

(Jennifer Ackerman National Geographic magazine)