Економіко-технологічний технікум Херсонського національного технічного університету

1. The Present Perfect Tense – утворення і вживання.

2. Аналіз складу тканини та її властивостей.

3. Переклад тексту з англійської мови.

1. Cotton is the most important vegetable fibres used in the textile industry.

2. The cotton fibre is a soft substance growing around the cotton seeds. When the seeds are ripening their fibres spring out of the burst boll and are picked manually or mechanically. Having been picked$ cotton is mechanically cleaned and separated from the seeds, and then, subjected to further treatment.

3. The ease with which cotton fibre can be transformed into yarn and its suitability for all forms of woven and knitted fabrics, together with its cheapness of production, have caused it to take the leading place among textiles.

4. The cotton plant is usually grown as an annual and requires a warm climate. The leading cotton-cultivating countries are the Uzbekistan, the South of the USA, India, Pakistan, the South-American countries, Egypt and China.

5. The strength of cotton fibres is relatively high compared with their fineness and it further increases when wet.

Cotton fibres are not very elastic, that is why cotton fabrics crease easily. Absorbing moisture well cotton fibres can be easily dyed; as cotton fibres are good conductors of hest, cotton textiles have a cooling effect in hot weather.

1. Питальні речення, їх види.

2. Аналіз складу тканини та її властивостей.

3. Переклад тексту з англійської мови.

1. Flax seems to be the oldest of textile fibres. We know linen cloth to have been discovered in the late dwellings of the unknown inhabitants of Europe, where no traces of wool can be found. It is certainly the most lasting of fibers for considerable quantities of it are actually preserved for us in Egyptian tombs, some of which are acknowledged to be fifty centuries old.

2. All things considered, we may suppose linen to be the oldest textile fibre. At any rate, flax is known to have been cultivated in Egypt 5000 years ago, and for centuries it was the only textile fibre in the land.

3. The cultivation of the flax and spinning and weaving of the linen were illustrated on the walls of Egyptian palaces, temples and tombs. The Egyptians are known to have been dressed almost entirely in linen. For many hundreds of years Egypt was the greatest linen producing country in the world.

4. In later years the use of linen spread to Greece, and to Rome, where it is supposed to have been used not only for women s clothing and handkerchiefs, but also for ship sails, though not for outer garments. The Romans thought linen to be a great luxury.