Give the main idea of the text. Unit 6. Тема: Великобритания The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The official name of the country is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland.
Its area is 244,046 square kilometers
The capital of the UK is London. The country is located in the North West of Europe. It is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel and the North Sea.
The main rivers of the UK are the Thames, the Tees, the Tweed, the Trent. The geographical position has made the United Kingdom a commercial and maritime power.
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and it is made up of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
What countries does the UK consist of? Find them on the map
Поработайте с картой и выпишите основные характеристики по предложенным пунктам
- The UK consists of…
- The UK is washed by …
- The mountains of the UK are…
- The rivers of the UK are …
- The main ports of the UK are …
- The capital of the UK is …
- The capital of England is …
- The capital of Scotland is …
- The capital of Wales is …
- The capital of the Northern Ireland is …
Economy of the uk
Look at the table on page 75 (Агабекян И.П. Английский для экономистов) and answer the questions:
What is the English currency?
What industries are developed in the UK?
How much GDP is devoted to agriculture? Industry? Services?
What are UK’s main trading partners?
2.Write down the English equivalents:
текстильная промышленность
угольная промышленность
химическая промышленность
электротехническая промышленность
авиационная промышленность
швейная промышленность
легкая промышленность
тяжелая промышленность
аэрокосмическая промышленность _______
3.Translate the text on page 75-76 and answer the questions on page 78
What can you say about service industry? Is tourism important to Englishmen ?
What can you say about agriculture?
What are the most popular crops In the UK?
What are the most popular types of livestock in the UK?
4.Translate the sentences in Ex.53 page 78 (1-4-1 вариант, 5,8,9,10-2 вариант)
5. Составьте свои предложения со следующими словами: financial centre, unemployment, inflation, shares of GDP, fossil fuels, decline, livestock, interest rate
6. Retell the text about economy of the uk.
Translate the text
Тема: ввп gross domestic product
Gross Domestic Product or GDP is the amount of money a country makes from goods and services inside the country for a certain period of time, usually for a year.
When GDP calculated different sectors of economy are analyzed. In the United Kingdom the following sectors of economy are usually analyzed: manufacturing, services (financial, professional and scientific services, liesure and-tourism), energy (oil, natural gas, coal) and agriculture. In the United States the following sectors of economy are usually analyzed when the GDP is defined: construction and manufacturing; trade and finance; transport, communication and services; agriculture; and mining. Speaking, as an example, about one of the recent year"s GDP figures, the following can be quoted:
In the U.K. the services sector accounted for roughly 60 percent of Gross Domestic Product. Manufacturing sector accounted for a small percentage of gross domestic product. Energy production sector accounted for about 8 percent of GDP. Agriculture - only for 4 per cent of GDP. But the agricultural sector satisfies two-thirds of the country"s needs. And only a small amount of the total population, about 2 per cent, are engaged in agriculture. In the U.S.A. the construction and manufacturing sector accounted for 40 per cent of GDP; trade and finance earned 25 per cent of GDP; transport, communication and services sector earned 20 per cent of GDP; agriculture and mining earned 5 per cent of GDP. By the way 10 per cent of the employed population of the United States is engaged in agriculture.