![]() КАТЕГОРИИ:
АстрономияБиологияГеографияДругие языкиДругоеИнформатикаИсторияКультураЛитератураЛогикаМатематикаМедицинаМеханикаОбразованиеОхрана трудаПедагогикаПолитикаПравоПсихологияРиторикаСоциологияСпортСтроительствоТехнологияФизикаФилософияФинансыХимияЧерчениеЭкологияЭкономикаЭлектроника
|
WORD BUILDING. 7. Translate the following derivative words:
7. Translate the following derivative words:
verb + -tion/ion/ation → noun to educate – education, to adopt – adoption, to organize – organization, to produce – production, to transform – transformation, to apply – application, to vary – variation
noun + -al → adjective industry – industrial, person – personal, tradition – traditional, practice – practical, profession – professional, continent – continental, tropic – tropical
verb + -ment → noun to develop – development, to achieve – achievement, to move – movement
8. Form nouns using suffixes –ment, - tion, -ion, -ation:
to found, to settle, to detach, to separate, to govern, to introduce, to elect, to agree, to relate, to oppose, to recommend, to appoint, to communicate, to entertain, to populate, to institute, to organize, to corporate
9. Define to what parts of speech the following words belong and translate them:
builder; explorer; equipment; employment; hydraulic; assistant; electrical; useful; useless; building; inventor; invitation; connection; darkness; leadership; difference; improvement; famous; modernize; shorten; useful; dangerous; brotherhood ACTIVE VOCABULARY
10. Read and memorize the following words and word combinations:
11. Read and translate the text below focusing on the discovery of the USA:
Text 4 A The United States of America
The United States is the fourth-largest country in the world, with an area of over 9 million square kilometers. It is bordered on the north by Canada and on the south by Mexico. Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands are both states of the Union, but because of their geographical detachment from the United States, they are described under separate headings. Different parts of the USA experience extremes of heat and cold characteristic of hot tropical deserts or cold Arctic continental regions. Another feature of the weather and climate of the United States is the variation of weather over quite short periods at all seasons of the year.
The USA is a highly developed industrial country. There are coal-mines in the Cordillera Mountains, in the Kansas City region. The heavy industry is in the region of the Great Lakes, around Detroit and Chicago. Ship-building is developed along the Atlantic coast and in San Francisco on the Pacific coast. Agriculture of the USA is wide-spread and highly mechanized. The capital of the USA is Washington. The other big and important cities are New York, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles etc.
12. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words:
|