IRREGULAR VERBS

Exercise 31 Change the words initalicsinto their synonyms from the active vocabulary.

The typical resident of a big city, grown-up citizens, to declare one’s rights on the property, commuter trains, to bring electric traction into use, to be afraid of getting deep under the ground, to send out much pollution, purpose-built high-speed line, to result in the increase of carrying capacity, common types of cars, to use the latest technologies, to permit automated metros to operate safely, to comment on some important issues, the most advanced transportation means, city rail mass transit network.

Exercise 32 Find antonyms among the following words.

To empty, expensive, wide, quiet, reliable, rare, to fill, narrow, to allow, frequent, cheap, unreliable, to forbid, noisy.

Exercise 33 Complete the sentences with the verbsintroduce, frequent, warn, fill, emit, pay attention and claim.

1. He poured her a drink, then ... his own glass. 2. It is important to ... to the questions of safety on railway transport. 3. The company ... that their product ‘makes you thin without dieting’. 4. I ... you not to walk home alone. 5. Let me ... myself. 6. The bar was ... by actors from the nearby theatre. 7. The Earth ... natural radiation.

Exercise 34 Read and translate the following word combinations.

By turns, to reduce construction costs, no wonder, a sardine-box-railway, to make engineers introduce electric traction, when put into service, much more frequent services, to be finished in marble, to be treated as a kind of art, renewal of equipment, ticketing machines, passenger carrying capacity, driverless systems, high-capacity heavy metros, glass safety door barriers, warning light and sound systems, to use codes in the rails, compatible with pedestrian environments, low-floor light rail vehicles, urban rail mass transit network, to get across town quickly, for added security, more than twice as many.

Exercise 35 Pre-reading discussion.

What do you know about the history of underground? Have you heard about Light Metro? What is it like? What anniversary has the Kharkiv metro celebrated recently? If you know any interesting facts or stories about underground systems, share this information with the group.

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