Практичне заняття № 1. Тема: Географічне розташування та політична система України

Тема: Географічне розташування та політична система України. Київ.

План роботи

1. Відповісти на зипитання. Прочитати, перекласти та вивчити напам’ять текст.

Answer the questions:

1) What is the territory of Ukraine?

2) What place does Ukraine occupy in the world as to its territory?

3) What countries does Ukraine border with?

4) What is the climate of Ukraine?

5) What Ukrainian rivers do you know?

6) What have the Black Sea and navigable rivers promoted in Ukraine?

7) What can you say about the landscape of Ukraine?

8) Why is the geographical position favorable for the development of Ukraine’s industry?

Learn by heart: the national emblems of Ukraine are the coat of arms, the flag, and the seal. The President is the highest official of the Ukrainian state. The only legislative body of Ukraine is the Parliament – The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Legislative power is exercised by a single-chamber Parliament which comprises 450 deputies. The main function of the Verkhovna Rada is making laws. The cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is the supreme executive authority. The highest judicial body is the Constitutional Court. Ukraine has a multy-party system.

1) What are drawn on the walls of Saint Michael’s Cathedral?

2) Who gave money to restore the statue of Saint Michael?

3) Who are the patron saints of Kyiv?

4) What do you know about Desyatinnaya Church? Why was it called so?

5) Where is Andreyevskiy Slope situated and why is it called so?

6) What are the museums of Kyiv?

7) Why do a lot of people gather at Maidan Nezalezhnosti?

2.Граматичний матеріал: Минулий подовжений час. The Past Continuous Tense.

Ex. 1. Make the following sentences interrogative and negative.

1. We were working at 4 o’clock yesterday. 2. She was leaving the house at that time. 3. My friends were walking in the street at 10 yesterday. 4. When I came back my mother was cooking dinner. 5. I was having a bath when the phone rang.

Ex 2. Open the brackets using the verbs in Past Simple or Past Continuous.

1. We (not to go) on a tramp last summer. 2. What you (to do) when your sister (to come) home yesterday? 3. He (not to go) to the shop yesterday. 4. Nick (to go) to bed at ten o'clock yesterday. 5. Rick (to sleep) at eleven o'clock yes­terday. 6. We (to play) badminton from nine till eleven yester­day. 7. Kate (not to go) for a walk yesterday. She (to write) a composition the whole day yesterday. 8. When your father (to come) home yesterday? - He (to come) home at seven o'clock. 9. When my father (to come) home yesterday, my mother (to make) supper. 10. I (to feed) my cat with fish yesterday.

Ex 4. Open the brackets using the verbs in Past Simple or Past Continuous.

1. The cat (to take) a piece of fish and then (to run) away. 2. I (to go) to bed at half past eleven. 3. Yesterday I (to get) up at seven o'clock. 4. At this time yesterday we (to have) dinner. 5. He (to write) a letter when I (to come) in. 6. He (to put) on his coat and cap, (to open) the door and (to go) out. 7. Yesterday he (to write) a letter to his friend. 8. When I (to look) at them, they (to smile) at me. 9. What you (to do) at six o'clock yesterday? 10. He (to come) back to St. Petersburg on the 15th of January.

3. Робота над текстом за профілем спрямування: текст ‘Problems of Ecology’

Scientists made an alarming discovery in the 1980s. They found out that the average temperature of the Earth's surface was slowly rising. This trend is called global warming. Today we know that global warming is increasing because more and more gases get into the atmosphere.