My Native Place (Primorye)

Words to be remembered.

1.to cover – занимать

2.area – площадь

3. to separate – отделять

4.extremity – конец, край

5.valuable – ценный

6.larch – лиственница

7.spruce [spru:s] – канадская ель

8.pine – сосна

9.yew-tree [ju:] – тис

10.medicinal [me 'disinl] – лекарственный

11.ginseng ['dzinseŋ] – жень-шень

12. Daurian rose - шиповник

13. hawthorn - боярышник

14. actinidia – кишмиш

15.sea buckthorn – облепиха

16.cork tree – Амурский бархат, пробковое дерево

17.honeysuckle ['hΛnisΛkl] – жимолость

18.schizandra [ski 'zændr¶] – лимонник

19.Amur chockecherry ['t∫k¶∫t ¶ri] – черемуха

20.fauna ['fo:n¶] - фауна

21.unique [ju 'ni:k] - уникальный

22.playground – место обитания

23.roe [rou] – косуля

24.lynx - рысь

25.to prohibit [pr¶ 'hibit] – запрещать

26.sable [seibl] – соболь

27.kolinsky [k¶ 'linski] – колонок

28.mink – норка

29.badger – барсук

30.manifold – разнообразный

31.to match - соответствовать

32.salmon ['sæm¶n] – лосось

33.shrimp – креветка

34.mussel – мидия

35.scallope ['skol¶p] – гребешок

36.smelt – корюшка

37.sole – камбала

38.herring - сельдь

39. to plough [plau] – пахать

40.courageous [k¶ 'reid¯¶s ] – мужественный

41.timber – лесной

42.bay – бухта

43.gulf – залив

44.mining ['mainiŋ] – горная промышленность

45.repairing – ремонт

46.engineering – машиностроение

47.supply [s¶'plai] – запас

Exercises (Pre-reading tasks).

1. Practise the pronunciation of the following words:

cover ['kΛv¶], enough [I'nΛf], Belgium ['beld¯Im], Switzerland ['swIts¶l¶nd], southern ['sΛðn], extremities [Iks 'trI:mItIz], iron ['aI¶n], plant [pla:nt], unique [ju'nI:k], beast [bI:st], prohibited [pr¶‚hIbItId], wealth [welθ], trepangs [trI'pæŋz], value ['vælju], century ['sent∫¶rI], ago [¶'gou], mechanized ['mek¶naIzd], furniture ['f¶:nIt∫¶], explorer [Iks'pl:r¶], hawthorn ['h:θ:n ]

2. Read and guess the meaning of the following words:

occupy, nature, zinc, wolfram, metal, mineral, taiga, botanical, apricot, medicinal, ginseng, sable, delicatessen, crab, port, industry, engineering

3. Read and translate the following derivatives paying attention to the suffixes and prefixes:

occupy – occupant – occupation, separate – separately – separation, extreme – extremity – extremely – extremist, value – valuable, real – really – realism – realistic – reality, medicine – medicinal, hunt – hunting – hunter, invade – invader – invasion, courage – courageous, power – powerful – powerless, industry – industrial – industrialization, explore – exploration, explorer.