It is twelve years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster

Fifty thousand people used to live in Pripyat, a town built for the Chernobyl nuclear power station workers and their families a mile or so away from the nuclear plant. Following the world's worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in April 1986, the town is now so contaminated that it's unlikely anyone will ever live there again.

Pripyat is at the centre of the forbidden zone, a circle, 30 kilometers across, which has been sealed off from the outside world. At the control point on the edge of the zone. special buses take power station workers and visitors to the two reactors which are stilt operating — a third was destroyed by fire in 1991. For the media, it has become a tourist trail S 100 for the coach ride, $25 per person for lunch and a fee for permission to film For the workers, it's a less attractive tour — the average pay is $50 a month and there's a constant threat of exposure to radiation poisoning from the concrete sarcophagus which was built to contain the radioactive debris of what remains of reactor number four.

However, the zone is not as forbidden as it's supposed to be. The fence around it is falling apart in places and there aren't enough police to patrol the area. Although the authorities say they evacuated tens of thousands of people in the hours immediately after the 1986 explosion, the villagers tell a different story. '

The local militia turns a blind eye to the groups of people who have moved back into the zone. They even occasionally.help them by.bringing supplies as well as news of what's going on in the. world. They're far more concerned about outsiders who come to rot the abandoned homes.

Wildlife has greatly increased here, now that the area has been largely abandoned by people. The villagers that remain complain of the wild boar digging up the little land they farm and they tell us there are wolves who come around their homes at night.

The Chernobyl power station supplies 7% of Ukraine's electricity and, without an alternative, politicians keep the reactors operating. (Parliament had promised to close Chernobyl in 1991 but last year changed its mind.)

Enormous sums or money are required to rebuild Ukraine's energy sector.

Ex.3 Discuss the problem “Chornobyl nuclear accident” and “ It is twelve years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster”, make up the dialogue using the texts and your own information

Ex.4 Translate the object and attributive clauses;

1. I know where I left it. 2. They said they knew everything. 3. He was thinking of what he would do. 4. It depends on what you mean. 5. I thought you were asleep. 6. I thought you had left Moscow. 7. I thought he would never come here again. 8. Seeing that the baby was sleepy, mother put it to bed. 9. The boy whose bicycle I took is my friend. 10. The village where he was born has changed very much. 11. There were periods when they did not see him for a week at a time. 12. He looked at the watch that lay on the table. 13. The boy opened the book he held in his hand. 14. The house in which we live is in the centre of the town. 15. He opened the letter she had brought. 16. He is not the man I am looking for.

Ex.5 Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian and form questions to the subordinate clauses:

1. The play that we saw yesterday is not very good. 2. Here is the shop where I bought the book. 3. The teacher says we shall write our test on Monday. 4. My father says that there is an interesting article in today’s newspaper. 5. Many machine-tools which lighten labour have been produced at Ukrainian plants.

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