- •Unit 1. Career planning
- •Vocabulary
- •A Resume
- •Categories of an interview questions
- •Interview sample questions
- •Supplementary reading Exercise 1. Read the text about how to write a successful cv and answer the following questions.
- •Write a killer cv
- •By Margie Sheedy, Sydney Morning Herald http://content.Mycareer.Com.Au/advice-research/resume/write-a-killer-cv.Aspx
- •Unit 2. The Environmental Impacts of Transportation
- •Vocabulary
- •The Environmental Impacts of Transportation
- •Capacity* of urban transport modes per metre of infrastructure width
- •Introduction and thesis statement (Say what you want to do)
- •The body of the paper (Do it)
- •Conclusion (Say what you have done)
- •Supplementary reading Exercise 1. Read the text about the Environmental Impacts of Transportation and answer the following questions.
- •The Environmental Impacts of Transportation
- •Exercise 2. Finish the statement according to the text read.
- •Unit 3. Globalization
- •Vocabulary
- •Meanings of globalization
- •Positive impacts of globalisation
- •Negative impacts of globalisation
- •Bbc News
- •Unit 3. History of the railway transport.
- •Vocabulary
- •From the history of railway transport
- •The Oldest Railway In Russia
- •Начало строительства железных дорог в России.
- •The Trans-Siberian Mainline
- •Unit 12. Safety requirements in maintenance documentation
- •Vocabulary
- •Technical Measures Documents
- •Exercise 1. Case studies illustrate the importance of maintenance procedures. Find information about one of them and report your findings to the rest of the class.
- •Exercise 1. Read the text about railway safety and answer the following questions.
- •Railway safety
- •Unit 13. Carriage of dangerous goods
- •Hazardous materials
- •Vocabulary
- •Carriage of dangerous goods
- •Vocabulary notes:
- •Exercise 1. Read the text about transportation accidents and answer the following questions.
- •Transportation accidents
Vocabulary
Exercise 1. Some words are often used together. Fill the gaps in sentences 1-8 with a word from the list that goes with the word in bold.
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Climate __________is a long-term change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods that range from decades to millions of years.
Coal can have a heavy impact on the environment. In the same instance, cotton is the raw _________ we use the most.
The conclusion of the report pinpoints that up until now there has been no significant negative ___________ of this technology on the environment.
In common dialogue, the term fossil ____________ also includes hydrocarbon-containing natural resources that are not derived from animal or plant sources.
A diesel ___________is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine.
The satellite maps are the pictures of the Earth ____________, taken with the aid of the artificial Earth satellite.
That meeting is part of the continuing work of the Department on 22 sectors of economic activity, of which the transport __________ is one.
Air ____________ occurs when the concentrations of certain substances become high enough to cause the atmospheric environment to become toxic.
Exercise 2. Match a word in A with a word in B.
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B |
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Greenhouse gases |
a |
A greenhouse gas and by-product of any carbon combustion process (mostly involving fossil fuels) as well as being exhaled by every living organism. |
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Direct emissions |
b |
Emissions related directly to the onboard combustion of diesel or use of electricity. |
3 |
Carbon dioxide (CO2) |
c |
Many gases have a global warming potential, and are known as greenhouse gases. The Kyoto Protocol specifies six greenhouse gases: CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, and SF6 |
4 |
Noise exposure |
d |
Presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects |
5 |
Sustainability |
e |
The exposure to human ears of any noise source. |
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Pollution |
f |
The potential for long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions. |
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Impact |
g |
situated in the interior of a country rather than on the coast |
8 |
Fossil fuel |
h |
a marked effect or influence |
9 |
Inland |
i |
particle pollution such as a complex mixture of extremely small particles and liquid droplets |
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Particulate matter |
j |
any naturally occurring carbon or hydrocarbon fuel, such as coal, petroleum, peat, and natural gas, formed by the decomposition of prehistoric organisms |
Reading and translation
Exercise 1. Before you read look at the tables below and decide what the article is about.
Table 1 – Carbon dioxide (1 person, 1000 km)
Mode of transport |
Kg CO2 |
Automobile |
98 |
Train |
26 |
Plain |
85 |
Note: Plane emissions include travel to and from the airport; they are not increased to take account of the effect of emissions at high altitude.
Table 2 – Carbon dioxide (100 tons cargo, 1000 km)
Mode of transport |
Tons CO2 |
Lorry |
4.7 |
Train |
0.6 |
Inland waterway |
2.4 |
Table 3 – Atmospheric emission from railway transport services and plants (Russia)
Rail transport services and plants |
Atmospheric emission, % |
Locomotive depot |
27.3 |
Train depot |
10.8 |
Railway carriage repair works |
13.4 |
Rubble and sleeper impregnation plant |
1.6 |
Did
you know?
A
depot or
a
round house
in the UK
is
called
a shed
in the USA. A
railway
and a
wagon
in Britain
are
known as
a railroad and
a car
in America.
Exercise 2. Now read the whole text and check your answers.