Lesson 5. Exercises Check your Grammar!

1. Translate the sentences paying attention to the Participles:

1. A branch of a foreign company is a part of a company incorporated outside Great Britain but acting under the law of the UK.

2. A corporation is owned by persons called stockholders.

3. The basic metals and minerals mined in the United States are zinc, copper and silver.

4. In the 19^th century Britain dominated international trade, accounting for about one-third of world’s exports.

2. Translate the following sentences in the Passive Voice:

1. American industry is distributed unevenly.

2. The land is fertile and well watered.

3. California fruits, wines and vegetables will be shipped all over the States and to other parts of the world.

4. The U.K. is considered one of the world’s major manufacturing nations.

5. Now high technology industries are more developed than heavy engineering.

6. More and more new factories were built in the different parts of the country.

7. Three quarters of the United Kingdom’s land is dedicated to agriculture.

8. About two per cent of the population of the U.K. are engaged in agriculture.

9. Great emphasis was made on the development of the war industry.

10. Though a great deal of the ore has been used up, its resources have not been exhausted.

11. Throughout American industry great emphasis is being made on management training.

12. Most of the industrial enterprises are located in the eastern part of the country.

Work at the words!

3. Read the following words with the suffix –tion:

Corporation, nation, production, distinction, population, position, proportion, residential, imitation, financial, commercial, cultivation, traditional, precision, international, attention, mechanisation, automation, transportation, communication

4. Check the meaning of the following words, translate the definitions:

1. Business is the production, buying and selling of goods and services.

2. A business, company or firm is an organisation that sells goods and services.

3. Goods or products are something that is produced or manufactured and sold, often in large numbers.

4. Services are activities such as banking, tourism or entertainment that contribute to the economy.

5. When a private company is bought by the state and brought into the public sector, it is nationalised. A nationalised company is state-owned.

6. When the state returns a company to the private sector, it is privatised. This process is called privatisation.

Conversation practice.

5. Find the wrong sentences, correct them:

1. The USA has very few natural resources.

2. Four fifths of the iron ore comes from California.

3. Most of the coal mined in the USA is used by power plants to produce electricity.

4. The resources of iron ore and coal in the USA have been completely exhausted.

5. The USA has no heavy industry.

6. Automation helps to do away with unemployment in the USA.

7. Most of the industrial enterprises are located in the western part of the country.

8. The leading exports of the USA are fruit and vegetables.

6. Here are the answers. What were the questions?

1. The main natural resources of the USA are iron ore, coal and oil.

2. It produces more than 100 million tons of iron a year.

3. No, the resources of iron ore haven’t been exhausted.

4. Most of the iron ore is mined in the region of the Great Lakes.

5. Coal is used for the manufacture of plastics and other synthetics and also for the production of electricity.

6. Oil is mostly used for the production of petrol.

7. The main branches of America’s heavy industry are mining, engineering, the metallurgical, automobile, chemical and war industries.

8. Yes, light industry is highly developed too.

9. No, the number of workers hasn’t increased greatly in the past few years, but the number of scientists and engineers has almost doubled.

10. In the eastern part of the country.

11. Good transportation facilities.

12. Industrial and electrical machinery, oil products, chemicals, grain, coal and textiles.