Как вести себя в лондонском автобусе?
Сразу после входа необходимо оплатить проезд: в центре Лондона билет для взрослого стоит £2. За проезд заплатить можно водителю или воспользоваться сканером для билетов (ticket reader) если у вас уже есть билет. На некоторых маршрутах нельзя оплатить проезд наличными в самом автобусе. На всех остановках таких маршрутов установлены автоматы по продаже билетов, в которых вам необходимо приобрести билет. Если вы не оплатите поездку или у вас будет неверный билет, вас оштрафуют.
Если вам необходимо выйти, нажмите на кнопку специального звонка. Это не стоит делать, если кто-либо уже позвонил до вас. 
Все автобусы оснащены двусторонней связью с водителем, а во многих установлены внутренние видеокамеры. Курение в Лондонских автобусах запрещено.
Ночные автобусные маршруты.
В центре Лондона действует много ночных автобусных маршрутов, связывающих Трафальгарскую площадь, театры, кинотеатры и места отдыха и развлечений. На таких маршрутах все остановки считаются остановками "по требованию". Поэтому для посадки в него надо "голосовать", а для выхода из него - позвонить в звонок. Стоимость проезда на ночных маршрутах такая же, как и днем, но детские билеты не действительны - оплата производится по взрослому тарифу.
Лондонское метро
Лондонское метро - первая подземная железная дорога в мире. Первая линия была пущена в 1863 году, а уже в 1906 по линиям метро пошли поезда на электрической тяге. Сейчас Лондонское метро или "труба" – The Tube - как его здесь называют - одно из крупнейших в мире: 275 станций на 12 линиях.
Метро работает с 5:30 до 24 часов по будням и субботам и с 7:00 до 23:00 по воскресеньям. Утренний час пик заканчивается примерно в 9:30, вечерний продолжается с 16 до 19 часов.
Оплата проезда в метро Лондона.
Все станции метро поделены на 6 зон: 1 зона - это центр Лондона, 6 зона - окраины. Стоимость билета зависит от количества проезжаемых зон. Одна поездка внутри первой зоны стоит £1.50 для взрослых и £0.60 для детей. Если взрослый путешествует с действующим билетом, то он может провезти собой в метро до четырех детей младше 11 лет бесплатно. Если вы планируете совершить несколько поездок, то выгоднее приобрести Travelcard. Они бывают сроком на год, месяц, неделю или день. Поездка на один день в пиковый сезон стоит £6.60. Карты Travelcard действительны для оплаты поездок как в метро, так и в автобусах и на некоторых пригородных поездах. Билеты можно приобрести на всех станциях метро, в кассах или автоматах. В случае, если касса закрыта, а в автомате нет нужного вам проездного, то можно купить простой билет, а, приехав на станцию назначения, обменять его на необходимый вам, доплатив разницу в цене. Штраф за безбилетный проезд составляет £20.
Unit 3. The Place I live in. My Country.
A land flowing with milk and honey.
Bible: Exodus, III, 8.
Nature is a house to dwell in.
Charles Lamb
Recommended grammar:
Modals.
BUILDING-UP YOUR VOCABULARY
Russia or Russian Federation (Russian Rossiyskaya Federatsiya), is an independent republic in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia, the world’s largest country by area. In general, Russia’s climate is similar to that of Canada. Much of the land lies north of the 50th parallel of latitude and far from the moderating influences of oceans. Like Canada, although colder and with greater temperature extremes in many places, most of Russia has a harsh continental climate. Although climate, and to some degree soils, limit the country’s agricultural wealth, mineral wealth is considerable: Russia’s mineral resources are unmatched by any other country.
Russia’s borders measure more than 20,100 km (12,500 miles). In the north Russia is bounded by extensions of the Arctic Ocean: the Barents, Kara, Laptev, East Siberian, and Chukchi seas. In the east the country is bounded by the Pacific Ocean and several of its extensions: the Bering Strait (which separates Russia from Alaska), the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the Sea of Japan (East Sea). In the extreme southeast Russia abutsthe northeastern tip of North Korea. In the south it is bounded by China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and the Black Sea. In the southwest it is bounded by the Ukraine, and in the west by Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, the Gulf of Finland, and Finland. In the extreme northwest, Russia is bounded by Norway. Lithuania and Poland border Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea.
The capital and largest city is Moscow. Administratively until 2005, Russia included 89 subjects of the Federation: 21 republics; 6 territories known as krays; 10 national areas called okrugs; 49 regions, or oblasts; 1 autonomous oblast; and 2 cities with federal status. In 2004 there was initiated a process of consolidation of national areas with bigger subjects. So far the people of 5 okrugs have supported this process.
In both total area and geographic extent Russia is the largest country in the world. With an area of 17,075,200 sq km (6,592,800 sq miles), Russia constitutes more than one-ninth of the world’s land area and nearly twice the area of the United States or China. From north to south Russia extends more than 4,000 km (2,400 miles) from Arctic islands in the Barents Sea to the southern border along the Caucasus mountains. From the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea to Big Diomede Island (Ratmanov Island) in the Bering Strait, Russia’s maximum east-west extent is almost 10,000 km (6,200 miles), a distance encompassing 11 time zones and spanningnearly half the circumference of the Earth. Russia stretches across parts of two continents, Europe and Asia, with the Urals and The Ural River marking the boundary between them.
Russia’s principal islands lie in the Arctic and Pacific oceans and their extensions. Farthest north, in the Arctic Ocean, is Franz Josef Land, an archipelago consisting of about 100 small islands. The other main Arctic islands, from west to east, include the two islands of Novaya Zemlya, Vaygach Island, the group of islands called Severnaya Zemlya, the New Siberian Islands, and Wrangel Island. Between these major islands lie numerous small islands and island chains. In the Pacific ocean are the Kuril Islands, which extend southwest in an arc from the Kamchatka peninsula to the main islands of Japan. Russia occupies and administers all the Kuril Islands, although ownership of the southernmost islands is disputed with Japan. The Pacific also includes the large island of Sakhalin, which separates the Seas of Okhotsk and Japan.
Russia contains complex geologic structures and surface formations. Very simply, however, the landmass consists of vast plains in the west and north, and a discontinuous belt of mountains and plateaus in the south and east. The upland and mountainous regions include most of Siberia and extend to the Pacific.
Russia can be divided into several broad geographic regions. From east to west they are the Great European Plain; the Ural Mountains; the mountain systems and ranges along much of Russia’s southern border; and the lowlands and uplands of Siberia, including the West Siberian Plain, the Central Siberian Plateau, and the mountain ranges of northeastern Siberia.
1. forest tree copse beach wood
2. road peak footpath track lane
3. mountain hillock shore hill mountain range
4. gorge plain waterfall hollow valley
5. gulf ridge inlet bay cove
6. cliff brook river estuary stream
7. city continent tributary county country
8. pond puddle ocean cape lake
| depopulation * mountainous * urban sprawl * fertile * ridge * cliff * coast * densely populated * under-developed * summit * industrialized * peninsula * shore vegetation * glacier * beach * plateau * irrigation * conurbation * cape * source * coastline * tributary * waterfall * mouth * peak * overcrowding * highlands * |
| Geographical features associated with water and the sea | Geographical features associated with land, hills and mountains |
| Words associated with agriculture and rural land | Words associated with towns and cities |
The climate in Russia is varied. It is mainly _______ and continental. Russia is rich in ______ : coal, iron, oil, gas, ferrous and non-ferrous metals and many others.
(a) Holland Eire
(b) Iran The Netherlands
(c) Myanmar Ulster
(d) Sri Lanka Persia
(e) The Republic of Ireland Ceylon
(f) Northern Ireland Burma
(a) England and (Great) Britain (b) (Great) Britain and the United Kingdom
(c) (Great) Britain and the British Isles
(d) Europe and Continental Europe
(e) The Middle East and the Far East
(f) India and the Indian Subcontinent
(g) America and North America
(h) South America and Latin America
(i) The Arctic and the Antarctic
(j) Australia and Australasia
(k) South Africa and Southern Africa
(a) The European Union Countries (d) The West Indies
(b) The (British) Commonwealth (e) The Gulf States
(c) The NATO Countries (f) The Third World
(a) The States (b) Down Under (c) The Land of the Rising Sun
(d) The Emerald Isle (e) The Celestial
We began our journey in the capital, Triguengos, a (1) _________ conurbation of almost ten million. It is not a pretty place; heavily (2) ________, with huge factories belching out black fumes, and miles of (3) ________ as housing estates and shopping centres spread out from the (4) _________ centre for miles. It was a relief to leave.
As soon as we got into the coutryside, things improved considerably. The climate is dry and it is difficult to grow anything, but thanks to (5) _______, which helps bring water in from the Rio Cauto (the huge river with its (6) ______ high up in the snow-covered (7) _______ of the Sierra Maestra (8) __________), the land is fertile enough to grow the sugar cane on which much of the economy is based. We saw few people, however, as many have moved to the towns and cities to look for more profitable work. It is largely due to this rural (9) ________ that sugar-cane industry is suffering.
Further south and we entered the Hoguin (10) _______, with mountains rising high above us on both sides. The land here drops sharply to the sea and the slow-moving waters of the Rio Cauto give way to (11) _____ which tumble over cliffs, and small, fast-moving (12) ________ which are not even wide enough to take a boat. At this point, the road we were traveling along became a (13) _______ which was only just wide enough for our vehicle, and then an unpaved (14) ________ which almost shook the vehicle to pieces.
And then suddenly, the Pacific (15) _________ was in front of us. Our destination was the town of Santiago de Gibara, built on a (16) _______ sticking out into the blue waters. The countryside here undulatesgently, with low (17) _____ covered in rich tropical jungle. The open (18) ______ surrounding the (19) _______ of the Rio Cauto as it reaches the ocean is rich and (20) _________, ideal for growing the tobacco plants, which need a lot of warm and damp soil.
That night I lay in my cheap hotel, listening to the waves gently lapping the (21) ________, and when eventually fell asleep, I dreamt of the people who first inhabited this (22) __________ almost two thousand years before.
The broad zones of natural vegetation and soils correspond closely to the country’s climate zones. Summers are too cool for trees in the far north, where tundra vegetation of mosses, lichens, and low shrubs grows instead. Permafrost, or permanently frozen subsoil, is found throughout this region. There is a polar desert zone on several Arctic islands to the north of the tundra zone; the vegetation in this zone consists of a limited number of moss and lichen groupings scattered in patches.
Russia’s forests, located mostly in Siberia, cover more than two-fifths of the country’s total territory (1/4 of the world’s total forested area). The forest zone has two distinct areas: a large, mainly coniferous forest, or taiga, lies in the north, and a much smaller area of mixed forest lies in the south.
The taiga occupies two-fifths of European Russia and extends across the Urals to cover much of Siberia. Much of the taiga also has permafrost. This vast zone is made up primarily of coniferous trees, but birch, poplar, aspen, willow and other deciduous trees also grow there. The taiga contains the world’s largest coniferous forest, representing about one-third of the world’s softwood timber. Larch, a deciduous conifer, becomes dominant throughout much of the Central Siberian Plateau and the mountains of eastern Siberia.
Large areas of taiga zone are devoid of trees, particularly where the soil is poorly drained. In these areas marsh grasses and bushes form the vegetative cover. The taiga contains infertile, acidic soils known as ultisols, or podzols.
A mixed forest, containing both coniferous and broad-leaved deciduous trees, occupies the central portion of the Great European Plain between Saint Petersburg and the Ukrainian border. The mixed forest is dominated by coniferous evergreen trees in the north and broad-leaved trees in the south. The principal broad-leaved species are oak, beech, maple, and hornbeam. Gray-brown soils are found in the mixed forest zone.
To the south, the mixed forest transitions through a narrow zone of forest-steppe and then passes into the zone of a true steppe. The natural vegetation of a forest-steppe is grassland with scattered groves of trees. At present much of Russia’s forest-steppe is under cultivation. The natural vegetation of a true steppe consists of a mixture of grasses with only a few stunted trees in sheltered valleys.
Both the forest-steppe and the steppe have fertile soils and together form a region known as the chernozem, or black-earth, belt; this is the agricultural heartland of Russia. Soils in the chernozem belt are high in humus content and have a balance of minerals that is suitable for most crops.
The forest-steppe has a better moisture supply than the steppe during the growing season, and consequently it is the best agricultural area of Russia. The chestnut and brown soils of the southern steppe are not as rich in humus as the chernozems to the north, but they are high in mineral content and can be productive with adequate moisture.
| climatic zone | animals | birds |
Animal life is abundant and varied throughout Russia. The tundra, which spans the Arctic and northern Pacific coasts and encompasses Russia’s offshore Arctic islands, is home to polar bears, seals, walruses, arctic foxes, lemmings, reindeer, and arctic hares. Birdlife includes white partridges, snowy owls, gulls, and loons. Geese, swans, and ducks migrate into the region during summer, a time when huge swarms of mosquitoes, gnats, and other insects emerge. South of the tundra, the taiga is a habitat for elks, brown bears, lynx, sables, and a variety of forest birds, including owls and nightingales. Swamps in this zone have been stocked with muskrats from Canada. Muskrats and squirrels are now the main source of pelts trapped in the wild. The broad-leaved forests of the Great European and West Siberian plains contain boars, deer, wolves, foxes, and minks. There are also a variety of birds, snakes, lizards, and tortoises. The forests in the southern part of far eastern Russia are known for the Siberian tiger - the largest cat in the world - as well as leopards, bears, and deer. The steppe primarily contains rodents such as marmots and hamsters, but there are also a few species of hoofed animals, including antelope. The main beasts of prey are steppe polecats and Tatar foxes. Bird life includes cranes and eagles. The Caucasus region is particularly abundant in wildlife, including mountain goats, chamois, Caucasian deer, wild boars, porcupines, leopards, hyenas, jackals, squirrels, and bears. There is also a variety of game fowl, including black grouses, turkey hens, and stone partridges. Reptiles and amphibians are also numerous in the Caucasus region.
Many animal species are threatened or endangered, including the snow leopard and the Siberian tiger. A great number of threatened or endangered species are found in far eastern Russia, including Chinese egrets, red-crowned cranes, and Nordmann’s greenshanks.
General expressions:What kind (sort) of weather is it? / What is the weather like? How’s the weather?
The weather may be: fine/ jolly/ marvelous/ lovely/ glorious, bright/ sunny, soft/ mild, bad/ awful/ filthy/ nasty/ wretched/ beastly/ dreary/ dull, misty/ foggy, damp/ raw /moist, chilly, dry, sultry/ hot/ stuffy, frosty, stormy, windy, variable/ broken/ unsettled
A: What oppressive/ sultry weather!
B: Yes, isn’t it stifling/ heavy/ close(informal)?
A: Isn’t it humid today?
B: Yes, horribly muggy/ clammy(informal)!
It looks as if we are going to have snow.
The weather is improving.
I hope it’ll keep fine.
Warm weather:What lovely weather!
After the thunderstorm the air is remarkably fresh.
It’s unbearably hot today.
How stifling the air is! (It’s suffocating!)
The heat is abating/ decreasing.
A: It’s hot, isn’t it?
B: Yes, it’s boiling/sweltering/ roasting!(Informal)
Cold weather:It freezes. / It’s freezing.
It’s perishing cold. / It’s precious cold. / The cold searched my marrow. / I am chilled to the marrow. / The very marrow in my bones is cold.
A: Bit chilly today, isn’t it?
B: Yes, it’s freezing/ nippy ((informal), isn’t it?
It’s below freezing point.
The air was stingingly cold, but not at freezing point.
It’s a sharp frost, isn’t it?
The air is frosty.
I feel chilly /cold.
It’s uncommonly cold after the rain.
The sky:cirrus (wispy) clouds (= light clouds that form high up in the sky)
stratus (= layered) clouds, cumulus (= heaped) clouds, nimbus (= rain-bearing) clouds
The sky is clouded/ overcast.
The sky was suddenly overcast with low, black clouds.
The clouds are dispersing and the sun is appearing again.
The wind: 
A cold biting wind almost swept me off my feet.
There isn’t a breath of air.
The wind has abated.
Types of wind:
a breeze - a slight, moderate wind
a wind
a strong wind
a gale - a very strong wind
a hurricane - a very strong wind, more than 100 km per hour, can be dangerous
a blizzard - a blinding snow-storm
a squall - a sudden violent wind, often during rain or snow storms
a monsoon – a wind that blow south from Asia in January and north from Australia in July
a tornado – a violent storm with very strong winds which move in a circle
a gust of wind - a sudden violent rush of wind
A: It’s a bit windy today!
B: Yes, it’s really blowy/ breezy (informal), isn’t it?
Thunder. Lightning:It thunders.
There is a thunderstorm hanging about/ coming/approaching.
That’s a thunder-cloud over there.
A flash of lightning lit the sky.
Peals/ rolls of thunder were heard.
It lightens.
Dazzling flashes of lightning were followed by a clap/ burst of thunder.
The storm has spent itself.
The Rain:These clouds omen (promise) rain.
The rain has set in.
It keeps on raining. It’s a pelting rain.
It’s beastly wet.
It rained now and then.
A drizzling piercing rain continued all day.
The rain was accompanied by a strong wind and hail.
The rain’s leaving off.
A: What a downpour/ deluge!
B: Yes, it’s chucking it down/ it’s pouring(informal).
When there is no rain for a long time, it is drought.
The snow:The snow is falling thick.
We had a heavy snowfall / a heavy fall of snow yesterday.
It’s a rather snowy winter.
Last year we had a green winter (mild winter with little snow).
Snow-drifts surrounded us from all sides.
1. ______________ 4. ________________
______________ climate the winds of ________________
______________ ________________
2. _____________ 5. _______________
prevailing _____________ a frosty _______________
_____________ _______________
3. _____________ 6. _______________
to cloud _____________ a hail of _______________
_____________ _______________
1. average 6. rays from the sun
2. dry 7. make less extreme
3. height above sea level 8. situated very far from the sea
4. distance from the equator 9. differing weather conditions at
5. rain and snow different times of the year
Schemes for dividing the Earth into climatic regions are based on a combination of indices of mean annual temperature, mean monthly temperature, annual precipitation totals and seasonality. The climate of a place is affected by several factors. Latitude affects the amount of solar radiation received, with the greatest in equatorial` regions and the least in polar regions. Elevation affects both temperature and precipitation; mountainous areas are generally cooler and wetter. Location close to the sea or to large bodies of water moderates temperature; continental areas are generally more arid and more affected by extremes of temperature.
Seasons and Weather
It’s a universal truth that every season is beautiful in its own way.
Isn’t it wonderful when in winter everything is white with snow and it crunches under your feet? When winter comes, we are to spend more time at home, because it is cold outside. Ponds, lakes, rivers and streams are frozen, and the roads are sometimes covered with slippery ice or deep snow. We may get fog, sleet and frost. The trees are bare, because bitter winds have stripped them of all leaves.
In spring nature awakens from its long winter sleep. A warm wind blows up heavy grey clouds and the sun shines brightly in the cloudless azure sky. The trees are filled with new life. The weather gets gradually warmer. The fields and meadows are covered with fresh green grass. The sky is blue and cloudless. At night millions of stars shine in the darkness.
When summer comes, the weather gets warmer, and sometimes it’s very hot. It’s the farmers’ busy season. They work in their fields from morning till night. Sometimes the sky is overcast with heavy clouds. There are storms with thunder, lightning and hail. Autumn brings with it the harvest time. The days get shorter and the nights longer. The woods turn yellow and brown, leaves begin to fall from the trees. The sky is grey and it often rains. The weather is so changeable in autumn and people have to wear raincoats and umbrellas if they don’t want to get wet through. The roads are slippery and wet, there are lots of puddles in the streets and everyone is looking forward to frosty winter days and much snow out-of-doors.
Observing Nature
If people carefully observe nature, it can tell them many interesting and useful things.
Do you know that thanks to observing nature you can forecast weather? "How?" you may ask. By watching birds and animals, insects and flowers. It is known that some insects become more troublesome before a change in the weather. Flies and mosquitoes, for example, begin to hum and bite before the rain. Big blue-black beetles fly only in evenings before nice weather.
You should know that the smell of flowers in the gardens and in the parks is very strong before it rains. Flowers have much sweet nectar before rain and the nectar is good food for insects. So if you see insects flying over flowers in large numbers, you should know that it may rain soon.
Birds and animals also help forecast weather. Birds fly lower than usual before it rains. If you happen to see a bird hiding its head under its wing, it means that soon it will become colder.
Even your cat can tell you what the weather will be like. The cat washing behind its ears is telling you about the coming rain.
Look at the sky and it will also tell you about the weather. A red evening sky tells of good weather the next day, to say nothing about a little yellow or green sky. A grey sunrise gives promise of a good day, too. If you want to forecast weather, you must know something about winds.
The South wind brings wet weather.
The North wind is wet and cold together.
The West wind always brings us rain.
The East wind blows the rain back again.
Study nature, observe it and you'll understand that it needs your love and protection.
1. Do you know that ____ observing nature you can forecast weather?
2. Some insects become more ______before a change in the weather.
3. Birds fly _______ than usual before it rains.
4. If you see insects flying over flowers in large numbers, it means _______.
5. A red evening sky tells you of ________.
6. If you see a bird hiding its head under its wing, it means ________ .
1. How can we forecast weather? (pick up more than one answer)
a) by watching birds, animals, insects and flowers;
b) by listening to the radio;
c) by using meteorological tools and devices;
d) by discussing it with our friends.
2. What do flies and mosquitoes begin to do before rain?
a) to feel sleepy;
b) to bite and hum;
c) to lay eggs;
d) to gather in groups.
1. ___ Big blue-black beetles fly only in mornings before nice weather.
2. ___ The smell of flowers is very strong before the rain.
3. ___ The cat washing its tail is telling you about the coming rain.
The South wind … The North wind …
The West wind … The East wind …
Climate Metaphors
Climate metaphors are often used, particularly in written English. The word climate can refer to the general atmosphere or situation in society.
His dishonest policies towards the workers created a climate of distrust.
The government reforms have created a climate of change.
The words cultural, current, economic, financial, moral, political, social and prevailingall collocate strongly with climate in this social sense.
She has a very sunny disposition - she's hardly ever miserable.
Job prospects are sunny.
Unfortunately, our plans were met with a frostyreception.
'You lied to me, didn't you?' she said icily.
I'm snowed under with work - I'll never get through it all in time.
After the company accounts were examined, the manager left under a cloud of suspicion.
Don't let your love for him cloud your judgment.
The soldiers were hit with a hail of bullets.
The Prime Minister was greeted with a hail/ storm of abuse.
After the long flight I was in a haze for a day or two.
I've only a hazy idea what you mean.
The truth is hidden in the mists of history.
She looked at him misty-eyed - clearly in love.
The article sparked off a whirlwind of speculation.
They had a whirlwind romance.
The horses thundereddown the race track.
Thunderous applause followed his speech. (Note that ‘thundery’ is used to describe stormy weather while ‘thunderous’ describes a loud noise.)
The winds of change/discontent/democracy are blowing across the country.
Trees and Plant Metaphors
Seed(s) is often used to talk about the start of an idea or feeling: