Read the geographical names.

1. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

[ju:ʼnaɪtid ʼkindəm əvʼgreit ʼbritən ənd ʼnɔ:Әən ʼailənd] –

Соединенное Королевство Великобритании и Северной Ирландии.

2. Great Britain [ʼgreit ʼ britən] – Великобритания

3. the British Isles [ ʼbritiʃ ʼailz] – Британские острова

4. England [ ʼɪ:ῃglənd]– Англия

5. Scotland [ ʼskɔtlənd] – Шотландия

6. Wales [ ʼweilz] – Уэльс

7. the Irish Sea [ ʼairiʃ ʼsi:] – Ирландское море

8. the North Sea [ ʼnɔ:θ ʼsi:] – Северное море

9. the European Continent [ju:rəʼpi:ən ʼkɔntinәnt] – Европейский континент

10. the English Channel [ ʼi:ηgliʃ ʼʧᴂnәl]– пролив Ла-Манш

11. the Strait of Dover [ʼstreit əv ʼdouvə] – пролив Па-де-Кале

12. Ben Nevis [ben ʼnevis] – г. Бен Невис

13. the Severn [ʼsevn] – р. Северн

14. the Thames [ʼtemz] – р. Темза

15. the Windermere [ʼwindəmiə] – оз. Уиндермир

16. the Gulf Stream [ʼgʌlf ʼstri:m] – течение Гольфстрим

17. Celtic [ʼkeltik] – кельтский

18. Manchester [ʼmᴂnʧistə] – Манчестер

19. Liverpool [ʼlivəpu:l] – Ливерпуль

20. Glasgow [ʼglα:sgou]] – Глазго

21. Birmingham [ʼbә:miηəm] – Бирмингем

4. Choose the geographical names with а definite article the in exercise III, read and memorize them.

 

5. Find the synonyms^

main, total, flat, coast, state, about, territory, shore, area, chief, entire, level, country, mild, soft, several, cool, current, flow, cold, nearly, a number of.

 

6. Read the adjectives and form degrees of comparison. Translate them into Russian:

great	mild	warm	long
large	changeable	small	wet
deep	moderate	high	short

7. Make sure if you remember the suffixes of adjectives:

 

mountain – mountainous; climate – climatic; rock – rocky; cloud – cloudy; wind – windy; geography – geographical; tropics – tropical; Europe – European; north – northern; south – southern; change – changeable.

 

8. Read and translate the following word-combinations and phrases:

 

a) geographical position, total area, excellent harbours, independent republic, Northern Ireland, on the west coast, the Lake District, Celtic languages, warm current of the Gulf Stream, the highest mountain Ben Nevis, the largest lake Windermere;

b) can be used by ships, it brings a little of tropics to the very doors of English people, as a rule, the surface is flat.