Comprehension check-up. 1.6. Give Ukrainian equivalents to the English words:

1.6. Give Ukrainian equivalents to the English words:

Habitat, fresh, salt, brackish, inland, salinity, limit, content, influence, backwater, tide, magnitude, intensity.

1.7. Give English equivalents to the following Ukrainian words:

Лиман, місце життя, солонувата, склад, внутрішній район країни, приплив, інтенсивність, вплив, обмеження.

1.8. Match the words from the left box with those in the right:

1.9. Tell whether the following statements are true or false:

1. As habitats of aquaculture there are two categories of water.

2. Brackish water occurs in oceans.

3. Temperature exercises a selective influence of fish.

4. A coldwater section is in the middle rich of the river.

5. A warm-water section is in the low reaches of the river.

1.10.Write questions to the following answers:

1. As habitats of aquaculture there are three categories of waters.

2. Fresh waters are characterized by a wide difference in their salinities.

3. The difference in salinities is restricted to rather narrow limits.

4. Brackish water occurs in estuaries.

5. Backwaters are under tidal regime

6. Temperature exercises a selective influence on fish.

7. A river may have a coldwater section.

8. A river does have a warm-water section.

9. Aquasystems are of several kinds.

10. Most of the systems are highly variable.

1.11. Make sentences using the words below:

1. As … of aquaculture there are three categories of waters.

2. Fresh waters abound in the ….

3. The difference in … is restricted to rather narrow limits.

4. … water occurs in estuaries.

5. The … content of fresh water exercises a very selective influence on the fauna.

6. … exercises a selective influence on fish.

7. A river may have a … section.

8. A river does have a … section.

9. A warmwater section is in the … of the river..

10. … systems are of several kinds.

Habitats, salt, inland, salinity, brackish, temperature, warmwater, coldwater, middle reach, aqua-systems.

Choose key sentences from each paragraph of the text. Write them down.

1.13. Considering the sentences from ex.1.12., give the definition of the following terms: fresh waters; salt waters; brakish waters.

Step 2

Grammar Point(speaking-writing)

Put questions to the italicized words.

1. The children go to bed at ten o’clock.

2. His son knows English well.

3. My father reads newspapers in the morning.

4. Our parents grow potatoes.

5. At the lessons we read and speak English.