Comprehension Check-Up

1.5. Give Ukrainian equivalents to the following English words:

Trawler, net, habitats, bycatch, pelagic, schools, turtle, filament, gills, crossbreeding.

1.6. Give English equivalents to the following Ukrainian words:

Зграя, гачок, зябри, зменшення, черепаха, тюлень, прилов, розведення риби, гібрид, саджалка, тралер.

1.7. Match the words:

1.8. Answer the questions:

1. What has the commercial fishing industry developed?

2. Why has the commercial fishing industry developed a variety of methods?

3. What are trawlers?

4. How do the trawlers catch the desired fish?

5. Do the trawlers capture huge quantities of bycatch?

6. What is bycatch?

7. What is the other method to catch the marine species?

8. What method is used to catch large pelagic species?

9. How is the fish caught by the purse-seine fishing method?

10. What is the name of the third fishing method, when the fish is caught by the gills?

1.9. Make sentences from the given words:

1. Commercial raising, is, aquaculture, of, the, fish, shellfish, and, food, for.

2. Aquaculture, of, the, practice, growing, is, of, rate, at, a, 6%, about, per year.

3. Uses, fish, farming, environment, a, controlled.

4. Holds, fish, Fish ranching, captivity, in, first, for, few, years, the.

5. Sustain, help, can, biodiversity, marine, aquaculture, to.

1.10. Ask questions to the italicized words:

1. The commercial fishing industry has developed a variety of methods to catch marine species.

2. The nets catch the desired fish, but they also damage ocean habitats.

3. Bycatch include species such as dolphins, seals, sea turtles.

4. In the Pacific Ocean these nets have killed large numbers of dolphins.

5. In 1993 the United Nations ordered a moratorium of large-scale drift-netting.

1.11. Give definitions to the following items:

1. Fishing boat

2. Drawstring which trap the fish

3. Net made of invisible filament mesh

4. Ships send out fishing lines hug with thousands of bated hooks

5. Usage of controlled environment to breed and raise fish.

Step 2

Grammar Point

(speaking-writing)

Exercise 2.1. Make necessary changes in the sentences to use the Passive Voice.

1. The girls water the flowers every day.

2. They published this magazine in Paris.

3. They did not show this film last week.

4. He will not finish the work tomorrow.

5. I have posted the letter.

Find sentences with Passive Voice in the texts and define the tenses

Find in the texts sentences with modal verbs. Translate them. Copy them out.

Write down equivalents to the modal verbs, which you have picked up in the texts