5 Read the text quickly. Does it describe the production stages for metal, plastic or paper? Iron and steel We don't often use materials in their raw state. We change the raw materials to make the things we use every day. The plastic in our water bottles and mobile phones comes from oil. The paper in books comes from trees, and the metal we use comes from a rock called an ore. How do we get the metal for the girl's bike? We find iron in a rock called iron ore. We put the iron ore in a very big oven called a blast furnace. When the furnace is very hot, the metal in the ore changes into a liquid and comes out of the rock. The melted iron then goes into a different oven called a steel furnace. In this oven we make a metal called steel. It is stronger than iron. Next we put the liquid steel into a mould. A mould gives the steel a shape. For the bike we need a mould that makes tube shapes When it is cold, we have the frame for the bike. This is the finished product.
The full name of the country is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom is situated on the British Isles. The British Isles consist of two large islands, Great Britain and Ireland, and a great number of small islands. Their total area is over 314 000 sq. km. The British Isles are separated from the European continent by the North Sea and the English Channel. The western coast of Great Britain is washed by the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea. Northern Ireland occupies one third of the island of Ireland. It borders on the Irish Republic in the south. The island of Great Britain consists of three main parts: England (the southern and middle part of the island), Wales (a mountainous peninsula in the West) and Scotland (the northern part of the island).There are no high mountains in Great Britain. In the north the Cheviots separate England from Scotland, the Pennines stretch down North England along its middle, the Cambrian Mountains occupy the greater part of Wales and the Highlands of Scotland are the tallest of the British mountains. There is very little flat country except in the region known as East Anglia. Most of the rivers flow into the North Sea. The Thames is the deepest and the longest of the British rivers. Some of the British greatest ports are situated in the estuaries of the Thames, Mersey, Trent, Clyde and Bristol Avon. Great Britain is not very rich in mineral resources; it has some deposits of coal and iron ore and vast deposits of oil and gas that were discovered in the North Sea.The warm currents of the Atlantic Ocean influence the climate of Great Britain. Winters are not severely cold and. summers are rarely hot. The population of the United Kingdom is over 58 million people. The main nationalities are: English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish. In Great Britain there are a lot of immigrants from former British Asian and African colonies. Great Britain is a highly industrialized country. New industries have been developed in the last three decades. The main industrial centres are London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Glasgow and Bristol. The capital of the country is London. The United Kingdom is a parliamentary monarchy.
shallow-minded,
absent-minded,
fair-headed,
broad-shouldered,
narrow-minded,
blue-eyed,
double-minded,
kind-natured,
hard-minded,
hot-tempered,
ill-bred,
self-bred,
single-eyed
sweet-hearted,
light-hearted,
thin-faced,
thick-skinned,
well-bred,
good-natured.
1. слабоумный,
поверхностный,
рассеянный,
светлоголовый,
плечистый,
узколобый,
голубоглазый,
двуличный,
добродушный,
жесткий,
вспыльчивый,
невоспитанный,
самовоспитанный,
одноглазый
милый,
беззаботный,
узколицый,
толстокожий,
воспитанный,
добродушный.