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by assisting Russians to attend business expositions, seminars, and conferences. The replication of the project's approach in Russia is being facilitated by the development of a decision-making tool that will aid in determining where and how this approach can be introduced successfully elsewhere.

3.Continue the sentences:

1.As a national park, …

2.The park is home to…

3.It is part of …

4.The boundaries of the park…

5.It is anticipated, that…

6.It will help to protect…

7.The development of…

8.This component facilitates…

9.As a starting point, …

10.It is hoped, that…

11.They are now better qualified to…

12.This will lead to…

13.From the beginning of the project…

14.To do this…

15.Plans are underway to…

4.Put ten general and special questions to the text.

5.Write down the key words of the text.

6.Acquaint yourself with the given information and learn the dialogues:

Формула, которая используется, когда вы делаете деловой звонок, выглядит так: a. Your name. – Ваше имя.

b. Your title. – Ваша должность.

c. Your company. – Название вашей фирмы. d. Whom you are calling. – Кому вы звоните. e. The department. – Подразделение.

f. The reason of your call. – Причина звонка.

A Secretary: Acme Manufacturing, may I help you?

Kunstler: Yes, please. This is Otto Kunstler from Swiss Trading Associates calling for Tom Jones.

Secretary: Would you spell your name, please? Kunstler: Yes: it is K-U-N-S-T-L-E-R.

Secretary: Thank you. Do you know which Department Mr. Jones is in? Kunstler: I think he's in Marketing. Could you look it up for me? Secretary: No trouble. Hmm, it looks like he's in Advertising.

Kunstler: Thank you. Could you put me through, please?

Secretary: One moment please, I'm ringing Oh, sorry, it looks like he's busy. Would you like to leave a message?

Kunstler: No, thank you. I'll try again later.

7. Choose the right variants and fill in the gaps:

a) It was clear that ____________ was primarily the result of a favorable market

b) If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or illegal, it ___________

severed from this Agreement.

c) I see. How many employees are there? – ___________________________.

d) Subsequently, the role of the government in US has increased considerably since the ________________ of the 1930s.

8. Write the words in the sentence in correct order:

in his woods / for a specified sum / the owner / all the merchantable material / commonly sells

SECTION 3

1. Learn the words and word combinations:

2. Read and translate the text

FOREST SPACE IMAGING

Countries with biggest forest areas arrived at an understanding of the necessity of the forest remote sensing monitoring a few years ago. Russia is slightly lagging behind the other countries in this respect, mostly in sphere of the national information policy. In Finland and Sweden all the forest areas are annually covered by middleresolution satellite images (10-30 m) for account of the state budget. The received data are actively used in forest inventory, forest funds assessment and illegal logging detection.

Recurrent satellite imagery of the Russian territories will enable to resolve the following forestry tasks on a new level: logging monitoring (including illegal logging detection); forest fires damage assessment; forest health monitoring; inventory of forest fund, forest blocks certification; reforestation assessment.

It should be noted, that all these tasks could be resolved independently on the federal, regional, as well as on the major forest leasing companies' levels.

At the beginning of the Russian forest space monitoring system development there were serious problems caused by myths. There were three principle myths:

1.Russian territories are being continually surveyed from space by a big number of satellites, including Russian ones.

2.Imagery data can be downloaded from the internet free.

3. If you pay for the order, you can quickly get satellite images of any area and date within a couple of days.

All these myths, having little truth at the bottom, are far from reality. For example, regular space imagery of the Russian territories is indeed performed by several satellites; however, their spatial resolution is very low (250 m and more). Principal tasks of the forest sector cannot be resolved using such low-resolution images. To date, none of the satellite operators does a complete and recurrent middleor highresolution imagery of Russia. Such imagery is made only by order, therefore the archive data is available in form of area and time fragments.

Until recently, the American satellites of the Landsat series performed regular imagery of Russia at middle resolution. However, in 2003 the last satellite almost became inoperable. For the past few years, French satellites, as well as Indian satellites, became an efficient alternative to satellites of the Landsat series in many countries (including Scandinavia). However, imagery of Russia using these satellites is also made by order. Besides, for all these satellites (as well as for most of the others) Russian imagery possibility and efficiency depend on the ground equipment.

In this context, all the arguments of some officials about the possibility of purchasing the required data from the archives abroad looked inconsistent. As to the free internet data (including the new Google Earth project), only small advertising fragments or outdated images (over 3 years old) are available.

The following satellite system components are required for the forest fund monitoring (including illegal logging control): ground stations network, covering the whole territory of the country; availability of relevant licenses for the data acquisition from satellites; data processing and archiving centers; special software for images processing.

Russian Center ScanEx has a great experience in resolving complex remote sensing tasks. This implies a comprehensive management control cycle: production of different types of ground stations; license purchase and direct broadcasting from various satellites; building of big space imagery archives; development of special processing software. ScanEx personal ground stations constitute currently the backbone of the Russian ground stations' «fleet».

3. Continue the sentences:

1.The received data are…

2.It should be noted, that…

3.At the beginning of…

4.There were serious…

5.If you pay for the order,…

6.For example,…

7.Principal tasks of…

8.To date,…

9.Until recently,…

10.For the past few years,…

11.However,…

12.Besides,…

13.In this context,…

14.As to the…

15.This implies…

4.Put ten alternative questions to the text.

5.Write а summary of the text in English and present it in a form of a report.

6.Choose the right variants and fill in the gaps:

a) If the price of timber fails ___________, you have earned nothing because commodities like timber do not pay interest.

b)How often do I need to make the monitoring of the regional forest settlements? –

_________________________.

a)Mr. Hamilton has signed the contract on monitoring.

b)Please, feel free to call me if you have any questions.

c)This fact is particularly significant for biodiversity conservation.

d)Semi-annually, I suppose, will be enough.

c)It will help to protect its rare and endangered _______, and it will assist the efforts

in raising public awareness of the park and the multiple values associated with it.

SECTION 4

1. Learn the words and word combinations:

2. Read and translate the text

FOREST USE

Forestry is a type of human activity that includes all aspects of interrelations between humans and the forest. The major interests of forestry are: studying and inventorying forests; forest reproduction; fire and pest control; forest exploitation; and control over forest exploitation.

A specific feature of forestry is a long production cycle (more than 100 years) that is largely determined by the growth of the forest type. Forestry in Russia has been based on the principles of stability and sustainability. There are about 20 general criteria for sustainable forest exploitation. The major ones are: maintenance of productivity; maintenance of appropriate sanitary conditions; maintenance of the protective functions; biodiversity conservation and maintenance of forests in the global carbon cycle; maintenance of social and economic importance; availability of legislative instruments for forest conservation and sustainable forest management.

Forestry is regulated by the Forest Code of the Russian Federation, Forest Codes of Subjects of the Russian Federation, and other legislative and technical documents. The forest reserve is the object of forestry. Forests of the country are held as Federal

property according to the Forest Code. However, the legislation does provide an opportunity to transfer a part of the forest reserve to ownership of subjects of the Russian Federation. Forest management is largely concentrated at a regional level.

The major unit of forestry management in Russia is a regional unit – leskhoz (about 8,000 exist) that in its turn is subdivided into forest districts – lesnichestvos (there are about 8,000). During the past decade, the total number of the employees in this sphere has been about 200,000 (60% of them, state forest guard).

The system of forest works in Russia includes forest management and the inventory of forests by means of remote sensing, monitoring, and various types of investigations. Forest management includes periodical inventory of forests (at intervals of 10-15 years) and development of long-term plans of harmonious forest exploitation for regional forest units. Inventory of forests by means of remote sensing is performed in distant sparsely populated regions. Forest areas covered by the inventory have decreased sharply during the past decade.

Forestry has worked out a considerable number of procedures to further natural afforestation. Afforestation on the deforested areas (fire sites, cleared spaces, etc.) is one of the most important objectives of forestry. The intensity of natural afforestation depends on the specific region, forest type, causes and areas of disturbances, availability of seed sources, and ecological features of the tree species. In the forest zone, especially in taiga, natural afforestation is completed successfully. In addition to afforestation, forest planting on barren lands and lands of low productivity beyond the area of the forest reserve was performed, mainly with a view to protecting agricultural lands. In the past years, areas of afforestation and forest planting have decreased significantly.

Forest fire control and forest management control are losing ground. The scope of irrigation and drainage construction was reduced by ten times and the planting of forest shelter belts on agricultural lands decreased by four times. There are fire, forest-pathology, and other kinds of monitoring. There are 44 forest expeditions belonging to 13 state forest management enterprises, which perform inventory of the forests. The first pan-Russian inventory of forests was made in 1957. Data on the state of all forests in Russia are presented in the materials of the State Inventory of the Forest Reserve that are performed each 5 years.

Multi-purpose forest exploitation includes complex utilization of all forest resources and numerous environmental and social utilities of forests. Use of forest resources includes the harvesting of timber, galipot, auxiliary wood, medicinal raw materials, wild fruits, nuts, mushrooms, berries and side utilities such as hay making and hunting. Timber is harvested by means of final felling (felling of the mature forest) and intermediate felling (sanitary felling).

There are great prospects for harvesting the non-wood resources. About 2,500 of the more than 20,000 vascular plants growing in Russia are of medicinal importance, and about 300 of them are included in the state pharmacopoeia. The potential reserve of food is in the range of hundreds of thousands of tons. However, currently an insignificant part of these reserves is used. In years past, the volumes of these products have been reduced by three to ten times and even more in some cases. At the same time, actual volumes harvested by the local population have increased,

especially in the distant forest regions, where these resources are of survival importance.

3. Continue the sentences:

1.The major interests of forestry are…

2.A specific feature of forestry is…

3.There are about…

4.Forestry is regulated by…

5.Forests of the country are…

6.The major unit of forestry management…

7.The total number of the employees…

8.Forest management includes…

9.Forestry has worked out…

10.In the forest zone,…

11.The first pan-Russian inventory of forests…

12.Data on the state of all forests…

4.Write а summary of the text in English and present it in a form of a report.

5.Choose the right variants and fill in the gaps:

In the modern commercial logging industry, _________ is typically followed by limbing and skidding.

Before putting an axe or saw to the tree it is necessary to size up carefully and decide

Well, I am sure you will understand that is a reasonable offer. –

_____________________.

а) I hope you have noticed the difference.

b)It was impossible to sign such an agreement.

c)Yes, but I’m sure you could offer a bit more.

d)Everything is correct, but the sum is not calculated.

These tax benefits in forest industry are created by the _______ Congress to encourage investment in particular areas of the economy.

6. Write your resume according to the following plan:

Библиографический список

Основная литература

1.Маньковская З. В. Английский язык в ситуациях повседневного делового общения [Электронный ресурс]/ З.В. Маньковская. - М.: НИЦ Инфра-М, 2012,

223с. - ЭБС «Знаниум». - Режим доступа: http://www.znanium.com/ - Загл. с экрана.

2.Дубинина Г. А. Английский язык: экономика и финансы (Majors) [Текст]: Учебник / Г.А. Дубинина, И.Ф. Драчинская, Н.Г. Кондрахина; Финансовый университет при Правительстве РФ. - М.: Альфа-М: ИНФРА-М, 2011. - 176 с– ЭБС «Знаниум» - Режим доступа: http://www.znanium.com/ - Загл. с экрана.

Дополнительная литература

1.Милованова, И. В. Английский язык [Текст] : термин. словарь по лесн. делу и ландшафт. архитектуре / И. В. Милованова ; И. В. Милованова ; М-во образования и науки Рос. Федерации, Фед. гос. бюджет. образоват. учреждение высш. проф. образования "Воронеж. гос. лесотехн. акад.". - Воронеж, 2014. -

180с. Электронная версия в ЭБС ВГЛТУ. - Режим доступа: http://www.vglta.vrn.ru/BiblSite/elcat.htm - Загл. с экрана.

2.Маньковская З. В. Идиомы и фразовые глаголы в деловом общении (английский язык) [Электронный ресурс]: Учебное пособие / З.В. Маньковская. - М.: ИНФРА-М, 2011. - 184 с.- ЭБС «Знаниум». - Режим доступа: http://www.znanium.com/ - Загл. с экрана.

3.Мюллер, В.К., Англо-русский словарь [Текст]/В.К. Мюллер.-М.: Локид-

Пресс, 2003.-687 с.