- •Федеральное государственное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования
- •Предисловие
- •Unit 1. Introduction to profession
- •1. Remember the following words and phrases read the text; be ready to speak about your Academy
- •My University
- •2. Some questions you are interested in:
- •3. Test yourself and match the words
- •Unit 2. Shipping
- •1. Read and translate the text:
- •2. Test yourself, match the words
- •3. Translate into English:
- •4. Answer the questions:
- •5. Read the text and discuss: Transportation
- •6. Test yourself, choose the correct variant:
- •Unit 3. Commercial work
- •1. These words and phrases can be used in practical speech. Remember them:
- •2. Read the text, translate it and reproduce it in English: Commercial activities in shipping business
- •3. Improve your knowledge by doing these exercises:
- •4. Express the same in English:
- •5. Complete the dialogues using vocabulary of this unit. Model:
- •2. Read the text and speak about English as an international commercial language: foreign languages
- •3. Answer the questions:
- •4. Agree or disagree:
- •5. Speak about the importance of the English language for you.
- •6. Complete the tag-questions and let your groupmates answer them.
- •7. Discussing the Topic!
- •8. Imagine that your friend doesn’t want to learn English. What will you tell him or her to encourage their learning English?
- •9. Discuss what you would like to do at your English lessons. Discuss this in group.
- •10. In order to study effectively, it is useful to make a plan for yourself. Look at these two examples.
- •11. Now make your own plan for learning English. Did you know that… …the shortest sentence in English containing all the 26 letters of the alphabet is “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs”?
- •Unit 5. Ship’s crew
- •1. Memorize the following words.
- •2. Read and translate the text. Ship’s crew
- •3. Find in the text the English equivalents for the following:
- •6. Ask your friend and let him answer the following questions:
- •8.Speak about Ship’s Crew. Unit 6. In the Port
- •1. Memorize the following words:
- •2. Read the text, translate it and retell: organization of operations in a merchant sea port
- •3. Read the text and be ready to render it. Put down key questions to this text:
- •In the port of Yejsk
- •4. Memorize these words and sentences from “imo Standard Marine Communication Phrases”:
- •5. Translate and remember!
- •Unit 7. Russian Merchant Marine
- •1. Use these words while translating a text:
- •2. Read a text and translate it. Russian merchant marine
- •3. Answer the following questions:
- •4. Testing grammar!
- •5. Discuss in pairs the following topics:
- •2. Read about the port of Novorossiysk. Memorize the following words:
- •To leave the port – покидать порт
- •The port of novorossiysk
- •The seaport of Novorossiysk is situated in the north-eastern part of the Black Sea, at the top of the Novorossiyskaya (Tsemesskaya) Bukhta (Bay).
- •3. Read the following texts, translate them and be ready to speak about them. The port of sochi
- •The port of archangel
- •The port of st. Petersburg
- •The port of kholmsk
- •The port of murmansk
- •The port of nakhodka
- •4. Translate the following sentences into Russian:
- •5. Ask your freind about:
- •Unit 9. Great britain
- •1. Read the text:
- •Grab crane – грейферный кран the port of london
- •4. Speak about the port of London.
- •5. Read text about the port of Liverpool. The port of liverpool
- •6. Find the information about any British port. Tell your group about it. Unit 10.Types of ships
- •1. Memorize these words:
- •2. Read the text, translate it:
- •3. Answer the questions:
- •4. Retell the text about types of ships.
- •5. Testing grammar! Express future in English:
- •Are you ready for examination?
- •If you want to be successful in English you will have to take the exams. These questions will help you prepare for this.
- •Glossary
- •Библиографический Список литературы
- •Оглавление
Grab crane – грейферный кран the port of london
The Port of London is situated on the river Thames. Its position: latitude: 51o37’00’’N, longitude: 00057’19’’E.
Pilotage is compulsory. Ships requiring the services of a pilot must make a notification 24 hours in advance. They must state the ETA, length overall, draft and destination.
The Thames Navigation Service operates 24 hours a day. It is equipped with VHF radio, telephones, telex and facsimile equipment.
Certain restrictions are placed on the navigation of the vessels carrying petroleum, chemicals, explosives and other dangerous goods.
The Port of London has terminals, berths, passenger landing stage, cargo and repair jetties. Among them: container terminal, general purpose berths, Ro\Ro terminal, grain terminal. There are 40 berths for tankers. Cargoes are handled with special equipment, such as container cranes, tractors and trailers, fork-lift trucks, light and heavy duty trucks, quay and gantry cranes, coaster and barge loading points, grab cranes.
So, the port of London handles general and bulk cargoes, such as grain, bulk ore, steel and other metals, forest products in all forms. There are special Ro\Ro terminals for handling vehicles and terminals for oil and oil products.
4. Speak about the port of London.
5. Read text about the port of Liverpool. The port of liverpool
Liverpool is situated near the river Mercy falling into the Irish Sea. This port includes about 25% of foreign import and about 60% of export.
Liverpool is specialized in transshipment of general cargo, container, oil and mass cargoes. It takes one of the first places in the world in processing general cargoes.
Water area of anchorage is about 8.1 km: 2km for the small tonnage ships and about 2.03 km and 2 for the big tonnage ships. The largest depth of berth is 8.38 m.
Liverpool is joined with Manchester port by the shipping channel. Length of channel is 57 km. Depth of it is 8.5 m.
Port consists of docks, special moorings, river piers. There are 45 piers in this port. They are situated on the right bank of the Mercy river. There are also opened and covered warehouses for storage mass and container cargoes. Mooring capacity of passenger district is 1,200 passengers/hour. Ships can be repaired by 10 shiprepair yards in this port.
The turnover of Liverpool is about 29.7 mln tonnes every year. About 16,000 vessels call at port every year.
6. Find the information about any British port. Tell your group about it. Unit 10.Types of ships
1. Memorize these words:
on the one (other) hand – с одной (другой) стороны
dry bulk cargo – сухой груз навалом
bulk carrier – навалочное судно, балкер
liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier – судно-газовоз для сжиженных природных газов
liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) - бензовоз
universal ship – универсальное судно
container ship – контейнеровоз
tramp – трамповое судно
ship in distress – судно, терпящее бедствие
to cope with… – справляться с…
clear of quay – вдали от причала
tug – буксир
port congestion – загруженность порта
steel ramps –стальные рампы
ice-breaker – ледокол
timber carrier – лесовоз
reefer – рефрижераторное судно
ferry – паром
vehicle – автомашина, транспортное средства