10	1 Lab assignment # 4 City Transport Made by Тогодоева Ц.Б. Group БИ4-11-1

I Year Lab Assignment # 4 city transport

City Transport

Introduction to the Topic

1 Express your opinion on traffic situation in big cities. Answer three of the following questions.

• Is it good that more and more people have their own cars?

• And is it good from the ecological point of view?

• How do you prefer to get to work: to drive (a car) or to ride on any kind of public transport?

• How do you go to the university?-I go to the university on public transport bus.

• How much time does it take you?- I go to the university for 35 minutes.

• Would it be better if one can go everywhere within the city by foot or by bicycle?

• Should we build an underground in Irkutsk? –I think that we must build an underground in Irkutsk.

Why/why not?-Because, it is considerably will reduce emissions in the atmosphere and quantity of jams

• What are your suggestions on improving the traffic situation in our cities and towns?

• What are the advantages and drawbacks of the traffic situation in your native place in comparison with that of Moscow/Irkutsk?

Active Vocabulary

2 Translate 10 of the following words & phrases.

population – население;

transit – транзит, переход, перевозка;

a thoroughfare –проезд;

to avoid – избежать;

fuel – топливо;

petrol – бензин;

a crossroad – перекресток;

a saloon –салон;

a version – версия;

daily – ежедневно;

to deal (with) – иметь дело с;

to rely (on) – полагаться на;

a Muscovite – москвич;

to handle – обращаться, брать руками, обходиться;

according to – согласно;

in order to make – для того, чтобы сделать;

an express line – экспресс линия;

a railway station - железнодорожная станция;

in 30 minutes - за 30 минут;

a ven­tilation system – система вентиляции;

to provide heating – обеспечить отопление;

the city planners - городские планировщики, градостроители.

a busy thoroughfare – оживленная магистраль; to meet the ecological requirements – соответствовать экологическим требованиям; passenger capacity – вместимость пассажиров; public transport – общественный транспорт; rapid transit – скоростной транспорт; a traffic jam – пробка; to run on electricity – работать на электричестве; to operat­e on petrol or diesel fuel – работать на бензинном или дизельном топливе; a transportation problem – транспортная проблема; on the average – в среднем; the Master Plan – мастер план (генеральный план); a satellite town –город - спутник; a rest zone – зона отдыха; a bus route – автобусный маршрут; liquefied gas –сжиженный газ; a trolleybus – троллейбус; an articulated part – шарнирные части; a TV camera-телевизионная камера; an improved finishing – улучшенная отделка; an all-metal streamlined body – цельнометаллический обтекаемый корпус; to intend to rely (on) – намереваться ссылаться на.

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