Festivals and special days in the uk

A.: Do you know any specific holidays, which are celebrated only in the UK?

B.: Sure. One of them is Pancake Day when people eat pancakes.

A.: Oh, I know. This day is before Easter.

B.: Not quite. It is the last day before Lent, a period of forty days when people eat only simple food. They eat pancakes because they are not allowed to eat milk, butter, and eggs during Lent.

A.: A funny tradition. Any other tradition and holidays?

B.: A special day in the UK when people wear red paper poppies, and are silent for two minutes at 11 o’clock, to show respect for the men and women who were killed in World War I and II.

A.: Sorry for interrupting you… I have read about this tradition. It is called Remembrance Sunday.

B.: Right you are. And have you ever heard about Guy Fawkes’ Night, which is celebrated on the 5^th of November?

A.: Yes, it is also called Bonfire Night when there are a lot of bonfires and fireworks in the streets.

B.: Do you know why?

A.: Remind me, please.

B.: This is done to remember the time when Guy Fawkes tried, but failed, to destroy the Houses of Parliament with gunpowder in 1605.

A.: Thanks a lot. It was a real pleasure to talk to you.

B.: You are welcome.

UNIT SIXTEEN MY FUTURE PROFESSION

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Vocabulary

to guarantee to fill in

to suppose to do paper work

an electromechanician track maintenance

to be in charge for train service

according to to work at qualification

a responsibility a district engineer

to check up a division master

monitoring devices protection of labour

station signal lights railway haul automatics systems

automatic block signal systems safety measures

a switch organization of maintenance, assembling and setting up

to seek for fundamentals of management engineering

location of crash branch economics

rupture of communication

My future profession

I want to be a railwayman, because …, that’s why I have entered this technical school.

• my parents (relatives) are railwaymen too and I want to continue this family tradition

• It was always my dream (since the childhood)

• after graduating I am guaranteed the work

After my graduating I’m supposed to be an electromechanician or an electrician.

We shall be in charge for railway communication. According to our official responsibilities we must check up monitoring devices, station signal lights, automatic block signal systems, automatic gates, switches and others. Our service often has to seek for location of crash or rupture of communication. We must also fill in various forms, do paper work.

We are connected with all railway services, such as track maintenance or train service, because we must support the life of all railway lines.

If I work at my qualification, I can become a chief mecanician, a district engineer or a division master.

At this technical school we have to study a lot of general and special subjects. Especially important for me are: protection of labour, station automatics systems, railway haul automatics systems, safety measures, organization of maintenance, assembling and setting up, fundamentals of management engineering.

Ex.1. Сопоставьте глаголы с существительными по смыслу.

A B

1. to become a. a technical school

2. to check up b. at qualification

3. to fill in c. the life of lines

4. to enter d. a division master

5. to support e. special subjects

6. to study f. forms

7. to work g. station signal lights

Ex. 2. Заполните пропуски подходящими предлогами.

1. … graduating I am guaranteed the work. 2. If I work … my qualification, I can become a chief mecanician or a district engineer. 3. Our service has to seek … location of crash. 4. We are connected … track maintenance and train service. 5. According … our official responsibilities we must check up monitoring devices and automatic block signal systems. 6. We must also fill … various forms. 7. Especially important … me are protection … labour and railway haul automatics systems.

Ex. 3. Поставьте буквы в нужном порядке, чтобы получить слова.

canimenica purspot

genirene dratiniot

Ex.4. Дайте английские эквиваленты следующим выражениям.

изучать общие и специальные дисциплины; продолжать семейную традицию; поддерживать функционирование ж.д. линий; проверять технические средства; начальник участка пути; заниматься оформлением документации

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