Word Study

Exercise 1. Arrange the words into pairs of synonyms and translate them.

Method, major, goods, understand, production, do, products, realize, give, engineering, manufacture, work, use, chief, yield, technique, energy, labour, apply, technology, perform.

Exercise 2. Arrange the words into pairs of antonyms and translate them.

Last, predictable, increase, worse, new, same, after, old, useful, preceding, complicated, progress, next, decrease, different, unpredictable, better, before, useless, simple, standstill, following.

Exercise 3. Find the odd word in each of these groups.

a) farmer b) trader c) engineer d) factor
a) steamboat b) plane c) railroad d) vehicle

3. a) distribute b) make c) produce d) manufacture

a) invent b) increase c) discover d) develop

a) plant b) mill c) factory d) tool
a) work b) labour c) soil d) job

a) give b) generate c) apply d)yield
a) equip b) move c) transport d) distribute
a) coal b) petroleum c) paper d) uranium

Exercise 4. Find in the text words having the following meanings:

substances from which products are made
a long process of changing and developing
process of soil destruction
natural resources used as a source of heat and energy
phenomenon of water level rising in seas
a person who buys and uses goods
any means of transportation

Exercise 5. Read and translate the following word combinations. Then use some of them in the sentences of your own.

			goods
to manufacture			products
			machinery
			tools

			а new technique
to develop			а bold hypothesis
			interest
			а theory

			equipment
to maintain			machinery
			а forest cover a tool


			a machine
to invent			a method a tool


			conditions
			a technique
to improve			a machine
			a process
			precision
			knowledge

			speed
			efficiency
to increase			yield
			productivity
			precision

			results
to yield			crop
			income
			a loss