Translatye the following sentences from Russian into English

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1. Туристы могут видеть много растений в парке.

2. Неужели туристы могут видеть много растений в парке?

3. Не может быть, чтобы туристы видели много растений в парке.

4.Туристам следует посетить этот парк.

5. Туристы посетят сегодня парк (по расписанию).

6. Туристам пришлось посетить парк.

7. Туристам придется посетить парк.

8. Возможно, туристы сейчас в парке.

9. Возможно, туристы были вчера в парке.

10. Возможно, туристы в парке (но едва ли).

2.Fill in necessary modal verbs

1. I … to take a taxi, otherwise I should have missed the train.

2. You … not come to help them tomorrow: the work is done.

3. … help me now?

4. She … be the youngest child in the family.

5. … I take your umbrella?

6. Peter … return the book to the library. We all want to read it.

7. I think you … consult a doctor.

8. We ….have 5 English lessons every day.

9. She …be sleeping, but I am not sure.

10.He …be working. It’s late.

Section 3. Landscape Design

Text 10. Landscape design

Designers, agronomists, builders, psychologists carry out a landscape project. This collective work comes to the excellent result in a landscape design.

There is an exhibition plot of land in Sheremetievo (12 km from Moscow), where customers can view the landscape design created and served by the company.

The company provides interior of landscape design for private and corporative customers.

Do you want to have a beautiful landscape design on your plot of land?

Firstly, a landscape project is to carry out. Their specialist will come to your plot to get an order and to form a sketch by hand, then this specialist carries out a landscape project by hand or visualization by computer (AutoCAD, PhotoShop, 3D Max). The next is the realization of landscape design on the plot.

Landscape design is a result of human’s activity on a plot of land for creating beautiful views.

Landscape design is a method of providing inside territories with artistic value.

Landscape design has some styles.

Landscape style is a style of landscape design based on natural views without geometric figures, with flexible forms of garden constructions: paths and walks, pavilion, pergola, arch, - with flexible forms of garden water features: garden reservoirs, ponds, - with flexible forms of groups of landscape plants: trees, bushes, flowers in flower bed.

The company uses a landscape plants from their nursery that makes the process of greenery very quick and simple. These elements are well based on the hedge and lawn.

Elements of landscape design:

- stony slope with garden or reservoir;

- area for the rest with garden pavilion or other constructions between trees;

- wall of stone with flowers or other rocks in a garden;

- garden water features: spring, stream and pond or reservoir with garden rocks on the banks and bushes, flowers between them.

Landscape project is an artistic passport of a plot.

It’s important to project out beautiful views and isolate poor details, to take into account the wishes of the plot’s owner and opportunity of maintenance of the landscape project. One can have got not many landscape plants: trees, bushes, flowers – or elements of landscape design in the garden: flower-bed, pavilion, garden reservoir or pond, garden rocks – but everything is to be in harmony with each other.

ACTIVE VOCABULARY

agronomist агроном

carry out выполнять, проводить; to ~ out in (to) practice осуществлять, проводить в жизнь

project проект, план (строительства)

plot участок (земли)

customer заказчик, покупатель, клиент

view осматривать, рассматривать

2. n вид, пейзаж

create творить, создавать

serve обслуживать, управлять, снабжать

sketch набросок, эскиз

visualization отчетливый зрительный образ

realization осуществление, выполнение

provide снабжать, обеспечивать

value смысл, значение, ценность

flexible гибкий, гнущийся

path тропинка, дорожка, путь

walk зд. аллея, тропа

pavilion беседка, павильон

pergola [ 'pз:gәlә] беседка, крытая аллея из вьющихся растений

arch арка, свод

feature особенность, свойство, деталь

reservoir [ 'rezәvwa:] водоем, бассейн

pond пруд

nursery рассадник, питомник

hedge изгородь

lawn газон, лужайка

slope склон, скат

rock n 1) горная порода; 2) камень, 3) скала

stream ручей

spring источник, ключ, родник

bush куст, кустарник

project проектировать, составлять план

account мнение, оценка; to take into ~ принимать во внимание

maintenance поддержка, сохранение, содержание

harmony гармония, соглашение

EXERCISES

Vocabulary Exercises

1. Practise the pronunciation of the following words:

project, view, plot, to create, sketch, visualization, pavilion, pergola, path, arch, reservoir, pond, nursery, hedge, lawn, spring, bush

2. Give Russian equivalents to the following words and word combinations from the text:

designer, landscape project, exhibition plot of land, for private and corporative

customers, to form a sketch by hand, on the plot, human’s activity, with artistic value, garden reservoirs, stony slope, garden water features

3. Find in text English equivalents to the following words and word combinations:

коллективная работа, ландшафтный дизайн, на участке земли, красивые пейзажи, гибкие формы садовых конструкций, тропинки и аллеи, каменные склоны, крытая аллея из вьющихся растений

4. Find in text synonyms to the following words:

to realize, plan, buyer, meaning, arbour, opinion, support

5. Find in the text antonyms to the following words and word combinations:

the bad result, the destruction of landscape design on the plot, for creating awful views, with hard forms of garden, very slow and complicated, area for the work

6. Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the active vocabulary:

1) The building work was … … by a local contractor. 2) Supermarkets use a variety of tactics to attract …. 3) We had a spectacular … of the mountains from our room. 4) He was only 22 when he … this masterpiece. 5) The lecture … him with an opportunity to meet one of his heroes. 6) The ring was of little …. 7) Amy walked up the … to the house. 8) If you take inflation into …, the cost of computers has fallen in the last ten years.

Give a written translation of the text. Arrange a competition for the best

translation.

Grammar Exercises

1. Translate into Russian paying attention to the Participles:

1) We visited one of the largest nurseries making the process of greenery very quick and simple. 2) A broken cup lay on the table. 3) He is looking at the woman planting a rose. 4) Having plenty time we decided to walk to the exhibition plot of land in Sheremetievo. 5) Having worked in the nursery for many years he knew those plants very well. 6) The boy throwing stones into the pond is my brother. 7) The large building being built in our street is a new school-house. 8) Yesterday he told us about the flowers now being growing in his garden. 9) They sent us a list of plants imported by that firm. 10) A thermometer is an instrument used for measuring temperature.

2. Translate the following sentences into English paying attention to the Modal Verbs:

1) Будучи очень усталыми, мы отказались идти гулять. 2) Продавцы отказались снизить назначенные цены, и покупатели отклонили предложение. 3) Мы послали цветы по указанному адресу. 4) Сказав это, он вышел из комнаты. 5) В настоящее время мы имеем очень ограниченное количество этих растений в нашем питомнике. 6) Он тихо закрыл дверь, не желая будить ее. 7) «Я должен идти», - сказал он, встав со стула. 8) Я посмотрел на присланный прейскурант. 9) На одной из осмотренных выставок заказчикам показали новые виды растений. 10) Большая ветка, сломанная ветром, лежала поперек дороги.