Word Combinations

information technology densely (thinly) populated consumer electronics

shipbuilding yards highly developed trading centre

coal (iron) fields rural district offshore oil industry

rich in (smth.) heavy (light) engineering moderate (mild) climate

Proper Names

the Avon Dublin the North Sea

Belfast Eire the Pennines

Birmingham Glasgow Portsmouth

the Bristol Channel the Grampians the Severn

the Cambrians the Hebrides Sheffield

the Cheviot Hills the Orkney Islands Southampton

the Clyde the Shetland Islands the Strait of Dover

the Cumbrians Ireland the Tyne

Leeds the Thames

Manchester

the Mersey

Newcastle

EXERCISES

I. Study Texts A and В and a) transcribe the words below:

petrochemicals, commerce, fertile, engineering, iron, in­dustry, equipment, moderate, resort, pharmaceuticals, dairy­ing, rear, rural, picturesque, meadow, ploughing, acre.