Exercise 6. Make the following sentences negative and interrogative.

1. I’m going to work all day.

2. At ten we’ll be having a meeting.

3. He’ll be preparing his report all the evening.

4. They will be driving to Kyiv.

5. I’m going to do exercises.

Exercise 7. Translate the following sentences into English.

1. Через 10 хвилин наш літак перетне екватор. 2. Завтра зранку я буду працювати. 3. Добре, я прийду о 8. 4. У цей час вони завтра презентуватимуть свою доповідь на конференції. 5. Що ти збираєшся робити сьогодні увечері? 6. Я не збираюсь вам нічого розповідати! Це секрет! 7. Що ти плануєш робити у п’ятницю? 8. Ти зможеш допомогти мені? 9. Слухай! Я тобі усе розповім. 10. Автобус відправляється о 8.30. 11. Завтра увечері я буду лежати на дивані і дивитися телевізор. 12. У нашому університеті пари починаються о 8.00, але на деяких факультетах о 8.30. 13. Ми плануємо поїхати у Київ. Ти з нами? 14. Ти про нього більше не почуєш. Він переїхав до іншої країни. 15. На вихідних ми їдемо у ліс. Поїхали з нами.

Study the following words and word combinations

absorb, v −поглинати

add, v− додавати, підсумувати

affect, v−впливати, уражати

alter, v−змінювати, переробляти

amount, n−кількість

cause, v− зумовити, спричиняти

Read the following text

Text 1

IS THE EARTH GETTING HOTTER?

It sounded like nature’s own apocalypse. “The earth’s temperature would rise, melting the icecaps, raising the seas, flooding the land. Arisona would turn into a “rain forest” and the agricultural Midwest would become a desert”. At least, that was how weathermen interpreted researches of some environmentalists on the “greenhouse effect” that would begin altering the earth’s climate since the 1990s. The environmentalists predicted “catastrophic consequences” if contingency plans weren’t made with a “sense of urgency”.

Fortunately, the news improved later when the National Academy of Sciences said that although the greenhouse effect was very real, “cautions not panic” was in order.

In fact, the science of the phenomenon is more interesting that frightening. The greenhouse effect results when and certain other gases in the atmosphere allow the sun’s ultraviolet rays to penetrate and warm the earth but then absorb the infrared energy the earth radiates back into space − much as glass in a greenhouse does − forming a kind of “thermal blanket” around the planet. When huge amount of fossil fuels burns, it releases into the atmosphere, man has raised the level from 280 to more then 350 parts per million since 1860. And continued use of coal and other fossil fuels is expected to double the concentration of by the year 2050, elevating the earth’s temperature. The greenhouse effect will mean much more than hotter summers and milder winters. It may alter rainfall, affect crop yields and eventually − as glaciers begin to melt − raise the level of the sea.

But the environmentalists predict that the temperature change will be greater in the Polar Regions than near the equator. In general, they speculate that snowfall will begin later, the growing season will lengthen and higher latitudes will get less rain. Scientists say that the sea level will probably rise at least two feet before the year 2100, which could flood some of major ports of the world, disrupt transportation network, alter ecosystems and cause major shifts in land development patterns.

However not all experts are convinced that the heat is coming. Some think that the use of primary energy sources such as coal could decline 60 per cent by 2050 and, perhaps, the opposite scenario is true. If the rate of fossil-fuel use is going down, the amount of we add to the air is getting less every year.

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