WEATHER WISDOM. - раздел Образование, МЕТОДИЧЕСКИЕ РЕКОМЕНДАЦИИ Г.Г. МАРИНИНА I. Lexics To The Text:
1. An Ant – Муравей...
I. Lexics to the text:
1. an ant – муравей
2. weather clue – ключ к разгадке погоды (показатель погоды)
3. a huge mound – огромная куча, насыпь
4. holes – ходы, норки, лазы
5. a downpour – ливень
6. to break up – разбивать, нарушать
7. to scurry into nests – поспешно забраться входы
8. to build dams – строить дамбу, плотину, преграду
9. to prevent smth. from – преградить от чего-либо
10. a bee – пчела
11. humidity – влажность
12. a hive – улей
13. a buttefly – бабочка
14. to disappear – исчезать
15. to hide – прятаться
16. a tree trunk – ствол дерева
17. to seek shelter – искать убежище
18. to protect – защищать
19. a firefly – жук-светляк
20. locust – саранча
21. daisy – маргаритка
22. dandelion – одуванчик
23. tulip – тюльпан
24. to close the blossoms – закрывать соцветие, бутон
25. clover plants – клеверные растения
26. to draw leaves together – сворачивать листы
27. leaf stalk – черешок листа (устьице листа)
28. curly hair – кудрявый волос
29. sensitive – чувствительный
30. living hydrometre – живой гидрометр
31. joints – суставы
32. cause to increase – вызывать увеличение, приводить к увеличению
33. painful - болезненный
II. Read and translate the text:
Some people watch ants for weather clues. Anytime you see ants industriously building huge mounds around their holes, prepare for rain. About two hours before a downpour, all kinds of ants – but especially large black or red ants – will break up their caravants, scurry into their nests, and begin building dams around the ant hill. These mounds, which are sometimes several inches in height, prevent rainwater from running into the ant hills.
Bees give weather clues, too. They are usually active several hours before a rain, but as the humidity increases, they return to their hives. Some American Indians say that the longer the increased activity lasts, the longer the rain will be.
Other insects are also good humidity indicators. Butterflies usually flit from flower to flower all day long. When they suddenly disappear and can be found hiding on tree trunks or on the underside of leaves, they are seeking shelter to protect their fragile wings from a hard rain.
Fireflies fly very low when there is a high relative humidity. But an old saying states:
When fireflies are about in large numbers,
The weather will be fair for the next three days.
And if you hear lots of locusts singing, you can be sure the air is dry, because locusts sing only when it is hot and dry.
Plants are also handy humidity indicators. they are affected in different ways. Just before a rain many flowers – like the daisy, dandelion and tulip – close their blossoms, and clover plants draw their leaves together. It is believed that the absorption of moisture from the air causes a change in the leaf stalk, making the leaves turn over. It may be that the rough underside of the leaf can absorb rain better than the smooth topside.
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Almost everyone knows what humidity does to hair. Curly hair gets curlier and straight hair gets limp. The reason is that hair absorbs moisture from damp air. Straight hair actually gets longer. A Swiss geologists used this fact to invent the first hydrometer. In 1783 Horace Benedict de Saussure fastened some human hair to a needle. The hair expanded when the air was moist and contracted when the air was dry, moving the needle across a numbered scale. His instrument is called a hair hydrometer and is still used by meteorologists.
Some people are very sensitive to humidity. People who have arthritis are, in a sence, “living hydrometers”. High humidity causes the fluids in their tissues and joints to increase, making movement difficult and painful. That is why many older people say. “It’s going to rain. I can feel it by my bones.” They actually can.
By learning to read weather sings, you can get a few hours advance warning if a storm is headed your way. It may keep you from getting’ your new shoes ruined in the rain, from having a family picnic spoiled, or your garden beaten down by a storm. If you are backpacking camping, boating or doing similar outdoor activities it might even save your life.
III. Answer the questions:
1. How do ants prepare for rain?
2. When do beers return to their hives?
3. Where do butterflies seek a shelter?
4. Are plants also humidity indicators? (Give examples).
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2. Временные формы Continuous и Perfect (Active).
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Именно в нашем институте появилась эта проблема.
1. It is this fact that explains everything. 2. It was I who told her the news. 3. It was my friend who helped me in my work. 4. It was on the seventh of November, 1917, that the working people too
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Reading the book, the book read by us, going home, the boy going home, the magazine bought yesterday, the girl buying the book, the book taken in the library, taking the books from
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1. Vocabulary:
1. education – образование
2. a student of education – студент - педагог
3. to enter an Institute – поступить в институт
4
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1. Vocabulary:
1. Great Britain – Великобритания
2. to be situated – располагаться
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I. Lexics to the text:
1. a century – век, столетие
2. the cost of education – стоимость образования
3. wealthy cl
WEATHER WISDOM
I. Lexics to the text:
1. out-of-doors – на улице
2. to be close to nature – быть близко к природе
3. to save own
Weather Wisdom.
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BIOLOGY
I. Lexics to the text:
1. biology – биология
2. the living things = the living organisms – живой
3. non – living – неживой
4. plants – ра
BREATHING PLANTS
I. Lexics to the text:
1. to consider – считать, рассматривать
2. to hesitate – колебаться, сомневаться
3. the making of starch – образование крах
FLOWERING PLANTS
I. Lexics to the text:
1. a flowering plant – цветковое растение
2. to consist of – состоять из
3. the root system – корневая сист
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I. Lexics to the text.
1. skeleton – скелет
2. bone – кость
3. cartilage – хрящ
4. framework
MIKHAIL LOMONOSOW
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I. Lexics to the text:
1. to be born – родиться
2. at an early age – в раннем во
D.I.MENDELEYEV
(1834 – 1907)
I. Lexics to the text:
1. to be born – родиться
2. to receive a secondary education – получить среднее образование
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