I. Repeat the words after the teacher

thaw, council, bureaucratically, indigenous, roughly, archi′pelago, absorptive, accessible, lucrative, route, tra′verse, observer, threatening, enthusiast, robustness, tiresomely, bemoans, sovereignty, figuratively, squabble, binding, enormous, po′licing

 

II. Read and translate the international words

politics, region, bureaucratically, archipelago, global, result, reserve, supertanker, traverse, potential, plus, status, committee, dissident, enthusiast, resource, tradition, club, sovereignty, polar, dispute, shelf, outsider, mission, energy

 

III. Read and translate the information using the vocabulary

 

IV. Translate the verbs, give the three forms

thaw, chair, vote, represent, replace, retain, speed, retreat, become, estimate, discover, aid, traverse, hug, ply, apply, threaten, observe, award, jail, deny, mix, own, display, admit, bemoan, delay, limit, watch, expand, define, surround, govern, rumble, erupt, found, promote, bind, respond, cause, ooze, find, serve

 

V. Give the derivatives of the words

back, represent, rough, large, access, discover, tanker, ice, north, large, member, side, part, act, agree, explore, develop

 

VI. Give Russian equivalents

once a backwater, not any more, to chair the meeting, indigenous peoples, twice as fast as, retains more heat, the ice retreats, become accessible, undiscovered gas reserves, nuclear icebreaker, ply trade lanes, as observers, own the lion’s share, bemoan the seal slaughter, ground for delay, dangerous scramble, international treaty, shipping route, to promote joint scientific research, marine pollution, sign the agreement, respond to oil spills, plant the flag, marine border, state-owned company, joint venture

 

VII. Arrange the following in pairs of synonyms

1. aid a. agreement
2. deal b. answer
3. deposits c. business
4. display d. cross
5. explore e. dispute
6. indigenous f. help
7. lane g. keep
8. lucrative h. local
9. marine i. look for
10. ply j. melt
11. rescue k. profitable
12. respond l. research
13. retain m. resources
14. search n. sail
15. squabble o. save
16. thaw p. sea
17. traverse q. sea way
18. venture r. ship
19. vessel s. show

 

VIII. Arrange the following in pairs of antonyms

1. absorptive a. attack
2. amity b. cleaning
3. cut c. cold
4. dark d. dangerous
5. distinctive e. discovered
6. enormous f. foreign
7. entirely g. freeze
8. indigenous h. increase
9. peace i. light
10. policing j. partly
11. pollution k. private
12. retreat l. reflective
13. safe m. riot
14. state-owned n. small
15. thaw o. squabble
16. undiscovered p. usual
17. warm q. war

IX. Grammar revision

Translate the sentences into Russian

1. China, South Korea, Japan and Singapore, plus Italy, have applied to join the Arctic Council as observers; so has the European Union.
2. The Arctic is warming; so is the Northern Sea.
3. Norway was threatening to block China’s bid. So was Sweden.
4. China can be a member of the club, so can South Korea.
5. Gas becomes accessible, so do other minerals.
6. Norway t hreatened to block China’s bid. So did Sweden.

Translate the sentences into English

1. Россия является членом Арктического Совета. Канада тоже.
2. Холод в Арктике отступает. Лёд тоже.
3. Норвежские газеты сообщали об этом. Российские тоже.
4. Роснефть и Экссон Мобил могут иметь совместное предприятие. Также и другие компании.

 

X. Answer about the article

1. Who will chair the Arctic Council meeting in Stockholm?
2. What countries are the members of the Council?
3. What are the indigenous Arctic peoples?
4. What strait is between Greenland and Norway’s archipelago?
5. What factors speed the global warming?
6. What can happen in the Arctic between 2020 and 2050?
7. What makes Arctic deposits accessible?
8. Why is it necessary to use trans-Arctic shipping routes?
9. In what way did the Russian supertanker traverse the northern route?
10. Why did Norway threaten to block China’s bid for observer status?
11. What part of the Arctic coastline belongs to Russia?
12. What issues do disputes rumble on?
13. Why do disputes erupt over continental shelves?
14. What are the activities of the Arctic club?
15. What is Arthur Chilingarov famous for?
16. Why should Arctic countries have good regional relations?

 

XI. Insert prepositions

1. The top … the world is warming roughly twice as fast as the rest … it.

2. The Arctic now has less sea-ice … the time of year, than … millennia.

3. Most scientists expect the Arctic Ocean to begin to be largely ice-free in summer sometime … 2020 and 2050.

4. Arctic deposits … oil, gas and other minerals become accessible.

5. The Arctic has … a quarter of the world's undiscovered and recoverable oil and gas reserves.

6. New commercial trans-Arctic shipping routes will sharply cut the distance … Europe and Asia.

7. In 2011 a Russian supertanker, aided … two nuclear icebreakers, became the first such vessel to traverse the North-east Passage across the Arctic.

8. But officials in Oslo are not the only ones … mixed feelings about Chinese membership.

9. Russia owns half the Arctic coastline and the lion’s share … the region’s resources.

10. Canada displays distinctive robustness … Arctic issues.

11. The ostensible ground … delay is over the newcomers’ role.

12. This will be limited … watching and listening.

13. A bigger row could yet erupt … continental shelves.

14. Next will be a deal … responding … oil spills.

15. Artur Chilingarov planted his country’s flag … the North Pole.

16. The development of Arctic shipping-lanes will also be made easier … good regional relations.

17. Welcome … the new world of the warming Arctic.