TASK 4: Answer the questions using the Text of Task1.

1. Where do the seven small countries of Central America lie?

2. Where do hundreds of Caribbean islands stretch?

3. When did Christopher Columbus and his Spanish crew drop anchor in the Caribbean?

4. Why did the islands become known as the West Indies?

5. What is the entire area affectedby?

6. When do tropical storms known as hurricanes affect the Caribbean?

7. What countries laid claim to many of the islands?

 

TASK 5: Retell Text A in short using the new words. Begin your sentences with one of the given phrases:

1. First it is stated that …

2. Then the author goes on to the description of …

3. It is interesting to note that …

4. The fact is that …

5. It should be emphasized that …

6. In the end it is concluded that …

7. In my opinion …

TASK 6. Match the beginnings and the endings of the sentences and arrange them in the logical order to make a story “CORAL REEFS”:

1. The clear, warm water 2. The howler monkey defends its part 3. A chain of coral reefs 4. It is home to turtles, sea anemones, and spiny lobsters, 5. It is the world’s second largest barrier reef

a) runs 180 miles (290 km) along the coastline of Belize. b) of the rain forest with a noisy howl. c) after Australia’s. d) as well as a wonderful array of tropical fish. e) attracts divers from around the world.

 

МОДУЛЬ 3. LANDSCAPE PLANNING

Unit 1. landscape planning

TASK 1. Read Text A paying attention to the words in bold type. Look up their meaning in the Glossary:

Text A

OWEN DELL

1. Owen Dell got his first serious exposure to landscaping in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, where he spent his childhood afternoons gamboling about instead of doing his homework. After a brief career in electronics, which taught him where his affections really lay, he turned to horticulture. Two charismatic college botany professors opened his eyes to the wonders of nature. Class field trips made it clear that the gap between the way nature handled landscaping and the way people did was huge — and that it was the people who needed help.

2. In 1971, Owen went on to start his own landscaping business, which was devoted to developing native-plant gardens for California homeowners. After a brief period of hauling rubbish and landscaping mobile homes, he found a niche for himself. As his career developed, his vision expanded, aided by a series of natural disasters that illuminated the need to make landscaping smarter, safer, and more environmentally friendly. Wildfires led Owen to become an expert in firescaping (a term he coined). Droughts taught him the value of water conservation. The impacts of fossil-fuel use led him to found the Fossil-Free Landscaping Group. Each catastrophe led to a wider vision of what landscaping could and should be.

3. Today, Owen is an internationally recognized and widely admired expert in sustainable landscaping. He has written numerous articles for Sunset Magazine, National Gardening Magazine, Southern California Gardener, Pacific Horticulture, and many others. He’s an international speaker who has presented hundreds of truly rousing lectures, classes, and workshops to homeowners and professionals. Owen is also the co-writer and co-host of the popular Santa Barbara, California, television series Garden Wise Guys (www.citytv18.com), a sustainable-landscaping sitcom. His other book, How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business (Globe Pequot), has helped thousands of budding professionals get a healthy start on their careers.

4. Owen’s work has been featured on HGTV, Peak Moment Television, and NBC and in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune magazine, Landscape Architecture Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. He has won numerous awards for his work. In his spare time, Owen putters in his own garden, hangs out with his cats, spends quality time in wild places, cooks a mean meal from homegrown produce, and dabbles in political and social activism.

Visit Owen’s Web site at www.owendell.com.

TASK 2. Read Text A and choose an appropriate title for each part of it:

1. Owen Dell’s Awards and His Spare Time

2. A Widely Admired Expert

3. Environmentally Friendly Landscaping

4. Owen Dell’s First Serious Exposure To Landscaping

TASK 3. Answer the questions in writing:

1. Where did Owen Dell spend his childhood afternoons?

2. When did he turn to horticulture?

3. What did two charismatic college botany professors do?

4. What led Owen to become an expert in firescaping?

5. What has he won?

6. What does he do in his spare time?

 

TASK 4. Find in the text the English equivalents of the following words and word combinations and write them down:

1. Привязанность

2. Садоводство

3. Посвятить

4. Бедствие

5. Экологически безопасный

6. Признанный

7. Экологически устойчивый

8. Многочисленные награды

TASK 5. Match the columns:

1. Owen Dell got his first exposure to landscaping 2. After a brief career in electronics 3. In 1971, Owen went on to start 4. Droughts taught him 5. Owen is an internationally recognized 6. He has won numerous

a) his own landscaping business. b) the value of water conservation. c) in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. d) awards for his work. e) he turned to horticulture. f) expert in sustainable landscaping.

TASK 6. Read Text B and answer the question after it:

It’s a lovely fall day. I’m looking out the French doors that separate my office from the food forest outside. I see lemons, oranges, and tangerines ripening on (what an amazing coincidence!) my lemon, orange, and tangerine trees. Leeks, onions, several kinds of basil, sage, bell peppers, hot chilies, blueberries, and a couple dozen other edibles are within my view. There’s even a water chestnut plant growing happily in a tiny water garden.

All in all I have more than 130 kinds of edible plants in my very compact yard, along with four water features; what must be hundreds of kinds of ornamental plants; lots of beneficial insects, butterflies, and hummingbirds; and a couple of cats snoozing in the shade on my little meadow of native sedges. I have a welcoming entry area, a street-side native garden, and plenty of intimate views and surprises. I feel so fortunate to be able to enjoy this place every day.

I guess you could say I’m in love with my garden. I’d do just about anything for it, but the truth is that I hardly work on it at all. A couple of hours of work a week is sufficient to keep it in beautiful condition. It requires very little water, almost no fertilizer, and never, ever any pesticides. It generates almost no waste or bad karma. It feeds me, shelters me, entertains me and the others who experience it, delights all my senses, and provides habitat for many wild things — and it does all this with very little negative impact on the environment. It’s an efficient living system that really works.

This amazing spot didn’t happen by chance, of course. I spent 28 years creating a sustainable, beautiful garden. And landscaping is my profession, so I do have a leg up on the ordinary Joe. But having spent my adult life creating similar gardens for thousands of clients, I know such a place is within your reach — and you don’t have to wait a quarter century to have it. I know how to develop your property for maximum enjoyment, at minimal cost, and with a net positive impact on your surroundings. That outcome may sound like magic, but then, gardens are full of magic.