Use the necessary form of the verb in brackets.

1. I wish I (learn) to drive a car before.

2. I wish I (insist) on my opinion then.

3. I wish I (know) French.

4. I wish I (have) a garden.

5. I wish I (know) the truth from the very beginning.

6. I wish I (not tell) my friend such words.

7.  I wish I (can) swim.

8. I wish I (be) a fourth-year student.

9. I wish I (be recognized) at the party yesterday.

10.  I wish it (be) dark now.

 

 

 

                          Text 3. A tree in а city.

 

   Tree is a very large and very old plant. Man new trees and used them long ago. We read about trees in very old legends, Russian and foreign. Many thousand years ago man thought that there was a tree in the centre of the earth. Trees make a garden, a park, a forest. Trees are very important for life and health because they are the producers of oxygen. Without trees the ecology of the earth will have no balance. Trees give timber for our industry, agriculture and our home life. They protect the fields from wind and keep water and soil in them. Trees also give protection for animals. Man gets comfort and beauty from trees. They give harmony to cities, towns and villages.

    What is a tree? A tree is a high woody plant. It takes water and minerals from the soil and transports them to the leaves. Here with the help of sunlight and carbon dioxide, which man and animals breathe out into the air, the tree makes its food.

    In cities with their large population and many industries the air is not good. It is necessary to have many trees in a city to make its air good for man. But it is difficult for a tree to grow in a city, because it wants water, soil and light for its life. Water effects the form, growth and structure of the tree. But it is difficult to give enough water to the trees in city streets. Each tree species wants its special soil, but in a city there are no different soils for each tree. High buildings in the city do not let trees have enough sunlight.

    When man plants trees in the city, he thinks: “Will this or that tree live in this or that street or in this or that part of the city? Will it be comfortable for it here?”

 

 

                                      ACTIVE VOCABULARY

legend               легенда

foreign               иностранный, зарубежный

earth                  земля

health                здоровье

ecology             экология

agriculture        сельское хозяйство

harmony           гармония

woody              древесный

to effect            воздействовать

growth              рост

                                   EXERCISESES

                                   Vocabulary exercises

I. Practice the pronunciation of the following words:

 Legend, foreign, earth, health, producer, agriculture, harmony, woody, effect, growth, comfortable, industry, ecology, balance

 

Find in the text English equivalents to the following words and word combinations

Очень давно, в центре земли, здоровье, защита для животных, древесное растение, воздействовать на структуру, трудно, высокое здание, жить в этой части города

 

Give Russian equivalents  to the following words and word combinations

Old plants, were used long ago, foreign languages, to be important for health,

To have no balance, with the help of, to grow in a city, to give enough water to, tree species, to be comfortable for a tree

 

Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the active vocabulary

1. … is a branch of biology that deals with the habits of living things.

2. …. Is a person who manufactures goods.

3. They looked at the … stems of the plant.

4. We read about the rapid …. Of our economy in the newspaper.

5. Here some new publications - ballads, myths and ….

6.The children were suffering from the … of the hot weather.

 

Say whether the following statements are right or wrong. Correct them if they are wrong.

1. Tree is a new plant.

2. Trees make a garden or a forest..

3. Trees give timber for agriculture.

4. A tree is a low woody plant.

5. The population of cities is large.

6. High buildings let trees have enough sunlight.

7. It’s easy for a tree to grow in a city.

8. A tree transports minerals to the leaves.

9. The ecology has no balance because of trees.

10. We read about trees in old legends.

 

 

                                Grammar exercises