Задания:
1). Перепишите предложения; подчеркните в каждом глагол-сказуемое и определите его видовременную форму и залог. Переведите предложения на русский язык. В разделе (В) обратите внимание на особенности перевода пассивных конструкций:
A)
1. Today the manufacturing sector and the small primary sector are employing even fewer people.
2. London has been an important centre for finance for many years.

1. Less than a third of shares in the London stock market are owned by private individuals.
2. In the late 1930s and 1940s energy and transport industries were nationalised under huge state-owned corporations.

2). Перепишите предложения; подчеркните Participle I,II и установите функции каждого из них, т.е. укажите, будет ли оно определением, обстоятельством или составной частью глагола-сказуемого; предложения переведите:
1. Britain excels in the field of scientific and technological innovation, spending about 13.5000 million pounds a year on research development conducted in industry.
2. Genetics researchers in Britain have identified genes linked to dangerous diseases.
3. While expanding oil and gas industries, Great Britain excels today in high-technologies industries like chemicals, aerospace, electronics.
4. This part of Britain when used for farming had a lot of advantages.

3). Перепишите и письменно переведите следующие предложения; подчеркните в каждом из них модальный глагол и его эквивалент:
1. About 100.000 Britons can use Internet, a global computer network, linked by the international telephone system.
2. The well developed transport infrastructure may be improved by the new Channel Tunnel, linking Britain's rail network to that of the European mainland.
3. The wide Britain's application of new microelectronic technologies should be used in industry and commerce.
4. All children in Britain up to the age 16 must by law receive full-time education.

4). Прочитайте и устно переведите с 1-го по 3-й абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 2 и 3-й абзацы текста.
BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY
PATTERNS OF CHANGE