UNIT I.
LAND USE PLANNING
COMMON UNDERSTANDING OF LAND USE PLANNING
1. Read and try to understand the following words:
Land, inhabitants, development, planning, provide, profoundly, gift, use, surveying, basis, nature, qualified, directly, ownership, prosperous, skills, peasant, important.
2. Read and translate the following words and word combinations:
Land use, land use planning, land surveying, a land surveyor, profoundly educated, land information, advanced countries, to sustain life, to pose a question, opposite situation, a simple answer, individual basis, an aspect of survival, land ownership.
3. Remember the following words:
apply (v.) - застосовувати
dependence (n.) - залежність
development (n.) - розвиток
educated (adj.) - освічений
land (n.) - земля
land resources capacity - потенціал земельних ресурсів
land use - використання землі
land use planner - землевпорядник
land use planning - землевпорядкування
land tenure - володіння землею
poverty (n.) - бідність
profoundly (adv.) - глибоко
prosperous (adj.) - процвітаючий
solve (v.) - вирішувати
survive (v.) - виживати
4. Read and translate the following text:
The individual and society
What is land use planning? Land use planning or land surveying is a process of managing the use and development of land resources. It is essentially a study of the methods in which land use planners apply their knowledge, skills and efforts to the gifts of nature in order to satisfy their needs and wants.
Effective land use planning is impossible without land information. Such information includes land resource capacity, land tenure, land ownership and land use.
Even in the prosperous, economically advanced countries land helps people to survive. That's why lands are very important resources for people.
Some people have the abilities to sustain life without outside assistance. But a large percentage of the human race of the third world still lives in very small self-sufficient peasant communities. These people experience great poverty, but they provide on an individual basis, for their own survival. The inhabitants of cities are totally incapable of providing for themselves, directly, the means of survival. Here we can observe the opposite situation - a high level of living together with an extreme economic dependence. Such people depend upon the efforts and cooperation of many thousands of specialist workers, among them land use planners. Land use planning is concerned with soil sciences, law, geodesy, geography, and computer. To solve these problems land use planners must be not only qualified but profoundly educated specialists.
Find the antonyms among the following words
Capable, independence, possible, easy, directly, impossible, large, incapable, difficult, dependence, small, indirectly.
6. Translate into English:
Застосовувати знання, великий відсоток, вирішити проблему, економічна залежність, велика бідність, мешканці міст, економічно розвинуті країни, людська раса, процвітаючий, дари природи, без зовнішньої допомоги, високо кваліфікований, освічений спеціаліст.
7. Translate sentences into English:
1. Землевпорядкування - це процес управління і розвитку земельних ресурсів.
2. Інформація про землю включає в себе володіння землею, користування землею, і потенціал земельних ресурсів.
3. Ефективне землевпорядкування неможливе без інформації про землю.
4. Люди використовують свої навики та знання, щоби задовольнити власні потреби.
5. Землевпорядник може дати відповіді на численні запитання.
6. Землевпорядкування пов’язане із багатьма іншими науками про землю, правом, геодезією, географією, комп’ютеризацією.
8. Fill in the blanks with different forms of the verb to be (am, is, are, was, were, will be):
1. Who... the best specialist? 2. There... vast land resources in Ukraine. 3. Last year there... the highest crop in this region. 4. Next year you... a land use planner. 5. I... a second year student. 6. Land use planning... concerned with different sciences. 7. In future effective land use planning... impossible without land information.
9. Make the following sentences negative and interrogative:
1. It is a difficult matter to give a simple answer to the basic question. 2. Land use planning is impossible without land information. 3. Such information includes land resources capacity. 4. Lands are very important resources for men. 5. People of the third world experience great poverty. 6. We observe a high level of living in some developed countries. 7. They have a degree of economic independence.
10. Fill in the blanks with prepositions:
1. Land use planning is a process... managing the use and development... land resources... a sustainable way. 2. Land helps people... survive. 3. Many textbooks begin... posing the basic question. 4. It is not a difficult problem... give a right answer... the main question. 5.... order... satisfy men's needs and wants people apply their knowledge... the gifts... nature.
11. Retell the text ”The individual and society".
