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3)What reduces evaporating of water from the soil surface?
4)When is watering correct?
5.Translate into Russian: - watering equipment
- new planted trees
- to minimize evaporation
- to reduce water evaporation - early evening watering
6.Discuss the two situations (the students are divided into the groups of two):
Situation 1
A new gardener is ignorant about watering. You read the text. What piece of advice would you give to the gardener?
Situation 2
Two gardeners are arguing about watering. One of them is sure that all the plants must be watered in the morning daily.
Another one waters the plants that need it most. Which of them is right?
Test on vocabulary after texts 1 – 6
Variant 1
1. Translate into English:
1.Садовый дизайнер поможет создать садовый стиль.
2.Цветы бывают двулетними, однолетними, многолетними.
3.Вам лучше приобрести поливочное устройство и поливать свои растения по утрам или вечерам.
4.Контейнерное садоводство не занимает много времени.
5.Хорошая почва – это правильное соотношение воды, воздуха и питательных веществ.
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6.Компост улучшает почву.
7.Мульча препятствует прогреванию почвы, и это ее недостаток.
2.What are the terms connected with: Nursery
Variant 2
1. Translate into English:
1.Существует много садовых стилей.
2.Многие люди сажают цветы с сильным ароматом, долгоцветущие и неприхотливые в уходе.
3.Мульчирование весной уменьшает испарение воды.
4.Люд выбирают садовый стиль по своему вкусу и образу жизни.
5.Вы можете использовать различные отходы для компоста.
6.Мульча экономит время на прополке.
7.Садовые инструменты помогают улучшить почву.
2.What are the terms connected with:
compost
UNIT 7
Pests and diseases
Prevention of a problem is always better than the cure. Good gardening practices, such as regular weeding, clearing away garden debris that may harbor pests and diseases, and keeping your plants watered and nourished, will do much to protect the health of your plants and to minimize the likelihood of problems arising. Encouraging natural predators, such as frogs, hedgehogs, birds, hoverflies, and ladybirds, into your garden will also help deal with many of the most common garden pests (aphids, slugs, and snails) in an ecologically friendly way. The other benefit of
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using natural predators is that you can avoid the overuse of environmentally harmful chemical controls.
If pests and diseases do occur, always deal with the problem as quick as possible. Remove affected plant material as soon as you see the first signs of attack. Dispose of diseased material in the trash rather than on the compost heap to prevent the problem from spreading.
1.Read the text.
2.Translate the first passage of the text in the written form.
3. Answer the questions:
1)What helps to protect the health of the plants?
2)Find the examples of the natural predators that can fight pests.
3)Give the examples of pests.
4)What is environmentally harmful way to fight the pests?
5)What is ecologically friendly way to fight the pests?
4. Put the actions in the correct order:
Checking plants, chemical control, encouraging natural predators, good gardening practices, disposing of diseased material in the trash.
UNIT 8
Pruning
Many trees and shrubs do not need regular pruning, just an occasional cutting back to keep them under control. Plants trained into formal shapes, such as wall shrubs or hedges, also need regular pruning to maintain their shape.
Whatever shrubs you have, always remove dead or diseased branches that can spread to the rest of the plant. You can distinguish the dead wood from live wood by scratching the stem with your thumbnail. If green-colored wood is exposed, then the stem is still alive; if it is brown or white, then the stem is dead.
Knowing whether your shrubs flower best on old wood or on new wood is lighter and smoother. Once a stem has flowered, cut it back to allow room for
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replacement flowering stems to develop the following year. Remember: always feed the plant after pruning to encourage new growth. Mulch in spring after the weather has warmed up.
1.Read the text.
2.What are the terms in passages 1, 2, 3?
3.Translate into Russian:
-to maintain the shape=to keep under control
-to prune=to cut back
-dead branches=diseased branches
-to train into formal shape
-to encourage new growth
4.Which adjectives/participles are used with: a) wood;
b) stem?
5.Answer the questions:
1)Do many trees and shrubs need regular pruning?
2)What plants need regular pruning?
3)What is occasional pruning?
4)How can you distinguish dead wood from live wood?
5)What is another reason to cut the stems back?
6)Why should you feed a plant after pruning?
UNIT 9
1. Mind the terms:
Paved areas, lawn, to soften the line(s), to divide the garden into sections, garden ornament, arbor.
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Paths and paving
Paved areas have an important part to play in your enjoyment of your garden. They are great for entertaining – particularly if the weather has been wet or the dew heavy and you can not walk on the lawn without getting your feet wet. They also provide a wonderful setting for plants – but you need to counteract this by using strong-charactered plants around them – ones with large leaves and dramatic shapes and colors. In fact, paved areas need plants to soften their harsh lines. Paths have obvious practical uses in enabling you to walk from one part of the garden to another. They can also provide a framework for your planting, dividing the garden into discrete sections.
From an aesthetic point of view, they can be used to lead the eye to other features such as a garden ornament or arbor.
2.Read the text.
3.Which of the word combinations and words are terms:
heavy dew, harsh lines, dramatic shape, discrete section, aesthetic point of view, garden ornament, a setting for plants, the wet weather, paved areas, a lawn.
4. Determine the roles of paths and paved areas in a garden
The roles of paved area
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4. Translate into English:
1)Садовые дорожки помогут вам не промочить ноги в мокрую погоду.
2)Растения с большими листьями смягчают четкие, строгие линии
дорожек.
3)Садовые дорожки могут быть выполнены так, чтобы привлечь внимание.
4)Они могут делить ваш сад на отдельные части.