Vocabulary and Speech Exercises

І. Read the following transcriptions. Write them in words and give their Ukrainian equivalents.

['Cxtqn'aIlqndz]; ['fJGJ]; ['tPNgq]; [q'tRgqV]; [mq'kenzI]; ['kxntqb(q)rI]; ['maVrI]; ["pPlI'nJZq]; ['welINtqn]; ['Lklqnd]; ['kaIs(t)CE:C]; [dA'nJdIn]; [nI'HeI]; ['pIt"kE:n]; ['tPkq'laV]; ["Invq'kRgIl]; ['xNglIkqn]; ["rqVmqn'kxTqlIk]; ["prqzbI'tIqrIqn].

ІI. Match the geographical names given in brackets with their definitions.

1. It is the large body of water between Australia and New Zealand, approximately 2,000 kilometres across.

2. They are an archipelago and New Zealand territory in the Pacific Ocean consisting of about ten islands within a 40-kilometre radius.

3. It is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over 700,000 square kilometres.

4. It is New Zealand’s most spectacular high country intermountain alpine basin located roughly in the centre of the South Island.

5. It is the main city of the North Island of New Zealand.

6. It is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country’s third-largest urban area.

7. It is a subregion of Oceania, made up of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

8. It is the capital city and second most populous urban area of New Zealand.

(Polynesia, Tonga, Wellington, Tasman Sea, Mackenzie Basin, Palmerston North, Christchurch, Chatham Islands)

III. Complete the sentences by choosing appropriate prepositions from those in brackets. Ask your group-mates questions on the text.

Maori, people of New Zealand and the Cook Islands, believed to have migrated (at/in) early times (with/from) other islands of Polynesia. Maori tradition asserts that seven canoes brought their ancestors (to/at) New Zealand. The Maori language is closely related (with/to) Tahitian, Hawaiian, and other languages spoken (in/on) the islands lying in the South Pacific. (At/In) the early 19^th century, (in/at) the end of their war against European encroachment, the Maori in New Zealand numbered about 100,000. Their population today is more than 500,000. The Maori maintain their own cultural identity apart (with/from) the general New Zealand community, while (in/at) the same time sending representatives (for/to) parliament. (From/Since) the 1970s the Maoris and the government have negotiated several settlements of land and other claims lodged by various Maori groups; the claims date back (to/into) the 19^th century, when land was seized (with/by) British colonists in violation (to/of) the Treaty of Waitangi.

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