Английский для землеустроителей: English for Land Use Planners

АНГЛИЙСКИЙ 

ДЛЯ ЗЕМЛЕУСТРОИТЕЛЕЙ

ENGLISH FOR LAND USE PLANNERS

Н.А. ТИТАРЕНКО

Москва 
ИНФРА-М 

2024

УЧЕБНИК

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Английский для землеустроителей: English for Land Use Planners : 

учебник / Н.А. Титаренко. — Москва : ИНФРА-М, 2024. — 563 с. — 
(Высшее образование).

ISBN 978-5-16-016028-3 (print)
ISBN 978-5-16-108405-2 (online)
Учебник содержит базовые сведения по фонетике, правилам чтения 

и грамматике, а также специальную профессиональную лексику по землеустройству.

Материал представлен в виде текстов, словарных пояснений к ним, 

лексико-грамматических упражнений и заданий (смысловых, творческих 
и т.д.). Тематика текстов определяется содержанием землеустроительных 
дисциплин: земельные ресурсы, использование городских и негородских 
земель, оценка земли, некоторые аспекты охраны и восстановления нарушенных земель.

В учебник включен оригинальный материал из истории земельных 

отношений в Англии, а также основанный на фактическом материале специальный раздел, посвященный проведению конкретных землеустроительных преобразований на территории графства Ланкашир. Задания 
и упражнения направлены на расширение словарного запаса и развитие 
творческого подхода к изучению английского языка.

Для студентов землеустроительных специальностей, факультетов и ву
зов. Учебник также может быть полезен всем, кто интересуется вопросами 
использования земли как главного источника нашего процветания.

УДК 332.3+811.111(075.8)

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А в т о р:

Титаренко Н.А., старший преподаватель кафедры иностранных 

языков Государственного университета по землеустройству

ISBN 978-5-16-016028-3 (print)
ISBN 978-5-16-108405-2 (online)
© Титаренко Н.А., 2024

Предисловие

Данный учебник предназначен для тех, кто владеет основными 

навыками чтения и понимания текста на английском языке и желает совершенствовать свои знания в области грамматики и профессиональной землеустроительной лексики.

Пособие рассчитано на 4–6 семестров работы в высшем учеб
ном заведении, где изучаются дисциплины, связанные с проблемами использования земельных ресурсов (в том числе городских 
территорий), их оценки, перепланирования, распределения и перераспределения и со многими другими вопросами, которые в условиях формирования земельного рынка становятся все более актуальными.

Тексты, подобранные для чтения и изучения, позволяют зна
чительно пополнить словарный запас, включая идиоматические 
выражения, так как взяты из различных источников (журнальной 
статьи, документа, книги, написанных носителями языка, а также 
из описания преобразования региона — одного из графств на севере Англии). Тематика уроков весьма разнообразна: ресурсы, 
оценка, транспорт, использование городских земель, вопросы 
истории земельных отношений и т.д.

Особое значение придается системе упражнений и творческих 

заданий. Большое количество упражнений дает возможность понять и закрепить в памяти новую лексику и знакомый грамматический материал, что способствует развитию и совершенствованию 
речевых навыков, столь необходимых в ситуациях профессионального общения с зарубежными коллегами.

В зависимости от уровня подготовки студентов часть заданий 

может быть использована преподавателями для самостоятельной 
работы студентов или для составления контрольных заданий.

Карты, схемы и другие иллюстрации, содержащиеся в учебнике, 

как правило, сопровождаются конкретными заданиями, которые 
студент должен выполнить либо с помощью преподавателя, либо 
самостоятельно. Эти задания направлены на развитие навыков 
профессионального общения. Они способствуют формированию 
умения ориентироваться в ситуации общения на иностранном 
языке, помогают анализировать ситуацию и одновременно форму

лировать свое отношение к предмету обсуждения на английском 
языке, а не просто пассивно запоминать диалоги, что было необходимо студенту на начальном этапе обучения.

В конце учебника даны грамматический справочник и ряд при
ложений в виде лексико-грамматических таблиц.

Section I 

LAND RESOURCES AND MAJOR  

USES OF LAND

Unit 1 

LAND AND LAND USE PLANNING

I. 
Vocabulary notes: 

wealth n богатство
land n 1. земля, суша, берег; 2. материк; 3. страна, государство; 

4. земельный участок, земельная собственность; 5. почва

 
v приземляться

land resources земельные ресурсы
ownership n 1. собственность; 2. владение
environment n окружающая среда 
provide v снабжать, обеспечивать
till v обрабатывать землю
farmer n крестьянин, фермер, сельский труженик
peasant n крестьянин
belong v принадлежать
private a частный
lease n 1. аренда; 2. договор аренды; 3. срок аренды
 
v сдавать внаем, в аренду

use n применение, использование
 
v 1. использовать; 2. эксплуатировать

produce v производить

II. 
Underline the suffixes with the help of which the following 
nouns are formed and translate the words into Russian:

speaker, owner, reader, builder, worker, dreamer, farmer, planner, 

factor, founder, inventor, producer, provider.

III. 
Pronounce correctly: 

i, y [аɪ]: prime, provide, site, time, desire, hire, otherwise, divide, 

life, type

i, y [ɪ]: till, which, it, is, with, public, ownership, disposal, district, 

citizen, ill, historic, into, history, many, property

but: give [gɪv], city [sɪtɪ], pity [pɪtɪ], live [lɪv]

IV. 
Read the text and translate it into Russian.

Text 1A 

Why Is Land Valued So High?

History speaks of the high regard with which man has viewed land 

in times past. The ancient Greeks prayed to an earth goddess. Most 
wars were fought for possession of land. Prime land resources were the 
ownership of the ruling classes. The rights on land were the key factor 
that determined the economic, social and political status of people.

Land was of basic importance for it provided man with living space 

and with raw materials. People looked to land for their environment 
and food they ate. Land provided them with housing and building sites.

Land is many things to many persons: to the townsman — a place to 

build his house on, to the child — a playground, to the poet — a theme 
of his poetry. And still many among us are not clearly aware of any land 
use problems.

To a land use planner, land is not only the soil under his feet and 

the materials in that soil. To him it is the slope that determines the 
ease of cultivation, the sunlight and rain that plants need. Land is also 
the bays along the coasts and the falls of the streams, which permit the 
generation of electricity. Land is the field to grow crops, and the river 
on which grain and industrial products are carried.

Land is the soil and climate that make timber in the Far East, wheat 

in the Ukraine, cotton in Uzbekistan and pastures in Vologda.

Land in the land use planning sense is our entire natural environment. 

It is the productive force of the greatest importance.

V. 
Read the text. Write down 6 questions and answer them 
in English.

Text 1B 

The Land Use Planner and His Work

Land has much to do with our needs and the way we fulfil them. 

Many of our activities are devoted to getting the basic items of food, 
shelter, and clothing. We need highways and automobiles, forests and 
railways and many other things. It is likely that if we had all that we 

could list, new wants would arise. And again we would be faced with 
the problem of how to satisfy them.

Land is necessary to satisfy man’s needs. The people’s needs can be 

satisfied only if we secure the best uses of land resources.

It is true that no progress in satisfaction the needs of man can be 

made if no labor is applied. If we want to live better we must work 
better. No progress can be made if labor is applied without intelligence. 
The land use planner is to secure wise land uses.

When we approach a familiar city after a year’s absence, we now 

expect to see housing developments on land. We observe that old 
buildings are being demolished to permit new constructions.

The land use planner must decide whether to use a tract for a home 

site or for crops, or whether to use a valley to produce corn. He is to 
decide whether to use the river bottom land for growing tomatoes and 
cabbage. He is to be aware of the ability of land to satisfy wants when 
it is used for pasture or when it is used for wheat. He must know its 
productivity in each use. He must know many things about the land 
ability.

The land use planner determines which acreages to employ in each 

land use. He decides whether the land should be used now or later and 
how it must be used. He plans the living centres and the field patterns 
and many other services that: land can supply. He must consider the 
best uses of the land.

The land use planner determines not only the productivity of land; 

he has to distinguish between the physical productivity and the economic productivity of the land. He is to know the productivity of the 
land itself and that of labor, capital and other resources. The general 
principle is: each hectare of land should be given to the use in which its 
economic productivity is the highest.

VI. 
Read the text. Translate it into Russian in written form.

Text 1C 

Land Resources and Our Future Needs

The land use planning is to meet the future needs of any countries 

economy and particularly those of agriculture. It is obvious that 
scientific and technological progress will lot eliminate the vital 
importance of land. In the decades come land will be of even more vital 
importance than ever in satisfying our needs.

The welfare today depends partly upon how well we allocate our 

land resources among the alternative uses.

The land use planners are to act successfully in arriving at the most 

economic decisions of land uses. The raise of productivity of our land 
resources is the principle goal of land use planning.

The land use planners are to meet unknown advances in the 

techniques of agricultural production and the various needs of other 
branches of economy. If the land use planners have full knowledge 
of land capability they will take thought about best uses of land and 
how to achieve it.

EXERCISES

VII. Give the Russian equivalents: 

land use, land use planner, land use map, prehistoric time, land use 

planning school, economic status, economy, co-operation, industrial 
centers, highest efficiency, economic productivity.

VIII. Open the brackets by using the verbs in the correct form: 

1. Land (to be) not only the soil under our feet. 2. We (to devote) 

much of our labour to get the basic items of food and clothing. 
3. The land use planner (must) secure wise land uses. 4. Farmers 
(to use) land to producte wheat or cotton or to feed cattle. 5. The land 
use planners (to determine) which acreage is to be employed in each 
land use. 6. I (to be) a student of the Land Use Planning faculty.

IX. 
Complete the following sentences with the words from the 
text 1B: 

1. To get the basic items of food, shelter, and clothing we ... 2. If 

we secure the best uses of land resources, ... 3. We expect to see new 
housing developments when ... 4. The land use planner determines 
which acreages ... 5. The land use planner must decide whether to use 
a tract ... 6. Each hectare of land must be used ... 

X. 
Give the Russian equivalents. Write down a few short sentences with them: 

townsman, playground, land use planner, industrial products, 

construction site, hectare, population, crop.

XI. 
Make the sentences negative: 

1. We have unlimited land resources on our planet. 2. The first-year 

student wishes to live far from his Institute. 3. Progress can be made if 
our labour is applied without intelligence. 4. When we visit a familiar 
city after a year’s absence we expect to see it unchanged. 5. The farmers 
of this zone use all their land to pasture cattle. 6. These farmers use 
the river bottom land for growing tomatoes and cabbages. 7. They use 
fertile land for construction sites.

XII. Insert the proper word from the text. Translate the sentences 

into Russian: 

1. For ... land is a place to build his house on.
2. Land is not only the ... under our feet.
3. Plants need ... and rain.
4. The falls of the streams ... the generation of electricity.
5. Wheat ... in the Ukraine, and cotton ... in Uzbekistan.
6. The farmers use land ... wheat, cotton and other crops.

XIII. Translate the following sentences into English: 

1. Земельные ресурсы составляют богатство нашего государ
ства. 2. Землеустроитель должен обеспечить правильное использование земель. 3. Землеустроитель должен хорошо знать потенциальные возможности каждого вида землепользования. 4. Каждый 
гектар земли в этом хозяйстве используется экономично.

XIV. Write down what parts of speech the words in bold prints are 

and translate the sentences into Russian: 

1. To know how a plant grows, we must study botany. 2. His 

brother works at this plant. 3. Plants need water and sun. 4. Land 
is necessary to satisfy man’s needs. 5. They pasture their cattle all the 
year round in this part of the country. 6. These are the best pasture 
grasses. 7. There are many good pastures on the farm. 8. The farms use 
electricity in most agricultural processes. 9. The use of electricity on 
the farm is necessary.

XV. Write down the antonyms: 

many, to build, under, to permit, to rest, much, active, new, poor, 

absence, now, high.

XVI. Read the text and discuss the problems in class. 

A. Land Use Planning in Russia

– What is land use planning?
– Land use planning is the planning of the most proper, sound and 

full land uses based on the most advanced technology and science. Land 
use planning is connected with geography, geodesy, soil sciences, law, 
computer and space technology, etc. That’s why a land use planner, 
must be not only skilled but profoundly educated.

– What does the land use planner do?
– The work of a land use planner is often connected with agriculture. 

He has to make a cadastrial survey and project agricultural enterprises. 
He must use data collected by other scientists. The land use planner 
is to be aware of modern land information systems and space research 
technology.

– Why should we pay much attention to land use planning?
– Land and the way it is used determine to a great extent successful 

agriculture. The more rationally land is used now the more stable its 
fertility will be in future.

– Is a land use planner an old profession?
– Yes, the origins of it are lost in antiquity. In prehistoric times, the 

land use maps had been made on clay tablets. In Russia, the first school 
of land use planners was founded in Moscow more than 200 years ago. 
Now it is the only University of land use planning in the world.

B. What Do We Call “Land”?

– We speak of land as something on which people can walk and 

build a house, plant a garden, or grow a crop. But the term “land” 
suggests different things to different people. How do we define the term 
“land”?

– Oh, it is surprisingly difficult to define the term “land”. Land is 

wanted for two main kinds of purpose: as space (to exist in, to conduct 
activities in), and as a source of raw materials (to make things out of).

– What is the land use planner’s concept of land?
– Land is any part of the earth’s surface which can be or cannot be 

used by man. It is finite and fixed in place.

– What else can a land use planner add?
– The land use planner’s concept of land includes all of the earth’s 

surface, water and ice as well as ground. In addition to building sites,