Exercise 8. Answer the following questions

1. What is the cotton fiber?

2. When is the cotton fiber picked?

3. What operations is the cotton fiber subjected after being picked?

4. Why does the cotton fiber take the leading place among textiles?

5. What are the leading cotton-cultivating countries?

6. What is the strength of cotton fibers?

7. Why do cotton fibers crease easily?

8. What are the useful properties of cotton fibers?

9. What is cotton used for?

10.How can cotton linters be used?

Exercise 9. Say whether it is true or false, if false, say why. Begin with:

1. I fully / quite agree with you.

2. I can’t agree with you here.

To the best of my knowledge.

In my opinion.

1. Cotton plant is a two-year plant.

2. Cotton fibers can be picked only manually.

3. Cotton must be subjected to some treatment before spinning.

4. The production of cotton is cheap.

5. Cotton is also grown in Ukraine.

6. Cotton fibres crease easily because cotton fibre is not elastic.

7. Because cotton fibre are not elastic they are dyed easily.

8. Cotton can be used as an insulator in the industrial electrical world.

V. Oral practice.

Exercise 10. Retell the text according to the plan:

1. Cotton plant and cotton fiber.

2. The leading cotton-cultivating countries.

3. Useful properties of cotton fibers.

4. The end-use of cotton.

VI. Reading and Comprehension.

Exercise 11. Read and translate text B “Cottonseed”.

Text B