Exercise 8. Answer the questions

1. What is flax fiber used for?

2. What kind of fiber is flax fiber?

3. How is flax fiber obtained?

4. In what way are the unwanted parts of the plant removed?

5. What are the flax fibers made up?

6. What are the leading flax producing countries?

7. What is linen used for?

8. What fiber is more expensive to produce flax or cotton? Why?

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.

3. To the best of my knowledge.

4. In my opinion.

1. Flax fiber is the bark of the flax plant.

2. The recovery of flax fiber involves greater expense than that of cotton fiber.

3. The harvested plants are dried in the sun.

4. The colour of the flax fibers at the stage of recovery is green.

5. Flax is grown in the countries with hot and dry climate.

6. Linen is used for making towels.

7. Linen is not elastic, it is stiff.

8. Linen is unexcelled for the manufacture of a large range of materials for household requirements.

V. Oral Practice.

Exercise 10. Retell Text A according to the plan:

1. The recovery of flax fiber.

2. Preparation flax fibers for manufacture.

3. Flax growing countries.

4. End-use of materials made of flax.

VI. Reading Comprehension.

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

Text B