Answer the questions. 1. Why are communications so important for our country?

1. Why are communications so important for our country?

2. What roads did early man use?

3. What are the modern ways of communications?

4. Why are roads important?

5. What are the pecularities of air-transport?

6. What are the advantages of railway transport?

4.Give Ukrainian equivalents to the following words and expressions on the text:

to depend on transport;

by means of railroads;

the safest mean of travel;

to run much faster than;

to develop a new method;

many developments;

to operate a factory;

to operate well;

to be a success;

to be far slower and lighter;

the fastest locomotive;

more comfortable than;

not so important as;

thanks to the new development;

a locomotive suitable for service;

to serve passengers;

the passenger and freight service.

5.Complete the sentences:

But communications are …

Without good roads …

Early man probably used …

But very early in Europe we find the development …

Roads ant still important …

Airplane cannot carry a …

The railways today...

Railway transport is …

The luggage-van relieves …

These services are …

Make up dialogues using the text.

Try your best in representing the back translation of the text.