IV. What do you call it?

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 513.

1. the total number of inhabitants of a town or country, etc.;

2. a name by which a person or thing is known or described;

3. the expression of thoughts or feelings in words;

4. a high, le­vel stretch of land;

5. the average number of offspring per one woman in a country;

6. the length of time that a person is expected to live;

7. a man who exercises manual art or trade.

V. Find in the text a word or words close in meaning to the following:

to reach, to live in, to employ, thickly populated, thin­ly peopled, wilderness, language, occupation, handicraftsman, various, arid, humid, chiefly.

VI. Give a word or words opposite in meaning to:

sparsely populated, dry, damp, rural, former, outer, to decrease.

VII. Give the derivatives of the following words:

dense, sparse, people, handicraft, to populate, to engage, to result, to employ, to increase, to distinguish.

VIII. Answer the following questions:

1. What can you say about the number of population in In­dia? 2. What is the common name of India's population? 3. India is a multinational country, isn't it? 4. What do you know about the peoples inhabiting the southern part of the country and the Peninsula of Hindustan? 5. What is the state language of India? 6. What is the average of India's population? 7. What are the most densely populated regions of the country? What is the average density there? 8. Where are more sparsely peopled areas located? 9. What can you say about the urban and rural popula­tion of the country? 10. What can you say about Indian villa­ges?