PARKING

Ex. 1 Read the text and translate into Ukrainian. / Прочитайте та перекладіть текст на українську мову:

Parking is the act of stopping a vehicle and leaving it unoccupied for more than a brief time. It is against the law virtually everywhere to park a vehicle in the middle of a highway or road; parking on one or both sides of a road, however, is commonly permitted. Parking facilities are constructed in combination with most buildings, to facilitate the coming and going of the buildings' users.

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Modes of parking

Parallel parking

With parallel parking of cars, these are arranged in a line, with the front bumper of one car facing the back bumper of an adjacent one. This is done parallel to a curb, when one is provided. Parallel parking is the most common mode of street side parking for cars. It may also be used in parking lots and parking structures, but usually only to supplement parking spaces that use the other modes.

Perpendicular parking

With perpendicular parking of cars, these are parked side to side, perpendicular to an aisle, curb, or wall. This type of car parking is more scalable than parallel parking and is therefore commonly used in car parking lots and car parking structures.

Angle parking

Angle parking of cars is similar to perpendicular parking for these vehicles, except that cars are arranged at an angle to the aisle (an acute angle with the direction of approach). The gentler turn allows easier and quicker parking, narrower aisles, and thus higher density than perpendicular parking. While in theory the aisles are one way, in practice they are typically wide enough to allow two cars to pass slowly when drivers go down the aisles the wrong way.

Anderson Parking

Anderson parking is used for events when all vehicles arrive and depart at the same time. A parking lot that uses this method has one entrance and one exit. The entrance is usually a small road that leads the driver to the back of the parking lot. The first vehicles park in marked spots facing the exit. The following vehicles park behind the cars in tandem leaving an aisle after every two rows. Anderson parking is not used to save space (the same amount of space would be taken if angle parking was used) but it allows large numbers of vehicles to exit the parking lot at the same time efficiently, and it allows vehicles to leave the event early. This type of parking is often seen at churches and concert halls.

Vocabulary

· brief time – нетривалий час

· to permit – дозволяти

· to facilitate – полегшити

· to arrange – розташувати

· bumper – бампер

· adjacent – суміжний

· curb – узбіччя

· mode – взірець; метод

· supplement – додаток

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· aisle –прохід

· entrance and exit – вхід і вихід

Ex.2. Answer the following questions. / Дайте відповіді на питання:

1. What is a parking?