II. Прочитайте текст. Составьте подобные ситуации.

Расскажите о себе, своих друзьях родственниках.

1) My name is Nick. My full name is Nick Popov. I live at a hostel and share a room with Victor. We get on well. We are the first-year students of the history faculty. I am only 17 and Victor is 20. Victor entered the Institute after Army. He came from a small town not far from Pskov. It takes him an hour to get there by train. His father is a technician and his mother is a book-keeper. He is the only child in his family. But my family is very large. I have both parents, grandparents, two brothers and a sister. We all live in a big private house. We practically never quarrel. We are deeply attached to each other and we get on very well.

 

Notes:

to get on well - быть в хороших отношениях, ладить друг с другом

to be deeply attached to somebody - быть сильно привязанным к кому-либо

 

III. Переведите текст на английский язык:

Меня зовут Таня. Моё полное имя Таня Иванова. Мне 19 лет. Я студентка второго курса педагогического института. Я хочу стать учителем и работать в школе. Мне нравятся занятия в институте, и я стараюсь не пропускать их. Я готовлюсь к занятиям или дома, или в читальном зале института. Мне обычно требуется около трех часов, чтобы подготовиться к семинару.

 

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IV. Прочитайте текст. Разбейте текст на абзацы. Изложите кратко содержание каждого абзаца:

 

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens, a great English writer, was born on the 7th of February, 1812, in a small English town. He was a weak child and didn’t like to take part in noisy and active games. The little boy was very clever and learnt to read at an early age. He read a lot of books in his childhood. When he was about six, someone took him to theatre for the first time. He saw a play by Shakespeare and liked it so much that he decided to write a play of his own. When it was ready, he performed it with some of his friends. Everybody enjoyed the performance, and the little writer felt very happy. When Dickens was nine years old, the family moved to London where they lived in an old house in the suburbs. They had a very hard life. There were several younger children in the family besides Charles. The future writer couldn’t even go to school, because at that time his father was in the Marshalsea Debtor’s Prison. There was nobody in London to whom Mr Dickens could go for money, and his wife with all the children except Charles went to join him in the prison. The family lived there until Mr. Dickens could pay his debts. Those were the unhappiest days of all Charles’ life. The boy worked from early morning till late at night to help his family. Charles was only able to start going to school when he was nearly twelve, and his father was out of prison. He very much wanted to study, but he didn’t finish his schooling. After two years of school he began working again. He had to work hard to earn his living, and tried very many trades, but he did not like any of them. His ambition was to study and become a well-educated man. At the age of fifteen he often went to the famous library of British Museum. He spent a lot of time in the library reading-room. He read and studied there and in this way he got an education. Later Dickens described his childhood and youth in some of his famous novels, among them «Little Dorrit» and «David Copperfield».

 

Vocabulary

to take part in smth. - принимать участие в чем-либо

noisy - шумный

a play - пьеса, спектакль

own - собственный

a performance - представление, спектакль

to move - переезжать

to realize one’s ambitions - осуществлять свои мечты

well-educated - образованный, получивший хорошее образование

to describe - описывать

a novel - роман

besides - кроме, помимо

to go to smb. - обратиться к кому-либо

except - кроме, за исключением

a debt - долг (денежный)

to be in debt to smb. - быть должником кому-либо

The Marshalsea Debtor’s Prison - долговая тюрьма Маршалси

nearly - почти

schooling - обучение в школе, образование

to earn - зарабатывать

a trade - ремесло, профессия

ambition - стремление, мечта стать кем-либо, сделать что-либо

 

V. Заполните пропуски предлогами и наречиями, где это необходимо:

1. When Dickens was a boy … … four, his father showed him a beautiful house … the place where they were living … that time. «Why can’t we live … a fine house like that?» the boy asked father. «We’re rather poor, and can’t pay … it, «his father answered. Little Charles often went … that please. He liked to look … the house and play outside it. Many years later he really moved … that house and lived there … a long time.

2. Theodore Dreiser, the great American writer, was born … the 27th August, 1871 … a small town … America.

3. When Jack London was a boy … … ten, he sold newspapers … the streets and … this way helped … his parents.

4. When novels … Jack London are popular … Russian readers.

5. The boy learned to read … the age … five.

 

Unit 2