Complete the following sentences with the following prepositions.

1. My house is…the Central Park. a) under b)behind c) on

2 …the way! Where is George? a) At b)By c) In

3. The City Hall is…there. a)on b) about c) there

4. I work from six a.m…four p.m. a) in b) at c) till

5. When do you get…? a) during b) up c) with

6. How long do I go…this street? a) in b) along c) without

7. Where do I get…the bus? a) up b) off c)along

8 We have dinner…a quarter to eight. a) in b) on c) at

9. We drink tea…milk. a) behind b) up c) with

10. The bus takes me…the station. a) to b) during c) by

8. Provide the correct preposition:

1. Let’s go to Moscow…Saturday. a) on b)in c) at

2. Take this book…the table. a) behind b) at c) from

3. Come…office and answer the phone. a) into b) from c) up

4. Take the passport…the table. a) in b) out of c) during

5. I am sitting…the table now. a) over b) beyond c) at

6. I came…Australia. a) at b) from c) on

7. The pencils are in the box. Take them…there. a) on b) into c) out of

8. The pencil is…the desk. a) during b) without c)on

Read and translate the text

Cinema

Cinema plays an important role in the life of any society. It is an available popular form of art. Lots of people find going to the cinema one of the best ways of spending their leisure time. The movie audience is predominantly a young one.

Due to numerous video facilities, cinema attendances have declined sharply. But there is no denying the fact that the cinema-going habit is still a strong one.

No matter how large the place you live in is (whether it's a big city or a small provincial town, or even a settlement) there's most likely to be a cinema there.

There are such genres of feature films as the western, the thriller, the musical, the drama and the comedy. The performance lasts for two or three hours and most cinemas have at least 4 performances a day. There is no doubt that a good cinema show is an excellent entertainment and quite cheap. Of late cinema screens in this country have been dominated by films produced in the USA. And this tendency is growing.

As for me, I'm fond of going to the cinema. It's a pity, I don't always have time for it. It's an open secret that we live in a very difficult time now. But people do need something amusing and pleasant, something to laugh at. That's why I give my preference to comedies. The last comedy, I saw, is «Crocodile Dandy». The film tells about amusing adventures of a young lovely woman — reporter and a strong and brave crocodile hunter. At first, their relations were not friendly. She even looked down on him and he in return neglected her. But after he rescued her out of some difficult situations, their relations became more friendly. A happy end is an essential feature of American films. The same is true of this comedy. The main characters fall in love with each other in the end of the film.

Questions:

1. How do lots of people find going to the cinema?

2. Who makes up the movie audience?

3. Why have cinema attendances declined sharply?

4. Is the cinema-going habit still a strong one?

5. What genres of feature films are there?

6. How many performances have many cinemas a day?

7. What films have cinema screens in this country been dominated by?

8. Are you fond of going to the cinema?

9. In what time do we live now?

10. What do you give your preference to?

11. What does the film you saw last tell?

12. What is an essential feature of American films?

Разговорные темы:

- My ideal weekend;

- My flat;

- My native city (town);

- Shopping in my life;

- My favourite film

 

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VARIANT 4

1. Translate into English. Use Present Simple.

1. У них много книг. Они много читают. 2. Я живу в Москве, а мой брат живет в Нью-Йорке. 3. Я люблю животных. У меня 3 собаки и 6 кошек. 4. Она всегда встает в 7 часов. Она никогда не завтракает по утрам. 5. Я обычно езжу на работу на машине, но иногда хожу пешком. 6. Погода здесь не очень хорошая. Часто идут дожди. 7. Они обычно покупают продукты в этом магазине. 8. Они иногда останавливаются у этой заправочной станции(gas station). 9. Моя сестра очень умная. Она говорит на 4 языках. 10. Квартиры очень дорогие. Они стоят много денег. 11. Моя работа очень интересная. Я общаюсь со многими людьми.

Complete each sentence. Use the words in brackets. Use present simple.

1. She (to learn) English.

2. I (to like) music.

3. My brother (to be) a school-boy. He (to go) to school.

4. Michael (to do) his lessons every day.

5. She (to live) in this house.

6. After supper my sister (to go) for a walk.

7. We (to visit) our grandparents very often.

8. The girl (to sing) very well.

9. My father (to work) at school.

10. Usually I (to have) dinner at 3 o’clock.

11. He (to want) to become a doctor.

12. Our mother (to come) home very late.

13. His brother (to go) in for sports.

14. She (to like) reading very much.

15. They often (to take) a bus.

3. Replace the personal pronouns by possessive adjectives:

1) Where is (I) book?

2) Here is (we) teacher.

3) She goes to school with (she) brother.

4) (They) father works in a car factory.

5) (You) laptop is very expensive.

6) (He) favorite hobby is tennis.

7) (I) husband and I want to go to Paris.

8) We want to see (it) historical monuments.

9) Leila likes (she) dog!

10) (It) name is Bobby.

5. Put in many, much, few, a few, little, a little.

1. Most people in this city have jobs - there isn't___unemployment.

2.I live in a very small village. There is a church, a shop and___ houses.

3.How_______ apples are on the table?

4.We are late. We have very ____ time.

5.He spends too ___money.

6. ___effort had been made before the peace treaty was signed.

7.He needs to buy a lot of things but he hasn't got ___money.

8.There aren't______ chairs in this room.

9.This flat is small so there are very ___ rooms here.

10.I don't know ___ about these people.

11.He comes here ___ times a week because he has ___ free time.

12.We are destroying _____trees and forests.

13.We use______ electricity.

14.We burn _______ coal.

15 People put_____ chemicals into the seas.

16.There is very____ juice left. I must buy some.

17.There is_____ Coke in the bottle. Do you want some?

18.She hasn't got_____ homework today.

19.I need ___eggs and _______ butter to make a cake.

20. __________ people can't find jobs nowadays.

some, any, much, many, a lot of, a little, a few

 

6. Put in some, any, much, many, a lot of, a little, a few.

1) There aren't___car parks in the centre of Oxford.

2) Eating out is expensive here. There aren't___cheap restaurants.

3) Liverpool has___of great nightclubs.

4) Hurry up! We only have___time before the coach leaves.

5) We saw___beautiful scenery when we went to Austria.

6)There are a___shops near the university.

7)It's very quiet. There aren't___people here today.

8)There are___expensive new flats next to the river.

Complete the following sentences with the prepositions.

1) We jumped... the bridge.

2) The ball fell... the water.

3) Don't forget to put a stamp... the postcard before you post it.

4) You can put your coat... the back of the chair.

5) She took a key... her bag and opened the door.

6) We didn't know how to get... the house.

7) I looked... the window and watched the people in the street.

8) You must go... the hill to get there.

Complete the following sentences with the following prepositions.

1. My wife works…the factory. a) on b) at c) during

2. I live….Boston. a)at b) over c) in

3. Come…the house and have some coffee. a) on b) into c) through

4. Where are you…? a) from b) in c) during

5. Let’s go…Moscow tomorrow. a) on b) in c) to

6. He is here…his wife. a) along b) at c) with

7. The books are…the table. a) without b)on c) through

8. Take this man… a) to b) away c) behind

9. Here is some water…you. a) above b) within c) for

10 Can you speak…it? a) into b) by c) about

 

Read and translate the text

Ilia Repin

Ilia Efimovich Repin was born in 1844 in a small Ukrainian town of Tchuguev in the family of a military settler. As a boy he was trained as an icon painter. At the age of 19 he entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. His arrival to the capital coincided with an important event in artistic life of the 60s, the so-called "Riot of the Fourteen" when 14 young artists left the Academy having refused to use mythological subjects for their diploma works. They stood on the point that art should be close to real life. Later Repin would be closely connected with some of them, the members of the Society of Peredvizhniky.

For his diploma work (1871) Repin was awarded The Major Gold Medal and received a scholarship for studies abroad. "Barge Haulers on the Volga" (1870-1873) was the first considerable work painted by Repin after graduation. It immediately won recognition. In 1873, Repin went abroad. For some months he had been travelling in Italy and then settled and worked in Paris up to 1876.

It was in Paris that he witnessed the first exhibition of the Impressionists, but, judging by the works created then and by his letters home, he didn't become the ardent follower of this new Paris school of painting, though he didn't share the opinion of some of his country-men who saw a dangerous departure from "the truth of life" in Impressionism.

After returning to Russia Repin settled in Moscow. He was a frequent visitor in Abramtsevo — the country estate of Sawa Mamontov, one of the most famous Russian patrons of art. It was a very fruitful period in his creative activity. During 10-12 years Repin created the majority of his famous paintings.

In 1877, he started to paint religious processions (krestny khod): "Khrestny Khod (Religious Procession) in Kursk Gubernia" (1880-1883). The composition was based on the dramatic effect of different attitude of the participants of the procession to the wonder-working icon carried at the head of the procession. There were two different versions of the picture. The second one, completed in 1883, became the most popular. At first glance, the spectator discovers an abundance of social types and human characters in the crowd.

A series of paintings devoted to the revolution theme deserves special attention. The artist was no doubt interested in creating the character of a fighter for social justice. The range of social, spiritual and psychological problems, which attracted Repin, is revealed in his works: "Unexpected Return" (1884) and "Refusal from the Confession" (1879-1885).

Repin is the author of many portraits, which are an essential part of his artistic heritage. Repin never painted faces, he painted real people, managing to show their natural state, to reveal their way of communicating with the world: "Portrait of the Composer Modest Musorgsky" (1881), "Portrait of the Surgeon Nikolay Pirogov" (1881), "Portrait of the Author Alexey Pisemsky" (1880), "Portrait of the Poet Afanasy Fet" (1882), "Portrait of the Art Critic Vladimir Stasov" (1883), and "Portrait of Leo Tolstoy" (1887) and many others are distinguished by the power of the visual characteristic and the economy and sharpness of execution.

Repin rarely painted historical paintings. The most popular in this genre is "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan" (1895). The expressive, intense composition and psychological insight in rendering the characters produced an unforgettable impression on the spectators. Another popular work of the genre is "The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mahmoud IV" (1880-1891). The faithfully rendered spirit of the Zaporoguus freemen, who, according to the artist, had a particularly strong sense of "liberty, equality and fraternity" undoubtedly gives the picture its significance. The contemporaries saw it as a symbol of the people throwing off their chains.

The last quarter of the 19th century is the best period in Repins work, though his creative activity continued in the 20th century (the artist died in 1930), he did not paint any masterpieces then. After the bolsheviks' revolution in 1917 he lived and worked in his estate Penates in Finland. There is a Repin museum. The museum visitors have the opportunity of gaining a knowledge of the artists life and work.

Questions:

1. When was Ilia Efimovich Repin born?

2. Where was Ilia Efimovich Repin born?

3. When did he enter to the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts?

4. When did he go abroad?

5. What was the first considerable work painted by Repin after graduation?

6. Did he become the ardent follower of the new Paris school of painting?

7. When did he start to paint religious processions?

8. Is Repin the author of many portraits?

9. What is the most popular his historical painting?

10. What is the best period in Repins work?

Разговорные темы:

- My ideal weekend;

- My flat;

- My native city (town);

- Shopping in my life;

- My favourite film

 

Индивидуальное задание: подготовить, прочитать и перевести текст на 5000 печатных знаков.