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bus who holds on to a strap
b) pea-souper;
to steady himself;
c) strap-hanger;
2. one employed in a large
d) sky-scraper;
shop to supervise assistants;
e) good-looker;
3. thick yellow fog;
f) tongue-twister;
4. word or phrase difficult to
g) day-boarder;
say quickly and correctly;
h) double-decker;
5. one who can fascinate an
i) eye-opener;
audience;
j) record-player;
6. a child who has lunch at
k) sit-downer;
school, but goes to sleep home;
l) peace-campaigner.
7. a bus with seats on top;
8. an electrical instrument for playing records;
9. a very tall building;
10. one who takes part in a sit-down strike;
11. one who takes part in a peace campaign;
12. a handsome person.
17.3. Full understanding
17.3.1. Смотрите, слушайте, повторяйте:
scene [s
n], to arrest [
'rest], press, absurd [
b's
d], medical, expert, final [fa
nl], minute, laboratory.
Proper names:
Agatha Christy ['
'kr
st
]; Sir Wilfred ['w
lfr
d]; Leonard Stephen Vole ['len
d st
vn voul];
Mr Mayherne ['me
h
n]; Mrs Emily French
['em
l
]; Christine ['kr
st
n]; Janet Mackenzie
[
n
t
m
'kenz
].
* 17.3.2. Смотрите, слушайте, повторяйте, запомните:
New words:
to invite — приглашать
on the charge — no обвинению
day off — выходной
to catch (caught) — (зд.) попасть
circumstantial evidence ['s
k
ms't
n
l ev
d
ns] — косвенные улики
to plead a case [pli
d] — защищать дело в суде
principal suspect — основной подозреваемый
prisoner's box — место обвиняемого
jury box — места присяжных
indictment [
n'da
tm
nt] — обвинительный акт
to take an oath [ou
] — давать клятву
testimony ['test
m
n
] — свидетельские показания
to introduce — (зд.) представлять
to prove [pr
v] — доказывать
death [de
] — смерть
to cause [k
z] — вызывать, быть причиной
will (n.) — завещание
cross-examination— перекрестный допрос
silly— глупый
to preside — председательствовать
School vocabulary:
night, dead, head, October, heavy, to find.
* 17.3.3. Прочитайте и переведите:
Pete and Nell go to the pictures
One day Pete phoned Nell and invited her to the pictures. «What film are we going to see?» — she asked.
«Oh, it's the one based on the famous Agatha Christie's novel «Witness for the prosecution». «OK, We'll meet
near the cinema at 7».
And would you like to join them and see the film? I'm sure you would. So here are some scenes from the
script of the film.