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A. They make my clothes from this special cloth.
And they sew them with this special cotton.
There's
something special about the buttons, too. 
B. Mm.
A. Don't you think my clothes look rather special?
B. To tell you the truth, I think your clothes look rather...
A. Yes? Say what you think.
B. Well, yes, I suppose they do look rather special.
11.1.7. Listen, look, say. Pay attention to the intonation.
11.1.8. Read the dialogues in pairs.
11.2. Word-building
(Compound adjectives)
11.2.1. Give word combinations which correspond to compound adjectives. Give their meanings: an apple-
eating boy, a watch-making plant, a cloud-touching mountain, horse-loving people, a pain-killing medicine, a
food-producing factory, a road-building firm, potato-growing regions.
11.2.2. Make compound adjectives using the following word combinations. Translate them: to carry oil, to
grow roses, to make profit, to save money, to melt snow, to break ice, to love sport, to waste time, to hate war.
11.2.3. Translate the following sentences:
1. Some of his money-making movie stars were getting older now.
2. Coffee-drinking farmers sat or stood in the bar.
3. Traffic-directing policemen and one-way streets are clear proof of the existence of a large
volume of
traffic.
4. I'm going into the house-selling business on my own.
5. Many of the calls came from the news-hunting journalists.
11.3. Full understanding
11.3.1. Смотрите, слушайте, повторяйте:
President, nation, Capitol, Congress, republic,
Senate ['sen
t], monument, million, business,
culture, avenue ['
v
nj
], contrast, bar, elegant.
Geographical and proper names: George Washington, Potomac River [po(u)'toum
k], District of
Columbia, the United States, Chicago [
fi'k
ou], Philadelphia [fil
'delf
], Detroit, Los Angeles, House of
Representatives, Union Square,
Lincoln Memorial, Pennsylvania Avenue [,pens
l'venj
], White House,
Manhattan, Hudson
River, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Richmond,
Empire State Building ['empa
],
World
Trade Centre, Times Square, Harlem. 
*11.3.2. Смотрите, слушайте, повторяйте, запомните:
New words:
letter — письмо
native town — родной город
to walk — гулять
to be interested — интересоваться 
law-making — законодательный 
to be born — родиться 
to publish — публиковать 
to grow — расти 
force — (зд.) полицейские силы
School vocabulary:
although, around, to lead, January, favourite, to lie, river, children, language, to die, each, lighting, dirty,
tree, town.
*11.3.3. Прочитайте и переведите:
Jane's letter
Pete's going to see Nell to-day. But before going to her place he's phoning her. 
— Hello, Nell! What will you be doing in an hour? I'm going to come to your place, if you aren't against it.
— Oh, certainly not. I'll be waiting for you.
— And what are you doing now?
— Now I'm reading the letter from my American friend — Jane. But I'll have finished reading by the time
you come.
— I'm going then. Bye! 
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