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1. Do you find physical exercises useful?
2. Does your father (mother) look youthful?
3. What thoughtful persons do you know?
4. Is the room you live in cheerful?
5. What sort of activities are wasteful?
6.2.5. Translate into Russian without using a dictionary.
1. No whys. There will be time for that later.
2. He promised to better himself.
3. He is always in the thick of things.
4. John has no say in the matter.
5. I don't know how to word it.
6. Sport is an excellent cure for my diseases.
6.3. Full understanding
6.3.1. Смотрите, слушайте, повторяйте:
composition, history, structure, basis, feudal ['fj
dl], capitalist, group, baron, aristocracy [
r
s't
kr
s
],
centre, real, to base, modern, fundamental, to control [k
n'troul], forum, criticism, information.
Palace of Westminster, Britain, Saxon, Magna Carta, «Lords», «Commons», House of Commons, Cabinet.
*6.3.2. Смотрите, слушайте, повторяйте, запомните:
New words:
to hold — проводить
to date back — относиться (к прошлому)
king — король
powerful — могущественный
to discuss — обсуждать
to argue ['a:gju:] — спорить
to sign [sam] — подписывать
to accept [
k'sept] — принимать
to support (er) — поддерживать (сторонник)
to defeat [d
'f
t] — наносить поражение
in the middle of—в середине
development — развитие
armed forces — вооруженные силы
adviser — советник
difference — различие
division — разделение
to summon — созывать
growth — рост
School vocabulary:
change (n., v), century, to call, matter, to meet, mark, last, party, to bring.
*6.3.3. Прочитайте и переведите:
John's composition
Steve's son John was to write a composition about the History of Parliament. He has just finished it and
asked his father to read it. Steve couldn't say «no» to his son. That's what he has read:
Britain has the oldest Parliament in the world. This institution has changed over the centuries and has
reflected the class structure and economic basis of feudal and capitalist societies.
Parliament is held in the Palace of Westminster. This tradition dates back to Saxon times when the king
called to this place a group of powerful barons who discussed with him matters of state. The king often argued
with them for his power and money. In 1215 King Henry III
refused to accept Magna Carta. A group of
powerful barons supported him. But Symon de Monfort defeated them and in 1265 called the first Parliament.
From that time the king summoned Parliament and representatives of counties and cities together with the
King's advisers from the clergy, and his supporters among the feudal barons met together. As the class
differences between the representatives and aristocracy became more marked, the division into the «Lords» and
the «Commons» took place.
In the middle of the last century the House of Commons was a centre of real political power. Since those
days the growth of the power of the Cabinet, based on the development of the modern party system has brought