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classical music, logical conclusion, critical remark, colonial system, cultural relations, liberal views,
special task, universal rule, sensational news, governmental office, historical category.
10.2.2. Answer the questions:
1. Do you like sentimental poetry?
2. What are the principal towns of Russia, USA?
3. What big botanical gardens in Russia do you
know?
4. In what Asian countries are there the worst
material conditions of life?
10.3. Full understanding
10.3.1. Смотрите, слушайте, повторяйте:
Scheme ['sk
m], start, discussion, sort, residence
['rez
d(
)ns], Cabinet, concert, museum, hotel
[ho(u)'tel]. Big Ben, Westminister Abbey ['
b
], Poet's Corner, Chaucer ['
s
], Charles Dick
ens, Alfred
Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, White
hall, Downing Street, Trafalgar Square, Nelson
Column, National
Gallery, Hyde Park, Speak
er's Corner.
* 10.3.2. Смотрите, слушайте, повторяйте, запомните:
New words:
to appear — (зд.) оказываться custom — обычай
district — район
to produce an impression on... — производить впечатление
to exist — существовать
School vocabulary:
go on, story, to put, to leave, foot, cry, hot, fight, to become, writer, along, number, high, hall, large,
among, to keep, clean, half.
* 10.3.3. Прочитайте и переведите:
Pete's travel to London (continued)
«Hello, everybody! I go on with my story about London. Last time I told you that Steve King had
promised to be my guide. And what a nice guide he appeared to be! First he took me to Westminister where
most governmental buildings are situated. From the Westminister bridge we could get the best view of the
Houses of Parliament with the famous clock tower called Big Ben. We could even get inside the Houses.
Before we left the Palace of Westminister (its official name) Steve had told me many interesting things about
old customs which exist to this day. I'd like to tell you only about one of them. There is a strip of carpet in front
of the members' benches in the House of Commons and when a member, speaking in the House puts his foot
beyond that strip there is a cry «Order!». This dates from the time when the members had swords on them and
during hot discussions might start fighting. The carpet had become the sort of frontier. We also had visited
Westminister Abbey. Steve told me that all the kings and queens of England — 37 in all — had been crowned
there and many of them had been buried there too. One of the parts of the Abbey is called Poet's Corner,
because many of the greatest writers are buried there: Chaucer, Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, Rudyard
Kipling and some others. Leaving the Abbey we went along Whitehall and then turned into a narrow lane —
Downing Street. There's Number Ten, the official residence of the Prime Minister. All the Cabinet meetings
take place there. I was really happy when we came to the famous Trafalgar Square with the tall (185 feet high)
Nelson Column in the centre and the National Gallery forming one side of the square.
Then Steve took me to the West End, the richest and the most beautiful part of London, where I could see
the finest theatres, cinemas and concert halls, famous museums and large hotels, department stores and shops.
There are many parks and gardens in the West End, among them Hyde Park, most famous of all because of its
Speaker's Corner.
The East End, which is the poorest district of London where most of the workers live, didn't produce great
impression on me. There are still many people who live in poverty. They keep their houses and streets clean but
all of them are not half as nice as they are in the West End.
So thanks to Steve I had managed to see the most interesting sights of London by the end of my stay there.
Next day after I had said good-bye to Steve and he had promised to come to our country and visit Rostov, our
group left London».
10.3.4. Расскажите вашему другу о трех самых важных вещах, которые вы завершили к концу
прошлого года.
Model: I had finished reading the textbook on History of State and Law.
10.3.5. Ваш друг говорит, что он сделал что-то в прошлом. А вы заявляете, что сделали это еще
раньше.