1.Fogs in London disappeared as the result of the environment protection policy.
2. The school year in Great Britain is divided into 3 terms; they are three-month-terms, named after seasons: the autumn term, the winter term and the spring term.
3. School Councils in many English schools and colleges organize students’ social and cultural life.
Перепишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на неопределенные и отрицательные местоимения.
1.No pupil is allowed to smoke at school or to bring cigarettes, matches or lighters into school buildings.
2. There are some beautiful lakes in this district of the country.
3. Do you have any problems with your English?
Перепишите предложения. Выпишите из них глаголы-сказуемые, определите их видовременные формы и укажите инфинитив. Переведите предложения.
1. My friend likes Great Britain and visits it every year.
2. Tourists will learn much about the history of the country.
3 They made the analysis of the climatic changes in this region.
Перепишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на конструкцию there be.
1. There is an official bilingual policy in Wales: road signs are in English and Welsh (валлийский язык).
2. There are a lot of problems in the field of environment protection.
7. Прочитайте и постарайтесь понять содержание текста. Перепишите и переведите 1, 4 и 5-й абзацы.
ASPECTS OF BRITAIN
Many foreigners say “England” and “English” when they mean “Britain” or the “United Kingdom”, and “British”. This is very annoying for millions of people who live in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and who are certainly not English. However, they are all British. So what is the difference between the names “Great Britain” and “the United Kingdom”? The UK is an abbreviation of the official name of the country: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which forms the major part of the British Isles.
Great Britain is the largest island. It consists of England (the capital city London), Wales (Cardiff), and Scotland (Edinburgh). The island of Ireland comprises Northern Ireland (Belfast) and the Irish Republic (Dublin) which is an independent country.
The United Kingdom covers a total area of 244,104 square kilometers. The population is about 57 million. England has a population of 46.5 million people; nearly the same number of people as in France which is bigger than the UK.
The most important area divisions in the United Kingdom are the counties. Each county has a council which plays an important part in the local government and administration. For example, the responsibilities of a county council include education, police and fire services.
There are many places of interest in Britain that attract your attention. The streets of old towns and villages are often pleasing and harmonious. Many towns preserve their old character. They are built around cathedrals and abbeys that are evidence of the country’s rich architectural heritage.
8. Прочитайте текст еще раз и письменно ответьте на вопрос:
What is the UK and what parts does it consist of?
Перепишите предложения, подчеркните в каждом из них глагол-сказуемое, определите его видовременную форму и залог. Переведите предложения.
1. He was born in Edinburgh in 1847.
2. He will be working at improving his father’s invention.
3. The new phone is set in the lab.
4. He was repeating the words which he had said almost forty years before.
10. Перепишите предложения, подчеркните Participle I и Participle II и укажите, являются ли они определением или обстоятельством. Переведите предложения.
1. When called “Visible Speech” the system became famous.
2. The man sitting in the laboratory was making a new series of experiments.
3. Bell put his ear to the receiver waiting for the sound.
4. We noticed the opened door to the hall.
Перепишите предложения, подчеркните в них модальные глаголы или их эквиваленты. Переведите предложения.
1. “Visible Speech” helped people to pronounce words which they could not hear.
2. He had to give all his energy and time to one thing only knowledge of electricity.
3. The telephone was to carry sound from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast.
4. We must do something to make the telephone work better.
12. Прочитайте и постарайтесь понять содержание текста. Перепишите и переведите 3-й абзац.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh in 1847. His father was a world-famous teacher of speech and the inventor of a system which he called “Visible Speech”. It helped deaf persons to pronounce words they could not hear. Alexander chose the same profession, and became a teacher of the deaf, he moved to the USA and began to teach deaf children to speak. At the same time he worked at improving his father’s invention.
In 1866 the nineteen-year-old Bell started thinking about sending tones by telegraph. In some time he arrived at the idea of the “harmonic telegraph”, which would send musical tones electrically from one place to another. So he had to give all his energy and time to one thing only - knowledge of electricity.
“We have to do something to make our telephone work better”, Bell used to say. At last they decided to try a new kind of transmitter. The new transmitter was set in Bell’s bedroom. Watson was sitting in the laboratory. He put his ear to the receiver and was waiting. Suddenly he heard Bell’s voice. And not the voice only but the words too, “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you”. It was on the 10th of March, 1876. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. In a few years there were telephones all over the world. In 1915 the first transcontinental telephone line was opened. Graham Bell sat in New York at a desk with a telephone before him, while his friend Watson was listening more than three hundred thousand miles away in San Francisco.
Everyone expected to hear a serious, scientific speech. Suddenly everybody heard his clear voice as he spoke into his old transmitter, “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you”. He repeated the words which he had said almost forty years before. Watson answered, “I would be glad to come, but it would take me a week”.
13. Прочитайте текст ещё раз и письменно ответьте на вопрос:
What did Bell say on the opening of the transcontinental telephone line?
ВАРИАНТ II
1. Перепишите и переведите предложения. Определите, какой частью речи являются все слова с окончанием - “s”, и какую функцию это окончание выполняет:
- 3 л. ед. ч. Present Simple;
- мн. число существительного;
- притяжательный падеж.
1. Stratford-upon-Avon has many buildings that are connected with William Shakespeare.
2. A statue of Robin Hood, England’s most famous folk hero stands at the foot of the Nottingham Castle (замок).
3. The history of the East End of London belongs to the immigrants.