Владимир Аракин - Практический курс английского языка 1 курс

маленькие деревянные дома, теперь широкие проспекты с красивыми высокими

современными зданиями. Москва растет и хорошеет с каждым днем, появляется все

больше новых домов, улиц, площадей, проспектов, скверов. Увеличивается количество

новых линий метро. Москва расширяется во всех направлениях. Все, кто приезжает в

Москву, поражаются огромному строительству, которое идет во всех районах столицы.

XX.

Fill in articles if necessary:

1. In ... big cities ... streets are broad and straight, there are ... lot of squares

and ... beautiful parks. 2. At ... each corner you can see .. militiaman regulating ..

traffic. 3. Let us walk to ... nearest stop and take ... bus. 4. If we don't know where

to go Weask ... militiaman to show us ... way. 5. When ... traffic light changed

from yellow to green, we crossed ... street and entered

... underground station, paid our fares, went down ... escalator, got on ... train

and rode as far as ... Yugozapadnaya station. 6. There we left ... metro and walked

to ... Institute. 7. Walk ... short distance down ... street till you come to ... multi-

storeyed house, then take ... first turning to ... right, walk down ... block and you

will see ... entrance. 8. We must get out here or we shall miss ... stop. 9. We went

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by metro as far as ... Sokolniki station and then changed for ... trolley-bus. 10. We

made ... tour of ... new metro stations. 11. Never step off ... pavement into ... road

without looking ... both ways to see if anything is coming.

XXI.

Develop these dialogues using the topical vocabulary and conversational

phrases:

1. Do you happen to know the way to the Tretjakov Gallery? — Well, let me

see ... Go straight on and then take the second turning to (or on) the left (right).

2. Er ... Excuse me, could you tell me if this is the right way to Petrovka

Street? — Oh, no, you are quite wrong. You'd better go back and then ask again.

3. Er... I wonder if you could tell me the nearest way to Tver-skaya Street. —

I'm terribly sorry. I really don't know. I'm a stranger here myself. You'd better ask

the militiaman over there.

4. Er... Could you help me, I'm not quite sure where the nearest metro station

is? .— Well, let me see. It's round the corner.

5. Excuse me, is there a bus from here to Red Square? — I'm terribly sorry,

I've no idea, I'm afraid.

6. Er... Will you please tell me how far the nearest metro station is? — If you

walk, it'll take you about twenty minutes to get there. You'd better take a bus.

XXII.

Retell the following jokes using indirect speech:

1. Little John, in a crowded bus, is sitting on his father's lap. An elderly lady

enters the bus, and Johnny at once jumps down, politely takes off his hat, and

says: "May I offer you my seat?"

2. A traveller, on arriving at a railway station, asked a local man: "Well, my

friend, as this is my first visit to your town, could you tell me how many hotels

you have here?"

L o c a l m a n : We have two.

Traveller: Now, which of the two would you recommend?

L o c a l m a n : Well, frankly speaking, it's like this, sir: whichever one you

go to, you'll be sorry you didn't go to the other.

3. A woman hired a taxi. It began to race along, passing trams, cars,

policemen, etc. The woman was frightened, and said to the taxi-driver:

"Please, be careful. This is the first time I ever rode in a taxi." "It's all right,"

answered the taxi-driver. "It is the first time 1 ever rode in a taxi, too."

4. When Conan Doyle arrived in Boston, he was at once recognized by the

cabman whose cab he had engaged. When he was about to pay his fare, the

cabman said:

"If you please, sir, I should prefer a ticket to your lecture."

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Conan Doyle laughed. "Tell me," he said, how you knew who I was and I'll

give you tickets for your whole family."

"Thank you, sir," was the answer. "On the side of your travelling-bag is your

name — Conan Doyle."

XXIII.

a) Retell the text **A Visit to Moscow", b) Describe the Wilsons' visit to

Moscow as if you were Mr. Wilson himself (his wife, his daughter Mary).

XXIII.

This exercise should be done in pairs. Use your own words to fill in the

blanks in the following dialogue. Before you begin, study the whole dialogue carefully and

decide what you are going to say:

( A stranger is asking for directions in a town you know well)

A: Excuse me. Can you tell me the way to please?

B: Yes. At the moment you are standing in ... (atnear ...).

A: And I want to go to ...

B: If you turned leftyou'd come to ...

A: But I don't want to go to ...

B: No, I know you don't. But if you went straight along this road, you'd come

to ...

A: But I don't want to go to ...

B: No, you don't, do you? So if you turn tight at you'll come to ...

A: Thank you. B: Not at

all.

XXV.

a) Watch Film Segment Six -Sightseeing ... at Home" for general content, b)

Watch the film segment again to find the English equivalents to the following:

такое движение!; левостороннее движение; двухэтажный автобус; дорожные

происшествия; выставка; набережная; основывать; заседать (о парламенте);

кинооператор (фоторепортер); неудачная съемка.

с) Answer your teacher's questions on the content of the film segment, d) Listen to the

sound track recording of Segment Six. Get ready to speak as the narrator of Mr. Brown's

home movie on Londpn.

XXVI.

Take a plan of Moscow, St.-Petersburgf your native town, etc. Prepare 8—10

questions to help your fellow-students discuss it in class.

XXVII.

a) Render the following in the form of a dialogue, b) Get ready with a

situation for your fellow-students to give it in the form of a dialogue:

Ваш знакомый, с которым вы вместе работали на Севере, приезжает на несколько

дней в Москву. Он никогда раньше не был в столице и просит вас посоветовать ему, с

чего начать осмотр города. Вы охотно соглашаетесь. В Москве много мест, которые

стоит посмотреть. Для начала вы предлагаете побывать на Красной площади, на

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Воробьевых горах, осмотреть новое здание Московского университета. Ваш знакомый

просит объяснить ему, как добраться до центра.

XXVIII.

Find English proverbs concerning travelling, provide them with Russian

equivatents, ask your fellow-students to illustrate them.

XXVIII. Ask your friend to give you as much information as possible about:

his native town; a place in Britain he knows; one of the capitals of our

republics.

XXX.

Get together with one or two other students and have a friendly talk. The

situation is this:

You are friends planning a trip to St.-Petersburg. There are a lot of things that

need to be done. Each of you is full of imaginative ideas.

XXXI.

Speak on the following:

1. Your arrival in a big city. 2. Any city you think interesting.

3. A new district of Moscow. 4. Explaining to a stranger how to get to the

Central Post Office from: Pushkin Square, Petrovka Street, the Vorobyev Hills.

LABORATORY WORK

I. a) Repeat the sentences after the tape, b) Make them interrogative

and negative.

II. Spell and transcribe the given words and word combinations.

II. Use the sentences with the verb in the passive voice.

III. a) Translate the sentences into English, b) Check your sentences with the key.

IV. a) Use the sentences in indirect speech. Make all the necessary changes, b) Check

your sentences with the key.

V. Listen to the wrong statements. Correct them.

VII. a) Listen to the poem "Evening" by Percy D. Shelley. Mark the

stresses and tunes, b) Practise the poem, c) Learn it by heart.

Lesson Eighteen

Grammar:The Complex Object.

Texts: I.Carrie Goes to a Department Store. 2. Shopping.

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STUDY THE FOLLOWING

T a b l e No. 1 THE COMPLEX OBJECT

1

want

Nelly

make a report.

We

wanted

Nick

to

return soon.

They

expect

you