Учебное пособие для студентов 1 курса направлений

Exercises
Pre-reading Tasks

1. 
   Home is the place where one lives, especially with one’s family. What is home and family to you? Do you know any proverbs about home and family? Write them down if you do.
   
2. 
   Practise the pronunciation of the words from the story.
   

Somersetshire, landscape, avenue, unpretentious, Meadows, handsome, patriarchal, shrewd, dozen, matron, rheumatism, jaundice, harum-scarum.


Vocabulary and Grammar Task

1. 
   Find in the story the English for:
   

Трудолюбивый, заслуживать чего-либо, хозяин дома, проницательный, ухаживать за кем-либо, стать моряком, прийти к заключению, сходить (съездить) за кем-либо, уравновешенный, иметь что-либо общее, успокаиваться, пойти кому-либо на пользу, ухмыляться, сожалеть о чем-либо, насколько я понимаю, нажить состояние, копить деньги, интересоваться чем-либо, уговаривать кого-либо, хвастаться.

2. 
   Use one of the words or word combinations from the box in an appropriate form to fill each gap.
   

to go to sea, to have smth in common, as far as I can see, to deserve, to come to the conclusion, to grin, to boast, to court

1. 
   They were happy and they __________ their happiness.
   
2. 
   When Emily Green married Tom, George __________ .
   
3. 
   At last they __________ that he must be dead.
   
4. 
   She thought that because we had both been in China we must _______.
   
5. 
   He, talking to her, __________ with his toothless gums.
   
6. 
   Well, one thing you haven’t done, George, _________ , and that’s to make a fortune.
   
7. 
   He __________ that he would live for another twenty years.
   
8. 
   George Meadows and Tom __________ Mrs. Meadows when she was Emily Green.
   

3. 
   Say the opposite of:
   

lazy
dull
unbalanced
to do smb harm
to go broke.
to spend money

4. 
   Choose the right word and use it in an appropriate form.
   

landlady
the master of the house
a hostess

1. 
   He owned his _________ a month’s rent.
   
2. 
   As Mrs. Hill was away, Jane, the eldest daughter, acted as ________ at the dinner party.
   
3. 
   But the __________ was Geogre’s mother.
   

to court
to take care of

4. 
   George Meadows and Tom both __________ Mrs. Meadows when she was Emily Green.
   
5. 
   The officers ___________ Loise as though they were all her husbands.
   

to be interested
to wonder

6. 
   He will ___________ to know what the old man has seen in his life.
   
7. 
   I ____________ if they remembered what they had felt then and what they had said to one another.
   

to persuade
to convince

8. 
   They had a good deal of difficulty in ___________ him to go to bed.
   
9. 
   The old man’s words _________ him that he made a success of his life.
   

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