Учебное пособие для студентов 1 курса направлений

Exercise 23
Match the English idioms in the left column with their Russian equivalents in the right column. Use them in a proper context.
1. a maiden name А. маменькин сынок
2. extremes meet В. быть под каблуком
3. a mother's boy С. с глаз долой, из сердца вон
4. to be out of hand D. строить глазки
5. to be under smb.'s thumb Е. блудный сын
6. out of sight, out of mind F. плоть и кровь
7. to make eyes at smb. G. жить как кошка с собакой
8. the prodigal son Н. отбиться от рук
9. one's own flesh and blood I. девичья фамилия
10. to lead a cat and a dog life J. противоположности сходятся


Exercise 24
Explain the meanings of the proverbs given below. Make up five-sentence stories of your own to highlight their meanings.
1. Marriages arc made in heaven.
2. Faint heart never won a fair maiden.
3. Birds of a feather flock together.
5. Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
6. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
7. When children stand still they have done some ill.
8. Like father like son.
9. A good husband makes a good wife.
10. He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.
11. A tree is known by its fruit.


Exercise 25
Translate the following quotations and comment upon them.
'Though women are angels, yet wedlock is the devil.'
George Gordon Byron
'The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.'
Cyril Connolty
'Every woman should many — and no man.'
Benjamin Disraeli
'Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut after.'
Benjamin Franklin
'A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.'
Edgar Watson Howe
'Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admir­ing for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it does not always go with everything else in the house.'
Jean Kerr
'An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.'
Booth Tarkington
Exercise 27
Role-Play "Handing in Marriage Advertisements".
Setting: The office of the "Lonely Hearts Column" of a popular magazine.
Situation: Diferent people come to the office and leave their advertisements. The journalists give advice on how to write an advertisement for the acquaintance service.
Characters:
Card I — Amanda, a 16 year-old girl who wants to get acquainted with a "blue-eyed prince" or a pop star.
Card II — Miranda, the girl's older female friend who tries to talk her out of writing the advertise­ment.
Card III — Belinda, a middle-aged woman who is a frequenter of the "Lonely Hearts Column" because her expectations of the financial position of her prospective fiance are too high.
Card IV — Donald, a very shy young man.
Card V — Ronald, an old bachelor.
Card VI — Archibald, a divorcee with 3 children.
Card VII—VIII — Millard and Lynda, a couple who are hap­pily married thanks to the "Lonely Hearts Column" and who came to thank the jour­nalist for his/her help and to share the news that they are expecting a baby.
Card IX—X — Harold and Brenda, a young man and a young woman who fall in love at first sight and decide to get married. They wish to publish the announcement of their wed­ding instead of the advertisements which they have brought to the magazine.
Card XI—XII — the journalist who give advice on writing marriage advertisements.*
* Cards with roles are handed out to the students. The students are supposed to think of the details of the dialogues in the role-play they are going to enact.