and uncountables: more books, more sugar; another is used only with countables
in the singular: another book, another student. Cf. more tea, but another cup of
tea. Still is used with verbs. It is often translated into Russian as «все еще», е. д.
It is still raining. He is still at home.
slow adj медленный, e. g. You are very slow. Slowly adv медленно, e. g. You
speak very slowly.
to be going to собираться
toast л гренок; ломтик хлеба, подрумяненный на огне What
about ...? Как насчет ...?
leave (for) (left, left) W 1. уезжать, уходить, e. gr. He is leaving Moscow for
St.Petersburg. He is leaving for St.Petersburg. He is leaving in half an hour. Ant.
stay vi оставаться, e. g The children stay at home as it is raining. 2. забывать,
оставлять, е. g Don't leave your exercise-book at home, Cf. Don't forget my
address. Don't forget to open the window.
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It is high time (to do smth.) Давно пора ...
to have a bite перекусить
hungry adj голодный; as a hungry dog, a hungry child: to be hungry хотеть
есть, е. д. I am hungry. I am going to the canteen, hunger л голод
I am hungry. So am I. И я тоже. The word combination So am (do, can...) I is
used as a reply to an affirmative sentence. Neither am (do, can...) I is used after
negative sentences, e. g. I am reading. So am I. I prefer a cup of tea. So do I. I can
do it. So can I. I am not writing. Neither am I. I don't like this salad. Neither does
my sister. He can't translate this sentence. Neither can I. The subject is at the end
of the phrase and is stressed: 'So do XI.
wait vi ждать; to wait for (smb., smth.), e. g. We are waiting for a taxi,
waiter (waitress) n официант (официантка); Syn. to expect
hurry vi спешить, e. g. We are hurrying to the laboratory. Hurry up! Скорее!
Живее! е. д. Hurry up, it's already 8 o'clock.
taste n вкус, e. g. You must know her taste if you want, to buy her a present,
to one's taste по вкусу. Proverb: Tastes differ. ( = о вкусах не спорят.) taste
vt 1. пробовать, e. g. Will you taste my porridge? 2. иметь вкус, е. д. The pie
tastes very sweet, tasty adj вкусный
to begin with для начала, начнем с того, что ...
What do you say to ... Что вы скажете насчет ...
You don't say so! Что вы говорите?! Неужели?!
neither ... nor ни ... ни; In sentences with neither ... nor the verb is used in
the affirmative form and agrees with the second noun in number and person, e.
g. Neither Ivanov nor Petrov knows the answer to my question. We have
neither bread nor meat in the house. Please go and buy some. ! It is out of the
question. Об этом не может быть и речи. Это ; (совершенно) исключается,
е. д. Going to the forest now is out of the question, it's too dark.
discussion n дискуссия, обсуждение; discuss vt, e. g They are \ discussing a
book by Mark Twain.
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TOPICAL VOCABULARY
Meals
breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper; first course, second course, dessert; for the
first (second) course
a plate, a glass, a cup, a saucer, a tea-pot, a kettle, a fork, a spoon, a knife
bread, meat, fish, butter, eggs, cheese, sugar, sausage, bacon, herring
potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, cabbage, cucumbers, beets, peas salt, mustard,
pepper
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water, milk, tea, coffee, cocoa, beer, wine, fruit-juice, honey soup (clear soup,
cabbage soup, pea soup), porridge, macaroni, salad (mixed salad), mashed
potatoes, fried potatoes, chops, cutlets, beefsteak, chicken, goose
pudding, cake, sweets, pie, ice-cream, jam, jelly, stewed fruit apples, pears,
plums, oranges, tangerines, grapes, bananas, berries, cherries, peaches, nuts
to have (to eat, to drink), to dine, to cook, to fry, to boil, to taste, to prefer
to lay the table, to sit down to table, to be (to sit) at table, to clear the table (to
take away the dirty dishes); Help yourself to (smth., some food); Have some
more; No more, thank you!
PHONETIC NOTES
1. T h e i n t o n a t i o n o f a p a r e n t h e s i s depends on its position
in a sentence. A parenthesis at the beginning of a sentence is usually stressed. It
often forms a separate sense-group.
e.g. I'm aVfraid, I must 'leave in a tquarter of an 'hour or xso. ;
xNow I V be a 'good xgirl, Kitty.
As for ,me | I V never take 'mustard or xpepper.
A parenthesis in the middle or at the end of a sentence is usually unstressed or
half-stressed and it continues the melody of the preceding sense-group.
e. g. Y d like some xsalad to begin with. t" ~* ^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2. Compound nouns are usually pronounced with the stress on the first element
only: a "dining-room, a "blackboard, but "ice-'cream, cas'sette-re.corder.
EXERCISES
I. Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules:
a) porridge, salt, already, thirsty, bacon, marmalade, father, meals, dining-
room, dinner, passing, butter, sweets, spoon, husband, afraid, Smith, moment,
about, leave, talking, another;
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b) thin, think, bite, hungry, just, article, canteen, please, kind, chop, glass,
mustard, pepper, pass, use, sausage, apple, right, discussion, off, mashed.
II. Copy out of the texts the words: a) with the digraphs ее, ea; b) with the third type
of syllable (vowel + г); c) with the first type of syllable (open syllable).
III. a) The material below is to be prepared for reading. Mark the stresses and tunes.
Concentrate your attention on sounds, b) Let your fellow-student read the sentences
aloud for you to detect his errors in sounds and tell him what must be done to get the
sounds right;
M 1. The cook took a good look at the cookery book.
2. It's good he could go on foot.
3. A good beginning makes a good ending.
[w] 1. Everywhere we saw the white snow.
2. William was not very willing to wait.
3. Didn't this waiter work in Washington last winter?
4. No sweet without some sweat.
5. Where there is a will there is a way.
[w3:] Her work grows worse and worse, w — v] William always wears a
very warm woollen vest in winter; Victor, however, will never wear woollen
underwear, even in the Wild West.
IV.
Before you start working at the texts practise the sounds in
the following words and word combinations:
A. 1. [ зи] no more, so slow, with toast, just a moment;
[rj] having breakfast, putting some cornflakes. 2, a) Alveolars replaced by
dentals: atj;he picture, ir\Jheir dining-room, andjtheir children, justj;hirsty.
b) Loss of plosion: tea andwcake, aboutwbacon and eggs.
b) Lateral plosion: don'tjike, mustjeave, I'djike.
B.1. [ai] it's high time to have a bite, so am I, I'd like
some;
[rj] finishing this article, is there anything, is already
bringing our tea, for the beginning of the discussion; [av]a bottle of beer, a
