(выглядеть, казаться) несчастным (счастливым), чувствовать себя
(выглядеть) плохо, чувствовать озноб, but to feel (look) well чувствовать себя
(выглядеть) хорошо, е. д. Не always feels happy when he comes to his native
town. She felt chilly and swam ashore. Ann looked surprisingly beautiful in her
black dress. John looked well in spite of his illness.
to be about to собираться сделать что-л., е. д. They were about to leave the
house when the telephone bell rang.
besides adv кроме того; beside prp около, возле, е. д. X. is a wonderful
singer and a good pianist besides. There was a house beside the river.
expensive adj дорогой, e. g. The hat is too expensive. I can't buy it. Syn. dear
(разг.), e. g. Isn't the toy dear? Ant. cheap дешевый, e. g, The cheapest things
cannot be very good.
at the seaside у моря, на взморье
Note: shore n берег моря, океана, озера, as the shore of the Black Sea;
bank n берег реки, as the bank of the Moskva river; coast n побережье, as the
coast of France; the Black Sea coast; beach л пляж, е. д. Robert and his
Grandpa sometimes spent their time on the beach;*
as good as gold золотой, примерный (о поведении, о нравственных
качествах)
to catch up (with smb.) догонять, е. д. It's easy to catch up with him, he is
walking slowly. Mary was afraid that she would not be able to catch up with the
group after her illness.
to splash about брызгаться, плескаться
I'd rather (I would rather) я пожалуй, я предпочел бы, е. д. f d rather swim
ashore.
Compare: You'd better (You had better) вам бы лучше, e. g. You'd better go
now = It would be better for you to go now.
EXERCISES
I. a) The material below is to be prepared for reading. Mark the stresses and tunes,
b) Let your fellow-student read this exercise for you to detect his errors in sounds and tell
him what must be done to eliminate them:
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[i:[ 1. Please believe me. Please leave me in peace.
2. Extremes meet.
3. Seeing is believing.
4. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
5. A sailor went to sea
To see what he could see. But all he could
see Was sea, sea, sea.
6. If all the seas were one sea, what a great sea that would be.
II. Before you start working at the text practise the sounds in the following word
combinations:
A. 1. [ai] smiling, realizing, behind, wife, arrived.
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2. Loss of plosion: and trouble, that day, asked Ben, got too little, walked back.
3. Alveolars replaced by dentals: when they, in the bus, and there, at the door,
as the play, said the driver, in the evening, that was the end, was the answer.
B. 1. Loss of aspiration: swtop teasing, you s^plash. 2. No glottal stop: alljDver,
swin\jishore, div^_pff.
III. 1. a) Listen to the recording of the text "Under the High Trees".
Mark the stresses and tunes, b) Practise the text for test reading. Listen
to the text very carefully until you can say it in exactly the same way.
2. a) Listen to the recording of the dialogue "At the Seaside". Mark the stresses and
tunes, b) Practise the dialogue for test reading. Listen to the text very carefully until you
can say it in exactly the same way. c) Memorize the dialogue and dramatize it.
IV.
Transcribe the following words and practise their pronunciation:
dreadfully, radiantly, arranged, week-end, squeeze, enough, quietly, patience,
unwillingly, expensive;
carriage, both, further, bathing-suit, coward, tired, mouthful, ashore, moment,
raft.
V. Transcribe the following sentences; mark the stresses and tunes and picture them
on the staves:
1. "I can speak Japanese," he said. 2. "India is in the South of Asia," the pupil
answered. 3. "Does he come from South America?" John asked. 4. "Have you
come from Bulgaria?" I asked him. 5. Besides, he is a good sportsman. 6. To tell
you the truth, I dislike him. 7. As far as I know, she is married. 8. The students, of
course, knew the professor. 9. As a rule, I am free in the evening.
VI.
a) Answer the following questions:
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1. Why was Ben Smith so dreadfully tired when he carne home? 2. Why was
June smiling radiantly? 3. What kind of dream was June realizing? 4. What was
Penny's idea of spending that evening? 5. Why did Ben envy his daughter? 6.
What do you think of Ben's attitude towards June? 7. What can be said about the
weather? 8. Why did Ben have to get off the bus? 9. How did it happen that Ben
went past the theatre? 10. Why didn't the man at the door let Ben in? 11. Who
saved the situation at that moment? 12. Was it easy for Ben to find his seat? Why?
13. Why did Ben and June find it difficult to understand the plot of the play? 14.
Why did Ben decide to take a taxi on their way back? 15. Why did the journey
turn out to be rather expensive? 16. What struck Ben when he talked to his
daughter about watching TV?
b) Ask your comrades questions on Text 2. c) Ask your comrades questions on their
past week-end,
VII.
Fill in prepositions or adverbs wherever necessary. Retell the text:
Tom Sawyer got tired ... the medicine which Aunt Polly gave ... him every day.
So once he decided to give it ...his Aunt's cat Peter. Peter sprang up ... the air ...
once. ... a few minutes Aunt Polly entered ... the room. She wanted to know what
Tom was
laughing ... . She came just ... time to see Peter jumping........................the
window and carrying the last flower-pot ... him. Tom lay ... the floor laughing.
She looked down and saw the bottle ... medicine and a teaspoon ... the bed. Aunt
Polly took Tom ... the ear and
asked why he had treated ... the poor animal like that. Tom said, "I was sorry. .
him because he had no aunt."
VIII.
Each sentence describes a certain situation in a concise way.
Find out some more details about the situation by asking questions. Work
in pairs. Use conversational phrases:
1. They are proud of their wonderful language laboratory. 2. Tom asked his
father to take him down to the seaside. 3. She is turning on the radio. 4. The
Greens have breakfast in the open air in summer. 5. Ann does her morning
exercises to music every day.
IX. Fill in the right word out of those in brackets (to hear, to listen; to leave, to stay,
tall, high; short, low):
1. She said she did not like the idea of... the children all by themselves. 2.
When Tom ... the old man's words he trembled with fear. 3. He said he had spent
his childhood far away in ... mountains. 4. When the teacher made sure that all his
pupils were... to him he began explaining the new material. 5. Peter the First was
an unusually ... man. 6. The girl said that she would never ... a moment in the
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house where nobody liked her. 7. He was so ... that his wife was ... than he. 8. Pay
attention to that ...building.
X. Replace the part of the model in bold type by the following. M о d e 1: It is high
