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
ride in a taxi.
L expected him (her)
sing at the party.
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b
Nelly
go along the street every morning.
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He (She)
sees
Nick
take the book from the desk.
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ning. joke.
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do the room every day.
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him (her)
speak loudly enough.
He (She)
The teacher
made
us
get up early every morning.
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them
work regularly.
Note 1. A continuous action is expressed by a present participle. e д. I saw Pete coming
towards me
Note 2. After the verb make in the Passive Voice the infinitive of the verb following it is
used with the particle to, е. д. 1 was made to get up early.
GRAMMAR EXERCISES
I. Study Substitution Table No. 1 and compose as many sentences as
you can. r
II.
Spell and transcribe the four forms of the following verbs:
buy, make, become, show, try, put, wear, fit, cost, get, forget, write, run, go.
III.
a) Write one sentence instead of the given two using complex
objects.
M o d e l : I saw John every day. He often spoke with his comrades. I often
saw John speak with his comrades (or John speaking).
1. 1 watched the sun. It was rising. 2. I heard him. He was singing an English
song. 3. yje noticed a man. The man was cleaning his shoes. 4. He saw two girls.
They were dancing on the stage. 5. She watched the children. They ran about and
played in the garden. 6. I saw her every morning. She arranged
her hair carefully. 7. Every night we saw our neighbour. He listened to the
news. 8. John heard his daughter. She was talking loudly. 9. We saw Roger. He
was crossing the square. 10. They heard their father. He played the piano every
night.
b) Give your own examples of complex object, c) Use the same .entences with
complex objects in short situations.
IV, a) Translate the following sentences into English:
1. Я видел, что Николай пришел. 2. Я видела, что Джордж идет по улице. 3. Каждое
утро Мэдж видела, как ее сосед раскрывает окно. 4. Мы заставили брата прочесть свои
стихи. 5. Мои друзья заставили меня петь вчера. 6. Никто не может заставить меня это
сделать. 7. Мы видели, как разговаривали их родители. 8. Мы видели, как дети играли.
9. Она видела, что Нина примеряет шляпу. 10. Алиса видела, что ее сестра взяла книгу.
11. Он видел, что его ученики стоят около школы. 12. Том видел, что она вышла из
