XIII. Подготовьте пересказ текста “B” на английском языке.
XIV. Прочтите и перескажите своим друзьям следующие истории:
It is 4 o’clock in the morning. Two men are standing in the street near a casino. One of them is naked and the other one is wearing drawers. The naked one says, “You are a wise person. You always know when to stop gambling.”
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naked - голый, обнаженный
drawers – кальсоны, подштанники, трусы
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Thomas Gainsborough who is one of the British most famous portrait painters of the 18th century discovered his talent in an interesting and unusual way. As a boy he lived in the country. Once, while walking near his father’s house, he saw a thief climbing over the wall of their neighbour’s garden. He had a look at the man, went back home and managed to draw a good likeness of the thief. When Tom’s father heard the story and saw the picture, he took it to the police at once. It was such a good likeness that very soon the police arrested the thief.
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a neighbour – сосед
He managed to draw a good likeness of the thief – зд. Ему удалось нарисовать вора очень похоже / очень близко к оригиналу.
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It is interesting to know that…
… Eskimos don’t gamble.
… the opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
…horse-racing regulations state that no race horse’s name may contain more than eighteen letters. Apostrophes, hyphens, and spaces between words count as letters.
… on a bingo card of ninety numbers there are approximately 44 million possible ways to make bingo.
… At Brook’s, an eighteenth-century English gambling club, the faro table had a large semicircular section cut out of the one of its sides in order to accommodate the enormous stomach of the famous statesman Charles James Fox.
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the opposite sides - противоположные стороны
to add up to – (зд.) иметь в сумме
horse-racing regulations – правила на скачках
to state – утверждать
to contain – содержать
a letter - письмо, (зд.) буква
hyphen – дефис
spaces – пробелы
semicircular - полукруглый
in order to accommodate the enormous stomach - чтобы разместить огромное брюхо
а statesman – государственный деятель
famous – известный, знаменитый
UNIT 15
HUMAN RIGHTS