Ex.2 Complete the following sentences. Insert one word in each blank space. The word must be an adjective or an adverb, and is to be found in the text «In the Highlands».
1 Some Scotsmen are so ________that they claim that England is a peninsula to the south of Scotland.
2 My uncle has left me a ____________amount of money.
3 It is____________to play with fire.
4 _____________we shall all die.
5 He is a badly brought-up _____________boy.
6 You should think before you act, and not do things ____________.
7 He dug a _____________ hole and buried the treasure in it.
8 I felt very sleepy after my ___________ meal.
9 The house had a ____________ large garden.
10 He ___________ obeyed.
Ex.3 Answer the questions.
1. Does it take long to drive from England to Scotland?
2. What may make a long journey less tiring for a driver?
3. What sort of country are the Highlands?
4. Where might a tourist stay on his first night in Scotland?
5. What is meant by high tea?
6. What do Scotsmen often have in place of dinner?
7. What is the road to the west coast like?
8. Why are Highland sheep sometimes dangerous?
9. What other animals may one see there?
10. What is a loch?
Text 9 Edinburgh
Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is a fine old city built partly in the valley of the River Leith and partly on the rolling hills which surround it. The city is dominated by the castle, an ancient fortress standing on the summit of a massive rock, which has been the scene of many battles and sieges throughout centuries of Scottish history. Today what remains of the original castle is preserved as a museum piece and a home for military relics.
For three weeks every summer, Edinburgh is alive with exhilarated festival-goers and performers who come from all over the word, and the city is gay with flags and decorations. This international festival of the arts fills every theatre, concert hall, exhibition gallery and assembly room with performances of opera, dancing, music, plays, revues, films, puppet shows and recitals, and specially-mounted exhibitions of painting and sculpture. The festival is not limited to indoor activities: every weekday the noise of the city's traffic is lost in the sound of music as the Scottish pipers march along Princes Street with kilts swinging and drums beating. But the most spectacular event of the festival is undoubtedly the military tattoo. This takes place under searchlights on the Castle esplanade - the scene of many executions in the past - with the floodlit castle in the background. Nowhere could one find a natural setting more impressive and appropriate.
Ex.1 Answer the questions.
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1 What sort of hills are rolling hills?
2 What is the summit?
3 Define massive.
4 What is a siege?
5 What is a relic?
6 What is a thoroughfare? What does the fare part of the word mean?
7 How does one feel when one is exhilarated?
8 What is a puppet?
9 What do you do if you floodlight a place?
Ex.2 Match the words of the two columns.
| rolling international military appropriate spectacular original floodlit massive old specially mounted impressive | event rock exhibitions setting hills city relics castle festival tattoo |
Ex.3 Without looking back at the text «Edinburgh», try to supply the missing word that completes these expressions.
- to be________by the castle;
- ________the centuries of Scottish history;
- to take place________searchlights;
- the floodlit castle in the________
to march ________ Princess Street;
a home ________ military relics;
to be___ as a museum piece;
to be________ in the sound of music.
Ex.4 Answer the questions.
1 What is the location of the city of Edinburgh?
2 What building dominates the town? What is it used for?
3 When is the Edinburgh Festival held?
4 What sort of festival is it?
5 Mention three activities which go on during the Edinburgh Festival.
6 What is the city's most spectacular event and where does it take place?
UNIT 2 LONDON
Text 1 London: a City with Difference
With its unrivalled range of museums and galleries, theatres and concert halls, world-famous sights and daily displays of pomp and pageantry, London is on of the most exciting capitals in the world and demands to be explored.
«When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life: for there is in London all that life can afford», wrote Samuel Johnson in 1777. He would still recognize the great sights on both sides of the Thames, winding its way downstream from the Houses of Parliament to St, Paul's, London Bridge and the Tower, down to Greenwich and the sea.
When H.G. Wells wrote in 1911 that "London is the most interesting, beautiful and wonderful city in the world to me," horse drawn carriages and Edwardian splendour were on their way out. The 20th century was about to enforce dramatic changes on the London sky-line - skyscrapers in the city, the Post Office Tower and Docklands, the business centre for the 21st century.
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Yet London, the world's capital, has kept its heart. Johnson would still be able to drink coffee in Covent Garden or meander through the City's narrow streets with echoes of Medieval days. H.G. Wells might, today, listen to debates in the Houses of Parliament, attend a concert in the Albert Hall or listen to a military band in a royal park.
Today London is a sprawling cosmopolitan metropolis, an exciting world which many visitors from abroad see first from the sky. Down there seven million people are at home, not in anonymous suburbs but in the Cities of London and Westminster and in districts which have remnants of their countrified past, with their own high streets and historic monuments remembering famous men and women who built a London which each generation discovers anew.
Ex.1 Answer the questions.
1 What is meant by a cosmopolitan metropolis?
2 Find a word meaning to walk in a slow relaxed way.
3 What is a high street?
4 Find a word meaning spreading over a wide area in an untidy or unattractive way.
5 Find a synonym to the words magnificence, grandeur.
6 From the list of synonyms choose the one (s) that is / are closest in meaning to the word dramatic as used in the text: striking, vivid, effective, breathtaking, powerful, exciting, sensational, melodramatic, sudden, startling. What is its opposite?
7 What is meant by remnants of the past?
8 Find a phrase meaning to disappear.
9 Find a synonym to the word to impose.
10 Find the opposite of the word to deny in the text.
Ex.2 Without looking back at the text, try to supply the missing word that completes these expressions.
- to wind its _____;
- _____ carriages;
- military _____;
- remnants of the _____ ;
- many visitors _____abroad
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