Word Combinations and Phrases



to carry well (voice, music, etc.) хорошо проводить; (to have) a feeling for atmo­sphere      
to be hard on smb. ( coll . )                         чувствовать окружающую обстановку;обращаться с кем-л. жестко;                          to roar with laughter покатываться со смеху;

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to make a fool of oneself (coll.) поставить себя в                               to pass entirely without incident

 глупое положение, свалять дурака;                     пройти абсолютно без происшествий ( bookish )

to consult smth. (a map,                                              to put smb. off  (coll.) отговаривать, мешать,    

a dictio­nary, the time-table, etc.) справляться в                                                привлечь внимание

                                                                                           to take (official) notice of smth. (or smb.)

                                                                                                принять официальное уведомление

EXERCISES

A) Listen to the recording of Text One and mark the stresses and tunes, b) Repeat the text in the intervals after the model.

2. Consult a dictionary, transcribe the following words and practise their pro­nunciation:

Vaultlike  склеп, подвал, dais  помост, кафедра, atmosphere , powder-magazine , disorderliness , pleasant-faced, deliberately , uncanny  сверхъестественное, outrageously  неистово, facetiousness  шутка, armoury  арсенал, assembly  сбор, subtly , clever-looking, impudently  нагло, penalty  наказание, congratulate , fulsomely  льстиво, ordeal  суровое испытание, prefect  староста класса, execution  исполнение

3. Read the following word combinations paying attention to assimilation and the linking "r":

on the dais  помост, кафедру, watched the school straggling  двигающуюся вразброд to their places; but there was an atmosphere  of subdued  подавляемого expectancy; the boys stared  about them; at the far end of the hallpconsulted the map; by counting down the rows discovered the boy' s name; when the laughter subsided  утих; in the front row but one; again the assembly  сбор laughed; who dropped the desk-lid; but that you put them off; and they tell me; in their armchairs

4. Read the passage beginning with "Speed was very nervous..." till "...he waseager for the storm to break"; concentrate your attention on weak forms and the rhythm.

While reading the following dialogues mind the intonation of the stimuli and responses and convey proper attitudes according to the author's directions given in the text:

A. When the laughter subsided  утих, a lean, rather clever-looking boy rese up in the front row but one and said, impudently  нагло: "Please sir, I'm Worsley. I didn't do anything."

Speed replied promptly: "Oh, didn't you? Well, you've got a hun­dred lines, anyway."

"What for, sir" — in hot indignation  возмущении.

"For sitting in your wrong desk."

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В. "And what's your name?" asked Speed.

"Naylor, sir."

"Very well, Naylor, you and Worsley can share the hundred lines between you." He added smiling: "I've no doubt you're neither of you worse than anybody else but you must pay the penalty  наказание of being pioneers.''

They went away laughing.


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