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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