IV. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на перевод неопределенных и отрицательных местоимений.

1. Why do some British people tend to regard their own community as the centre of the world?

2. Many British people give their suburban house a name, such as the Cedars, the Poplars,even though there are no trees in their gardens.

3. Englishmen are hostile, or at least bored, when they hear any suggestion that some modification of their habits might be to their advantage.

 

V.Перепишите следующие предложения, определите в них видовременные формы глаголов и укажите их инфинитив; переведите предложения на русский язык (см. образец выполнения 3).

1. Snobbery is not so common in England today as it was at the beginning of the century.

2. In 1963 Britain joined the Common Market.

3. To most people the name of Scotland Yard brings to mind the picture of a detectivecool, collected, efficient, ready to track down any criminal with complete confidence that he will bring him to justice.

 

VI. Прочитайте и устно переведите на русский язык 1-5 абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите их.

 

BRITISH HOMES

1. About 80 per cent of British people live in houses built close together. Detached houses are usually in expensive suburbs, quite far from the town centre. Terraced houses and blocks of flats are mostly found in town centers. They can either be very small two-storey houses with one or two bedrooms or large houses with three or five floors and four or five bedrooms.

2. About 67 per cent of people in Britain own their houses or flats. Most of the rest live in rented accommodation. People in Britain buy houses or flats because there is not enough rented accommodation and what there is can be expensive.

3. Council flats ¹ and houses are built and owned by the local council. After the Second World War a lot of council flats, known as tower blocks, were constructed. Some were as high as 20 storeys and so badly built that they had to be pulled down only thirty years later.

4. Modern housing estates ² are built differently now. There might be a mixture of two-storey terraced houses together with a four-storey block of flats. There are play areas for children and there is often a community centre ³ where people who live on the estate can meet.

5. Since 1980’s council tenants have been able ⁴ to buy their own homes very cheaply if they have lived in them for over two years. By 1993, 1,5 million council houses had been sold, but only 5000 council houses or flats were built to replace them. This means that it is now very difficult to find cheap housing or rent.

6. Most British houses have a garden and many British people spend a lot of time in it. Most gardens, even small ones, have flowers and a lawn. If you don’t have a garden, it is possible to grow flowers and vegetables on at allotment ⁵ which is a piece of land rented from the local council.

 

Пояснения к тексту:

1. муниципальное жилье

2. микрорайон

3. центр общения

4. зд.- жители могут

5. зд.- участок

 

VII. Прочитайте 6-й абзац и письменно ответьте на вопрос:

Where can British people grow flowers if they have no gardens?

 

Контрольное задание № 1

 

Вариант 4

I. Перепишите следующие предложения. Определите по грамматическим признакам, какой частью речи являются слова, оформленные окончанием – s и какую функцию это окончание выполняет, т.е. служит ли оно:

а) показателем 3-го лица единственного числа глагола в Present Simple;

б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного (см. образец выполнения 1).

Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. Many outstanding statesmen, painters, writers and poets are buried in the Abbey.

2. Many visitors to the Abbey are attracted to Poets’ Corner.

3. The street called Whitehall stretches from Parliament Square to Trafalgar Square.

 

II. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их, обращая внимание на особенности перевода на русский язык определений, выраженных именем существительным (см. образец выполнения 2).

1. Scotland Yard is situated on the Thames Embankment close to the Houses of Parliament and the familiar clock tower of Big Ben.

2. An interesting branch of Scotland Yard is the branch of Police Dogs, first used as an experiment in 1938.

3. The popular nickname of the London policeman “bobby” is a tribute to Sir Robert Peel, who introduced the police force in 1829, and whose Christian name attached itself to members of the force.