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- Модальные глаголы (продолжение)
- Устная тема о Британии
- Диалоги на ве случаи жизни
- Анекдот
- Идиомы
- Скороговорки
- Упражнение
- Продолжаем читать
Модальные глаголы
Сегодня мы рассмотрим замену глагола
can на
be able
to. Когда и зачем оно употребляется.
1) Так как can имеет только две формы: can (настоящее время-present)
и could (прошедшее время-past), то для других времен необходимо
употребление
be able to.
- He hasn't been able to work recently. (can has no
Present Perfect)
- She might not be able to fly to London. (can has no
infinitive)
2) Could и was able to:
Иногда could употребляется как прошедшее время от
can.
- Tom could play football very well.
- She couldn't speak English.
Преимущественно сould используется со следующими глаголами:
see,
hear, smell, taste, feel, understand, remember:
- He spoke so quickly that I couldn't understand him at all.
- Though I was sitting in the last row, I could see the film well.
Could используется также, чтобы отметить несомненную возможность кого-либо
сделать что-либо:
- My mother could speak five languages.
Но если мы имеем в виду, что некто справляется с чем-либо при определенных
условиях, надо употреблять
was/were able to
(не could):
- He didn't want to buy a new suit but at last we were able to
persuade him.
- She wasn't able to pass the exam.
Отрицательная форма couldn't допустима во всех случаях.
- He couldn't play tennis.
- We couldn't persuade him to buy a new suit.
Education in Britain (очень
важная тема, это первое, что у вас спросят на экзаменах) вверх
In England schooling is compulsory for children of 5 to 16
years of age. Any child may attend a school without paying fees. Over 90%
of children of compulsory school age go to state schools. The most important
changes in Britain's educational system were introduced under the Education
Reform Act 1988. It led to the compulsory National Curriculum for pupils
aged 5 to 16 in state schools. The Act also aims to give parents a wider
choice of schools for their children. Local educational authorities finance
most school education at local level. They also employ teachers. Every state
school in England and Wales has a governing body, responsible for the school's
main policies. Parallel reforms are introduced in both Scotland and Northern
Ireland.
Full-time education is compulsory up to the middle teenage years. There
are three stages in education. The first stage is primary education; the
second is secondary education; the third is further education at university
or college.
Before going to a primary school children receive nursery education (some
children attend pre-school play-groups). It's the first age of education.
Around half of 3—4 years old in Britain receive nursery education. Children
of nursery age need care as well as education. Social, emotional and physical
needs must be taken into consideration.
Compulsory primary education begins at the age of 5 in England, Wales
and Scotland and at 4 in Northern Ireland. Children start their education
in an infant school and move to a junior school at 7 years old. Primary schools
vary in size and location. Pupils study different subjects (English, Mathematics,
Science, History, Geography, Music, Art, Physical education). Over 80%
of all primary schools are mixed.
In Britain most children of compulsory secondary school age (11—16) receive
free education financed from public funds. The large majority of schools
are mixed.
The school year in England and Wales begins in September and continues
into July. In Scotland it is from August to June. In Northern Ireland —
from September to June. At this level children start to learn a modern foreign
language. The course of study at secondary school may lead to General Certificate
of Secondary Education (GCSE) qualifications. At 16 years old children
take different examinations and have quite a lot of coursework, only after
which they're awarded GCSE.
Those who stay at school after GCSE, study for 2 more years for A (Advanced)
level exams in two or three subjects.
A small proportion of children (about 8%) attend private, or independent
schools, which are not financed by the state. To understand this phenomenon
a little history is needed.
The British government payed little attention to education until the
end of the 19th century. Schools had existed in Britain long before the
government took an interest in education. A small group of schools admitted
only the sons of the upper and upper middle classes. At these public schools
much more attention was paid to "character-building" and the development
of "team spirit" rather than to academic achievements. These were "boarding-schools"
(as the pupils lived in them). The pupils wore distinctive clothes and the
schools had their own traditions. The aim of those schools was to prepare
young men to take up positions in the higher ranks of army, in business,
civil service and politics.
A typical public school is for boys from 13. It admits fee-paying pupils.
Such school is a boarding one. Each school is divided into houses with
its housemaster. Public school place great emphasis on team sports. These
schools are not at all luxurious or comfortable. A typical example of such
a school is Eton.
British education has many different faces but one goal. Its aim is to
realize the potential of all for the good of the individual and society
as a whole.
to be continiued...
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Buying a Car вверх
Customer:Good morning.
Dealer:Good morning ,sir.May I help you?
C:I want to buy a new car.
D:DO you have anything special in mind?
C:It shouldn't be either an expensive car or a big one.
D:I see.What about a Honda?It's a good and rather inexpensive
car. One of these cars is to the right of you.
C:How much is it?
D:6900 dollars.
C:I've got a large family. Therefore I'm looking for a mid-sized
car.
D:If you are interested in a family car,the new Oldsmobile
Delta 88 would be a good buy.
C:May I see it?
D:It's right this way.It's a very popular model.Let's take a
look. Here we are.This car will get you an excellent gas mileage.Do
you like the color?
C:Yes,dark blue is my favorite color. What special features does the
car have?
D:It has air conditioning,vinyl seat seat covers,and a
radio.
C:Is it economical to run?
D:Absolutely.It uses lighter material in the body,and it has
a new type of carburetor.Therefor your gas consumption will be cut
down.Will you take a test drive to see how the car runs?
C:Okay.
(They get in,and the customer starts driving)
Several minutes later.
C:I like the car.It's comfortable. The steering and the brakes work
well. What about a trade-in?
D:I can estimate your old car. If you wish,I can ask my assistant
to drive it around the block.He could check out your car.He'll
tell me what he thinks about a trade-in.
C:All right.Thereare the keys.My car is only four years old .I've
not been in a single accident.I've taken good
care of the car.
D:Well,Let's go back to my office.
C:Let's see what kind of deal I can expect.My decision depends on the
price and the trade-in.As soon as you can give me your ultimate
price,I'll talk it over with my family.I definitely need a new car.
Anecdote вверх
Who's Smarter?
A woman was out golfing one day when she hit her ball into the woods.
She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog in a trap.
The frog said to her, "If you release me from this trap, I will grant
you 3 wishes." She did and the frog said, "Thank you, but I failed to
mention that there is a condition to your wishes. Whatever you wish
for, your husband will get 10 times more!"
The woman said, "That's okay." For her first wish, she wanted to be
the most beautiful woman in the world.
The frog warned her, "You do realize that this wish will also make
your husband the most handsome man in the world, and women will flock
to him." The woman replied, "That's okay, because I will be the
most beautiful woman, and he will only have eyes for me." So, BANG - she
became the most beautiful woman in the world!
For her second wish, she wanted to be the richest woman in the world.
The frog said, "That will make your husband the richest man in the
world, and he will be ten times richer than you."
The woman said, "That's okay because what's mine is his and what's
his is mine." So, BANG - she became the richest woman in the world!
The frog asked her what she would like for her third wish. She said,
"I'd like a mild heart attack."
Idioms вверх
hand to someone on a silver platter
- give a person something that has not been earned
Давать что-то, что на самом деле не заслужено
His education was handed to him on a silver platter and now he
is very spoiled and selfish.
hard nut to crack
- something or someone difficult to understand or do
Что-то или кто-то сложное для понимания или действия над ним. (крепкий
орешек по-нашему)
He is a very serious person and is a very hard nut to crack.
(get or) have egg on one`s face
- be embarrassed
быть смущенным
He has egg on his face because everyone knows that he was sick
at the party.
hit the sauce
- drink alcohol - usually regularly
Уходить в запой, (я думаю это понятней некуда)
I think that she has begun to hit the sauce since her husband
lost his job.
hot potato
- a question or argument that is controversial and difficult to settle
Вопрос или аргумент, который очень спорный и трудный для его разрешения.
The issue of building the nuclear power plant is a real hot potato
for the local town council.
in a nutshell
- briefly, in a few words
Кратенько, в двух словах
We went to the meeting and they told us in a nutshell what would be
happening to everyone next year.
Tongue Twisters вверх
A bloke's back bike brake block broke
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck,
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would,
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
Упражнение вверх
Сегодня упражнение на времена и еще одно, так просто для развлечения.
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Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense - Present Perfect,
Past Simple or Present Simple.
Dennis Heal (be) a politician. He (go) to Oxford University in
1950, and in 1957 he (become) a Member of Parliament for
the Labour Party. He (be) an MP since then. He (be)
Defence Minister from 1964 - 70. He (write) three books,
including his autobiography The Time of my Life, and a spy
story called The Time to Run. He is married to the artist
Edna Heal, and they have two children. They (live) in Oxford
for 15 15 years, then (move) to London in 1970. They now
(live) in a house in Cadogan Square in central London.
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1. Match the offer/suggestion to the answer
Shall we open the window?
a) Good idea. It's really stuffy in here.
b) I think it's best to tell her nothing. She can't keep
a secret.
c) Well we're going to have to bite the bullet on this sooner
or later.
d) Why not Baker? He's used to working in Eastern Europe?
2. Shall we have a 15 minute break?
a) How about next Friday?
b) Shall we keep working until the coffee comes?
c) Well we're going to have to bite the bullet on this sooner
or later.
d) Why not Baker? He's used to working in Eastern Europe?
3. Shall we say next Friday?
a) Sorry, can't make Friday. How about Thursday?
b) I think it's best to tell her nothing. She can't keep
a secret.
c) I think it's about time you all came to my place.
d) Why not Baker? He's used to working in Eastern Europe?
4. Where shall we meet?
a) I think it's best to tell her nothing. She can't keep
a secret.
b) Well we're going to have to bite the bullet on this sooner
or later.
c) How about next Friday?
d) I think it's about time you all came to my place.
5. Who shall we send to Poland?
a) I think it's best to tell her nothing. She can't keep
a secret.
b) Well we're going to have to bite the bullet on this sooner
or later.
c) I think it's about time you all came to my place.
d) Why not Baker? He's used to working in Eastern Europe?
6. What shall we do about their offer?
a) I think we should leave that to one side for the time
being.
b) How about next Friday?
c) Sorry, can't make Friday. How about Thursday?
d) Why not Baker? He's used to working in Eastern Europe?
7. When shall we have the next meeting?
a) How about next Friday?
b) Well we're going to have to bite the bullet on this sooner
or later.
c) I think it's about time you all came to my place.
d) Why not Baker? He's used to working in Eastern Europe?
8. What shall we do about John?
a) I think it's best to tell her nothing. She can't keep
a secret.
b) Well we're going to have to bite the bullet on this sooner
or later.
c) I think it's about time you all came to my place.
d) Why not Baker? He's used to working in Eastern Europe?
9. Shall we start?
a) I think it would be better to wait until Lindsey is here.
b) I think it's best to tell her nothing. She can't keep
a secret.
c) Well we're going to have to bite the bullet on this sooner
or later.
d) Why not Baker? He's used to working in Eastern Europe?
10. What shall we tell Rachel?
a) I think it's best to tell her nothing. She can't keep
a secret.
b) Well we're going to have to bite the bullet on this sooner
or later.
c) I think it's about time you all came to my place.
d) Why not Baker? He's used to working in Eastern Europe?
The Green Mile
вверх
Coffey shook his head slowly - once
to the left, once to the right, then back to dead center. Once his eyes found
me, they never left me.
Harry had a clipboard with Coffey's forms on it in one hand. "Give it
to him," I said to Harry "Put it in his hand." Harry did. The big mutt took it like a
sleepwalker.
"Now bring it to me, big boy," I said, and Coffey did, his chains jingling and rattling. He
had to duck his head just to enter the cell.
I looked up and down mostly to register his height as a fact and not an
optical illusion. It was real: six feet, eight inches.
His weight was given as two-eighty, but I think
that was only an estimate; he had to have been
three hundred and twenty, maybe as much as three hundred
and fifty pounds. Under the space for scars
and identifying marks, one word had been blocked
out in the laborious printing of Magnusson, the old trusty in Registration: Numerous.
I looked up. Coffey had shuffled a bit to
one side and I could see Harry standing across the corridor in front
of Delacroix's cell - he was our only other prisoner in E Block when
Coffey came in. Del was a slight, balding man with the worried face of an accountant who knows his embezzlement will soon be
discovered. His tame mouse was sitting on his shoulder.
Percy Wetmore was leaning in the doorway
of the cell which had just become John Coffey's. He had taken his hickory baton out of the custom-made holster he carried it in, and was tapping it against one palm
the way a man does when he has a toy he wants to use. And
all at once I couldn't stand to have him there.
Maybe it was the unseasonable heat, maybe
it was the urinary infection heating up my groin and
making the itch of my flannel underwear all but unbearable,
maybe it was knowing that the state had sent me a black man
next door to an idiot to execute, and
Percy clearly wanted to hand-tool him a little first. Probably it was all
those things. Whatever it was, I stopped caring about his political connections
for a little while.
"Percy." I said. "They're moving house over in the infirmary."
"Bill Dodge is in charge of that detail-"
"I know he is," I said. "Go and help him."
'That isn't my job," Percy said. "This big lugoon
is my job." "Lugoon" was Percy's joke name for the big ones
- a combination of lug and goon. He resented the big ones. He wasn't skinny, like Harry Terwilliger, but he was short.
A banty-rooster sort of guy, the kind that likes
to pick fights, especially when the odds are
all their way. And vain about his hair. Could
hardly keep his hands off it.
"Then your job is done," I said. "Get over to the infirmary."
His lower lip pooched out. Bill Dodge and
his men were moving boxes and stacks of sheets, even the beds; the whole infirmary
was going to a new frame building over on the west side of the prison. Hot
work, heavy lifting. Percy Wetmore wanted no part of either.
"They got all the men they need," he said.
"Then get over there and straw-boss," I said, raising my voice. I saw
Harry
wince and paid no attention. If the governor
ordered Warden Moores to fire me
for ruffling the wrong set of feathers,
who was Hal Moores going to put in my
place? Percy? It was a joke. "I really don't care what you do, Percy,
as long as
you get out of here for awhile!' |
mutt - болван
sleepwalker - лунатик
jingle - звенеть
rattle -дребезжание; громыхание
six feet, eight inches - 2 метра 3 см
two-eighty - 127 кг
estimate -предварительно оценивать; подсчёт
three hundred and fifty pounds - 150 кг
scar - шрам
identifying marks - особые приметы
trusty - испытанный
shuffle - сдивунуться
slight - тонкий
bald- лысый
accountant -бухгалтер
embezzlement - растрата
lean - прислоняться
hickory baton - резиновая дубинка
holster - чехол, кобура
tap - постукивать, похлопывать
palm - ладонь
unseasonable - несезонная
groin - пах
itch - зуд
flannel underwear - фланелевое белье
unbearable- невыносимый
execute - казнить
infirmary - здесь: лазарет
lugoon - туша
skinny - тощий
banty-rooster - петух-забияка
odds- перевес
vain -тщеславный
pooched out - оттопыриваться
stack - кипа
sheet- простыня
straw-boss: здесь: это последний приказ!
wince- морщиться
for ruffling the wrong set of feathers - за нарушение субординации
|
to be continiued........
Harry Potter
He didn't say another word on the subject as they
went upstairs to bed. While Mrs. Dursley was in the bathroom, Mr. Dursley
crept to the bedroom window and peered down into the front garden. The cat was still
there. It was staring down Privet Drive as
though it were waiting for something.
Was he imagining things? Could all this have anything to do with the Potters?
If it did… if it got out that they were related to a pair of — well, he
didn't think he could bear it.
The Dursleys got into bed. Mrs. Dursley fell asleep quickly but Mr. Dursley
lay awake, turning it all over in his mind. His last, comforting thought
before he fell asleep was that even if the Potters were involved, there was no reason for them to come near
him and Mrs. Dursley. The Potters knew very well what he and Petunia thought
about them and their kind…. He couldn't see how he and Petunia could get
mixed up in anything that might be going on — he yawned
and turned over — it couldn't affect them…
How very wrong he was.
Mr. Dursley might have been drifting into
an uneasy sleep, but the cat on the wall outside was showing no sign of
sleepiness. It was sitting as still as a statue, its eyes fixed unblinkingly on the far corner of Privet Drive. It
didn't so much as quiver when a car door slammed on the next street, nor when two owls swooped
overhead. In fact, it was nearly midnight before the cat moved at all.
A man appeared on the corner the cat had been watching, appeared so suddenly
and silently you'd have thought he'd just popped out of the ground. The cat's tail twitched and its eyes narrowed.
Nothing like this man had ever been seen on Privet Drive. He was tall,
thin, and very old, judging by the silver of
his hair and beard, which were both long enough
to tuck into his belt.
He was wearing long robes, a
purple cloak that swept the ground,
and high-heeled, buckled boots. His blue eyes
were light, bright, and sparkling behind
half-moon spectacles and his nose was very long
and crooked, as though it had been broken at
least twice. This man's name was Albus Dumbledore.
Albus Dumbledore didn't seem to realize that he had just arrived in a street
where everything from his name to his boots was unwelcome.
He was busy rummaging in his
cloak, looking for something. But he did seem to realize he was being watched,
because he looked up suddenly at the cat, which was still staring at him
from the other end of the street. For some reason, the sight of the cat seemed
to amuse him. He chuckled and muttered, "I should have known."
He found what he was looking for in his inside pocket. It seemed to be
a silver cigarette lighter. He flicked it open,
held it up in the air, and clicked it. The nearest street lamp went out
with a little pop. He clicked it again — the
next lamp flickered into darkness. Twelve times he clicked the Put-Outer,
until the only lights left on the whole street were two tiny pinpricks in
the distance, which were the eyes of the cat watching him. If anyone looked
out of their window now, even beady-eyed Mrs.
Dursley, they wouldn't be able to see anything that was happening down on
the pavement. Dumbledore slipped the Put-Outer back inside his cloak
and set off down the street toward number
four, where he sat down on the wall next to the cat. He didn't look at it,
but after a moment he spoke to it.
"Fancy seeing you here, Professor McGonagall."
He turned to smile at the tabby, but it had
gone. Instead he was smiling at a rather severe-looking woman who was wearing
square glasses exactly the shape of the markings the cat had had around
its eyes. She, too, was wearing a cloak, an emerald
one. Her black hair was drawn into a tight bun. She looked
distinctly ruffled.
|
creep - красться
peer -всматриваться
stare- пристально смотреть
relate - относить
bear - выносить
involve - вовлекать
yawn - зевать
affect - действовать
drift - здесь: опускаться
unblinkingly - неморгающе
quiver -трепетать
slam - захлопнуться
silently - молча
popped out - высовываться
twitch- подёргивание
narrow-сужаться
judging by - судя по его
beard - борода.
belt - пояс
tuck - висеть
robe - мантия
sweep - подметание
heel - каблук
buckle- застёгивать
spark - искра
spectacles-очки
crooked -кривой
unwelcome - непрошенный
rummage -рыться
amuse- развлекать
chuckle - посмеиваться
mutter - бормотать
flick - щелчок
pop - хлопок
tiny -крошечный
beady-eyed - с пристальным взглядом
pavement - тротуар
slipped - скользил
toward - по отношению к
tabby - полосатый кот
emerald - изумрудный
distinctly - отчетливо
ruffled - раздраженный |
to be continiued.......
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