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Set v, n, adj.
1. В кафе был накрыт столик на четверых. 2.. На свадьбу им подарили чайный сервиз и набор столовых приборов. 3. В нашей фирме существуют установленные правила.. 4. После гражданской войны многие рабы были освобождены. 5. Действие романа происходит в Нью-Йорке. 6. В этом году рано установилась зима. 7. Если хочешь построить карьеру, первым делом поставь цель. 8. Друзья решили открыть свое кафе на окраине города. 9. Ты должен показывать хороший пример младшей сестре. 10. Члены экспедиции направились в отдаленный район страны. 11. Дата собрания назначена. 12. Они такие негостеприимные люди! Ноги моей больше не будет в их доме!
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1.. Трудно выразить мои чувства словами. 2. Когда ученик знает ответ, он поднимает руку.3. Собрание было отложено на неделю. 4. Объявление вывешено на доске в коридоре. 5. Грубость в автобусе испортила мне настроение.6. На этой улице будет возведено новое здание. 7. Он выдвинул идею о путешествии в Тибет, но это трудно осуществить. 8. Учительница дала задание ученикам. 9. Пора положить конец этому безобразию! 10 Последние два года они откладывали деньги на покупку собственного дома. 11. Дети должны приучаться убирать свои вещи. 12. Я этого не потерплю. 13. Мягко говоря, у нее плохой характер. 14. Лектору задали много вопросов..
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Translate using the vocabulary of the unit:
Действие автобиографического романа Роальда Даля происходит в Великобритании в 30-х годах 20 века. В то время люди не ездили в отпуск за границу, а путешествие из Великобритании в далекую страну занимало пять недель. Роальд Даль решил, что пойдет работать сразу после школы, поскольку имел сильное желание посмотреть мир. Когда он учился в последнем классе, то подал заявление о приеме на работу в несколько компаний. Даль направил все свои усилия на то, чтобы попасть в топливную компанию, так как она давала назначение на работу за границей. Однако воспитатель в частной школе считал, что у него нет возможности быть принятым на работу в эту компанию.. Даль пропустил слова учителя мимо ушей и отправился в Лондон на собеседование. Он стал стажером в топливной компании с зарплатой пять фунтов в неделю. После того как Даль прошел курс двухгодичной профессиональной подготовки, ему было предложено поехать работать в Египет. После поездки молодому человеку был обещан полугодовой отпуск. Однако Роальд Даль отклонил это предложение. Его не привлекала пустынная страна с гробницами и историческими реликвиями.
Даль жаждал приключений, встреч с дикими животными и ядовитыми змеями. К сожалению, он не мог выразить это словами. Директор был очень хороший человек, по имени Годбер, и он согласился отложить командировку, но Даль пообещал, что примет любое назначение. В течение недели он был вызван к директору, и ему было предложено поехать на работу в Африку. Корабль отправлялся через шесть дней. Молодой человек был вне себя от радости.
Хотя Африка была очень далеко, мать Роальда Даля была готова смириться с отъездом единственного сына и не показала своего волнения. В 1936 году Роальд Даль отправился работать в Африку, и эта поездка стала переломным моментом в его жизни.
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Translate from English into Russian (in writing). Consult the English thesauruses and give synonyms for the words in bold. Use online resources as well.
We spent months at the Head Office in London learning how the great company functioned from the inside. I was still living in Bexey, Kent, with my mother and three sisters, and every morning, six days a week, Saturdays included, I would dress neatly in a somber grey suit, have breakfast at seven forty-five and then, with a brown trilby on my head and a furled umbrella in my hand, I would board the eight-fifteen train to London together with a swarm of other equally somber-suited businessmen. I found it easy to fall into their pattern. We were all very serious and dignified gents taking the train to our offices in the City of London where each of us, so we thought, was engaged in high finance and other enormously important matters. Most of my companions wore hard bowler hats, and a few like me wore soft trilbies, but not one of us on that train went bareheaded. And none of us, even on the sunniest days, went without his umbrella. The umbrella was our badge of office. Also it was a sign of respectability.
(from Boy by Roald Dahl)
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Read and retell this text, Translate it into Russian.
Only three young Englishmen ran the Shell Company in the whole of that vast territory, and I was the youngest. When we were not “on the road”, we lived in the splendid large Shell Company house perched on the top of the cliffs outside Dar es Salaam, and we were treated like princes. Our domestic staff consisted of a male native cook. There was a gardener and a personal “boy” for each of us. Your boy was really kind of valet and jack of all trades
The first thing you had to do when you came to work in Dar es Salaam was to learn Swahili, otherwise you could not communicate either with your own boy or with any other native of the country. In those benighted days of Empire it was considered impertinent for a black man to understand English, let alone to speak it. The result was that none of them made any effort to learn our language, so we had to learn theirs instead.
Sometimes I would have to go on safari upcountry and my boy always came with me. We would take the Shell station-wagon and be gone for a month, driving all over Tanganyika on dirt roads that were covered with tiny ruts. We would drive far west to the edge of Lake Tanganyika in central Africa and on down south to the borders of Nyasaland and after that we would head east towards Mozambique, and the purpose of these trips was to visit our Shell customers. These customers ran diamond mines and gold mines and sisal plantations and cotton plantations, and my job was to keep their machinery supplied with the proper grades of lubricating oil and fuel oil. Not a great deal of intelligence or imagination was required but you needed to be fit and tough.
I loved that life. We saw giraffe standing unafraid right beside the road, nibbling the tops of the trees. We saw plenty of elephant and hippo and zebra and antelope and very occasionally a pride of lions. The only creatures I was frightened of were the snakes. We used often to see a big one gliding across the dirt road ahead of the car, and the golden rule was never to accelerate and try to run it over, If you hit a snake at speed, the front wheel can flip it up in the air and there is a danger of it landing in your lap. The really bad snake is the black mamba. It is the only one that has no fear of a man and will deliberately attack him on sight. If it bites you, you are a gonner.
(from Going Solo by Roald Dahl)
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How did his mother react to that news? -
Why was his departure a great event those days? -
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Make a conclusion about the character traits and the state of mind of the narrator.
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Give character sketches of the narrator and Mr. Godber.
Unit II
The Plunge
from Revenge wears Prada
by Lauren Weisberger (born 1977)
(abridged)
It didn't happen overnight, but the unlikeliest thing in Andy's world had become reality: Emily Charlton, sworn enemy, was her friend. And not just her friend but Andy's best friend, her first phone call for all things good or bad. Which is why it felt so natural when, a couple years later the girls first had the idea for The Plunge. It was Emily's idea, really, but Andy refined the magazine's purpose and mission, brainstormed story and cover ideas, and sourced the first weddings they covered. With Emily's business contacts and print magazine experience, and Andy's writing skills and expertise with all things wedding related, they conceived and designed a uniquely beautiful product. Enter Max, one of Emily's husband's best friends, as both investor and Andy's future husband, and their lives had become so entwined that sometimes Andy could hardly remember a time when she and Emily had hated each other.
Although Andy still got instinctively anxious when anyone talked about her having " the best job on earth", even she had to agree it was pretty spectacular. She loved the feeling of creating something from scratch, of getting to shepherd new ideas from pitches to finished issues. It was tremendously satisfying to brainstorm one day and write the next, and then perhaps spend a few days editing followed by a week of issue planning. The variety kept things exciting and there were always new challenges. But most of all she loved being her own boss.
When Emily had pinched Andy the idea of starting their own print wedding magazine together, Andy flatly refused. The girls were on their second annual spa weekend away together. They were sitting in the warmest of three indoor hot tubs at the Mandarin Oriental's spa.
"What do you mean "no"? You haven't even heard my idea yet", Emily whined in the charmingly petulant way that Andy knew meant she wasn't really upset.
"I don't have to hear your idea. I'm done with print. So is the rest of the world! Believe it or not, I actually like my job". At the time Andy had a sane boss, was writing four days a week for Happily Ever After , and had an idea for a novel. With flexible hours, she was sure she could start writing enough weekly to get an agent. She was on her way ... possibly to a hand-to-mouth existence salary-wise, but still.
"Yes, but it's just a job! What I'm talking about is a career. It's entrepreneurship. We'll launch it together and it will be our baby". Emily hit the water with her hand. "You're being underutilized there. You're so much more talented than that. I want you to write full-length cover stories, work with brilliant photographers who will execute your vision, assign your ideas to other writers and edit them, oversee them. You'll travel to far-flung destinations and interview celebrities, and of course we'll accept swag free trips and every imaginable discount. How fun does it sound?
Andy jutted out her lower lip. "Not terrible".
"Very not terrible. I'll be the public face of the magazine and do all the staff you would hate. I'll throw the parties and court the advertisers and do all the hiring and firing. I'll find the office space and buy all the equipment and supplies. We'll find really terrific people who can oversee a lot of these things so you can focus on making it the premier wedding magazine in the country. Did I mention health insurance? And enough of salary to actually eat out on your own dime? Can you imagine that?"
Andy had to admit she could imagine it. It sounded pretty amazing actually. But she couldn't help wondering what qualified either of them to launch and run a real live magazine. A few combined years of low-level assistant and associate editor work together with an additional few years writing for a website? How would their wedding magazine be any different from the dozens of other confections? And how, exactly, were they going to pay for all this? It sounded fantastic, but could it actually work?
Emily threw her head back in delight. " Andy, you are much too logical for your own good. Leave everything to me - I've got it all covered. Miles has a dozen of friends, all New York bankers or Hollywood types, who are always looking to invest in this kind of thing. They just love throwing extra cash at creative start-ups, when it's something media or publishing related".
Andy was still trying to process the information about their potential investors and how much money they were willing to throw around. " I've become pretty familiar with the whole wedding universe, and trust me, it's not easy to come up with fresh material all the time".
"Irrelevant!" Emily scoffed. She bounded out of the tub. Sitting back on her bench opposite Andy, she sipped her tea and said:" Ours is going to be upscale. The luxe version of weddings."
"You do realize we're in the midst of a worldwide recession, don't you?"
"Which is exactly why our readers will want something aspirational! You think ninety-nine percent of the people who read Runway can afford a pair of stockings featured in the issue? Of course not", Emily said.
Despite her pragmatic streak, Andy could feel herself getting excited. "That's true", she said. "Runway gives smart women who don't necessarily have the funds a muse when designing their own style. It would make sense that all those women who are inspired by the out-of-reach looks in Runway would be just as inspired by the out-of-reach weddings we'd feature in The Plunge".
Emily beamed. "The Plunge?"
"Don't you love it? "Take the plunge," "plunging necklines"... it's simple, dramatic, effortless. It's perfect".
"I do. I do love it. The Plunge. You are brilliant, that's exactly what we're calling it!" At this point Emily stood up and actually did a little jig. "I knew you'd get it. Trust me, this is going to be fabulous".
Emily, impulsive, crazy Emily, had been right. Of course there had been roadblocks and obstacles along the way, but for the most part, the path from brainstorming to execution had been relatively smooth. Andy had got into it hesitantly, yes, but the magazine was her love, her baby. It was hard to comprehend that the entire magazine existed because of Emily's vision, their mutual brainstorming and ideas and hard work and mistakes since then. They had built something from scratch that they could be proud of and every day Andy was grateful to Emily.