бывшая жена/муж (после развода) ссориться, ругаться
делить, разделять
1. accountant [a'kauntant]
2. baby sitter
3. nurse бухгалтер няня медсестра
4. bank teller
5. barber
6. bookkeeper
7. driver (bus-; taxi-)
8. butcher
9. cashier [ks'Jia]
10. computer programmer
11. cook
12. dentist
13. doctor
14. electrician [izlek'trifn]
15. engineer
16. clerk
17. gardener
18. interpreter
19. librarian
20. manager
21. pharmacist ['fmmasist]
22. plumber ['р1лтэ]
23. policeman
24. photographer
25. salesperson
26. secretary
27. tailor
28. teacher
29. typist
30. waiter кассир парикмахер бухгалтер водитель (автобуса, такси) мясник кассир программист повар зубной врач врач
электромонтер, электрик инженер служащий садовник, цветовод переводчик (устный) библиотекарь
директор, заведующий фармацевт водопроводчик полицейский
фотограф продавец секретарь портной учитель, преподаватель машинистка официант
1. What do you do (for a living)? Чем вы занимаетесь?
(Как зарабатываете на жизнь?)
I am a doctor (a driver, an engineer).
2. What are you? Кто вы по профессии?
3. What is your profession (trade, Кто вы по профессии?
job, occupation)?
1. A good name is better than riches. Доброе имя лучше богатства.
2. As like as two peas in a pod. Как две капли воды.
3. Blood is thicker than water. Кровь гуще воды.
4. He that has no children knows not what is love. У кого нет детей, тот не знает, что такое любовь.
5. Love in a cottage. Любовь в шалаше.
6. Love me, love my dog. Любишь меня, люби и мою собаку.
7. Marriages are made in heaven. Браки заключаются на небесах.
8. Marriage goes by contrasts. Противоположности сходятся.
9. Out of sight, out of mind. С глаз долой, из сердца вон.
10. They are hand and glove. Два сапога - пара.
11. To be up to ears in love. Быть по уши влюбленным.
12. To wash one’s dirty linen in public. Выносить cop из избы.
13. Too many cooks spoil the broth. У семи нянек дитя без глаза.
| Text А |
(abridged)
by Frank Sullivan
Q: Now Mr Arbuthnot, what’s love?
A: Love is blind.
Q: Good. What does love do?
A: Love makes the world go round.
Q: Whom does a young man fall in love with?
A: With the Only Girl in the World.
Q: When do they fall in love?
A: At first sight.
Q: How?
A: Madly.
Q: They are then said to be?
A: Victims of Cupid’s* darts.
Q: And he?
A: Whispers sweet nothings in her ear.
Q: When the Only Man falls in love, madly, with the Only Girl, what does he do?
A: He walks on air.
Q: What happens after that?
A: They get married.
Q: What is a marriage?
A: Marriage is a lottery.
Q: Where are marriages made?
A: Marriages are made in heaven.
Q: What does the bride do at the wedding?
A: She blushes.
Q: What does the groom do?
A: He forgets the rings.
Cupid ['kju:pid] - Roman God of Love
Ex. 4. Reading the dialogue, make a short story in indirect speech. The beginning is given for you: “He saw the Only Girl in the World and fell in love....”
Ex. 5. Translate the sentences paying special attention to the italicized parts.
1. He was in his late eighties.
2. Elaine Kent was well in her twenties.
3. They were long past forty.
4. He didn’t look his age.
5. We were born in the same generation.
6. Roma was two years my senior.
7. He was seven years her junior.
8. He is of short lived stock.
9. My family on both sides is noted for longevity.
10. Bairne is gone.
11. I made it a rale never to speak ill of the dead.
12. He had a steady girl-friend at the moment.
13. I don’t have relations on my mother’s side.
14. He had a daughter by his first marriage.
15. He was a male replica of his mother.
16. She changed her name back to the one on her birth certificate.
17. He saw a classmate with a date.
18. She was married into the Evans family.
19. Tom dated the girl every now and then.
20. Do you have a boy-friend?
21. Everyone said that Tom was the image of my mother.
22. They had a strong resemblance to each other.
| Ex. 6. Match the words and phrases in column A with the those in column B. | |
|---|---|
| A | В |
| 1. Christian name | а. прозвище |
| 2. teenager | b. назвать чьим-либо именем |
| 3. twenty odd | с. достичь совершеннолетия |
| 4. look one’s age | d. родом из |
| 5. come from | е. говорить на ломаном |
| английском языке | |
| 6. native tongue | f. вдовец |
| 7. be good at languages | д. мачеха |
| 8. nickname | h. предки |
| 9. be of age | i. сводный брат |
| 10. speak broken English | j. воспитать детей |
| 11. bring up children | к хорошо владеть иностранным |
| языком | |
| 12. a widower | I. выглядеть не старше своих лет |
| 13. an old maid | mi двадцать с лишним |
| 14. stepmother | п. подросток |
| 15. ancestry | о. имя |
| 16. call smb after | р. родной язык |
| 17. halfbrother | q. старая дева |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
Ex. 7. Fill in the blanks with the corresponding word.
1. John is your second cousin. He is your... relative.
2. They all... me by my first name.
3. He is called Red, it’s his ... .
4. Ourfamily name is Smith, I don’t know my mother’s ... name.
5. He has the same name as his grandfather, he was ... his grandfather.
6. We call our baby “Ducky”, it is his ... .
7. Are you ... or just friends?
8. He is 13 years old, he is a ... .
9. He is 17, he is not... yet.
10. He is 25 and his sister is 30. She is ... than he.
11. He is 48, he is in his ... .
12. That man is also from France, we are ....
13. If I want to know smb’s birthplace, I ask “Where ... ?”
14. He is Swedish, he ... in Sweden.
15. She is from Germany, she speaks German, it is her... .
Ex. 8. Fill in prepositions or adverbs where necessary.
1. He goes ... the name Bill.
2. I’m distantly related ... her.
3. We are distantly related ... my father’s side.
4. He is not... age, he is ... 18.
5. I’m not 20yet. I’m still... my “teens”.
6. Thankyou for the compliment, I’m well... 20.
7. He is about 50, he is ... the prime of his life.
8. I was born ... the 5th ... May ... 1956.
9. What country are you ... ?
10. He descends ... a pleasant family.
11. They have brought... 3 children.
12. He didn’t return from the war, he died ... his country.
13. Did Mrs White divorce ... her husband?
14. They say she took ... her mother.
15. They still love each other, they married ... love.
16. He is much younger, he married her... convenience.
17. My son is ... double her age.
18. He had a son ... former marriage.
19. The girls looked ... so much alike.
20. At fifty six she looked ... forty.
21. I made a date ... her... 7 o’clock.
Ex. 9. Make up questions to which the following sentences could be the answers.
1. They all call me Mr Know-all. (2 quest.)
2. Sure, you can call me Mary.
3. No, he is a bachelor. He is not the marrying sort.
4. Yes, the wedding was splendid.
5. No, he is not. He is my step-brother.
6. No, I don’t. My English is very poor.
7. Yes, they are. I can’t tell one brother from the other.
8. Yes, he is 6 years myjunior.
9. No, she is my stepmother, that’s why she looks so young.
10. No, they don’t. They have adopted the child.
11.1 was born on the 15-th of May, 1954 in London.
12. No, she is my grandmother.
13. No, I am not from Georgia. I come from Bulgaria, I am Bulgarian.
14. No, he died of an illness.
Text В
(abridged from “Penmarric” by Susan Howatch)
So Jeane1 too began to wear an engagement ring. She was constantly talking about Helena’s2 wedding in July and her own wedding in October.
Helena was busy enough as it was: wedding invitations were sent out, the reception at Polzillan3 House was organized, the trousseati4 was bought in London and the design for the bridesmaids’ dresses were chosen.
Since I [Philip] had no close friends of my own class I eventually had to ask Jan-Ives5 to be the best man.
The night before the wedding Jan-Ives, William and all my friends from the mine joined me at the pub to cheer me up on my last evening as a bachelor, and the beer and cider flowed until there wasn’t a sober man in the house.