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Write out from the text the sentences or their parts, which contain the words and phrases given below and translate them into Russian: to destroy the crops, a floating mist, to affect.
Explain in English what is meant by:
a thaw, to get overcast with clouds, a drizzle may settle, the law was passed, nostalgically.
4. Answer the following questions:
1. What is good about the British climate? What is the chief source of these good features? How does it affect everyday life in Britain?
2. What do the English people mean saying that instead of climate they have the weather? What is the difference between the climate and the weather? What is the worst aspect of the English weather? How does this feature influence the people who live there?
3. How did it happen that England became associated in the minds of foreigners with fogs and mists? Is this reputation justified? What made English fogs so unpleasant in the past? What did the government do to get rid of the pea soupers?
Is it true that it is always raining in England? What is the most peculiar feature of English rains? What is the difference be tween rains and showers? What do the English people think about showers?
Why is England divided into two climatic zones: the southeast and the northwest? What differences in climate can be ob served there and why?
Find in the text the following concepts, check your ability to explain them in English, and add them to your working vocabulary:
Knights of the Round Table, England's Little California, Land's End, the Lake District, Windermere, the Pennines.
Write out from the text the sentences or their parts, which contain the words and phrases given below and translate them into Russian: being revived, heather, nub of mountains, to be noted for smth, the backbone of England.
Explain in English what is meant by.
a bay, holidaymaking, surf-riding, the moor, a heath, a coomb, a dale, a glen, the goers, a fell, a pike, cheviots, "the loughs".
Answer the following questions:
What is the reputation of the counties situated in the western part of England?
Who was King Arthur of the Celts' legends? What enemies did he fight against?
Why is this region called "England's Little California"?
What place is called Land's End? Why is it popular with the surf-riders?
What term is used to describe the scenery of the West Country? Can you explain the difference between the types of land-scapes described by the terms "moor" and "heath"?
What types of valleys are described by the terms "coomb", 'idale" and "glen"?
What place in the north of England is especially popular with the
visitors? What attracts them there? What does the place look like? Do you remember the name of the largest lake in England?
What term is used to refer to the people who like to walk over the mountainous places? And those who like to climb the mountain peaks? What is the difference between the fells and the pikes?
Find in the text the following concepts, check your ability to explain them in English, and add them to your working vocabulary:
wildlife, the national emblems, the game, a national park, a forest park.
Write out from the text the sentences or their parts, which contain the words and phrases given below and translate them into Russian: the thistle, the daffodil and the leek, the shamrock, great
stretches of moorland, regular visitors, Robin Redbreast, to be swallowed up by industry, the health and beauty of the land.
3. Explain in English what is meant by:
the meadowland, a glade, the waterside, field sports, hunting and shooting, a songbird, a densely populated country, public property, a caravan, camping sites.
Read the text, find in it the Russian equivalents of the following topical words and phrases:
the Gunpowder Plot, the Jacobites, Guy Fawkes, the conspir ators, to let off fireworks, straw figures, to hold torchlight pro cessions, the Yeomen of the Guard, to search the vaults of Parliament with candle lanterns, the Ceremony of the Keys, the Chief Warder, "Halt! Who goes there?" — "Pass, Queen Elizabeth's Keys! All's well", the Resident Governor of the Tower of London, the Isle of Man, Tynwald, Lieutenant-Governor, Tynwald Hill, the Manx language, Hawick, to ride round the bound of the Common, the Battle of Flodden, a blue-and-gold flag, the Jersey island, a parade of vehicles decorated with flowers, Lichfield Sheriff, city boundaries, at every ancient mark, at Temple Bar, to surrender the City Sword to the Queen, to remain supreme.
Write out from the text the sentences or their parts, which contain the words and phrases given below and translate them into Russian: the pictorial art, stained glass, manuscript illumination, patron saints of England, lively, a straightforward movement, a vision ary, to surpass smth, the anatomy of trees.
Explain in English what is meant by.
kneeling in front of, the banner of St. George, overlapping peri ods, English sensibility, a sitter, an imposing figure, to have one's feet on the ground, to be a visionary, imaginative, pedan tic, a universal language.
2. Give your definitions of the following terms:
cromlechs, a villa, the Isle of Man, the City Sword, the Great Armada, the English Channel, a peninsula, Cornish, the superi ority complex, John Bull, Scottish border, Tweed, the High land Regiment, Blenheim Palace, Wilton House, Castle Drogo, the New Coventry Cathedral, a hall, the Tower of London, Windsor Castle, Norman castles, Berkley Castle, Warwick Cas tle, Hever Castle, a dais, a keep, a curtain wall, a spired cathe dral, vaulted roofs, a domed cathedral, Reform Club, Carlton Club, the banner of St. George.
3. Say all you can about these Englishmen:
Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren, Guy Fawkes, Robert Adam, John Nash, Chippendale, Sheraton, Heppelwhite.
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