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There was a great burst of cheering. The audience were on their feet. Mr. Evans was jumping about with excitement and joy; the crown had been won by Mr. Hughes, the parson of his village. I could see Mr. Hughes at the back of the tent. Two bards from the platform went towards him and, one at each side of him, brought him to the platform. He was told to sit on a finely-carved chair of Druid's oak that is to be his prize. They put a robe of purple on him with white fur at the edges. The great sword was held over him, and the Chief Druid came forward and put a crown on his head. The Chief Bard read the poem that Cadwallo had written and, though of course I couldn't understand it, the crowd clearly agreed completely with the Druids' decision.
So the Eisteddfod ended.
And our holiday in Wales has ended, too; tomorrow we leave for London and work again.
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УПРАЖНЕНИЯ
1. Придумайте предложения со следующими словами и словосочетаниями:
devoted to; mine (noun); Rugby match; agricultural; labourer; under his leadership; competition; perfection; worthless; was due to; procession; shoulders; horn; human sacrifices; every minute of it; robe; fade away; tent; trial; accompany; tremendous; trumpet
2. Ответьте в двух предложениях, чем занимаются:
a miner; an agricultural labourer; a doctor; a schoolmaster; а postman; a milkman; a porter
3. Ответьте на вопросы:
1. Are the conductors of Welsh choirs usually trained musicians?
2. What is an Eisteddfod?
3. When was the first Eisteddfod held?
4. Do you think the Druids built Stonehenge?
5. Why did Queen Elizabeth I order an Eisteddfod to be held?
6. Who was Cadwallo?
7. What Christmas custom began with the Druids?
8. Why are the poems sent to the judges before the Eisteddfod begins?
9. What happens to the winner of the crown?
4. Выберите правильное слово:
1. The Welsh are a nation of (sailors, singers, servants).
2. A choir (sees, accompanies, gathers) in the chapel for (poetry, a Rugby match, practice).
3. Anyone who has (hearing, hear, heard) a crowd of50,000 singing at Cardiff will never (forgotten, forget, remember) it.
4. The Welsh are the (only, whole, all) people in the world (who, whom, whose) only national festival is devoted (by, from, to) music and poetry.
5. Jan can (see, saw, seeing) a (row, procession) coming towards him.
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5. Измените предложения из упражнения 4 так, чтобы оНи относились к прошедшему времени.
6. Заполните пропуски недостающими репликами в диа/^ ге Яна и Фриды во время их визита в Айстедцфод: • FRIEDA: That was a lovely day, wasn't it?
JAN:_________
FRIEDA: Yes, if we'd been a week later we shouldn't have see^ -t at all.
JAN:_________
FRIEDA: I thought it was when Cadwallo won, and everybody cheered. What did you think was the best moment?
JAN:_________
FRIEDA: Yes, I thought that was good too. I liked the part when the procession came.
JAN:_________
FRIEDA: And it was also most impressive.
JAN:_________
FRIEDA: I'm glad I didn't live in those days when they had hurn^n sacrifices.
Сочинение
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2. Напишите письмо от имени Фриды м-ру Пристли, в которое, она описывает коронацию барда.
QPOK 34
Punctuation
OLAF: If I write: "The castle which was built in the 13th century is one of the finest in Britain", ought I to put a comma after castle and after century"?
MR. PRIESTLEY: Yes.
HOB: I never bother about commas. I don't see that they matter at all.
MR. PRIESTLEY: Don't you, Hob? Let me tell you a little story. One day, as a teacher walked into his classroom, he heard Tommy Andrews whisper to the boy next him: "Here's the teacher. I'll bet the silly donkey is going to talk about putting in commas." The teacher didn't say anything but he began to talk about putting in commas, and explained how important they could be. To show what he meant, he wrote on the blackboard the sentence:
"Tommy Andrews says the teacher is a silly donkey."
The class laughed and Tommy Andrews looked very red. "Now," said the teacher, "I will show you how important commas are." He put two commas into the sentence, and it now read: "Tommy Andrews, says the teacher, is a silly donkey."
PEDRO: I like the story about the barber who put a notice outside his shop:
What do you think I shave you for nothing and give you a drink
Of course he soon had his shop full of men all expecting to be shaved for nothing and then given a glass of beer. But the barber explained that that wasn't what he meant. A little punctuation made all the difference, for the notice then read-
What! Do you think I shave you for nothing, and give you a drink?
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MR. PRIESTLEY: Punctuation can often say quite a lot. There is a story of the great French novelist, Victor Hugo. When his first book was published, he wondered if it had been a success, so he sent a postcard to his publisher with just a question mark on it (?). The publisher's reply was equally short. It was an exclamation mark (!). LUCILLE: My favourite punctuation story is about the wife of a man who had just joined the Navy during the war, and, on Sunday, his wife handed a little note to the parson which read:
