Базовый курс английского языка - Эккерсли К.Э.
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OLAF: I remember that you said that anything you told your landlady went in at one ear and out at the other.
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MR. PRIESTLEY: Pass on, Hob.
HOB: There are my fingers and my thumbs, eight fingers and two thumbs;-though when I dropped one of his best wine-glasses, Uncle Albert said that my fingers were all thumbs.
LUCILLE: And then, of course, you like to have a finger in every pie.
PEDRO: I'm struck by the way Hob always has a story at his fingertips.
MR. PRIESTLEY: All right, Hob, carry on.
HOB: Let's come to my bones. There's flesh on them and in my veins there is blood.
LUCILLE: And some of Hob's stories are about as much as flesh and blood can stand.
HOB: I sometimes think that the only person who really appreciates my jokes is Uncle Albert, but, of course, he's my own flesh and blood.
MR. PRIESTLEY: And, as they say, blood is thicker than water. But find us another word, Hob.
HOB: There's my hair. And that's where I have the advantage over Uncle Albert; he's losing his hair and going bald.
LU Cl LLE: I hope, in spite of what I 've said, that you'll keep your hair on1 with me, Hob.
HOB: I hope so! If I didn't, it couldn't stand on end as, it generally does when I'm in your car and you are driving at sixty miles an hour.
LUCILLE: You should be like Pedro. I can do eighty miles an hour when he's in the car, and he doesn't turn a hair.
MR. PRIESTLEY: In spite of the many hair-breadth escapes he must have had! Let's have one more word, Hob, and that, I'm afraid will be the last.
HOB: Then let's take my foot.
M R. PRIESTLEY: Very well, now put your best foot forward and see what you can do with this word.
OLAF: I'd like to say something but I'm afraid I'll put my foot in it.
HOB: Uncle Albert says that every time I open my mouth I put my foot in it.
' This is a slang.
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JAN: As time is short, we mustn't let the grass grow under ourfeet. FRIEDA: After I had 'flu that holiday in Devon really set me on my feet.
MR. PRIESTLEY: Well, we must stop there. This is where I put my foot down and say the lesson is over.
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1. Придумайте предложения со следующими словами: boring, request, objections, heel, accept, poke, burden, pie, veins,
bald, disturb, appreciate
2. Закончите предложения, используя идиоматическое выражение, связанное со словом в скобках:
1. Grandma Wiggins is very (tongue) as Mr. Wiggins knows only too well.
2. The boys were running (neck), but Andrew just won. I hope that the win won't (head).
3. John said he was (eyes) in work.
4. The teacher told the boy that he must (foot) and get on with his work, but I'm afraid (ear).
5. We caught the train (teeth). When we reach Bath we must get out quickly to catch our bus. We must not (feet).
6. This concerns me. I wish you wouldn't (nose).
7. When driving, Lucille never (head), though her passengers sometimes feel (heart, mouth).
8. I had a (heart) talk with the manager and I'm sure he wasn't (tongue, check).
9. The Welsh fought (tooth) for their freedom.
10. Though I don't always see (eye) with my cousin, I am going into business with him because (blood).
3. Объясните значение идиоматических выражений и пословиц в следующих предложениях:
1. Не likes to have a finger in every pie.
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2. When Mr. Priestley made the hen-house it seemed as though his fingers were all thumbs.
3. "There are none so deaf as those who won't hear." (Proverb)
4.1 could see with half an eye that all was not well in that factory.
5. If he takes it into his head to buy that car, he'll buy it, whatever we say.
6. The schoolmaster told the boy he would get it in the neck if he didn't keep his nose to the grindstone.
7. The policeman kept an eye on the suspicious-looking stranger.
8.1 know that man. His name's on the tip of my tongue.
9. That secretary is too smooth-tongued fox my liking.
10. I'm going to put my foot down now. I shan't do any more sentences.
Сочинение
1. Напишите о: (а) самом скучном, (б) самом интересном уроке, на котором вы когда-либо присутствовали (80 слов).
2. Напишите рассказ, озаглавленный "The man who poked his nose into other people's business" или "A hair-breadth escape".
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A Handful of Poems
(i)
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my three score years and ten, Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.
A.E. Housman (1859-1936)
(2)
LEISURE What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare!
No time to stand beneath the boughs, And stare as long as sheep and cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began.
