Базовый курс английского языка - Эккерсли К.Э.
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these phrases in each, "a capital letter", "the capital of England", "capital in the bank")
2. Придумайте предложения со следующими словосочетаниями:
look at; look for; look forward to; look after; look as if; look like; look as though; look down on; look into; look someone up; look on; onlooker; look something up; the look of; have a look at
3. В чем разница между look out и outlook; между to look over и to overlook?
4. Придумайте предложения, используя следующие слова и фразы:
want; should like; would rather; it would be better; prefer; I don't mind; wish; I'm quite willing
5. Придумайте предложения со следующими идиомами:
to lead a person by the nose; to pay through the nose; as plain as the nose on your face; to keep one's nose to the grindstone; to poke one's nose into other people's business; can't see beyond his own nose; to turn one's nose up at
6. Объясните значение:
1. "Look before you leap." 2. "Lookers-on see most of the game."
3. "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth."
Сочинение
1. Опишите дом, который вы считаете идеальным.
2. Напишите сочинение на тему: "Life in the country" или "Life in the town." Что вы предпочитаете?
3. Где вы предпочли бы жить - в собственном доме или в квар-х тире? Опишите недостатки и преимущества жизни в доме и в
квартире.
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Some Personal Letters
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JAN TO FRIEDA'S PARENTS This was the letter that Jan wrote:
Dear Professor and Mrs. Lang,
1 don't know whether this letter will come as a surprise to you, for I think you must have seen during the happy time I spent in your home last Christmas, how veiy fond I was of Frieda. We have worked together every day at Mr. Priestley's, and for some time now I have realized that the friendship and affection that I have always had for her had turned to love. I hardly dared to hope that Frieda felt the same way towards me, but last night I told her of my love and asked her to marry me, and to my great joy she said Yes. 1 hope you will feel that she and I have known each other long enough to be quite sure in our own minds that we love each other and want, more than anything else in the world, to be married. It would make us both very happy to know that our engagement would have your approval and blessing, and so I am writing formally to ask for your consent.
I realize that there is veiy little that I can offer Frieda materially. I have only a small private income on which to live until I qualify as a doctor, but Frieda is quite confident that under her careful management we can have a comfortable little home on it. For my part, I will devote my life to ensuring that she will be as happy as all my love can make her.
My best wishes to you both.
Yours sincerely,
Jan Solski.
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PROFESSOR LANG TO JAN
My dear Jan,
My wife and I are both very happy at the thought that you and Frieda want to be married. Thank you for writing to us as you did. Let
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me say at once that we both gladly give our consent and blessing to your engagement. Though we have only met you once when you came here for a short time last Christmas, we all grew very fond of you during that time, and Frieda's letters home have been so full of you that we both feel as if we had known you for years. The dearest wish of us all is for Frieda's happiness, and her letter to her mother today leaves us in no doubt about that or the cause of her happiness.
Thank you, too, for being so frank about your financial position. I have no doubt that life will not be easy at first for Frieda and you and it may be difficult at times to make ends meet on your small income. But when love is there, the struggle will only draw you closer together. I believe the English have a saying, "When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window." Don't believe it! When my wife and I were married, my income was probably smaller than yours and we have never been rich, but I know, beyond any doubt, that that English saying is not true, and I am sure you will find the same. We are all longing to see you both soon-and that may be earlier than you think, but I'm leaving that news to my wife who is writing today to Frieda, so I will merely say now, "Congratulations and bless you both."
Yours sincerely,
Johann Lang.
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MRS. LANG TO FRIEDA
My darling Frieda,
Your letter to me and Jan's to your father have made us both veiy happy. There is no one we would rather have for a son-in-law than Jan and we are both delighted to welcome to our family someone of whom we are both so fond, and I am sure this is one occasion when the old saying about "not losing a daughter but gaining a son" is the simple truth. Our hope and prayer is that you may both continue through life always as happy as you are now. We are all longing to see you both again soon-and now comes my great news. Today your father received an invitation to come to Oxbridge University for a year to give a course of lectures on Philosophy. He is going to accept the offer, and we shall
all of us be coming to stay in England. A house will be provided for us in Oxbridge and we are hoping you will be married from there and that we shall meet your friends Mr. and Mrs. Priestley, Lucille, Olaf, Pedro and Hob. Need I tell you that Hob is the one that Hans and Peter are most wanting to meet. Gretchen and Ruth are hoping that you will want them to be bridesmaids at your wedding and are already planning the dresses that they will wear. Isn't everything wonderful! I can hardly wait for the day when we shall all be together again.
