Базовый курс английского языка - Эккерсли К.Э.
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He will not be here before seven o'clock.
From
Основные значения from:
(1) a motion away, departure, removal, e.g.
He rose from his chair.
She came from Scotland last week.
(2) a starting point, place of origin, e.g.
He read from page 16 to page 21.
The wool came from Australia.
(3) cause, e.g.
She is suffering from a bad headache.
(4) separation, e.g.
He is far away from home and wife and children.
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УПРАЖНЕНИЯ
1. Работа со словами. Придумайте предложения: publish (also publisher, publication); circumstances; magazine;
accept (compare with except; what is the opposite of accept); plan; originally; stout (what is the opposite?); simple-hearted; absurd; humour (also humorous, good-humoured, to be in a bad humour); edit (use also editor, editorial, edition); applause; burial (also bury; compare berry)
2. Замените выделенные курсивом фразы своими словами: l. Не rose tofame as suddenly and unmistakebly as Scott had done.
2. He asked for a rather freer hand in the writing. 3. He was allowed to have his way and so "Pickwick Papers" came into being. 4. The humour consists chiefly in the absurd situations that Mr. Pickwick and his friends get themselves into. 5. We don't think any the worse of him for being a figure of fun. 6. Such was its popularity that for Part Fifteen more than 40,000 copies had to be printed. 7. At one stride Dickens had become the most popular living novelist. 8. He poured out novel after novel. 9. The strain of his continual work brought about his sudden death in 1870.
3. Ответьте на вопросы:
1. What other English novelist besides Dickens rose suddenly to fame?
2. What work was Dickens doing when he was asked to write Pickwick Papers?
3. What proof is there that Pickwick Papers grew in popularity as it appeared?
4. Why was Dickens buried in Westminster Abbey?
4. Составьте из следующих слов предложения, добавляя любые необходимые вам слова. Следите за порядком слов:
1. Publishers, pictures, humorous, articles, magazine. 2. Mr. Pickwick, chairman, travel, account, observations, character, journeys.
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3. Dickens, asked, burial, simple, nation, honour, Westminster.
4. Dickens, face, life, fifty, picture, mind.
5. Придумайте предложения со следующими идиомами: his heart is in the right place; my heart went into my mouth; in
one's heart of hearts; heart and soul; heart-to-heart; to set one's heart on
Сочинение
1. Напишите небольшое изложение о любом романе Диккенса, который вы читали.
2. Напишите сочинение или короткий рассказ, используя одну из следующих идиом:
1. Don't wear your heart on your sleeve.
2. The man with the hand of iron but the heart of gold.
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David and the Waiter
[ This is the play that Pedro made out of a scene from "David Coppetfield".]
scene: An inn at Yarmouth. Maps on the walk. Table set for dinner; the Landlady is dusting chairs. A sound of wheels and horses outside, then David, a boy about ten years of age, enters shyly and sits down on the edge of the chair nearest the door. characters: Landlady, David Coppetfield, the Waiter LANDLADY: Are you the little gentleman from Blunderstone? DAVID (jumping up): Yes, ma'am.
LANDLADY: What name?
DAVID: Copperfield, ma'am.
LANDLADY: That won't do. Nobody's dinner is paid for here in that name.
DAVID: Is it Murdstone, ma'am?
LANDLADY: If your name is Master Murdstone, why do you go and give another name first?
DAVID: I'm really Copperfield, David Copperfield, but my father died and my mother married Mr. Murdstone, so that's her name now.
LANDLADY: Oh, I see. Well, your dinner's ready. I'll get it sent in. (She rings the bell.) William! William!
(William the Waiter enters, running out of the kitchen.) LANDLADY: William, bring in dinner for this gentleman. (Shegoes out.)
(The Waiter brings in a dish of chops, plates, glass, jug of beer, etc.) WAITER: Now then, six foot, come on. (He stands looking at David, who gets more and more shy and nervous as he tries to eat with the Waiter's eye on him.) There's half a pint of beer for you; shall I get it now?
DAVID: Yes, please.
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(The Waiter goes to the table and pours out the glass of beer and holds
it up to the light.)
WAITER: My eye! It seems a lot, doesn't it?
DAVID: Yes, it does seem rather a lot.
WAITER (still holding the beer): There was a gentleman here yesterday, a rather fat gentleman by the name of Topsawyer-perhaps you know him?
DAVID: No, I don't think I do.
WAITER: Fellow with a grey coat, big hat-
DAVID: No, I'm sorry, I haven't the pleasure-
WAITER: He came in here, ordered a glass of beer, would order it-I told him not to do-drank it and fell dead. It was too old for him. This beer ought not to be drunk, that's a fact.
DAVID: How terrible. Perhaps-do you think I had better have some water?
WAITER: Well, you see, the landlady gets annoyed if things are ordered and then left. But I'll drink it if you like. You see, I'm used to it, and use is everything. I don't think it will hurt me if I throw my head back and get it down quickly. Shall I?
