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Базовый курс английского языка - Эккерсли К.Э.

Эккерсли К.Э. Базовый курс английского языка — М.: Лист Нью, 2002. — 704 c.
ISBN 5-7871-0174-X
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little plays-in all these ways it seemed that Roger's day at school would be filled both usefully and happily. After that Phyllis talked no more of paying fees to a private school.
"Will you want Roger to stay to school dinner?" the Head Teacher asked Phyllis.
"What do you advise?"
" I think it's best if they start staying to school dinner right from the beginning," the Head Teacher said, "even though it does make the day seem rather long to them at first. As you know, the cost is very little and we take particular care that the infants, above all, get a really satisfying meal."
"Yes, I see," said Phyllis, a little doubtfully, "but Roger is rather fussy about his food. I'm afraid I've always tried to give him just the things I know he particularly likes."
The Head Teacher smiled. She had heard remarks such as this hundred times before. ,
"Don't worry, Mrs. Cooper. We don't force the food down their throats, you know. I think it does them good sometimes to eat things they're not used to. Of course, he's bound to grumble-children always do grumble about school dinners. But after all, if Roger came home every day and said he liked school dinners better than your dinners I think you'd be quite upset, wouldn't you?"
Phyllis laughed.
The great day arrived. It will never be known which of the two was the more nervous, Roger or his mother.
"I do hope he'll like it, Frank," she had said several times to her husband. And Frank had said cheerfully, "He'll just have to like it, my dear. After all, he's got to go to school on most days of the year for another ten or twelve years!"
Phyllis recalled to mind the teacher she had seen on her visit to the school and felt happier for a while. But even though she told herself she was being silly, she was still as anxious as ever. So, holding his mother's hand very tightly, Roger walked with Phyllis and me along the road to Primary School.
On the way to the school we were joined by a friend on a similar job. Mrs. Jenkins was taking her little girl Susan to school for her first
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day. The two mothers spent the rest of the ten-minute journey assuring Roger and Susan in bright, cheerful voices that nothing in the world was nicer for them than that they should be going to school together.
Both children dutifully agreed that it would indeed be very nice, but what views they really held about it nobody would know. In a fairly large room at the school the Head Teacher was receiving the newcomers. As each child's name was called the mother was told to slip quietly away. Susan was as quiet as a mouse.
Roger's name was called. He, too, passed into the class-room and into the charge of the pleasant young woman whom we had seen on our first visit, and Phyllis went home to a house that seemed, after five years of Roger's daily presence in it, strangely quiet.
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Phyllis and I were at the school gate well in time to meet Roger when his day ended at half past three. She was bursting with impatience to see him, and even began to worry when he was not one of the first five children to come through the school door. He came at last and, thank goodness, all smiles. His teacher, who came to see him across the road, said he had been as good as gold. He had had, he said, a lovely time and a lovely dinner and teacher had told them all a lovely story. And they were to bring some flowers to school to decorate the class-room and could he please pick some from the garden as soon as he got home...And so ended Roger's first day at school.
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Идиоматический английский (3): Сравнение
Возможно, в Уроке 18 вы заметили следующие идиоматические сравнения:
Susan was as quiet as a mouse. Roger had been as good as gold.
Таких сравнений очень много. Вот лишь часть наиболее употребительных из них:
as black as coal, as black as ink; as bold as brass; as brave as a lion; as brown as a berry (usually said of a person who is very sunburnt); as
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busy as a bee; as clear as a bell; as clear as day (for things seen or understood); as cold as ice; dead as a door-nail; deaf as a post; dry as a bone, dry as dust (usually said of a book, a talk, a lesson); drunk as a lord; as easy as A.B.C.; as firm as a rock; as green as grass; as happy as the day is long; as hard as iron; as heavy as lead; as hot as fire; as hungry as a hunter; as light as a feather; as like as two peas; as mad as a hatter; as old as the hills; as quick as lightning; as regular as clockwork; as sharp as a needle; as strong as a horse (for work), as strong as a lion (for fighting); as weak as water; as wet as a drowned rat; as white as snow, as white as a sheet (for a person who is ill or badly frightened)
Работа с глаголом (16): hold
В Уроке 18 встретились предложения:
Holding his mother's hand tightly Roger walked ... to school.
But what views they really held (= what they really thought) about it nobody would never know.
I don't hold with the idea of(= I don't believe in, am not in favour of) paying for the upkeep of a school and then not making use of it.
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