Базовый курс английского языка - Эккерсли К.Э.
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3. MR. WIGGINS: "It's pouring with rain."
4. MRS. WIGGINS: "Can't you take them in the car?"
5. MR. WIGGINS: "I've just put the car away."
6. GRANDMA: "Get the car out again."
7. HOB: "I'm glad I don't live with Grandma Wiggins."
8. OLAF TO HOB: "1 expect Grandma is glad she doesn't live with you."
3. He изменяя значения предложения, перестройте его конструкцию, используя инфинитив и местоимение it: Образец: Sitting in this room is no pleasure to me. - It is no
pleasure to me to sit in this room.
1. Seeing a picture twice is not my idea of fun.
2. Doing these exercises is excellent practice.
3. Driving a car at night is not always easy.
4. Reading a book by the fire is pleasant after a hard day's work.
5. Climbing mountains is sometimes dangerous.
6. Telling jokes is one of Hob's great joys.
7. Doing these exercises is not always as easy as it looks.
4. Ответьте на вопросы:
1. Why did Mr. Wiggins say it was nice to sit down?
2. Why did Grandma disagree?
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3. What was the weather like?
4. Grandpa was rather deaf. Find two instances of it in this play.
5. What did Mr. Wiggins mean by an "early night"?
6. Why couldn't Timothy go to the pictures?
7. What is a "local paper"?
8. What is "a film star"? Mention three by name.
9. What colour would Grandpa have painted the walls?
10. Why couldn't Grandpa move up to the next seat?
11. What did Grandma think of Mr. Wiggins' driving?
12. What did the hat of the lady in front remind Grandma of?
13. Why did Grandma decide to go home?
5. Какая разница между:
a car and a van; a chair and a seat; a picture and a cinema; handsome and pretty; late and "the late"
Сочинение
1. Напишите:
а) Историю о том, как мистер Уиггинз ходил в кино.
б) Рассказ о любом виденном вами фильме.
2. Кто ваш любимый артист кино? Почему? Назовите его лучшие роли.
QpOK 15
Rules of Grammar and "Standard English"
JAN: There is one thing that rather puzzles me. You have given us from time to time a "rule" of grammar, or sometimes we are told, "That is not good grammar". Who makes the "rules" of grammar? Who decides whether a sentence is right or wrong?
MR. PRIESTLEY: No one.
JAN: But isn't there an Academy that does it?
MR. PRIESTLEY: Not in England.
LUCILLE: Hasn't Oxford University or Cambridge anything to do with it?
MR. PRIESTLEY: No. You see, the grammar of a language is not a list of rules forced on the people who speak it; it is just a record made by careful observation of how the people speak the language.
PEDRO: But you have "rules" and laws of grammar to say "this is right and this is wrong". Surely the language must obey these rules?
MR. PRIESTLEY: You have "rules and laws of Nature", but these are not rules for Nature that Nature has to obey, they are just a few things that wise men have observed as to the way Nature acts. If we find that Nature is not acting according to these rules we don't try to force Nature to obey them; we change the rules and make new ones.
LICILLE: And is it the same with grammar?
MR. PRIESTLEY: Exactly. Language is a living thing, always changing; old words die, new words come in; some constructions gradually fall out of use, others push their way in. The English of today is not quite the same as the English of the eighteenth century; the English of King Alfred1 could not be understood at all by Englishmen of today What was good grammar for Shakespeare could be bad grammar for Shaw.
1 A.D. 849-901.
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PEDRO: To come back to this question of what is grammatically "right" and what is grammatically "wrong": how do you decide?
M R. PRIESTLEY: Whatever form is used by the majority of educated speakers or writers is correct; or as Sweet1 puts it, "Whatever is in general use in a language is, for that reason, grammatically correct. " That is all.
FRIEDA: Is what you have said about grammar true also about pronunciation?
MR. PRIESTLEY: Yes. Pronunciation has changed, and is changing constantly.
JAN: It must be more difficult to decide what is right and what is wrong in pronunciation than it is in grammar, for in different parts of England there are different pronunciations.
OLAF: Yes, I noticed that. In Scotland the pronunciation is quite different from the London one.
FRIEDA: I noticed that, too, in Devon.
HOB: My uncle Albert speaks with a Lancashire accent. It seems to me that almost every part of England has a different pronunciation.
MR. PRIESTLEY: Yes, you are not far wrong. And if you are considering different kinds of English, you might have included the English spoken in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.
LUCILLE: Well, where is the best English spoken? That is, naturally, the one we want to learn to speak and write.
MR. PRIESTLEY: I think I am asked that question by every class that 1 teach. From the point of view of the student of language there is no form that is better than any other. The best Devonshire English is spoken in Devon, the purest Scottish English in Scotland, the most correct London English in London and the best American English in the United States.
