Базовый курс английского языка - Эккерсли К.Э.
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PEDRO: I see. But which type of English must we learn?
MR. RIESTLEY: Ah, that's rather another matter. The most convenient form, and the one I am teaching you, is that used by the great majority of educated speakers in South and South-East England,
1 Henry Sweet (1845-1912), a famous writer on the English language
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especially in London and its neighbourhood. It is used, too, in most of the universities and public schools in England. It is easily understood in all parts of the English-speaking world. It is, at the present time, more widely spoken than any other form and, owing to the spread of education and the influence of the B.B.C., whose announcers use this form, it is getting more widespread every day. For that reason and from that point of view you can, if you like, call it "Standard" English.
HOB: Well, if it's good enough for the B.B.C., it's good enough for me.
JAN: Could you tell us more, some time, about Standard English?
There's a lot more I want to know.
FRIEDA: So do I. Not only about Standard English but about the English language generally.
LUCILLE: Such as-?
JAN: Well, such things as: "Why doesn't everyone in England speak Standard English?"
OLAF: And, "Is Standard English the same as the 'King's (or Queen's) English'?"
JAN: Yes, and "Why does Standard English seem to belong to the South of England rather than the North?"
PEDRO: And, "Do all speakers of Standard English speak the same?" I mention this because I think I have heard differences between your pronunciation, Mr. Priestley, and your son John's.
MR. PRIESTLEY: You have certainly given me some questions to answer, and I shall be very pleased to deal with them all at some later date.
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1. Придумайте предложения со следующими словами и словосочетаниями:
puzzle; whether; obey; according to; gradually; educated; constantly; naturally; majority; influence; B.B.C.; at the present time; widespread; convenient
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2. Образуйте глаголы от следующих существительных; придумайте предложения с этими глаголами и существительными:
1. obedience, 2. pronunciation, 3. influence, 4. decision, 5. speech,
6. student, 7. trial, 8. explanation, 9. thought
Образуйте прилагательные от 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9 и наречия от 1,3,4, 6, 9. Придумайте с ними предложения.
3. Замените следующие слова и фразы одним словом. Все необходимые слова есть в уроке. В скобках дана первая буква слова и количество букв:
1. to become different, not to stay the same, (c______) 2. the
opposite of live, (d__) 3. the opposite of easy, (d________)
4. one hundred years, (c__________) 5. a law. (r____) 6. right, not
wrong, (c__________) 7. to be ruled by, to do as you are told, (o_)
8. unlike, not the same, (d_________________)9. sort (noun), (t_)
10. instruction, (e____________) 11. found in a great many places.
(w_________________) 12. nearly, (a_________________)
4. Ответьте на вопросы:
1. Who made the rules of grammar?
2. What is Standard English?
3. Why does Mr. Priestley teach it?
4. What does he mean when he says "Language is a living thing"?
5. Why is Standard English becoming more widely spoken?
6. Mention five countries not in the British Isles where English is spoken.
7. What two writers of plays are mentioned in this lesson? Сочинение
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Lucille's Story: "The Sand-glass"
LUCILLE: It's usually Hob who has the interesting relatives, Aunt Aggie, Uncle Tom-to mention just a few of them, but, though it is not about an actual relative, I could tell you a story about my old nurse Anna. May I do so?
MR. PRIESTLEY: We should be delighted to listen to you, Lucille. Please tell us the story.
LUCILLE: Well, Anna was a dear old servant in our house in Paris. She had been a servant in our family before I was born and had been nurse to my sisters Marie and Yvonne and to me. She helped with the work in the house, she did the sewing, she could cook an omelette, or any other dish, better than anyone else I know. We all loved her, she was so kind, so helpful and so constantly busy.
Then, one day, she came to say that she was leaving us. "Leaving us, Anna!" I said, hardly able to believe my ears.
"Yes, Miss Lucille," she said, "I'm going to be married." You could, as Hob said, have knocked me down with a feather. Because we had known her all our lives, we girls naturally thought of Anna as old, but I don't suppose she was more than forty when she left us; for she did leave us, and married Henri Behr.
It was the greatest mistake she ever made in her life, and, though Anna never said a word about it, I am sure she regretted it almost from the day she was married. Anna had saved quite a bit of money during the years she had been with us, and with it she bought a house in Tours. It was quite a big old house, and she made her living by letting rooms in it. And when I say she made the living, I mean that, for Henri did absolutely nothing at all. My father and mother and my sisters and I at some time or other all visited Anna, but none of us liked Henri. He was ten or twelve years older than Anna, a big, unpleasant, bad-tempered man. But all this was nothing compared with his laziness. I don't think he had ever done a stroke of work in his life. He certainly never did after he married Anna. He got up about ten o'clock in the morning and sat in his armchair by the big
