Everyday English | страница 10
“Have you ever been married, Captain Meadows?” I asked. - “Not me,” he said and added: “I said I would never marry anyone but you, Emily, and I never have.” There was some satisfaction in his voice.
Ex. 1. Comprehension questions.
1. How old was George Meadows?
2. Was his wife older or younger than he?
3. How many children did they have?
4. What were his daughters like?
5. What were his sons like?
6. Why did they deserve to be happy?
7. Who was the real master of the house?
8. How old was George’s mother?
9. What was the name of George’s uncle?
10. Who had courted Mrs Meadows when she was Emily Green?
11. Whom did Emily marry?
12. Why did Emily marry Tom not George?
13. What did George, Tom’s brother, do?
14. Why did George go to sea?
15. Why did Mrs Meadows decide that George was dead?
16. What did a letter inform them of?
17. Why did George decide to return?
18. Why had Captain Meadows never married anyone?
Ex. 2. Find in the text English equivalents to the following:
1) хозяин фермы; 2) пятидесятилетний мужчина; 3) дочери очаровательные;
4) сыновья красивые и сильные; 5) они заслужили свое счастье; 6) ей было около 70; 7) оба ухаживали за Мисс Грин; 8) она выбрала Тома; 9) отправился в море (стал моряком); 10) не было никаких известий; 11) дом, где он родился; 12) немного осталось жить; 13) само собой разумеется; 14) принял приглашение; 15) был женат; 16) меня представили старому капитану.
Ех. 3. Retell the text in indirect speech.
1. name (first name; Christian name) имя
2. patronimic [,pffitra'nimik], middle name отчество
3. surname (second name; family name;
last name)
4. namesake
5. maiden name
6. nickname
7. pet name
8. call (v)
9. call by first name
10. call smb after
11. change one’s name back
12. call smb names
фамилия
тезка
девичье имя (фамилия) прозвище, (v) давать прозвище ласкательное имя называть
называть по имени назвать чьим-либо именем взять прежнюю фамилию ругать, оскорблять кого-либо
1. be born
2. be born in the same generation
3. birthday tenth/twentieth/thirtieth birthday
4. nameday
5. be sixteen years old
be a sixteen-year-old boy
be a man of sixty
be seventy years of age
6. nearly sixteen about twenty
7. under sixteen
8. over twenty twenty odd
in one’s middle twenties (mid-thirties)
long past forty
be well into one’s forty just out of one’s twenties be on the wrong (bad) side of forty
be on the right (good) side of forty
9. in one’s early forties in one’s late forties
