2. Guess the meaning of the words with the help of synonyms, rural - situated in the country.

to bear - to carry

to improve - to make better

to damage - to destroy

to lay - to put

to stylise - to create in traditional style

amateur - not professional

private - personal, own

vast - very large, huge, giant

to lie - to be in a horizontal position

to pass - to go

to restore - to rebuild

3. Translate these groups of words (derivatives). Pay attenti­on to the suffixes and prefixes .

to love - lover, beloved.

to lay - layer

to improve - improver, improvement

to build - builder, building, to rebuild

to watch - watchful

courage - courageous, courageously

original - originally

4. Pick put of the text the sentences with the verbs in the Present Indefinite Tense. Make them interrogative. Translate the sentences.

II. TEXT "HYDE PARK" (part II)

The pleasure of Hyde Park is not only in its being "Lungs of London". For a small piece of land (360 acrea now) it has more layers of history than any rural field could ever match. It bears the marks of every generation of "improvers". King William III built Rotten Row to lead him to Kensington Palace and made it the first road in Britain to have streetlamps. In the eighteenth century a great avenue of walnut trees was planted here. Unfor­tunately it was damaged by frost in 1770. George II had the Surpentine dug - a 20 acre - long - meandering lake created out of fish ponds. Now amateur oarsmen meander across and the most courageous swim in the Surpentine on New Year's Day. The next century laid down the Park's roads, originally carriage – drives and. Queen Victoria added numerous plants, memorials and sculptures. Among them there was Albert Memorial . Now it is restored and Victoria's beloved Albert keeps a watchful eye on the world from highly stilised Memorial.

Hyde Park has been a private place too: somewhere to lovers to meet or old gentlemen to take morning exercises with the paper under their arm. Hyde Park is a garden where you may walk or sit on the grass. There are vast areas of lawn with groups of trees, where Londoner s lie or sit about and there is enough open space for fresh air to pass over them.

III. «AFTER-TEXT EXCISES»

1.There are 5 sentences with Participle II in the text. Pick them out of the text and define, where p.II is a part of a Predicative and where it is Attribute. Translate the senten­ces.

2. Make up sentences with the following words. Translate them.

1. Improvers, of, the marks, of, generation, Hyde Park, every, bears.

2. A, walnut, planted, century, of, trees, was, in, avenue, the eighteenth, great.

3. Had, dug, the, fish, out of, George II, Surpentine, created, ponds.

4. The Surpentine, now, meander, across, oarsmen, amateur.

5. Hyde Park, are, lawn, groups, of, with, areas, of, there, vast, trees, in.