1. Make a list of the most important points discussed in the text.

2. Give a summary of the text using your list. Text 11

A. Translate the text into Russian in writing. Time limit is 30 min.

Aston martin

_{Since 1914 the British car manufacturer Aston Martin has produced elegant, fast cars with an iconic shark-mouth grille. With more than 1500 sport cars sold in the year 2002, the company is highly successful and manages to maintain an impressive balance between the cultivation of tradition and the spirit of innovation. The name of the most famous Aston Martin model, the DB5, which Sean Connery (alias James Bond) drove in the 1964 film Goldfinger, includes the initials of the industrialist David Brown, who bought the company in 1947. After the forward-looking Lagonda, with its extreme, wedge-shaped body introduced an avant-gard note into the history of automobile design in the mid-1970s, the company (which now belongs to Ford) adopted} а _{more traditional approach to form. Although new top models such as the VT2 Vanquish, which was again put into the service of Agent 007, are more robust than their predecessors, they still sport the famous shark-mouth grille created by Franc Freeley.}

B. Translate the text into Russian in writing. Time limit is 30 min.

Porsche

_{The design practice that would later evolve into Porsche AG was founded in Stuttgart in 1931 by Ferdinand Porsche (1875-1951), who went on to design the hugely successful Volkswagen Beetle. During the World War II, Porsche designed several military vehicles, including the Tiger tank. After the war, his son used Volkswagen components to create the 365 roadster (1948), which became the first vehicle to carry the Porsche name. The streamlined body of this sports car was design by Erwin Komenda not only to look beautiful, but to be as functionally efficient as possible. In 1961 the company began work on a new model with a body design by Komenda and the founder’s grandson Ferdinand Alexander Porsche. This resulted in the immortal 911 – one of the most famous sports cars of all time. Through its commitment to design, engineering and technological excellence, Porsche has established one of the strongest brands in Germany and its name remains synonymous worldwide with the sports car.}

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I. Read the text and name Alessi’s famous designs. Alessi

Founded 1921 Omegna, Italy

Alessi is design: the prestigious northern Italian manufacturer has continued to represent this simple equation ever since 1990, the date of the launch of Philippe Starck's influental Juicy Salif spider-legged lemon press. In the 1980s the company's owner, Alberto Alessi initiated а gentle revolution in the kitchen by redefining this hitherto purely functional space as the welcoming, even cultural centre of the home. Alessi presented the Tea & Coffee Piazza project in which eleven architects designed limited edition services. This publicity-motivated "architecture in miniature" project brought Alessi international recognition and made the company one of the leading exponents of Post-Modernism within the decorative arts during the 1980s. At the Milan International Futniture Fair in 2003 the company displayed its Tea & Coffee Tower project, featuring designs by such creative talents as Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, David Chipperfield, Greg Lynn and Jean Nouveil.

The company was founded at the beginning of the 1920s as а metal workshop. From the 1950s to the 1970s it continued to have а strong reputation for its excellent metalwork, and it supplied breadbaskets, sugar bowls and fruit dishes - still considered modern classics – to international hotels, restaurants and airlines. Alessi now has а wide range of products, and the legendary label is famous for its impeccably designed, high-quality stainless steel products, including espresso coffee makers by Aldo Rossi and Richard Sapper, cookware by Massimo Morozzi and cutlery by Ettore Sottsass and Achille Castiglioni. The subsidiary brand Officina Alessi concentrates on the manufacture of innovative products in limited editions. In the 1990s Alessi introduced other product lines, such as Twergi, which included characterful wooden household items designed by Ettore Sottsass and Andrea Branzi (b. 1938) and a range of affordable yet high-style plastic wares by Stefano Ciovannoni (b. 1954) and Alessandro Mendini (b. 1931). Designs such as these are the outcome of Alberto Alessi's belief that "design is a global creative discipline with a strictly artistic and poetic matrix, and not simply one of the many tools at the service of marketing and technology to ensure improved production methods and better sales". Alberto Alessi is а great promoter of young talent: many projects involving young designers are developed in his Alessi Study Centre in Milan.