10. Use the extract from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English to complete the combinations with the word “break”.

break n

1 A REST a) a period of time when you stop what you are doing in order to rest, eat etc: without a break Larry had worked all day without a break, tea/coffee/ lunch break It's time fora coffee break, have/take a break Let’s take a ten-minute break.

2. a short holiday: weekend break a travel agent specialising in weekend breaks the Easter/ Christmas etc break ( = the public or school holiday at Easter etc) c) also break time BrE the time during the school day when classes stop and teachers and students can rest, eat, play etc.

Noun + Noun

tea	break
Verb + Noun
	a break

10. Translate the sentences from Russian into English using the combinations from Ex. 11.

1. У нас в школе две длинные перемены.

2. Тебе нужно взять короткий отпуск.

3. Когда перерыв на обед?

4. Тебе не следует работать без перерыва.

5. Давай уедем куда-нибудь на выходные.

13 Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense.

RETURN OF THE VIKINGS

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ouldn’t it be great if you could find Christmas gifts for all the family, while learning a quirky fact or two you didn’t know?

Well, it is possible! Greenwich Gateway Visitor Centre, at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, (1)

(host) Viking Yule, a Christmas shopping event which (2) -

(look) likely to be more fun than a trip to the

madness of Oxford Street. “The Vikings” (3)

(invade)

Greenwich on Saturday and Sunday, December 1 and 2, between 11 a.m. and 4.30 p.m.

David Green, of Greenwich Foundation, (4)

. (organise) the event. He said: “This (be) a great opportunity to

3. )

learn about some of the most fascinating invaders who

3. ) (ever, conquer) Britain.

“Our specialists in this area of history (7)

(take part) and are very keen to share their knowledge with others, particularly

children, who all (8) (study) the Vikings at

school.”

Admission (9) (be) free but visitors may

n

(glossary).

eed to take care! The last time the Vikings (10).

(be) in this area, some thousand years ago, the result was the

bloody murder of St Alfege, the Archbishop of Canterbury. However, these

21st-century Vikings (11) (be

more keen) on trading than raiding and they (12)

(demonstrate) their fine crafts and skills.

quirky [kw3:ki] — причудливый Yule [ju:l] — Святки conquer |'кпдкз| — завоевывать raid — делать набег, вторгаться petrifying ['petri.faur) ] — устрашающие

Axe men and archers (13).

(show) off their skills and visitors (14).

(be able) to inspect their petrifying weapons. Children will also be able to try their hand at Viking board games and there (15)

(be) a Viking Yule Feast to test the ancient dishes.

Read the magazine article “Spies wanted” and underline the correct ending (a), (b) or (c) for the sentences on page 68.

• The first is done for yo

u.

Do you have a degree and speak at least three foreign languages? This job could be just right for you! Hard work but excellent prospects and lots of variety.

MI5, Britain’s intelligence agency, is aiming to find a thousand new employees over the next few years and is very keen to recruit women, ethnic minorities and people over 50. The British security service is shaking off its image of being dominated by the old boys’ network. The present Director-General is a woman, as are 47 per cent of full-time MI5 employees. Ethnic minorities now make up 4.8 per cent of the workforce.

Not all the people working for MI5 are “spies”, or agents, of course. The information gathered by agents working under cover has to be put together with data from other sources and analysed by MI5 employees working in desk jobs.

So what makes the perfect spy? The key to being a successful spy is to look as ordinary as possible. Spies are trained not to stand out, so they can just blend (смешиваться) into the background wherever they are. They should never look out of place or be noticed because they seem unusual. Being a spy is nothing like the image of a spy in a Bond film; no fast cars, no helicopter chases, no flamboyant super villains and no tough but glamorous women in designer clothes. It’s more a question of patience, waiting and watching.

Jenny is a recent recruit to MI5. What’s she doing and where is she? Today she’s doing something really thrilling — serving plates of egg and chips and cleaning tables in a busy cafe in east London. Despite the long hours and the ugly nylon uniform, she looks quite cheerful. Jenny’s cafe job is only a cover for her real work — she is a spy working for MI5, the British intelligence agency. “It’s living on the edge,” she says as she picks up a pile of dirty plates and carries them away. “But I know I am doing something really important.”

As part of her job to monitor people Jenny may play many parts: if it’s not being a waitress in a cafe, she could be pretending to be a girl sitting with her boyfriend on a park bench or a high-powered businesswoman. Professionally, she is known as a “watcher”; her job is to collect information to report back about the activities of terrorist organisations in Europe. It can take weeks or months to collect enough information, then she moves on to another assignment in another city. Depending on the project, Jenny also works in different countries.

According to MI5, women make good spies because as well as being so good at blending in with the crowd they can handle the routine and even the boredom of spending long hours waiting. They are often better at using psychology than men. They are good mind-readers, using their famous women’s intuition to work out what the person they are monitoring will do next or who is a reliable source of information or not. Interestingly, women can be much better at lying than men. Other useful qualities include: being good at persuading people, doing more than one thing at a time, as well as being mentally tough when necessary.

Jenny has had

1. higher education

2. secondary education

3. cookery school education

Her cafe job is

1. a full-time job for life

2. a part-time job to get extra money

3. a way to hide her main job

An MI5 spy now is

1. very close to what James Bond used to be

2. a stereotypical villain

3. somebody who looks quite normal

Jenny’s job as a spy is

1. to fight terrorists

2. to get information

3. to move from one city to another

One of the reasons why MI5 is recruiting women is

1. they are good at dealing with numbers

2. secret services in other countries do it

3. they are very good at looking like other people

MI5 thinks that women are better than men at

1. reading other people’s thoughts

2. car chases

3. foreign languages