A PRACTICAL COURSE OF ENGLISH

UNIT 1

Vocabulary

What questions are you likely to ask a person you've just met?

What's your job?- Кем вы работаете?

What are your interests?- Чем вы интересуетесь?

What do you do for a living?- Чем вы зарабатываете на жизнь?

What is their job?- Кем они работают?

One of the first things we want to know about people is age:

How old is she? What is her age? -Сколько ей лет? She is just out of her teens.- Ей только что исполнилось 20.

She is under sixteen.- Ей нет 16. She is not of age yet.- Она еще несовершеннолетняя.

She is sixteen. - Ей 16. I've just come of age.- Я только что стала совершеннолетней.

She is over sixteen.- Ей больше 16. He is in his early thirties.- Ему немного за 30.

She is a teenager.- она подросток (от 13 до 19). He is in his mid forties.- Ему 45 лет.

She is still in her teens.- Ей еще нет 20. He is in his late fifties.-Ему под 60.

She is in her early teens.- Ей лет 13-14. He is middle-aged- Он среднего возраста.

She is in her mid-teens.- Ей 15-16. They are my age.- Они моего возраста.

She is in her late teens.- Ей 17-19.

FIGURE- ФИГУРА

athletic- атлетическая slim- тонкая, стройная

broad- shouldered- широкоплечая stooping- сутулая

fat- толстая tall- высокая

graceful- грациозная thin- тонкая

middle-sized- средняя well-built- хорошо сложенная

plump- пухлая well-proportioned- пропорциональная

short- невысокая slender- стройная

ARMS AND LEGS

big- большие short- короткие

long- длинные skinny- тощие

shapely- красивые small- маленькие

HAIR

a bun- пучок a plait- коса

a fringe- челка a pony tail- “хвост”

a pigtail- косичка locks- локоны

curly- кудрявые, вьющиеся red- рыжие

dark- темные short- короткие

fair- светлые thick- густые

golden- золотые thin- жидкие, редкие

chestnut- каштановые wavy- волнистые

long- длинные

FACE

attractive- привлекательное plump- пухлое

beautiful- красивое (обычно о женщинах) pretty- хорошенькое

bony- скуластое round- круглое

freckled- веснушчатое ugly- безобразное

sunburnt- загорелое good-looking- красивое; миловидное

handsome- красивое with hollow cheeks- со впалыми щеками

oval- овальное wrinkled- морщинистое

plain- некрасивое

COMPLEXION

dark- смуглый pale- бледный

fair- светлый rosy- розовый

fresh- свежий

EYES

blue- голубые hazel- светлокарие

bright- блестящие slant-eyed- с раскосыми глазами

brown- карие wide apart- широко расставленные

close-set- близко посаженные deep-set- глубоко посаженные

grey- серые

EYE-BROWS

arched- дугой straight- прямые

bushy- кустистые thick- густые

pencilled- тоненькие

EYE-LASHES

curving- загнутые straight- прямые

long- длинные thick- густые

short- короткие

FOREHEAD

broad- широкий narrow- узкий

high- высокий retreating- покатый

low- низкий

NOSE

aquiline- орлиный Roman- римский

button- пуговкой snub- курносый

Grecian- греческий straight- прямой

hooked- крючковатый turned-up- вздернутый

MOUTH

beautifully-cut- красиво очерченный tiny- крошечный

large- большой wide- широкий

small- маленький

LIPS

full- полные thin- тонкие

thick- толстые well-shaped- красивой формы

What are people like? We often have to speak about people's character.

absent-minded- рассеянный loyal- верный, надежный

bad-tempered- раздражительный patient- терпеливый

capable- способный quarrelsome- сварливый

confident- уверенный quick- проворный, быстрый

considerate- внимательный quick-minded- сообразительный

creative- творческий reliable- надежный

difficult- трудный reserved- сдержанный

easy-going- легкий, веселый rude- грубый

efficient- деятельный, умелый sensible- разумный

energetic- энергичный sly- хитрый

friendly- дружелюбный sociable- общительный

generous- щедрый sullen- угрюмый, мрачный

good-natured- добродушный tactful- тактичный

hard-working- трудолюбивый unfriendly- недружелюбный

idle- праздный, ленивый unintelligent- неумный

impatient- нетерпеливый unreliable- ненадежный

impolite- невежливый unsociable- необщительный

intelligent- умный varsatile- разносторонний

lazy- ленивый witty- остроумный

UNIT 1

EX 23

1)She was not beautiful but she was undeniably attractive. And the cause of that attraction lay in her abounding vitality.

2)”She is a pretty girl, isn't she?” “Rather more than pretty.” “Exactly. As a matter of fact, she's uncommonly good-looking.”

3)There was no doubt that Michael Garfield was a very beautiful young man. Woman could be beautiful, but Hercule Poirot was not at all sure that he liked beauty in men. He couldn't have liked to be beautiful young man himself. There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches. They were magnificent. He had never been handsome or good-looking.

4)For some peculiar reason Henry found himself trying to decide that he wasn't good-looking. But the more he examined the man's features, the more he saw how uncommonly handsome he really was.

EX 24

efficient = thoughtful of the rights or feeling of othres

confident = certain, sure

generous = showing readiness to give money, help, kindness

loyal = true to one's friends, country

patient = having the ability to wait for smth calmly for a long time

considerate = able, clever at smth needing practical skill

sly = clever at deceiving people

easy-going = good natured, taking life easily

capable = able to perform duties well

witty = cleverly amusing

EX 25

Twins

to look exactly alike, can tell the difference, to laugh at jokes, to get married, to begin to grow old, become bald, to get sick

Family life

to be about forty, to be well-built, to have a healthy complexion, when you look at him you are met with a very kind expression, the local comprehensive school, to have a couple of close friends and a lot of acquaintances, to be slightly younger than someone, to be quite attractive, to spend a lot of time doing tasks about the house: ironing and the washing, polishing the floor, watering the flowers ans shopping, to be proud of (wonderful collection of potted plants), to be at school, to find difficult to tell one from the other, to be fond of,to send to college, to be ready to have a good laugh, to graduate from university, to make a career out of journalism, to be a bachelor, at the weekend, to go on outings

EX 50

to do	to make
The shopping, the washing (up), a job, an exercise, an examination, a test, good, harm, evil, bad, lessons, one's best, one's duty, one's hair, (home/house)work, a translation (or to make it)	A copy, a fortune, a mess of smth, a mistake, a will, friends (with smb), money, progress, sence, sure, fun of smb, trouble, a dress (a cake, coffee, etc.)

At the police station

to be around average height, medium weight, to be a little on the heavy side, to have marks on the face, to have hair about average length, this sure doesn't help us very much, it could be anything, now we are getting somewhere, that narrows it down a little, checked or plaid shirt

A PRACTICAL COURSE OF ENGLISH

UNIT 2