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Обсуждаем социальные и нравственные проблемы современного общества

Учебное пособие

по культуре речевого общения

для студентов III курса

Английский язык

Часть I

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ООО «Типография «Сарма»

1 Hoover – a make of vacuum-cleaners

1 A home equity loan is a form of credit which allows you to borrow money, using your home as collateral – property that you pledge as a guarantee that you will repay the debt.

1 Maternity benefit/ allowance – (in Britain) money provided by the government to a woman before and after the birth of her child if she doesn’t receive maternity pay; (Statutory) maternity pay (SMP) – money paid to a woman by her employer before and after the birth of her child if she has worked for that employer for more than six months (LDC).

1 There is an old stereotype that people think of in connection with this word. The typical spinster is thought of as a middle-aged woman who lives alone, is not very attractive, and has never been asked by any man to marry him. But the word “spinster” is now old-fashioned and is not much used.

1 Paul Bragg pioneered a crusade for a healthy lifestyle in the US; his best known book is The Magic of Fasting («Чудо голодания»).

1 People in the US usually call the darker type of beer ale or dark beer. The pale yellow, carbonated form of the drink is simply called beer in the US and in most other countries.

1 I take thee for my lawful wife (husband) – to have and to hold, to cherish and obey, from this time forward for better and for worse, in richness and in poorness, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish forsaking all others, until death do us part.

  1. 1The idiom resulted from an ellipsis of the saying Love in a cottage with water and crust is cinders, ashes and dust (now quite rare).

1 Old Nick is a humorous nickname of the devil.

2 Manual Trades School, a school for training skilled workers.

1 (sl) plead guilty to a criminal charge in order to receive a lighter sentence than if one pleads innocent, is tried, and found guilty.

  1. 1In Europe, the basic types of insurance are made mandatory by law. As a result, for example, the number of Europeans without health insurance is very small, other than in the US.

2 FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) – money which is taken from your pay by the government to be used for social security.

1 In continental Europe, welfare states are also facing similar challenges in recent years, as the population is aging and the number of contributors dwindling, while there are more and more beneficiaries.

1 Private Eye – a British humourous magazine known for making fun of well-known people,

including politicians and the Royal Family.

1 X-rated: an X-rated film is one that people under the age of 18 are not allowed to see, because it includes a lot of sex and violence; X-rated stories, jokes etc are all about sex. The letter G is used in the US to mark a cinema film that has been officially approved as suitable for people of any age. In the UK, films like this have the letter U.

1 John J, DiIulio, Jr., director of The Brookings Institution Center for Public Management, is an authority on criminal justice and has written widely on crime policy.

1 The paragraph is a basic writing unit for organizing your ideas and for grouping your sentences.

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