В мире искусства. Ч. 2 (110

black, large, easy, young, beginning, behind, grown-ups, impatiently, dead, few, less, late, poor, top, private.

IV. Ответьте на вопросы:

1.What mental pictures does the author of the story want you to imagine?

2.What sight can you see on Saturday morning in April?

3.With whose name is morris dance connected?

4.Why is Robin Hood famous in Britain?

5.What can you see at the seaside in July?

6.What does the British Punch remind you of?

7.Around what object do many Englishmen dance on May Day?

8.What British bank holidays do you know?

V. Истинно или ложно?

1.On Saturday morning in April many people leap in the centre of the British capital.

2.Morris dance is nearby eight hundred years old.

3.English children are very cruel because they laugh when Punch is hitting Judy over the head with a stick.

4.Many old customs are alive in England.

5.On May Day many English villagers cut maypoles not to let their children dance around it.

6.There are a few bank holidays in Britain.

7.New Year has always been celebrated in this country.

VI. Обсудите, как европейцы отмечают Рождество.

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Unit 16

NATIONAL SPORTS

Many kinds of sport originated from England. The English have a proverb, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”. They do not think that play is more important than work; they think that Jack will do his work better if he plays as well. so he is encouraged to do both. Association football, or soccer is one of the most popular games in the British Isles played from late August until the beginning of May. In summer the English national sport is cricket. When the English say: “that’s not cricket” it means “that’s not fair”, “to play the game” means “to be fair”.

Golf is Scotland’s chief contribution to British sport. It is worth noting here an interesting feature of sporting life in Britain, namely, its frequently close connections with social class of the players or spectators except where a game may be said to be a “national” sport. This is the case with cricket in England which is played and watched by all classes. This is true of golf, which is everywhere in the British Isles a middle-class activity. Rugby Union, the amateur variety of Rugby football, is the Welsh national sport played by all sections of society whereas, elsewhere, it too is a game for the middle classes. Association football is a work- ing-class sport as are boxing, wrestling, snooker, darts, and dog-racing. As far as fishing is concerned it is a sport where what is caught determines the class of a fisherman.

Walking and swimming are the two most popular sporting activities, being almost equally undertaken by men and women. Snooker (billiards), pool and darts are the next most popular sports among men. Aerobics (keep-fit exercises) and yoga and cycling are among the sports where participation has been increasing in recent years.

Упражнения к тексту

I. Найдите русские соответствия словам интернационального корня и определите, к какой части речи относятся их английские эквиваленты.

Sport, association, football, popular, national, cricket, golf, chief, contribution, social, class, activity, rugby, variety, section, boxing, wrestling, darts, aerobics, yoga, billiard, encourage, recreation.

II. Найдитевтекстесинонимыкпредставленнымнижесловам: type, come from, saying, toil, vital, honest, remark, characteristics, exactly, often, tie, viewers, observe, part, community, following, taking part, inspirit, union, main, event.

III. Эпизодически пользуясь словарем, найдите антонимы к ниже-

следующим лексемам: few, bright, unimportant, recreation, worse, death, dis-

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courage, unpopular, early, seldom, far, passive, false, nowhere, professional, least, unequally, decrease.

IV. Ответьте на вопросы по тексту:

1.Is England a sporting country? Why?

2.Do Englishmen think that play is more important than work?

3.What do the English mean when they say, “that`s not cricket”?

4.What is the most interesting feature of sporting life in Britain?

5.What kinds of sports are called national in this country?

6.Why aren`t boxing and wrestling popular among the British upper class representatives?

7.What determines the class of British fishermen?

8.What kinds of sport are popular among British women?

V. Истинно или ложно?

1.Many sport activities originated from England.

2.The British think that going in for sports increases productivity of labour.

3.Englishmen don`t play football in winter.

4.There are no class distinctions in the British sporting life.

5.The “national” sport in Britain is the sport for the rich.

6.The upper class people in this country think that the angler is very tasty.

7.Walking and swimming are the two most sporting activities undertaken by men and women.

VI. Обсудите, какие виды спорта, заимствованные у англичан, популярны в нашей стране, как играет сборная нашей страны по футболу, естьликлассовоерасслоениевнашемобществепривыборетогоили иного вида спорта.

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ЗАДАНИЕ ДЛЯ САМОСТОЯТЕЛЬНОЙ РАБОТЫ

Напишите эссе, прокомментировав мысли О. Уайлда.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.

The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor’s craft is the type. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

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