Лексика английского языка. Учебно-методическое пособие

Writing a love stage/scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other. 4. All the world's a stage/scene, and all the men and women merely players. 5. When an actor plays a stage/scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. 6. The world is a stage/scene, but the play is badly cast. 7. If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last stage/scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

8.If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death stage/scene.

9.I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage/scene where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one. 10. I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage/scene. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. 11. I can do everything with ease on the stage/scene, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me. 12. If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love stage/scene, then it is rather embarrassing. 13. I love to go on stage/scene and sing. 14. I lived to be on …, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show. 15. Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that stage/scene. 16. There's nothing sexy about doing a nude stage/scene. It's rather uncomfortable. I like dressing up rather than dressing down.

17.My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first stage/scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.' 18. I love the stage/scene, I love the process of acting in theatre. 19. No matter how much you rehearse on that stage/scene, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense. 20. Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage/scene, singing my songs in a glittering costume. 21. To stand up on a stage/scene alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. 22. To me, a sex stage/scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous stage/scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse ˗ we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light. 23. What's powerful about a love stage/scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear. 24. If a stage/scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason. 25. I grew up on the stage/scene, where you just throw

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yourself into projects and don't get in your own way. 26. I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage/scene and play a guitar. 27. Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage/scene or playing another character would somehow open me up. 28. I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first stage/scene. 29. Now when I have to prepare an emotional stage/scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. 30. As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic stage/scene and dancing on stage/scene in front of a live audience. 31. There is but one stage/scene for the peasant and the actor. 32. I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a stage/scene by yourself. 33. I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage/scene. 34. I feel a lot more comfortable on stage/scene in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes. 35. I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a stage/scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple.

Q. introduce/acquaint/ get acquainted/to meet

1. I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet myself. 2. When the traveler goes alone he introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet with himself. 3. Be nice to people on your way up because you'll introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet them on your way down. 4. You and I will introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet again, when we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, for you and I will meet again. 5. They want introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet with us. 6. I'd like introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art. 7. The young man wants introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet with the girl but he doesn’t know how to introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet himself. 8. Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet with our most prominent and influential people. 9. I am prepared introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to

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meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet me is another matter. 10. Beginning today, treat everyone you introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. 11. I introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet a congressman who claimed that he could introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart. 12. Can you introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet me to your sister? 13. I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting. 14. Every man I introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet is in some way my superior. 15. Let us always introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. 16. I thank you for your kind invitation introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet me to the president of the Republic. 17. He likes that girl. He asks introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet him to her. 18. To understand me, you have introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood – don't introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet me in a bad mood. 19. Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge. 20. There is an optical illusion about every person we introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet. 21. I asked my friend Greg Andersson introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet me to people that can distribute my album. 22. Why is it you always introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet people when you look your worst? 23. Your friends will know you better in the first minute you introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. 24. Sometimes I daydream about having a farm and a wife and some babies and watching the grass grow, but you have introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet the right person for that. 25. He easily introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet with people. 26. I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who introduce/acquaint/get

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acquainted/to meet to whom. 27. Dating in Los Angeles can be hard, which makes it all the better when you introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet a really nice guy. 28. Sometimes you introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time. 29. Introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet yourself, please. We don’t know your names. 30. She wants introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet with that young man. 31. I love meeting people, and I know it's so difficult for people to come up to me and introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet themselves, so when they do, I'll grab them and hug them. It makes their day, you know? 32. None introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet life honestly and few heroically. 33. I want to eat, cook, introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet famous people and make fun of them. 34. Always wear cute pajamas to bed; you'll never know who you will introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet in your dreams. 35. I want introduce/acquaint/get acquainted/to meet to my parents.

Choose the right variant I

1. Though the anniversary was celebrated formally/ formerly with official speeches, he felt satisfied. 2. Belgrade was formally/formerly the barrier of Hungary. 3. Many formally/formerly indecent activities have gradually become accepted forms of behaviour. 4. The politician formally/formerly opened the new theatre building. 5. There was a school here formally/formerly. 6. This part of the country reminds/resembles England. 7. Take the money and buy yourself a keepsake to remind/resemble you of me. 8. Mary reminds/resembles her mother in looks. 9. More and more you remind/resemble me of your father! He was out all hours without explanation! 10. She sometimes reminds/resembles a wild cat. 11. Supper was ready for us; French fries and salmon reminded/resembled me of home. 12. It is exaggeration to say that now the everyday cultural life of Canada reminds/resembles that of the United States. 13. The man who just came in reminds/resembles me of somebody I once knew. 14. All the daughters look much like their father. But Ann reminds/resembles her father the most. 15. I hate to remind/resemble you but you owe me fifty pounds. 16. Our document contains six principal/principle divisions. 17. Lying

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is against my principal/principle. 18. It’s a matter of principal/principle. We’ll fight to the last ditch. 19. He was a man of principal/principle and risked everything. 20. Flowers, candy, jewelry seemed the principal/principle things in which she was interested. 21. Market Street, the principal/principle business street, is more than 3 km long and 120 ft. broad. 22. That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principal/principle of the English Constitution. 23. He may subordinate to one superior principal/principle.

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1. The meeting took part/place in the conference room. 2. All the employees decided to take part/place in the strike. 3. A lot of people take part/place in the foot race up 86 flights of stairs in the Empire State Building. The race takes part/place annually. 4. Why do you always try to take part/place in their negotiations? It is not your business. 5. A teacher’s salary/wages might reach $15,000 per year. 6. In the USA Congress establishes presidential salaries/wages. 7. This employer tends to pay the majority of workers low salaries/wages. 8. The composer Bruckner was greatly honored in Austria, receiving a salary/wages and pension from the government. 9. Working class may be described as part of society consisting of those who work for salaries/wages, often characterized by manual or industrial laborers. 10. In general anyone who does not play hockey for a salary/wages is considered an amateur. 11. Salaries/Wages are paid to workers; salaries/wages are paid to managers; rent is paid for the use of land; and profit/salary/wages is realized by the owners of businesses as a reward for risk taking. 12. Since 1992 Queen Elizabeth II, one of the richest persons in the world, has been paying taxes on her personal income/salary/wages.

III

1. She was worried that the blackmail scandal might affect/effect her good name. 2. The law goes into affect/effect soon. 3. The answers had the affect/effect of throwing discredit upon his previous evidence. 4. He was greatly affected/effected by the court decision. 5. After the witness gave evidence the defense was satisfied with its affect/effect on the jury. 6. She was apparently a very nervous woman, and that negatively affected/effected the jury. 7. The case was considered with a view to its causes and its affect/effect. 8. The destructive affect/effect

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of her evidence made the jury find him guilty. 9. Psychographics identify personality characteristics and attitudes that affect/effect a person’s behavior. 10. The verdict comes into affect/effect on Monday. 11. Don’t get troubled about the new law; it won’t affect/effect you. 12. The acquittal of the accused had a deep affect/effect on the audience. 13. He assumed indifference, although the capital sentence affected/effected him deeply. 14. It is hopeless trying to screen your child from the harmful affect/effect of television. 15. This researcher is studying the affect/effect of sleep on aggression, thinking that less sleep will lead to more aggression and even crime.

IV

1. In the end/At the end, he was found guilty. 2. In the end/At the end of his speech the prosecutor demanded a severe punishment for the accused. 3. In the end/At the end of the trial the audience felt sorry for the convict. 4. The lawyer did his best and the sentence was mild in the end/at the end. 5. In the end/At the end of his evidence the witness got confused. 6. In the end/At the end the judge dismissed the jury. 7. He decided the court decision was fair in the end/at the end. 8. In the end/At the end of the trial the accused managed to escape.

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I. He was shot dead/died by a gunman outside his home. 2. The meeting of peace/world leaders on solving economic/economical problems will be held next month. 3. The aim of the organization is a peace/peaceful society. 4. He supports the campaign/company for peace/world world/peace. 5. The police revealed the plans of the terrorist organization to seize force/power by force/power of arms/military. 6. The present regime has been in force/power for two years. 7. When his wife dead/died, his entire peace/world was turned upside down. 8. The release of the hostages could not be achieved without the use of force/power. 9. They must expect to face the full force/strength of the law. 10. By taking part/place in the demonstration for the peace/world without nuclear weapons she expressed her peace/peaceful protest. 11. The force/power of television, especially on children, is raising/increasing year by year. 12. Television has become a major force/strength in American politic/political life. 13. Peace/Peaceful talks were broken by the information that the President had dead/died. 14. Old habits and traditions dead/die hard. 15. We will

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achieve much more by persuasion than by brute force/power. 16. Many believe the peace/peaceful plan is dead/died. 17. The summit of leaders of two great forces/powers has not been fixed yet. 18. The dead/died and wounded in that one attack amounted to 6000. 19. The all/whole peace/world was waiting for news of the achieving peace/world at the hotbed. 20. A UN force/strength has been sent to keep the peace/world. 21. The ultimatum included the threat of military force/power. 22. The spread of higher education should be a considerable force/power. 23. The force/powers of the police must be clearly defined. 24. My mother is dead/died; she dead/died in 1987. 25 A situation in which political or military strength is divided between two countries or groups of countries is called the balance of strength/power. 26. The president has the power/strength of veto over all new legislation.

VI

1. Newspapers help us to divide/share in the events of the outside world. 2. She left instructions that her estate should be divided/shared evenly. 3. It is a dark prejudice. ˗ I divide/share your opinion. 4. All your neighbours divide/share in your sorrow at the loss of your son. 5. The society was divided/shared into two enemy camps. 6. He is such a generous person. He will divide/share a crust of bread with anybody. 7. The votes were equally divided/ shared. 8. They must divide/share the blame. 9. A plan was brought forward to allow workers to divide/share in the profits. 10. The van was divided/shared into compartments. 11. He divided/shared his knowledge freely with anyone interested. 12. I bequeath to my children the rest of my property to be divided/shared equally.13. He divided/shared the meal with his brother.

VII

1. Prices differ/vary from ten to fifteen dollars. 2. This value differs/varies from the best measurements of today. 3. The pressure differs/varies with the depth. 4. Not everything is alike, things differ/vary. 5. Can’t you differ/vary good from bad? 6. The repeated survey is done after a certain period of time, which can differ/vary from 3 to 6 months. 7. She differs/varies from her sister in the colour of her eyes. 8. The Chinese civilization differs/varies from ours in the economic and political organization of the country. 9. The two brothers differ/vary in their assessment of this piece of music.

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TO SPEAK, TO TALK

To speak (spoke, spoken) – осуществлять акт речевой деятельности, выражать мысли вслух, говорить: I must speak to him about it.

Семантическая структура глагола to speak содержит следующие значения:

1)осуществлять речевую деятельность: Speak up. Please;

2)говорить на каком-либо языке: Не speaks French fluently;

3)выступать с речью в официальной обстановке: The lecturer spoke about young Goethe.

To talk ˗ имеет менее формальное значение, предполагает беседу при наличии не менее двух человек. I like to talk about it to you, but I hate speaking in public.

Однокоренные существительные: speech, talk.

I. Memorize the following phrases and sayings: frankly speaking откровенно говоря

strictly speaking строго говоря

to speak one's mind откровенно высказать свое неодобрение there is nothing to speak of пустяки

First think, then speak. Ср.: Слово ˗ не воробей, вылетит ˗ не поймаешь.

Great talkers are little doers. Ср.: Кто много говорит, тот мало делает.

II.Insert speak or talk as required by sense.

1.Julia ... very differently to herself and to other people. 2. He ...

fluent, idiomatic French. 3. They ... a great deal of nonsense. 4. They were ... and laughing till three in the morning. 5. He had never ... to her in that manner before. 6. She ... of one thing and another and noticed

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that he didn't listen to her. 7. I am never going to ... to you again. 8. He will ... in the House in favour of that project. 9. You can come and sit down if you like and ... about anything in the world. 10. Let's ...

generally about life! 11. Sit down, both of you, and don't ... a word till I've finished. 12. She looked at the man and tried to ..., but for a minute or two sobs choked her voice. 13. Come along! Dont be shy! We can ...

over anything you like. 14. This film made me ... in my sleep. 15. Please, ... to me frankly! 16. «For Christ's sake, please, don't ... to me!» Mary said. 17. However, it wasn't about myself I wanted to ... .

III. Translate into English.

1. Послушайте его, он говорит дельные вещи. 2. Заходи ко мне вечером, мы поговорим об этом. 3. Вы говорите по-английски? 4. Он всегда говорит о политике. 5. Говорите, пожалуйста, громче. Я вас не слышу. 6. Вчера он выступал на собрании. Его речь понравилась всем. 7. Он всегда говорит в гостях (at the party) о работе. 8. Сколько лет твоей племяннице? ˗ Ей всего лишь два месяца. Она еще не умеет говорить. 9. Если я увижу его завтра, я поговорю с ним об этом. 10. Мы проговорили с ней до утра. 11. Он очень умный человек. Я люблю с ним беседовать. 12. Откровенно говоря, я не видела этого фильма. 13. Если я увижу его завтра, я скажу ему все, что я о нем думаю. 14. Некоторые люди много говорят и мало делают. 15. Говорят, у вас трудности (problems) с английским языком. ˗ Пустяки, ничего серьезного. 16. Мы поговорим об этом по дороге на станцию. 17. Строго говоря, он не должен этого делать.

18.Прекратите разговаривать! Я не слышу, что говорит докладчик.

19.Вы говорите о вещах, о которых вы ничего не знаете.

ТО SAY, ТО TELL

Глаголы to say, to tell имеют практически одно значение ˗ «выразить словами, сообщить», соответствуют русскому глаголу «сказать». Разница в их употреблении обусловлена их различной дистрибуцией (окружением).

Глагол say сочетается с прямым дополнением и служит для введения прямой и косвенной речи.

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Прямое дополнение, следующее за глаголям to say, может быть выражено:

1)предложением, представляющим прямую речь Не said: «I study two foreign languages»;

2)придаточным дополнительным предложением, вводимым с помощью союза that или бессоюзно: Не said that he studied two foreign languages. He said he studied two foreign languages;

3)словом или словосочетанием: He looked at me and said nothing.

Вряде случаев глагол to say может сопровождаться предложным косвенным дополнением со значением адресата речи (если ему предшествует прямое дополнение): «Good-bye», she said to me. I don't remember what she said to me. Глагол tell сочетается с кос-

венным дополнением со значением адресата речи: Не told me that he studied two foreign languages.

I. Memorize the following phrases and sayings:

You don't say so! He может быть! Что вы говорите! It goes without Само собой разумеется, saying.

II. Insert say or tell as required by sense.

1. ... me something about it, please. 2. At last, he ... : «You must promise me to have a good rest». 3. «Come upstairs», he ... quietly. 4. I ... him that it was absurd. 5. «I have my own theory about it», he ... .

6.«Take this bag for a minute», I ... him. «I want to look around».

7.Then Tom ... : «What's your name?» 8. He ... he can do it. 9. Pete ... : «Get away from here!» 10. Now you will ... everything. 11. Who ... you so? 12. They ... that you are often late for breakfast. 13. Then Julia ...

studdenly: «You are twenty now, aren't you?» 14. You can ... the world all about it afterwards if you choose. 15. Do as I ... you, you coward!

16.«You see,» ... he ... , «this library is very interesting but I don't understand the system of the catalogue». 17. Does your watch ... you what time it is now? 18. «... me a story», asked Ihe girl. 19. «I always ...

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