Vocabulary List

conversation разговор	opportunity возможность
dictionary словарь	to get acquainted with знакомиться с
to add добавлять	mentality менталитет
to absorb впитывать, поглощать	tolerance терпимость
to mix with смешиваться с чем-либо	vulnerable уязвимый, ранимый
communication общение	to sum up обобщать, суммировать
foreign иностранный	fashion мода
society общество	to realize понимать, осознавать
modern современный	reason причина
to require требовать	to waste time тратить время зря
essential основной, важный, неотъемлемый	pleasure удовольствие
demand требование	advertisement реклама
advantage/disadvantage преимущество/недостаток	effort усилие
experience опыт	fluently бегло
access доступ	qualified квалифицированный
ability способность	equivalent эквивалент
negotiations переговоры	pronunciation произношение
efficient эффективный, действенный	confidence уверенность
to travel путешествовать	to enjoy наслаждаться
abroad за границей, за границу	to divide делить

TEXT 1. Read and translate.

Some Facts about English

• There were only 30 000 words in Old English. Modern English has the largest vocabulary in the world – more than 600 000 words.

• There are about 60 000 words in common use.

• About 450-500 words are added to the English vocabulary every year.

• 70 per cent of the English vocabulary are loan words and only 30 per cent of the words are native.

• There are words from 120 languages in English, including Russian.

• The most frequently used words in written English are:

the, of, and, to, a, in, that, is, I, it, for.

• The most frequently used word in conversation is I.

• The longest word in the English language is:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (a lung disease).

• The commonest letter is «e».

• More words begin with the letter «s» than any other.

• The most overworked word in English is the word set. It has 126 verbal uses and 58 noun uses.

• The newest letters added to the English alphabet are «j» and «v», which are of post-Shakespearean use.

• The sentence «The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog» includes every letter of the English alphabet.

• The words «racecar», «kayak» and «level» can be read the same way in either direction.

• The words «month», «orange», «silver», or «purple» have no rhymes.

• The largest English-language dictionary is the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, with 21 728 pages.

• The commonest English name is Smith. There are about 800 000 people called Smith in England and Wales, and about 1 700 000 in the USA.

TEXT 2. Read and translate. Give a summary of the text.