3.4 Translate from Russian into English:

быть уверенным бредни портить американцев

быть проклятым быть повешенным 6. хоронить, погребать

3.5 Watch again and answer the questions. Try to give some more details:

1. What was the aim to get to Hamunaptra?

2. Were they afraid that Hamunaptra was cursed?

3. What did the Book of Amun-Ra contain? What was it made of?

EPISODE 4

In the desert and in the hallowed grounds

Vocabulary notes:

to fetch a mighty fine price – принести существенный доход

to be melted with salt acid – расплавиться от кислоты

ancient booby trap – древняя глупая уловка

hallowed grounds – пещеры

mummification – мумификация

to stuff – засовывать, набивать

to stick up for – защищать, поддерживать

to scramble – карабкаться

to rip through (nostrils)– выдирать через (ноздри)

to consummate the curse – проклинать (осуществлять проклятие)

to assimilate the organs and fluids – забрать органы и жизненные соки

to regenerate – возрождаться

to decompose – разлагаться

to be too frisky with smb. – позволять лишнее

blasphemers – богохульник

swift wings – быстрые крылья

That serves you right! – по делом вам!

god-awful stench – невыносимая вонь

to play hide-and-seek – играть в прятки

4.1 Decide whether these statements are true or false:

1. The legs of the statue of Anubis went deep underground where a secret compartment was found containing the golden Book of Amun-Ra.

2. The Americans opened the chest.

3. Sarcophagus was buried at the base of Anubis.

4. Evelyn’s father was a very famous explorer who married an Egyptian woman, her mother, an adventurer herself.

5. Evelyn was not proud of being a librarian.

6. There was no curse upon this chest.

7. The Mummy in the sarcophagus was still decomposing.

8. The Book of Dead was in the chest.

9. Scarab skeletons, flesh eaters can stay alive for years feasting on the flesh of a corpse.

10. If a victim of the Hom-Dai should ever arise he would bring with him the nine plagues of Egypt.

11. No mortal weapon can kill this creature.

12. This creature was the bringer of death.

13. He will never eat, he will never sleep and he will never stop.

14. Benny knew the language of the slaves.

4.2 Number the sentences in the right order:

The process of mummification:

1. They took a sharp, red-hot poker, stick it up the nose and scramble thing about a bit and then rip it all through the nostrils in order to take out the brains.

2. They took out your heart as well.

3. They ripped out the guts and stuffed them in jars.

4.3 Fill in the gaps with the missing nouns:

The sign on the chest:

(1)............... will come on swift (2)............to whomsoever opens this (3)............ . There is one the undead who if brought back to (4)............, is bound by sacred (5)............ to consummate this (6)................ . It means he will kill all who open this chest and assimilate their (7)................ and (8)............. . Then he will regenerate and no longer be the undead but a (9).............. upon this (10)............. .

4.4 Match these phrases with their equivalents:

1. проливать кровь a) beware of the curse

2. быть соблазнительной b) to combine forces

3. потайная комната c) to unleash a creature

4. ради бога d) to be templing

5. объединиться e) for goodness’ sake

6. берегитесь проклятий f) to shed blood

7. освободить создание g) a secret compartment

4.5 Translate from Russian into English:

1. питаться человеческими трупами

1. вырывать кишки

2. острый раскалённый прут (кочерга)

3. вырвать язык

4. жизнь после смерти

5. быть погребенным у подножия статуи

4.6 Watch again and answer the questions. Try to give some more details:

1. Who can be buried at the base of the statue of Anubis?

2. What does Sah-netjer mean?

3. What does the mummification mean?

4. Where is the sarcophagus buried?

5. What do desert people protect?

6. What was the sign on the chest?

7. What was the sign in the sarcophagus?

8. Who are the scarab skeletons?

EPISODE 5

Ford Brydon – Cairo

Vocabulary notes:

to swear at manhood – поклясться человечеству

to stretch forth the hands – протянуть руки

to be terminated – быть завершённым

to have a single challenge – быть вызванным единожды

to chuck (in) – погибнуть

to rot of boredom – умирать от скуки

to consummate the curse – привести в исполнение

to choose human sacrifice – выбрать человека, которого принесут в жертву

on the contrary – напротив

she is an old carpetbag – она старая тряпка

to be immune – быть невосприимчивым; ничего не грозит

to get in gear – трогаться

to spare friends – пощадить друзей

to reconnoiter – произвести разведку

to justify the killing – оправдать убийство