LESSON 6

Learn the proverbs:

1.A happy heart is better than a full purse.

2.Never marry for money. You’ll borrow it cheaper.

3.In every woman there is a queen. Speak to the queen and the queen will answer.

4.Love enters a man through his eyes and a woman through her ears.

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I'LL MARRY YOU BUT ONLY A FEW CONDITIONS...

When Clifford met Annie, they found one thing in common. They both love lists. So together they have written the ultimate list, a list of rules for their marriage. This prenuptial agreement itemizes every detail of their lives together, from shopping to sex. Timothy Laurence met them in Florida in the apartment that they share.

The living room is neat and tidy, with a dining table already laid for a meal that has yet to be cooked. All the ingredients for the meal are in the kitchen, prepared, weighed, and waiting in a line. It is his turn to cook. Annie is chatting over a cup of coffee by the pristine kitchen bar when her fiance pours himself a cup and joins her. He touches her arm. She tenses, looks at him anxiously, and asks, "Oh, sorry. Did I say something wrong?

"No, no. I was just showing attention, " Clifford explains ponderously. "Oh, I see," says Annie.

His hand returns to her arm, and this time she relaxes. It is a significant moment, because spontaneity is not at the heart of this relationship. Love for Clifford and Annie, means following a book of rules.

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A signed, legal document

They have become curiously famous since details of their prenuptial contract were publicized. They wanted a legal contract, signed and witnessed by lawyers. Their agreement is intended to regulate the chaotic heart, and smooth the path of true love before the journey of marriage has begun. :We'll have healthy sex 3 to 5 times per week," it declares, and continues through every aspect of married life, from the wedding itself, to a trip to the supermarket: “We will spend $400 a month, to who is boss when it comes to the big decisions”. They are getting married in six months' time. "The ceremony will last twenty minutes. The reception will be held in a restaurant on Miami beach. We will invite a total of twenty guests each, who will be served two drinks, one of which may be alcoholic."

List of rules

So what are some of the other rules that will lead to married bliss?

Once we are married, we will each receive an allowance of $70 per week to cover haircuts, eating out, gifts for friends, and spending money.

We won't raise our voices at each other. If we get angry, we will count to 10 and take a deep breath.

We will not use tobacco products.

We will go to bed and turn out the lights by 11.30 p.m.

Family leadership and decision-making will be Clifford's responsibility. Annie will make decisions in emergencies and when Clifford is not available.

We will buy unleaded fuel, and we won't let the fuel gauge get lower than half a tank.

If any of these rules is broken, a fine will have to be paid out of personal savings.

Everyone wants to know whether they are the saviours of modern marriage, or the butchers of romance. "Did we put anything in the contract about love?" asks Annie, a little uncertainly. "I think so," says Clifford. Ah, yes, they did: "We will provide unconditional love and fulfill each other's needs." Oh, good. So that's all

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right then.

Their prenuptial contract is a response to uncertainty, and a plan for emotional and financial security for the future. At 39, Clifford has been through two divorces and has two sons. Annie, 31, was married briefly and disastrously in her early twenties. As Clifford likes to point out, the divorce rate for first marriages is now 54 per cent. "Nobody plans to fail," he says, "but a lot of people fail to plan. I'm going to write a book about our experience of a fully planned and programmed marriage. I just know that it will be a bestseller."

When Clifford met Annie

Clifford and Annie met at a dance, and started a cautious romance. He took her out to movie and dinner, and gave her roses with a card signed with affection that she still keeps in her handbag. They started their own small marketing business, and in the running of the business discovered that they were both "goal setters". One day, not having anything else to talk about, they decided to create the perfect budget.

"We were really excited that we could agree on something so vital and fundamental to any enterprise, whether it's a business or a marriage", says Clifford.

With so much romance in the air, their relationship deepened, and as the weeks passed, they began to make lists of increasingly personal concerns. From the start, they agreed that the big marriage breakers were money, behaviour, sex, and children. "Nothing is going to make this marriage go wrong", says Clifford. Everything has already been planned."

"In five years, we will have moved from our present address, and we will be living in a beach house overlooking the ocean."

When Annie met Clifford

Annie sees their arrangements slightly differently. For her the prenuptial contract was a way of getting to know Clifford - a kind of courtship, "just probing and asking questions. If we don't like and respect each other, this union won't last." She liked what she found, including a mutual fondness for lists. "I'd made a list of

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what I wanted in a man, what I liked, and what was unacceptable. I had prayed God to find a man who was my father only 30 years younger."

She is very keen to have children, but Clifford admits to "having problems" with the prospect of more kids, more college fees. Their contract states: "We will not start a family for the first two years of our marriage." "So I'll be pregnant in three years", Annie says, and then pauses. "No, sooner than that. I'll be pregnant in 30 month ..."

Such is the wild intensity of passion in the heart of Florida.

Exercises

I. Agree or disagree with the following:

1. There are very many people who like to do lists. 2. They are very lucky to find each other. 3. Everybody must regulate the chaotic heart. 4. A couple must sign a marriage contract. 5. A marriage contract means emotional and financial security for the future. 6. It is very good if everything is planned in your life.

II. Answer the questions:

1. Which point of their contract struck you most? 2. Are they butchers of romance or saviours of marriage? 3. Will you follow their example?

III.Read some interesting information.

1.I’m in love with me

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

O. Wilde

Jennifer Hoes, a Dutch artist, is getting ready for the biggest day in her life. She has already bought a wedding dress and ordered a wedding party and marriage certificate. She is going to marry ... herself! “I want to celebrate with others how much I’m in love with myself”, she told the reporters.

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2. It’s never too late

The UK’s oldest record bride was 100-year-old Winifred Clark who married her 80-year-old boyfriend Albert Smith in 1971.

The country’s oldest bridegroom was 102-year-old George Jameson, who married 53-year-old Julie Robinson in 1995.

3. The longest kiss

How much time would you be willing to spend kissing your girlfriend/boyfriend? One, maybe two hours? A couple from Israel kissed their way into the Guinees Book of Records. In April 1999, Karmit Tzubera and Dror Orpaz kissed continuously for 30 hours and 35 minutes!

4. The longest engagement

67 years, according to the Guinness Book of Records. The happy couple finally got married at the age of 82!

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До свадьбы мужчина и женщина говорят друг другу: “Мне нравишься только ты”, а после: “Ты нравишься только мне”.

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What Stopped the Wedding?

This is Radio 4. This week in "File on Life": Saying "I won't" or What stopped the wedding? The photographer may be booked, the cake may be iced, and the dress may fit perfectly, but suddenly it's all off. What stops the wedding and forces one half of the happy couple into saying "I won't"? Listen to the stories of Elizabeth, George, and Nicole.

Elizabeth

The nearer it got to the date, there ... there was more pressure. I felt more and more pressure on me because everybody had been out and bought their gear, and I'd had the final fitting for the dress. It was ivory, and everyone said how great it looked . And ... and ... the printing of stationary had been done and the cake had

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been made. There was so much pressure and it was awful'cos deep down inside I knew ... I knew it was wrong. But the pressure was to go through with it just for the sake of keeping everyone happy. I felt inside ... I can't, I can't, I can't go through with this, but I've got to because of all the expense ... I mean the cost of everything. The whole thing was confused in my head. In the end I tried to say something to my mum, but she kept saying "Come on, it's just nerves." She said she'd felt the same before marrying dad, they all said it was just nerves, but I knew

... I knew it wasn't. I knew I had to pluck up courage and speak out ... it, it wasn't fair on anybody, especially Paul. I just didn't love him anymore. We'd been going out since we were sixteen. Kids really. He was like my brother.

Afterwards it was such relief, it was like a cork coming out of a bottle. It all just poured out. Paul was upset, yes, of course he was, but not distraught, not really. Not as much as I'd thought anyway. It was my little sister, she was distraught, 'cos she had the dress and was going to be bridesmaid and everything. I felt lost for her ... terrible. But in fact my family were brilliant ... er ... in the end, and actually we wore the dresses, me and my sister, we went to a fancy dress party, yes, we went as the brides of Frankenstein! Wasn't that awful?

George

It was the rehearsal. We had a rehearsal. We had a rehearsal a week before the wedding. Everything was fine. Vicky and I went to the church and we met the best man and the best bridesmaid ... and it was all fine. And we went through the ceremony and, and we were all very happy and everything was fine and then ...

then, it was just sort of after that, and we had to fill in some forms and we were all sitting down and filling in the forms and then, Vicky, she couldn't fill the forms in, and she had this ... er ... panic attack. She was just sitting down crying and screaming and saying "I can't do it, I just can't do it, I can't face it." I was just sitting there holding her hand really, comforting her. At that point I think I was more concerned for her really, rather than for me. I was upset that she was upset and I said ... in the end ... I said to her and to the minister that may be it would be

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better to postpone it. And then ... then it was amazing, just amazing. From the moment she knew the wedding was off she was perfectly normal and the relationship was perfectly normal. In fact a week later on the actual day when we should have been getting married, we went for a drive by the lake and it was a super hot day, and we had a picnic and it was a really smashing day. I really enjoyed it. I don't think we'll ever marry now ... not to each other anyway.

Nicole

I was just getting out of the white Rolls Royce. I was sitting in my wedding dress outside a Greek cathedral in downtown Manhattan. And then, then suddenly someone came out of the church, I dunno who this guy was, but he thrust a piece of paper in my hand and ran. I didn't know what it was, I opened it, and read it ...

seven words, just seven words and the end of my world! It said "I can't go through with it. Michael." Can you believe it? Not even "Love Michael". I was in shock. I

... I felt ... it felt like I was in a movie. So I thought, "What would they do in a movie?" And I figured ... er ... I could see it all in my head, so I got out of the car and I went into the church ... it was packed. I just went in and I walked slowly down the aisle, all by myself, like in slow motion, then I turned and ... it was real dramatic ... I announced, "Michael's not coming but let's have a party anyway." So that's what we did. I had a non-wedding reception. It was spectacular. I'm afraid I got pretty drunk ... very drunk in fact. All I can remember is dancing non-stop "I will Survive". I will survive, oooh yeah I will survive.

I haven't heard a word from him since that note. I think I'm angrier now than I was then. I just want him to tell me, in person, why he did this to me. He could at least tell me the reason. He's a shameful human being. I can't believe he's the same man I met last year on that beach in Greece. We talked the same language, we had so much in common. You see, we're both Greek, at least our parents are Greek, but he was born and raised in London and I was born in New-York. Last March he proposed to me on the telephone. I was in heaven. I just believe he was my destiny.

You know, I spent $25000 on this wedding and he wasn't even there. I've

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kept the ring, it cost $6000. The dress cost $2000. No, I don't know where he is now. It wouldn't surprise me if he had gone to Tahiti where we'd planned to have our honeymoon. Actually nothing would surprise me. Maybe he's already married. Who cares?

Exercises:

I. Translate the following international words (give all possible meanings): to balance, resultant, parallel, effect, location, graphically, vectors, scale,

rotation, conception, algebraic, combining, position, inertia, identify.

II. Translate the following:

a)may have been acting; must be studying; must have obtained; can't identify; may be answered; must be measuring; couldn't do it.

b)is said to study (to have studied); will be reported; had been studied; is making; were doing; will have finished; have learnt; am opening; are sent; was acting.

III. Point out word combinations where the verbs "to have", "to be" are modal verbs:

a)is favoured, are speeding, is to produce, are introduced, was to measure, was mixing, was to have expressed, were arranging, were approached, were to subdivide, are calculating, am told, am to make, are defined, are to have been signed;

b)has considered, have to obtain, had been suggesting, had to compare, have occurred, have been identified, have to compose, has to represent, has been calculating.

IV. Translate the following sentences paying attention to "have":

1. They have got many friends here. 2.They have had dinner already. 3. Тhеу always have it at three o'clock. 4. They have been working at this problem for a long time. 5. They will have supper late tonight. 6. They have to go there

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every day. 7.He didn't have any book at that time. 8. He won't have to do the work. They have done it already. 9.He must have come already. 10.They couldn't have done it. 11.He may have prepared his lessons. 12. They have no friends here. 13. He didn’t have to drive himself. 14. Did I have to invite them? 15. We won’t have to make this experiment. 16. Will you have to help her?

V. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the modal verbs:

1. This law must have been discovered by some famous mathematician. 2. This student must have been studying physics for a long time. 3. The calculation was to be done accurately. 4. This method is to be applied in mathematics. 5. You should use that formula in your calculations. 6. He cannot have forgotten this method of integration. 7. They have to determine the situation. 8. He had to take an exam yesterday. 9. Our comrades must be now preparing for their exam in chemistry. 10. They could learn it yesterday. 11. One can enjoy himself as he likes. 12. One must know it beforehand.

VI. Translate the following paying attention to the Passive Voice:

1. Some chemical problems are dealt with at this lesson. 2. And each year more and more new compounds are being discovered. 3. Не will be asked some questions. 4. This article is referred to very often. 5. Your sister can be taken to our trip too. 6. Helen was helped by her brother. 7. This question is being discussed now. It will be answered in a few minutes. 8. I was asked to take part in the discussion. 9. The doctor was sent for immediately. 10. This discovery is much spoken about. 11. They are being waited for. 12. He is always listened to with great attention. 13. She was followed by two strangers. 14. They had never been seen there before. 15. The car has been repaired by his coming. 16. He was taught two foreign languages in childhood.

VII. Translate the following:

planet surface, planet surface temperature, planet surface temperature

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investigations; time, time interval, time interval measurement, time interval measurement equipment; radio wave, radio wave speed, radio wave speed measurements; semiconductor device, semiconductor device application; semiconductor device application development, semiconductor device application development explanation; laser beam, laser beam wave, laser beam wave stability, laser beam wave stability problem; test, admissions test, college and graduation admissions test, standardized high school graduation and college admissions test.

VIII. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the underlined words:

1.She waters flowers every day. 2. The waters of this river are clean.

3.They will water these trees in summer. 4. Give me some water, please. 5. The buildings and houses in this street are very high. 6. The building houses a museum.

7.This house is nice. 8. This hall will house a picture exhibition. 9. Translate the following text. 10.I followed my doctor's advice. 11. The lecture was followed by many questions. 12. Listen to me attentively to follow my explanation. 13.The child followed his mother. 14. The USSR was one of the Great Powers of the world. 15. He did all in his power. 16. Nuclear power stations will produce vast amount of electricity. 17. The power of the King is limited. 18. Force, work, energy and power are studied in physics. 19. Our great demands for power will be met by nuclear power. 20. The teacher demands that all the students should be present at the meeting.

IX. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the word "having":

1. Having finished her work she went home. 2. He didn't know about their having gone away. 3. What are you doing now? - I am having breakfast. 4. When having supper he usually looks through a newspaper. 5. He insists on having done the work properly. 6. What lesson are you having now? - We are having an English lesson.

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X. Analyze the following sentences and answer the questions:

1. This new bookshop is being built near my house.

Могу ли я купить книги в этом книжном магазине?

2.A new school will have been built in Parkovaya street. The Smiths live quite near this school.

Учатся ли дети Смитов в этой школе?

3.They are waiting for the latest news from that region.

Могут ли они сообщить нам последние новости?

4.They have bought the latest model of this car and they're going to travel in it.

Можем ли мы прокатиться в их машине?

5.We hope our friend will win the 1st prize in the competition.

Можем ли мы поздравить друга?

6.Yesterday Ann came home 4 hours later than John.

Могла ли Анна приготовить обед Джону?

7.These two buildings will soon be connected by a passage.

Можем ли мы пройти из одного здания в другое сейчас?

8.The lecture was followed by a discussion and a film. We were late for the

lecture.

Могли ли мы увидеть фильм?

9.These rivers are being connected by the canal.

Можем ли мы попасть из одной реки в другую?

10.A new gas pipeline is now being laid at a fast rate.

Идет ли газ по газопроводу?

11.The article will have been translated by six o'clock.

Можем ли мы забрать статью сейчас?

12.Не was laughed at by the group.

Кто над кем смеялся?

13. The student was sent for by the dean.

Кто за кем пошел?

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14.She will be helped in her work by her friends.

Кто кому поможет?

15.This question was being discussed when I entered the room.

Обсудили ли этот вопрос?

XI. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the ing-forms:

1. His work resulted in solving many problems. 2. The experiment resulted in finding new properties of this material. 3. The meeting resulted in coming to an agreement on this problem. 4. The discussion resulted in the test being made again. 5. His being ill resulted in our not having made the experiment. 6. Newton's having formulated this law was of great importance. 7. His having solved this equation is quite natural. 8. Using symbols in mathematics is customary. 9. By applying the method of coordinates we solve complex mathematical problems. 10. Studying higher mathematics starts with the so-called real numbers consideration. 11. Descartes' and Fermat's merit consists in their having introduced the method of coordinates. 12. The idea of creating the method of coordinates belongs to Descartes. 13. People began studying higher mathematics in the 17th century. 14. After being introduced by Descartes the method of coordinates found universal recognition and application. 15. He was surprised at having been asked the Pythagorean theorem.

16.The problem having been solved, the engineers began a new experiment.

17.The plan having been discussed, the meeting was over. 18. The teacher having explained it, we decided that problem.

XII. Translate the following sentences paying attention to to-forms:

1. The problem to be solved was very difficult. 2. The material to be tested had interesting properties. 3. There was a force to be balanced. 4. The students have a lot of work to do. 5. This is an article for you to translate. 6. To understand this problem one should read a lot. 7. To explain this law of mechanics one should know the theory well. 8. He came to the laboratory to make some experiments. 9. To conduct research work some students of the group were invited. 10. The research

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work to be done by our students is very interesting. 11. To finish this research work in time was very important. 12. To expand old universities as they do in Britain is much cheaper than to build new ones. 13. The experiment is known to result in finding new properties of this substance. 14. The national sport of America may be said to be baseball. 15. The results are reported to be published soon. 16. The Capitol Hill group is regarded to be the most important place in Washington. 17. He is thought to be a leader in their party. 18. When allocating housing, local authorities are required to give reasonable preference to people with a particular need for long-term housing.

XIII. Read and translate the following sentences:

1. We have obtained the results we were expecting. 2. The results obtained are of particular importance for our research. 3. These results must have been obtained with the aid of new devices. 4. The results may be obtained in due time. 5. The results may have been obtained in due time. 6. The results will have to be obtained in due time. 7. Having obtained the required results we informed our professor of this fact. 8. The necessary data having been obtained, we could proceed with our experiment. 9. Having been obtained, the results of our research were submitted to our professor. 10. Have you heard of our post-graduates having obtained remarkable results of their research? 11. Being obtained, the results of the research were analyzed. 12. Improved methods of obtaining three-dimensional television pictures have been worked out on the basis of holography. 13. When obtained, these data were analyzed. 14. He was the first to obtain such remarkable results. 15. We are glad to have obtained such valuable results. 16. These scientists' obtaining precise data with the aid of these modern devices is a well-known fact. 17. The results obtained varied with the materials used. 18. Solar energy is likely to be the most valuable means for obtaining in future any amount of electric power at any point of the world. 19. These data are known to have been obtained with the aid of computers. 20.The problem to be solved is of great importance to the

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development of this branch of industry. 21. Water is never absolutely pure in nature, the amount of impurities depending upon the locality. 22. Scientists succeeded in developing means of obtaining a synthetic rubber with properties similar to those of natural rubber. 23. When rubbed, some substances generate electricity. 24. If adopted, these measures will increase labour productivity. 25. After being rubbed, amber obtains the ability of attracting bodies. 26. While working with these substances one should be very careful. 27. The longer the wavelength of a particular wave, the less is its frequency, the shorter the wavelength, the greater the frequency. 28. Science shows the electron to be a specific combination of mass and electrical charge. 29. At present the radio industry produces great quantities of semiconductor diodes and triodes of various types, the devices being successfully employed in different radio and electronic equipment. 30. On-off device is the one that automatically connects or disconnects some equipment from its power line.

XIV. Translate into Russian in written form:

My coming to Cambridge has been an unusual experience. From whatever country one comes as a student one cannot escape the influence of the Cambridge traditions - and they go back so far! Here, perhaps, more than anywhere else I have felt at one and the same time the Past, the Present and even the Future. It's easy to see in the old grey stone building how the past has moulded the present and how the present is giving shape to the future.

XV. Read Murthy's laws and other laws of nature. Do you agree with them?

1.The more beautiful the woman is who loves you, the easier it is to leave her with no hard feeling.

2.A man in the house is worth two in the street.

3.The qualities that most attract a woman to a man are usually the same ones she can't stand years later.

4.Before you find your handsome prince, you've got to kiss a lot of frogs.

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5.Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

6.It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

7.Abstain from wine, women, and song, mostly song.

8.Never argue with a woman when she's tired - or rested.

9.Smile, it makes people wonder what are you thinking.

10.There is no difference between a wise man and a fool when they fall in

love.

11.If something can go wrong, then it will go wrong.

12.Nothing is as easy as it looks. If you start to do something, you always find that there is something else which has to be done first.

13.If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will.

14.Anything that begins well ends badly.

15.If it looks easy, it's difficult. If it looks difficult, it's impossible.

16.Cars prefer to break down on Sundays.

17.Officials make work for each other.

18.Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

19.Everything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

20.You can always find what you're not looking for.

21.The lift is always on another floor.

22.Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives.

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