IX. Read, translate and dramatize the dialogues:

Asking the Way

• Excuse me, can you tell me the way to the Trafalgar Square?

• Certainly. Go down Regent to Piccadilly Circus, and then go down the Haymarket. Turn to the left at the bottom and in less than a minute you’ll be in Trafalgar Square.

• Thank you very much. How far is it from here?

• If you walk, it'll take you ten minutes or a quarter of an hour.

• Is there a bus?

• There's sure to be. But you'd better ask the policeman over there. He'll give you all the information you want.

• Thank you.

* * *

• Excuse me, officer, is there a bus from here to Trafalgar Square?

• Yes, sir, any bus will take you. There's a bus-stop just over there. Ask the conductor to put you down at Trafalgar Square.

• Thank you.

* * *

• Does this bus go to Trafalgar Square?

• Yes, sir. Come along, hurry up... No room on top, inside only... no standing on the platform ... pass down the bus, please ... Sorry, full up... Sorry, sir, you can’t smoke inside, you’ll have to wait until there's room upstairs ...

Fares, please.

• Trafalgar Square, please ... and will you tell me when we get there?

• Trafalgar Square! This is where you get off, sir.

• Thank you.

Grammar: система часів англійського дієслова (повторення); узгодження часів; пряма та непряма мова.

X. Перекладіть речення на українську мову, підкресліть присудок, визначте час та стан:

A.1. Most modern historians agree that the British hero Arthur did exist, but he may not have been a king. 2. He was probably a cavalry chieftain who defeated invading Saxons in the 6^th century. 3. The tale of his prowess spread. 4. He was first written about in the 10^th century Welsh chronicles. 5. Stories of Arthur were told by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his 12^th-century History of the Kings of Britain. 6. Geoffrey made Arthur a great king who had won many famous victories and held court at Camelot. 7. Called to fight in Rome, Arthur leaves his nephew Modred to guard the kingdom, but Modred betrays his trust and abducts Arthur’s queen, Guinevere. 8. When Arthur returned he defeated Modred in battle but was mortally wounded. 9. After Breton minstrels had brought the story of Arthur to Europe, local legends were added to it. 10. For a long time French writers were working in new themes, including the Round Table, a means of avoiding disputes over precedence among knights. 11. The legend of Arthur ends with the prediction that he will one day return and rule England.

B. 1. Sir Christopher Wren (1632—1723) is one of the geniuses of the Age of Enlightenment that swept Europe after the Renaissance. 2. The dome of St.Paul's Cathedral dignifies the heart of London, and will always be a glorious memorial to this England's greatest architect. 3. He was a brilliant Oxford student, described by Isaac Newton as one of the greatest geometricians of his age. 4. Wren was first a scientist, working in physics, and became professor of astronomy at Oxford at the age of 29. 5. His career as an architect began in 1663 when his uncle, the Bishop of Ely, asked him to design the chapel for Pembroke Col­lege, Cambridge. 6. He went to France to study architecture in 1665. 7. The Fire of London (1666) gave Wren the opportunity to exercise his creative genius. 8. He was one of the commissioners in charge of rebuilding, and although his ideas for sweeping avenues and spa­cious squares were not accepted, many of his 52 churches, built between 1670 and 1686 in distinctive classical styles, are still noted London landmarks. 9. St. Paul's, Wren's masterpiece, was begun in 1675, and his son Christopher laid the last stone in 1710. 10. Wren himself was the first man to be buried there. 11. Other Wren's buildings include Trinity College Library, Cambridge (1676—1684), Chelsea Hospital (1682—1692), and the south and east wings of Hampton Court Pal­ace (1689—1694). Wren was knighted in 1673.