1. Прочитайте, перекладіть текст. Випишіть підкреслені слова, перекладіть іх. Fashions

Fashion is an entirely unnecessary and yet delightful detail of human life. No one could contend that a person who did not follow the fashion was lacking in any great mental or moral quality; yet to be in the fashion has given joy in age after age, not only to the women who are thus up-to-date in their costume, but to the men who behold them.

As a rule, men's attitude towards women's fashions is one of amused tolerance. They pretend that they are unable to detect the nice distinctions between the latest model from Paris and a dress that is hopelessly out of date. But they are in reality just as eager to conform to the popular idea of what is and what is not worn.

But men's fashions change slowly, and men, unlike women, like to be the last to leave an old fashion rather than the first to em­brace a new. They have no desire either, that their womenfolk should be in the very front rank of fashion. It would make them embarrassed to be seen in public with a woman who was wearing something which caused every eye to be turned upon her. But they like their wives to be dressed as most other women are dressed.

Fashion is an arbitrary mistress to whom most women are slaves, but though her commands are often unreasonable and not sel­dom absurd, she is followed willingly, for the reward she offers is that sense of adventure and variety which is the spice of life.

(From Fifty Model Essays by Joice Miller)

2.Знайдіть у тексті фрагменти, які пов’язані с наступними твердженнями.

1. It is joyful to follow fashion.

2. Men’s attitude to fashion differs from that of women.

3. Men like their wives to dress well.

3. Зробіть короткий письмовий переказ тексту.

Практичне заняття № 2

Тема: Рідне село або місто проживання.

І. Робота над текстом за темою заняття.

1. Прочитайте та перекладіть текст. Випишіть за словником незнайомі слова.

Kherson

Kherson is a regional town on the Dnieper. It is a river and seaport. The population of Kherson is about 350,000.

The city was founded by Prince Potiomkin on June 29,1778, on the site of former fortification Oleksandrivskyi Shants ruined by the Turks. It was named in honour of Chersonesus of Tauris founded by Greeks in the 5th century B.C.

In 1803 the town became the centre of Kherson Province. In 1944 the city became the capital of Kherson region.

The leading industries include ship-building and mechanical engineering.

Kherson boasts of its theatres, museums and the monuments of architecture: the Greek-Sophia Church (1780), the Gates of the Kherson fortress (18th century), the Holy Spirit Church with a Bell Tower (1836).

The Kherson Region includes 18 districts, 9 towns, 30 settlements and 677 villages.

2. Дайте письмові відповіді на запитання:

а) What is your native city / town / village?

b) How old is your native place?

c) Have you been living there for all your life?

d) Have you ever been to other cities and villages? Name them.

e) What are the most interesting places to see in your native city / town / village?

3. Знайдіть зображення одного з видатних місць Херсона та розкажіть про нього.

ІІ. Граматичний матеріал. Тема: Структура англійського речення. Звороти there is, there are.

Зворот there is (there are) повідомляє про наявність у визначеному місці особи (осіб)  чи предмету (предметів), ще невідомих співрозмовнику. Зворот there is має значення «є, знаходиться».

В українській мові речення у таких випадках, як правило, розпочинається з обставини місця чи часу: На столі книга. В класі учні. Учора в клубі було зібрання.

В англійській мові такі речення розпочинаються із звороту thereis/are, за яким слідує іменник зі словами що до нього відносяться, а потім обставина місця чи часу. Дієслово to be узгоджується з іменником що прямує на за ним:

There is a book, some pencil and a pen on the table.

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