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B. I was booking plane tickets.

10.Last night at 9 o’clock there was a blackout (отключение электричества) in your neighbourhood. What were you doing, when the lights went out?

11.Ask your partner about the details of the incident.

B.He broke it while he was playing tennis.

1.How did the man lose his wallet? (play volley;ball with his son)

2.How did the patient cut himself? (shave)

3.How did Alan get a black eye? (argue with his neighbour)

4.How did Stella hurt herself? (prepare dinner)

5.How did your parents get a flat tyre? (drive over a bridge)

6.How did Mr. Roberts break his leg? (ski down a mountain)

7.How did Mr. Unlucky drop his packages? (walk out of the supermarket)

12.Pairwork.

Ask your partner what he was doing when something happened. Use the following phrases for questions.

Example: What were you doing when you fell off the ladder?

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13. Everybody has a bad day once in a while. Try to remember what you were doing on such a day. Share your sad story with the other students in your class.

14. Think of some sentences using the following substitution table. Make your sentences interrogative (вопросительный) and negative (отрицательный). Translate them.

15. Read the following text.

Find sentences with the verbs of sensation followed by present participle. Translate these sentences into Russian.

Remember!

to skid – буксовать

to crash into sth – столкнуться blood [blAd] – кровь

to groan – стонать

to stamp on the brakes – нажать на тормоза unconscious [An kPnSqs] – в обмороке

to take care of sb – заботиться о ком;л. ambulance [ xmbjVlqns] машина скорой помощи injury [ InGqrI] – телесное повреждение

to get over sth – прийти в себя от чего;л. an effect [I fekt] – воздействие, результат

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Cultural Note

Double yellow lines are two yellow lines painted on the side of a road next to the pavement to show that cars cannot be parked there.

A Road Accident

It was raining heavily while I was walking towards the station at 7 o’clock on a Saturday morning. At this early hour there was not much traffic and there weren’t many people in sight. Just as I was looking left and right to cross the road, I saw a car coming round the corner, which was moving very fast. Then I noticed a dog running across the street. The driver stamped on the brakes and I watched the man losing control of his car. Suddenly it skidded on the wet road, hit a lamp post on a double yellow line and turned over.

At once I rushed to the car to assist the driver, but he was unconscious and there was a lot of blood on his face. A young woman hurried into the station to phone for an ambulance while I took care of the driver. A policeman arrived a few minutes later and asked me a lot of questions about the accident. I heard the man groaning quietly when the medical men were taking him into the ambulance.

On Monday morning I went to the hospital to enquire about the man. They told me that his injuries were not serious after all and that he was getting over the effects of the accident.

a)Questions.

1.Was the witness walking towards the station at midday? Ask “What time?” What was the weather like at that early hour?

2.When did he see a car coming round the corner? Was it moving slowly? Ask “How?”

3.Why did the driver stamp on the brakes? Did he notice a cat running across the street? Ask “What?”

4.Did the car skid and turn over? Ask “Why?”

5.Did the man rush to the car? Ask “What for?”

6.Did the witness use his mobile telephone to phone for

an ambulance? Ask “Who?” and “How?”

7.What did he hear when the medical men were taking the driver to hospital?

8.What did the witness find out about the injured man on Monday morning?

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b) On your own.

How many cars were involved in the accident? What do you think caused the accident? Were there many people injured?

Did the police ask the driver to take a breath;test?

16. Make up situations based on the words and word combinations below.

17.Listening.

Some time ago a British businessman had a bad car accident. Now the police are trying to find out the cause.

a) Listen to the investigation of the case (расследование дела) and set these statements in order according to which the events followed one another.

Remember!

to go / drive off – отъезжать towards [tLdz] – по направлению к to check – проверить

an insurance [In SVqrqns] – страховка

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Note!

to build up – накапливаться, собираться to swing round – развернуться

to go over the road – съехать на обочину

1.I braked very hard and hit the car on the side.

2.I think they were quite young.

3.The other two cars came back and then went off very fast towards London.

4.There were skid marks on the other side of the car as well.

5.They were doing at least 80 mph. I was doing about 60 mph.

6.The last car suddenly skidded and went all over the road.

b) Listen to the recording again for more detailed information.

How does the British businessman explain skid marks on one side of the car?

What facts does he list about the other two cars? Does the officer understand why they returned and went off? Why do you think so?

What can the man remember about the car numbers?

What sort of information does he give about travellers in each car?

Why does the policeman ask the businessman to stay in London for some time? Does he think him guilty [ gIltI]

(виновный)?

The police needed to check the description of them with the other witnesses. Does this statement say anything to you? Does the investigation uncover the cause of the accident?

Which details point to the guilty party?

c)Draw the scheme of the accident.

d)Can you describe how it was all happening? Suggest your

story.

18. In emergencies, the British call police, fire or ambulance on 999 and ask for urgent assistance.

a) Imagine one of you is calling for an ambulance. The other student is acting as operator in the Ambulance Service.

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b) What did the operator tell you to do?

19. Yesterday you were at the police department and reported a missing student. What did the policeman ask you about?

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20. Pairwork.

a)Ask your friend:

1)if he / she often has to get to classes in the rush hour;

2)if he/ she travelled on the Underground yesterday;

3)how long the journey took;

4)if he/ she went by bus or walked to the Underground;

5)how long he/ she has to travel above ground;

6)what rules he/ she must observe to cross the street;

7)if he/ she had to take a taxi last week because

;he/ she woke up late;

;he/ she was short of time and couldn’t wait for the bus;

;buses didn’t run regularly.

8)what road signs he/ she could see on his/her way to the university;

9)if he/ she took notice of the drivers that acted against the rules;

10)when it is safe to overtake (обгонять) another car;

11)if he/ she has got an automobile;

12)when he/ she had to be especially careful while driving his car.

b)What did your friend tell you about his journey to the university? Write a short paragraph and read it out in class.

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English people’s driving habits

Set 1 READING Культура вождения в Великобритании

FOR DETAIL

21. Read the following words and word combinations and remember how to use them.

VOCABULARY FOCUS

population [, pPpjV leISqn] n. население: What was the population of Asia in 1900?

dense [dens] adj. плотный, густой: The population of this area is dense.

main road [ meInrqVd] n. главная дорога, магистраль: Those main roads lead into London.

goods [gu:dz] adj., n. промышленные товары: There are a lot of goods in the shops.

reason [ ri:zqn] n. причина: I don’t see the reason for his departure. The reason why she didn’t get the job was that her English wasnotverygood.reasonableadj. благоразумный,умеренный, доступный (о цене)

privacy [ prIvqsI] n. уединение: There isn’t much privacy in these flats because of thin walls.

both... and... conj. ...и...и...: He is both tired and hungry.

a pedestrian [pq destrIqn] n. прохожий: Pedestrians can cross the road in special places.

continual [kqn tInjVql] adj. постоянный беспрерывный: There was a continual debate in Parliament on taxes.

It’s a matter [ m x tq] of (time / great importance) n. вопрос времени / дело огромной важности: What’s the matter? Why are you crying?

to reduce [rI dju:s] v. уменьшать, сокращать: He must reduce the rent of our house.

to reduce road traffic – уменьшить интенсивность дорожного движения

per cent [pq sent] n. процент: The company can only provide 30 per cent (=30%) of what we need.

in the rush hour [ rAS aVq] n. в часы пик: I try to get to work before the rush hour.

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a trend [trend] n. направление, тенденция: There’s a new trend in market economy.

to develop [dI velqp] v. разрабатывать, развиваться: They are developing into a big multinational company.

WORD BUILDING

22. We can form new parts of speech with the help of suffixes and prefixes which change the meaning of English words.

Example:

emotion (эмоция) – emotional (эмоциональный) – emotionally (эмоционально) – to emotionalize (придавать эмоциональность)

Remember:

noun – существительное adjective – прилагательное verb – глагол

a) The suffixes (i)ty and ness change adjectives into abstract nouns. Read these words and translate them into Russian.

b) Use the suffixes ment and tion to form abstract nouns from verbs. Give the Russian for these words.

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23. Read these international words and think of their Russian equivalents.

Industry, tech nology, de bate, mobile, mo bility, passion, private, strategy, se lective, se lectively, en,thusi astic.

24. Study the information below and answer the following question.

What must Londoners do to reduce traffic?

Text A

Road Traffic Reduction

“Too much traffic” tops the list of problems for those people who live and work in London. It’s a well;known fact that the population of Great Britain is dense and main roads serve for the transportation of most goods. As the British want to move around easily, they do not like living near big roads or railways.

About three quarters of families in Britain have regular use of a car and about a quarter have two or three cars. The reason why the British are so enthusiastic about mobility, is their national passion for privacy. Driving a car for a British is like taking his “castle” with him*. Perhaps this is why British drivers are patient with both other drivers and pedestrians.

Transport policy is a matter of continual debate in Parliament. The only way to solve the problem is to reduce road traffic. Traffic reduction is popular with the 85 per cent of people who travel in the rush hour into Central London by tube, bus or bike, and nearly 40 per cent of families who don’t own a car.

Although it isn’t easy to change the trends of the past 50 years, the London Planning Advisory Committee (LPAC) is developing a reliable strategy for road traffic reduction. It is not anti car, but people must learn to use cars selectively.

Rush hour on a British motorway

* like taking his “castle” with him – всё равно что взять с собой свою крепость

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