- •Министерство образования и науки украины
- •Classical regime change rubicon: the triumph and tragedy of the roman republic
- •I. Write the transcription and memorize the following words:
- •II. Read and translate the text
- •III. Read the following words:
- •IV. Complete the following sentences according to the text.
- •V. Choose the sentences which correspond to the description of Cicero, Sulla, Octavian and Julius Caesar.
- •VI. Answer the questions.
- •Sea gives up top romans’ leizure liner
- •I. Write the transcription and memorize the following words:
- •II. Read and translate the text.
- •III. Answer the questions:
- •IV. Give the synonyms to the words:
- •V. Translate the sentences into English:
- •VI. Make up your own sentences with the words (see task 1).
- •VII. Discuss the topics:
- •VIII. Read the text.
- •Senua, britain’s unknown goddess
- •II. Read and translate the text:
- •III. Read the following words:
- •IV. Complete the following sentences according to the text.
- •V. Answer the questions.
- •VII. Find in the text synonyms to the words and phrases.
- •The truth of arthur
- •II. Read and translate the text
- •III. Chose the appropriate words below and insert them to the sentences according to the text:
- •IV. Make up the correct sentences according to the article:
- •V. Find English equivalents of the following words and phrases. Make up some sentences using these phrases:
- •VI. Study the given words and word-combinations:
- •Immortality, to immortalize, immortalized.
- •VII. Tell whether it is truth or false.
- •VIII. Answer the following questions:
- •IX. Complete the following sentences according to the text:
- •X. Shorten the article about Arthur and prepare your brief informative summary. T h e l o s t c I V I l I z a t I o n
- •II. Read and translate the text.
- •III. Answer the questions:
- •IV. Give the synonyms to the words:
- •People and biographies
- •I . Study the following words:
- •II. Read and translate the text.
- •III. Answer the Questions:
- •IV. Give the synonyms and the antonyms to the words:
- •V. Translate the sentences into English:
- •VI. Make up your own sentences with the words (see task 1).
- •VII. Discuss the topics:
- •I. Study the following words:
- •II. Read and translate the text:
- •III. Answer the Questions:
- •IV. Give the synonyms to the words:
- •V. Translate the sentences into English:
- •VI. Make up your own sentences with the words (see task 1).
- •VII. Discuss the topics:
- •Iron lady’s steps upstairs
- •I. Write the transcription and memorize the following words:
- •II. Read and translate the text:
- •In the family
- •III. Read the text and summarise it using the words in bold type.
- •VI. Write an essay and discuss the following topics:
- •II. Read and translate the text:
- •III. Summarise the text using the words in bold type.
- •II. Read and translate the text:
- •II. Read and translate the text.
- •III. Read the text and summarise it using the words in bold type.
- •IV. Translate into Russian the items in brackets.
- •V. Answer these questions (use the words in bold type).
- •VI. 1) Explain in English the meaning of the words and phrases:
- •For one convict woman, trial by water was a far better fate than death by fair
- •Dangerous liaisons
- •I. Write in the transcription and memorize the following words:
- •III. Read and translate the following words:
- •IV. Complete the following sentences according to the text.
- •V. Answer the questions:
- •VI. Use the following words in the sentences given below: accusation, accuse, accusatory, the accused, accusing, accusingly.
- •VII. Memorize the following phraseological units and use them in the sentences of your own.
- •II. Read and translate the text: the queen mother’s legend, a confection of fact and fiction
- •V. Complete the sentences according to the text:
- •History of the christmas pudding
- •III. Insert the appropriate words inside of each sentence. You can find the list of words below:
- •Write in the transcription and memorize the following words:
- •II. Read and translate the text. A taste for tradition
- •III. Read the following words: Harmonisation
- •IV. Complete the following sentences according to the text.
- •V. Choose the sentences which correspond to the description of Bath School of Cookery and which correspond to the description of Culinary Institute of America (cia).
- •Mc donald’s responds to anti-capitalist grilling
- •Examining the cost of a place at university
- •London stalling
- •I. Write in the transcription and memorize the following words:
- •The British Bobby
- •Love, death and politics
- •I. Write in the transcription and memorize the following words:
- •Lording it up
- •I. Read and translate the following sentimental story.
- •II. Choose the correct variant.
- •III. Answer the following questions:
- •IV. Retell the text using the following phrases:
- •VI. Fill in the gaps with the suitable elements given below:
- •VII. Read and retell the story:
- •VIII. Find information in the text about:
- •IX. Note the difference between the following synonyms:
- •X. Complete the sentences inserting: journey, voyage, travel, trip, journeys, tour.
- •XII. Discuss the following article. Make up a plan and compare it with those of your group-mates
- •XVI. Render the following text in English:
- •XVII. Render in English and discuss:
- •XIII. Make up situations based on the text using the following words and word-combinations:
- •XIV. Read the text. Answer the questions that follow it. The Tube
- •XV. Assignments:
- •XVI. A) Study the talk between Clara and a stranger. Note the forms of asking the way.
- •XVII.A. Study the talk between Clara and a passer-by. Note the forms of asking the way and giving directions.
- •Donetsk National University
- •XVIII. Study the dialogue and pay attention to the possible ways of asking for and giving directions.
- •XIX. Ask your friend.
- •XX. Act out the following situation.
- •XXI. Topics for oral and written composition.
- •O u t - o f - c l a s s r e a d I n g pubs
- •The civil war
- •Introductory note
- •The bill of rights
- •The bill of rights
- •Protections afforded fundamental rights and freedoms
- •Protections against arbitrary military action
- •Protection against arbitrary police and court action
- •The Erection of the Statue of Liberty
- •Presidential stumbles and successes
- •The new europe
- •Immigration
III. Answer the Questions:
1. How did Canute become king of England?
2. What kind of person was he?
3. What kind of new things did he introduce in England?
4. Why did English and Danes regard him as a god?
5. Do you think the famous story about Canute proves that he was a wise man?
6. Why do we say that when Canute died, his subjects lost a great king?
IV. Give the synonyms and the antonyms to the words:
Synonyms: Antonyms:
monarch (n) to be born
kingdom (n) mercy (adj)
warrior (n) to devide (v)
merciless (n) famous(adj)
to built (v)
mild (adj)
V. Translate the sentences into English:
Канут, которого скандинавы называли Великим, был, возможно, наилучшим правителем Западной Европы в XI веке.
Но именно тот факт, что он был английским монархом (с 1016 по 1035 г) принёс ему славу, благодаря которой его имя известно и по сей день.
После сражения, продолжавшегося несколько месяцев, Эдмунд и Канут пришли к соглашению разделить между собой королевство и, когда Эдмунд умер, Канут стал королём целой страны.
Отказавшись от своей нехристианской религии, он принял христианство и поощрял церковь строить всё больше школ и монастырей.
Когда он понял, что ничего нельзя сделать, он повернулся к своим подданным и сказал: «Бог – единственный король, которому подвластно всё. Его вы должны почитать!»
VI. Make up your own sentences with the words (see task 1).
VII. Discuss the topics:
Canute is the king of England.
What kind of new things were introduced in England?
GUY FAWKES (1570-1606)
I. Study the following words:
Faith – вера, религия, обещание, верность, доверие
Considerable minority – значительное меньшинство
Conviction – осуждение, убеждение
To enlist – добровольно поступать на военную службу, вербовать, находить
поддержку
Immorality – безнравственность
Toleration – терпимость
To plot – участок земли, сюжет, заговор, замышлять, интриговать
To persuade - убеждать
To invade – вторгаться, посягать на права
Assassinating – убивающий
To assist – помогать
Cellar – погреб, подвал
To conceal – скрывать
Brutal – грубый, жестокий
Interrogation – вопрос, допрос
To execute – исполнять, выполнять казнь, оформить документ
Bonfire – костёр
Firework(s) – фейерверк
II. Read and translate the text:
Guy Fawkes was born to a prominent Yorkshire family, in 1570, and his first religious training was in the Anglican faith. When his father died, in 1579, and his mother married a Roman Catholic, young Guy was converted to Catholicism. It must be remembered that this was a time of great religious tension in England, with a Protestant Monarch, Elizabeth 1, who was in the process of strengthening the Church of England, and a considerable minority of Catholics, who felt themselves poorly treated and with good reason.*1
At the age of twenty-three, Guy Fawkes, because of his deeply felt religious conviction and a sense of youthful adventure, left England and enlisted in the Spanish army in the Netherlands. During the next eleven years there, he established a reputation as a soldier of great courage, a fact that would lead to his participation in the infamous Gunpowder Plot,*2 and future immortality.
During his last years abroad, a small group of Catholics in England, led by Robert Catesby, were planning the murder of the king, James I, who they thought was doing too little in the way of granting more toleration to the English Catholics.*3 Catesby had plotted against the crown several times before, actively participating in an attempt to oust Elizabeth, in 1601, and trying to persuade Spain to invade England, in 1602. By assassinating the king, the queen and their eldest son, Prince Henry, the conspirators hoped to pave the way for Catholic takeover over the country.*4
Since those involved in the scheme were well-known persons, it was necessary to bring in help from outside, and it was here that Fawkes, with his military experience and long absence from England, was called upon to assist. In brief, the plan involved the placing of an enormous explosive charge under the parliament building, to be detonated on November 5, 1605. It was the first day of the new session of parliament, when the royal family would be present. In March of that year, the plotters managed to get into the cellar next to the palace of Westminster, opened a passageway between it and the adjoining cellar, and gave Fawkes the task of preparing the explosive. He then brought in more than twenty barrels of gunpowder, placed iron bars on them to increase the destructive force, and concealed the murderous device under coals.
Fortunately for the government, the plot was revealed by one of its members and he was arrested on November 4, 1605. Under torture on the rack,*5 a common and terribly brutal method of interrogation at the time, Fawkes revealed the entire plan and the names of his co-conspirators. He lived long enough to see the passing of an act,*6 in January of that year, establishing November 5, the day on which parliament was to have been destroyed by the Gunpowder Plot, as a day of national thanksgiving. On February 1, 1606, he and seven others were publicly executed opposite the parliament building they had plotted to explode.
November 5th, now known as Guy Fawkes Day, is still celebrated by bonfires, fireworks and carrying of "guys," grotesque effigies of Guy Fawkes, through the streets. And yes, it is true: our modern synonym for "fellow" refers to the very same Guy.*7
Notes:
1. who felt themselves poorly treated and with good reason —
которые, не без основания, считали, что с ними плохо обходятся
2. Gunpowder Plot — «Пороховой заговор», устроенный католиками с целью убийства короля Якова I
3. who they thought was doing too little in the way of granting more toleration to the English Catholics — который, по их мнению, почти ничего не делал для того, чтобы к английским католикам относились более терпимо
4. to pave the way for Catholic takeover over the country — проложить путь к победе католиков в Англии
5. under torture on the rack — с помощью пыток на дыбе
6. he lived long enough to see the passing of an act — он дожил до того дня, когда был издан закон
7. And yes, it is true: our modern synonym for "fellow" refers to the very same Guy. — И это действительно правда, что наш (английский) современный синоним слова «fellow» (парень, малый) произошло от имени этого Гая.