III. Agree or disagree with the statements:

1. English has its beginning with the conquest of Britain by Germanic tribes.

2. English is one of a family of languages called Indo-European.

3. Latin, Greek and Sanskrit resemble each other in a number of ways, particularly in vocabulary.

4. Within the Indo-European family of languages there are several subfamilies.

5. English belongs to the Germanic branch and is a close relative of Italian and French.

6. Germanic is usually divided by scholars into four regional groups.

7. English is an East Germanic language of the Indo-Europe­an language family.

8. English is closely related to German and Netherlandic languages.

9. German remains far more conservative than English in its sys­tem of inflections.

10. Icelandic is the living language most nearly resembling Old English in gram­matical structure.

IV. Answer the questions:

1. What family of languages does English belong to?

2. What other lan­guages does this family include?

3. What languages belong to the Germanic branch of the Indo-Europe­an family of languages?

4. Which regional group does English enter?

5. What languages is English closely related to within its subgroup?

V. Match the first part of the sentence (1-5) with the second one (a-e).

1	Though closely related to English,	a	into three regional groups.
2	Germanic is usually divided by scholars	b	German remains far more conservative than English.
3	English belongs to the Germanic branch of Indo-European,	c	of a large part of the island of Britain by Germanic tribes.
4	People did not, upon their arrival in England,	d	and is a close relative of the Scandinavian languages.
5	English had its beginning with the conquest and settlement	e	suddenly begin to speak a new language.

VI. Make up a plan of the text.

VII. Retell the text in a written form (in English or Ukrainian). Text 47. The great fire of london

I. Read and memorize the following words and word combinations:

A bakeshop – пекарня, aflame – у вогні, to perish – гинути, blaze – яскраве полум’я, pitch – смола, hay – сіно, to ignite – підпалювати.

II. Listen to the text: The Great Fire of London, 1666

The Great Fire of London began on the night of September 2, 1666, as a small fire on Pudding Lane, in the bakeshop of Thomas Farynor, baker to King Charles II. At one o'clock in the morning, a servant woke to find the house aflame, and the baker and his family escaped, but a fear-struck maid perished in the blaze.

At this time, most London houses were of wood and pitch construction, dangerously flammable, and it did not take long for the fire to expand. The fire leapt to the hay and feed piles on the yard of the Star Inn at Fish Street Hill, and spread to the Inn. The strong wind that blew that night sent sparks that next ignited the Church of St. Margaret, and then spread to Thames Street, with its riverside warehouses and wharves filled with food for the flames: hemp, oil, tallow, hay, timber, coal and spirits along with other combustibles.

The citizen fire fighting brigades had little success in containing the fire with their buckets of water from the river. By eight o'clock in the morning, the fire had spread halfway across London Bridge. The only thing that stopped the fire from spreading to Southwark, on the other side of the river, was the gap that had been caused by the fire of 1633.

The standard procedure to stop a fire from spreading had always been to destroy the houses on the path of the flames, creating “fire-breaks”, to deprive a fire from fuel. Lord Mayor Bludworth, however, was hesitant, worrying about the cost of rebuilding.

By the time a Royal command came down, carried by Samuel Pepys, the fire was too out of control to stop. The Trained Bands of London were called in to demolish houses by gunpowder, but often the rubble was too much to be cleared before the fire was at hand, and only eased the fire's way onward. The fire blazed unchecked for another three days, until it halted near Temple Church.

Then, it suddenly sprang to life again, continuing towards Westminster. The Duke of York (later King James II) had the presence of mind to order the Paper House demolished to create a fire break, and the fire finally died down.