It is so because the vocabulary and grammar of the language is very much the same. But some things have different names in Britain and America. Compare these.

American word	British word
fall	autumn
elevator	lift
truck	lorry
movie	film
movies	cinema
candy	sweet
cookies	biscuits
American word		British word
gas(oline)		petrol
chips		(French) fries
faucet		tap
cooker		stove
garbage		rubbish
garbage can		dustbin
sidewalk		pavement
parking lot		car park
drugstore		chemist's
pants		trousers

Step 5

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Do you know him? Everyone does. He has become fa­mous. Everyone knows him as Harry Potter. His name is Daniel Radcliffe. He was born on 23rd July, 1989. Daniel comes from London. He is an only child in the family. He has got two pets. They are his dogs — Binka and Nugget. Daniel loves playing practical jokes on people. He also loves playing football. Daniel says that he is thinking'of stopping acting. He has other ca­reer plans (plans for the future). "I love English at school and I think I would like to be % writer." The film director of the Harry Potter films says they found him very easily. "Dan walked into the room and we all un­derstood that he was Harry Potter."

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A.

fast such

prefer perfect

follow need

following wait

regular pronunciation

regularly maybe

rich

B.

fast: l)a fast train, a fast car. My watch is fast. 2) to talk fast, to walk fast, to drive fast, to think fast. I can't run very fast.

prefer (preferred): to prefer tea to coffee; to prefer (to do) doing something. John preferred riding a bike to walking.

follow: 1) to follow some rule, to follow a person. Tuesday follows Monday. I was sure that someone was following me. 2) to follow a speech, to follow a film. Do you follow what I am saying?

following: On the following day. Read the following carefully.

regular(ly): regular meetings, to meet regularly. He regularly visits his granny.

rich: a rich woman, a rich country. Alan Parson is a rich Englishman.

the rich = rich people

such: such an interesting book, such a boring film, such rich people, such fast cars. It is such sweet tea that I can't drink it.

perfect: a perfect day, a perfect lady, perfect re­sults. This room is absolutely perfect for our meeting. Practice makes perfect means: if you do something regularly, you will learn to do it perfectly.

need: to need water, to need food, to need to go to school. You'll need some warm clothes for the winter. You can stay longer if you need it.

wait: to wait for the teacher, to wait for the bus. Let's sit down and wait until Bobby comes here.

pronunciation: the right pronunciation. Her pro­nunciation is getting better.

maybe: Maybe I'll come too. There were maybe fif­teen people there. Maybe it will snow tonight.

in fact: I thought Betty was in her room but in fact she was in the garden.

to grow up: she is really starting to grow up now. She is not a child anymore.

at the beginning: At the beginning of the story we didn't understand anything. At the beginning I didn't think about becoming a journalist.

to come with practice: You'll learn to do it easily, it comes with practice.

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Interviewer: I know that you are all learning English. Do you find it difficult?

Masha: No, not really. I think language learning is fun. And I can learn it fast.

Sergey: I find it rather difficult. Especially grammar. My teacher says I make a lot of grammar mistakes. In fact I prefer reading.

Interviewer: And what about you, Boris?

Boris: I liked learning English at the beginning, but now it is getting more difficult and less fun. There are so many things to remember — words, grammar, spelling, pronunciation. English has such a rich vocab­ulary. .. And I don't always understand my teacher.

Interviewer: I see. And what do you do to learn English successfully? Have you got any special rules that you follow?

Masha: I try to do my homework regularly. It helps me to practice English when there are no classes. I know that "practice means perfect". I also watch films in English and listen to tapes.

Boris: I listen to English songs. Eminem is my favourite singer. English songs help me to understand English better. I have learned some of them and sing them with my friends.

Sergeу: I do a lot of exercises, watch American video films in English and read adapted books. That's what I like most of all.

Interviewer: And may I ask you how you are planning to use English in the future?

Sergey: I'd like to learn to speak English well be­cause I want to visit many countries of the world and meet different people. I hope I'll be able to speak En­glish to them.

Boris: I'd like to be a computer programmer and I'll need English for my future job. A lot of modern computer programmes are in English.

Masha: I don't know how I am going to use my English yet. I just like learning it. Maybe I'll learn an other language — French, Spanish or Italian. Maybe I'll become a linguist. I can't wait to grow up and go to university.

Unit 3

Step 1

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Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin was a scientist whose ideas revolu­tionized biology. His theory of evolution opened a new page in the old book of nature studies. Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. His fa­ther was a doctor and his grandfather was a philoso­pher, a poet and a naturalist. When a boy, Darwin showed little interest in school and later when he was a medical student at Edinburgh University, he was not really interested in medicine. He decided that he did not want to become a doctor. At that time he began to be interested in geology and natural history.

In 1831 he joined a scientific expedition on a ship called the Beagle. They went to study the Pacific Coast of South America and some Pacific islands. There Dar­win understood that living things change with time, thought of the principle of adaptation and formulated his famous theory of evolution.

Charles Darwin died in April 1882, his body now lies in Westminster Abbey.

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1) a (sea) gull 7) a parrot

2) a pigeon 8) a woodpecker

3) a swallow 9) a magpie

4) a nightingale 10) a crow

5) an ostrich 11) a swan

6) an owl 12) a blackbird

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The song of birds is one of the most wonderful sounds. Probably the best singer is the nightingale. Sometimes when we are out in the country, we hear birds making some sounds and we may think they are telling one another something. The fact is that birds have their own language, just as many other animals do but their language is different from people's lan­guage. We use words and people must know these words, they should learn them. Birds don't learn their language. They are able to sing, "to talk" because they can make sounds and noises. It is an instinct with them. Let's take a chick from its parents so that it can't hear the sounds they make. When the chick grows up, it is able to make the same sounds as its par­ents. But birds can't LEARN how to sing and how to speak, they can't learn "other languages". Some birds like parrots, crows are talented imitators. They imitate the speech of people and other animals. A lot of birds can learn other birds' songs. For example, if a canary grows up with a nightingale it can learn to sing like a nightingale. But this imitation is not a real language. Birds do not talk as we do.

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