B) Read the season greeting postcard you've received from a friend

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Our family wishes you and your family the very best ("hnstmas and a prosperous year in 1999.

Helen

c) Write a postcard to your friend Peter in Great Britain and wish him happy holidays for either Christmas or Easter.

You may find the following expressions useful:

Happy New Year Best wishes of the season. Good luck and good health in the new year

I congratulate you on..

My congratulations.

I congratulate you.

I'm very glad to congratulate you on... /Happy to congratulate you. Let me wish you...

	VOCABULARY LIST
1. although (cj)	16. feature (n)	31. rapid (a)
2. branch (n)	17. found (v)	32. reason (n)
3. calculate (v)	18 improvement (n)	33. recent (a)
4.capital (n)	19. increase (n, v)	34. remain (v)
5. carefully (adv)	20. instead of (prp)	35. route (n)
6. channel (n)	21. length (n)	36. scale (n)
7. considerable (a)	22. link (n, v)	37. seat (n, v)
8. construction (n)	23. major (a)	38. several (a)
9.convenient (a)	24. means (n)	39. significance (n)
10. district (n)	25. number (n)	40. solve (v)
11. establishment (n)	26. perform (v)	41. successful (a)
12. exist (v)	27. permanent (a)	42. task (n)
13. expand (v)	28. population (n)	43. unite (v)
14. facilitate (v)	29.previous (a)	44. valuable (a)
15 facility (n)	30. quality (n)	45. within (prp)

UNIT 7

ARCHITECTURE

LANGUAGE MATERIAL

VOCABULARY

1. Прочитайте новые слова вслух, познакомьтесь с их русскими эквивалентами. Опре­делите их значения в данных предложениях.

1 ТО DEPEND ON (UPON) зависеть от

2 WOOD

1) лес, роща

2) дерево (материал), древесина

3 EARTH

земля, земной шар

4 ТОР

верхушка, вершина

5. REGION

область

6. STONE

камень

7 WITHOUT без

8 STILL

еще

9 ТО APPEAR

1) появляться

2) казаться

10 SHALLOW мелкий

After school she started working as she did not want to depend on her parents

1) Though it was dark they had to go through the wood.

2) Houses in the country are made of wood.

The moon goes round the earth and the earth goes round the sun.

The top of the mountain was covered with snow.

There are many woods in the Moscow region

A path paved with stone went to the garden

He left without saying good-bye

They were still working when we left.

1) The ship appeared on the horizon.

2) It appears to me that you were right.

In summer some rivers become vety shallow.

11 HOLE

дыра, отверстие

12. ROOF

крыша

13. BRICK

кирпич

14 ТО PUT UP (PUT)

1) поднимать

2) возводить

15. ABOVE над, выше

16 ТО BORROW

1) занимать, брать взаймы

2) заимствовать

17 FLAT плоский FLAT квартира

18. ТО AROUSE

пробуждать, вызывать

19 DIRECTION

направление

20. MIDDLE

середина

21. IN TURN

по очереди; в свою очередь

22. THUS таким образом

23. STRENGTH

1) сила

2) прочность

24 UNFORTUNATELY

к сожалению

25. THICK. 1) толстый

There was a big hole in the roof of the old house

The roof of the house was painted green.

The art of brickmaking dates back to very early times

1) Put your hand up if you want to ask a question.

2) A new bridge was put up across the river.

Our parents live in the flat above

1) He often borrows money from his friends

2) The Romans borrowed much from the Greeks.

In Asia one can see many houses with flat roofs.

They have just moved into a new comfortable flat.

The exhibition of old cars aroused great interest.

They were driving in the direction of the forest.

There was a table right in the middle of the room.

The teacher called out the names of the students in turn.

The information thus collected helped to solve the mystery of this crime.

1) He is a man of great strength.

2) They developed a new synthetic material of great strength.

Unfortunately they were out when we called.

1) The people were safe behind the thick walls of the house.

2) густой

26. ТО SERVE

служить

27 ТО DESTROY

разрушать

28. EFFORT

усилие

29 ТО RESTORE

реставрировать

30. SHORTAGE

нехватка, недостаток

31 ADVANCED

передовой

32. UNIT

1)единица

2) агрегат, узел

33. ТО ASSEMBLE

собирать(ся)

ASSEMBLY

сборка

34 ADVANTAGE преимущество

35. ТО CUT (CUT)

1) резать

2) сокращать

36 ТО EXTEND удлинять

37. ТО HEAT отапливать

38 FURTHERMORE кроме того, к тому же

39 DURATION продолжительность

40. EXPENSIVE дорогой

2) They were going through a thick forest

Young men have to serve in the army

Minsk was almost completely des­troyed during the war

Please make an effort to arrive on time

Many fine old buildings will be

restored.

Among other difficulties the ex­pedition had a shortage of food.

Advanced technologies must be used to increase the scale of production.

1)The metre is a unit of length, and the gramme is a unit of weight

2)The construction units were brought to the site by lorries.

He is a good engineer. He has assembled a motor-car of his own.

The assembly of heavy units took a lot of time.

Living in a big town has many advantages.

1) Glass is usually cut with a diamond.

2) The company has cut the workforce by half

According to the new plan the railway will be extended as far as the seaport.

How are these houses heated?

They knew the painting was a forgery. Furthermore, they knew who had painted it.

He will be in hospital for the duration of the school year

This car is very expensive.

He is a man of huge strength

2. Работа со словарем. Прочтите предложения. Определите исходную форму выде­ленных слов, часть речи, к которой они относятся, и найдите соответствующие зна­чении этих слов в словаре.

1 a) A greater part of the research has been completed

b) They parted after they graduated from the Institute

c) He divided the apple into two parts

2 a) The trees were covered with snow and the forest looked beautiful.

b) It's raining hard, we must get under cover, quick!

c) This book needs a new cover.

3. a) The man tied his horse to the tree.

b) Family ties are often very strong.

c) I can't help you today. I'm too tied up with other things

4. a) It was getting dark and I could not see the shape of the building

clearly.

b) He shaped a piece of clay into a ball.

c) He likes to watch clouds of different shapes in the sky.

5. a) The house is well placed, not far from the river.,

b) They hoped that the horse would get the first place in the race.

c) Place the books in the right order.

6. a) Storms sometimes cause great damage.

b) Several valuable pictures were damaged by fire.

c) The accident didn't do much damage to the motor-car.

7. a) There were large crowds in the streets.

b) People quickly crowd round when there is a street accident.

c) The pupils crowded round the teacher to ask questions.

8. a) Concrete is widely used for bridge construction.

b) Concrete units have been brought to the site.

c) The word car is a concrete noun.

9. a) High quality goods are manufactured at this plant.

b) The steel manufacture has been considerably increased in the last years.

c) The shop manufactures engines for motor-cars.

3. Прочтите следующие интернациональные слова вслух и, основываясь на значениях соответствующих русских слов, определите их значения.

climate [ klaimit] standard ['staendad]

41. HUGEогромный

tent [tent] pyramid [piramid]

sphinx [sfinks] tourist ['tuarist] technique [tek'ni:k] industrialize [in'dAStrialaiz] season ['si:zn]

primitive [ primitiv] cement [si'ment] oval ['ouval] conical ['konikl] period [ pianad]

4. Выберите правильный перевод слов из предложенных вариантов. Найдите в каждом ряду слово, перевод которого дан в начале ряда.

1. огромный

2. продолжитель­ность

3. дорогой

4. кроме того

5. отапливать

6. главный

7. преимущество

8. вытягивать,

расширять

9. резать

10. единица

11. собирать 12.передовой 13.нехватка 14.связывать 15.толпа

a) advanced, b) flat, с) huge, d) convenient

a) advantage, b) duration, c) establishment, d) length

a) main, b) concrete, c) previous, d) expensive

a) in turn, b) furthermore, c) without, d) still

a) to heat, b) to tic, c) to increase, d) to extend

a) shallow, b) recent, c) main, d) huge

a) shortage, b) strength, c) effort, d) advantage

a) to assemble, b) to expect, c) to extend, d) to rise

a) to perform, b) to cut, c) to beat, d) to shake

a) place, b) unit, c) shape, d) hole

a) to put up, b) to solve, c) to wear, d) to assemble

a) advanced, b) expensive, c) ordinary, d) similar

a) duration, b) damage, c) shortage, d) strength

a) to cut, b) to cover, c) to arouse, d) to tie

a) part, b) piece, c) crowd, d) unit