B. about the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments

1. There is a Faculty of Music at Oxford University.

2. The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments is quite small.

3. The Collection contains the musical instruments from all over the world.

4. The Bate Collection is called so because it is located in Bate.

5. There are no European orchestral woodwind instruments in the collection.

6. Philip Bate has stopped augmenting his collection after giving it to the University.

7. Philip Bate still augments the Collection with gifts and loans.

8. When Philip Bate gave his collection to the University of Oxford he had no conditional.

9. The Bate Collection is unique because many of its instruments are used.

10. There are about two hundred instruments in the collection.

11. All the instruments are created by English makers.

12. The collection shows the musical and mechanical development of all wind and percussion instruments from the Renaissance to modern times.

13. Philip Bate gave his collection to the University of Oxford in 1963.

C. about the Picture Gallery at Christ Church

1. At Cambridge there are a lot of collections similar to the Christ Church collection.

2. The Christ Church posses about 2000 paintings.

3. The Christ Church contains paintings and drawings of old and contemporary masters.

4. The collection is strongly Italian.

5. The collection covers the period from the 12th to the 14th century.

6. All the masters of the paintings are well known.

7. The collection is one of the most important private collections in the country.

8. There are works of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Dürer, Raphael and Rubens in the collection.

9. The entire drawings collection is shown at Christ Church.

10. A selection of drawings shown at Christ Church is changed every year.

Exercise 7. Translate into English.

1. Оксфордский Ботанический Сад один из самых старых в Англии.

2. История Ботанический Сада насчитывает около трехсот восьмидесяти лет.

3. Чтобы основать сад были выделены пять тысяч фунтов.

4. Целью основания Ботанического Сада было «прославление Бога и содействие в научных исследованиях».

5. Оксфордский Ботанический Сад служит для «прославления природы».

6. В настоящее время Ботанический Сад посещают много людей.

7. Студенты, изучающие биологию, очень интересуются Ботаническим Садом.

8. В оранжереи Ботанического Сада приходит много школьников.

9. В Ботаническом Саду есть специальное место, посвященное растениям пустыни.

10. Ботанический Сад предоставляет специальную учебную программу для подростков.