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Аудиозапись № 18 к упражнению 1

A l i c e: What’s the matter? You look so sleepy. Sleepy and tired.

B e t t y: I didn’t go to bed until 12 o’clock in the morning yesterday night.

A l i c e: Why? What was the matter?

B e t t y: I played a new computer game. It was so interesting that I couldn’t stop.

A l i c e: Oh, I know how it happens. That’s why I play on the computer only when I’m on holiday but never before school.

B e t t y: That’s very clever of you. Maybe I should do the same. Do you spend a lot of time in front of your computer?

A l i c e: No, not really. I mostly use it to find some information I need or to send messages to my friends. Sometimes I chat online but not very often. I never spend time surfing the Internet.

B e t t y: Really? In fact, it can be fun.

A l i c e: Not for me. I get bored surfing the Net very soon and feel sorry about the time I spend on it.

 

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Аудиозапись № 20 к упражнению 1

Speaker A

I’m a van driver and carry different goods from Russia to Finland and back. It usually takes me rather long to get to the place I need and I spend much time in my van. So you can guess that I usually listen to the news and not often watch it. For me, it’s the best way to get information.

Speaker B

I think the current news can be easily found with the help of the computer. I work in an office so my computer is always at hand. There you can find all the information you need and often you can’t find it anywhere else. The information I get from the Net is quite enough to me.

Speaker C

I’m a student leading a very busy life. I want to become a journalist and I certainly need a lot of information about different things. Where do I get it from? I say all ways are good. I can learn the news in the intervals during the film I’m watching or surfing the Net, or listening to the radio. Every little helps, you know.

Speaker D

The Internet is full of information and offers us a lot of services, sometimes for free. I certainly use this medium to find the news I need though I can’t be always sure that what I read from the screen is absolutely true.

Speaker E

I’m not very much interested in the news. I think what is happening to me and my family are more important things. Naturally I know what is happening to all of us. That’s why I don’t think it is necessary to surf the Net or watch television trying to find information about the latest events. It is quite enough to read some lines about it in a paper.

 

Unit 2

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Аудиозапись № 23 к упражнению 1

Once a long time ago, at the end of the 19th century in London a young doctor sat waiting for new patients, but they never came. The doctor had nothing to do and to pass the time he began writing stories about a man who was very good at solving crimes. These stories became so popular that the doctor decided to stop practising medicine and do full-time writing instead. The doctor’s name was Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who created Sherlock Holmes.

As you probably remember, Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson lived at 221b Baker Street. Now this house has a museum opened in 1990. Everything in the Sherlock Holmes Museum speaks of the stories we know so well. The Sherlock Holmes Museum is not like other museums, it is more like a home. You can sit in Holmes’s armchair by the fireplace, take his things to have a better look at them. When you walk about the museum, you feel that the great detective has just left the room for a moment, and Mrs Hudson is somewhere in the kitchen, and you’ll see her entering the room with a tray of teacups.

 

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