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introduce ["intrq'dju:s] – представлять, знакомить
surname / last name – фамилия; coast [kоust] – побережье
a first-year student – студент(ка) первого курса
engineer [" endZi 'niq] – инженер; region ['ri:dZqn] – область
appearance [q'piqrqns] – внешность; slim – стройная
career [kq'riq] – карьера; do sport – заниматься (спортом)
be good at – быть способным к чему-либо
gymnastics [dZim'nxstiks] – гимнастика; several ['sevqrql] – несколько
housewife ['hauswaif] — домохозяйка; relative ['rqlqtiv] — родственник
health resort ['helT ri'zLt] — курорт
to do well — зд. хорошо успевать (по предмету)
the Netherlands — Нидерланды (Голландия)
Ex. 4 Answer the following questions:
1. What is the girl's name? What is her full name?
2. When was she born?
3. What is the name of her hometown?
4. When did she finish school?
5. What does she look like?
6. What did she always want to become?
7. What about her career in sports?
8. How many people does her family consist of?
9. What are her parents?
10. What were her favourite subjects at school?
11. What can you say about her family?
12. Who comes to visit them in summer?
13. What is she interested in?
14. What would she love to do?
15. What does she think about the knowledge of foreign languages?
Ex. 5 Choose the right verb given in the brackets (…):
My name (is, was, am) Victor Sedov. I (is, am, was) seventeen years old. I (is, was, am) a first-year student of the Railway University. Our University (is, are, was) not far from the railway station. I (have, has, had) a lot of friends at the University. When we graduate we (shall, will, are) going to become engineers. My grandfather (were, was, will be) a railwayman too. He (was, had, is, has) a student of the Novosibirsk Railway Institute many years ago. It (had, was, were) one of the best-known educational institutions in Siberia. It (has, had, is) well-equipped laboratories and a library with many volumes of Russian and foreign books and journals on railroading.
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2.2 My Biography (based on Mark
Twain)
I was born on the 30-th of November 1835 in the village of Florida, Missouri. My father was John Marshal Clemens.
According to tradition some of my great-great parents were pirates and slave traders — a respectable trade in the 16th century. In my time I wished to be a pirate myself.
The population of Florida was a hundred and when I was born I increased the population by one per cent. It had two streets and a lot of lanes. Both the streets and the lanes werepaved [peivd] (мостить) with the same material — black mud in wet times, deep dust in dry. Most of the houses were of wood — there were none of brick and none of stone. Everywhere around were fields and woods.
My uncle was a farmer. I have never met a better man than him. He was a middle-aged man whose head was clear and whose heart was honest and simple. I stayed at his house for three months every year till I was thirteen years old. Nowhere else was I happier than at his house. He had eight children and owned about fourteen Negro slaves whom he had bought from other farmers. My uncle and everyone on the farm treated the slaves kindly. All the Negroes on the farm were friends of ours and with those of our own age we were playmates. Since my childhood I have learned to like the black race and admire some of its fine qualities. In my school days nobody told me that it was wrong to sell and buy people. It is only much later that I realized the horror of slavery.
The country school was three miles from my uncle's farm. It stood in a forest and could take in about twenty-five boys and girls. We attended school once or twice a week. I was a sickly ['sikli] (хилый) child and lived mainly on medicine the first seven years of my life.
When I was twelve years old my father died. After my father's death our family was left penniless. I was taken out of school straight away and made to work in the office of a local newspaper as printer's apprentice [q'prentis] (подмастерье) where I could receive board and clothes but no money.
For ten years I worked in print shops (типография) of various cities. I started my journalistic life as a reporter on a newspaper in San-Francisco. It was then that I began to sign my publications by my penname Mark Twain.
Ex. 3 Answer the following questions:
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1. In what state was Samuel Clemens born?
2. What were the great-great parents of Mark Twain?
3. What did Mark Twain want to be?
4. What were the streets and lanes of Florida paved with?
5. How does the author describe his uncle?
6. How many slaves did Mark Twain's uncle own?
7. What was the author's attitude toward slavery?
8. Was Mark Twain a healthy boy?
9. What happened when Mark Twain was twelve?
10. How long did he work in different printshops?
11. Where did the author start his career of a journalist?
Unit 3
