Яков Аракин - Практический курс английского языка 2 курс

кубок? — Да, ему не повезло; накануне игры он слег с воспалением легких 3. Я едва мог

поверить своим ушам, когда мне сказали, что команда нашего института выиграла со счетом

6:0. 4. Напрасно вы торопились. Соревнования не состоятся из-за плохой погоды. 5. Он был

страшно расстроен, когда ему сказали, что его команда проиграла. 6. Моя старшая сестра

занимается художественной гимнастикой уже три года. 7. Я рад, что сегодняшняя игра

закончилась вничью. Мы могли проиграть, многие из нас не в форме. 8. Соревнования по

легкой атлетике еще не начались. 9. Кем был установлен последний мировой рекорд по

ярыжкам в высоту?

XV. a) Translate the text into Russian:

The Football Match

Something very queer is happening in that narrow thoroughfare to the west of the town. A

grey-green tide flows sluggishly down its length. It is a tide of cloth caps.

These caps have just left the ground of the Bruddersford United Association Football Club.

To say that these men paid their shilling to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say

that a violin is wood and catgut, that "Hamlet" is so much paper and ink. For a shilling the

Bruddersford United A.F.C. offered you Conflict and Art; it turned you into a critic, happy in your

judgement of fine points, ready in a second to estimate the worth of a well-judged pass, a run down

the touch line, a lightning shot, a clearance kick by back or goal-keeper; it turned you into a partisan,

holding your breath when the ball came sailing into your own goalmouth, ecstatic when your

forwards raced away towards the opposite goal, elated, downcast, bitter, triumphant by turns at the

fortunes of your side, watching a ball shape Iliads and Odysseys for you; and what is more, it turned

you into a member of a new community, all brothers together for an hour and a half, for not only had

you escaped from the clanking machinery of this lesser life, from work, wages, rent, doles, sick pay,

insurance cards, nagging wives, ailing children, bad bosses, idle workmen, but you had escaped with

most of your mates and your neighbours, with half the town, and there you were, cheering together,

thumping one another on the shoulders, swopping judgements like lords of the earth, having pushed

your way through a turnstile into another and altogether more splendid kind of life, hurting with

Conflict and yet passionate and beautiful in its Art. Moreover, it offered you more than a shilling's

worth of material for talk during the rest of the week.

(From

"Good

Companions" by J. B. Priestley. Abridged)

b) Comment on the extract:

1. Explain the words: "To say that these men paid their shilling to watch twenty-two hirelings

kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that "Hamlet" is so much paper and ink."

2. Explain the words: "For a shilling the Bruddersford United A.F.C. offered you Conflict and Art."

3. What, in the author's opinion, does football give people? 4. Do you agree with the author in that?

What do you think about such games as football and hockey and the secret of their popularity?

XVI. a) Study the text and search for some arguments in favour of sport.

Summarize the text:

How Healthy Are You?

Check your knowledge.

What sort of shape are you in? Are you the sort of person who goes for a run each morning,

or are you the other kind who gets out of breath when reaching for a cigarette?

Maybe you have a lot of energy. You go to work or school, you make decisions all day, you

do extra work at home. Exercise? You don't have enough time — why bother anyway?

Well, the answer to that question is your body design. Human beings weren't built for sitting

at a desk all day: your body is constructed for hunting, jumping, lifting, running, climbing and a

variety of other activities. If you don't get the exercise that your body wants, then things can go

badly wrong. Your mind works all day, and your body does nothing: the results can vary from

depression to severe illness to early death.

Not a very cheerful thought, and of course the natural reaction is "It's not going to happen to

me." Maybe, maybe not. Here are two ways of looking after yourself: firstly, by seeing if you are

doing the right sort of exercise, and secondly by seeing if you have the right kind of diet.

(From "Modern English International". Mozaika. 1984, No. 263)

b) Persuade your partner to start practising sport immediately.

c) Speak on: 1. the role of sport in modern life; 2. sport as part of school and

college life.

XVII. Role-playing.

Work in groups of four or fire. You are people of different age and social standing.

Express your attitude to sport and sportsmen in general.

XVIII. Describe these pictures in suds a way as if you have seen the event with

your own eyes. Use some details, try to sound as convincing as possible. Use some

words and phrases given below:

the stadium with a seating capacity of ...; a pole-jumper; in good form; a referee; a starter; a

cross-bar;

wave a start; rushing towards; like lightning;

race past; carrying the pole; puzzled;

plant the pole; up in the air; with a smile on his face; awestricken;

pretty-looking; embarrassed; with her eyes downcast; with his hands pressed; land onto;

break the record; the record of his life; candidate master of sports of Russia.

STUDIES OF WRITTEN ENGLISH

VI

The plot is a very important aspect of written works. But there is something even more

important, that is, the main idea or the message.

Messageis the main idea that a writer wants to communicate in his work through the

characters and their behaviour, the physical and emotional background or sometimes through his

own generalizing statements. To make it clear and understandable you have to learn how to write the

gist.

Gistis commonly understood as the essence or main point (of an article, paragraph or

argument), also as the essential part of a story, novel, or play that helps to understand the main idea.