- •И.П. Агабекян
- •Содержание
- •От автора
- •Вводный фонетический курс особенности английского произношения
- •Правила чтения
- •Основной курс местоимения
- •Личные местоимения
- •Притяжательные местоимения
- •Указательные местоимения
- •Порядок слов в английском предложении
- •Вопросительные местоимения
- •Возвратные местоимения
- •Числительные
- •2000 — Two thousand, in (the year) two thousand
- •Множественное число существительных
- •Притяжательный падеж существительных
- •Неопределенный и определенный артикли
- •Оборот there is / there are
- •Степени сравнения прилагательных и наречий
- •Основные типы вопросов, используемые в английском языке
- •Неопределенные местоимения some, any, отрицательное местоимение n0 и их производные
- •In the open — на воздухе
- •Времена английского глагола
- •Согласование времен в главном и придаточном предложениях
- •Страдательный залог
- •Модальные глаголы и их заменители
- •Сложное дополнение
- •Придаточные предложения условия и времени, действие которых отнесено к будущему
- •Приложение 1 Тексты для дополнительного чтения
- •Travelling
- •The kremlin
- •Sports in great britain
- •My favourite writer Arthur Conan Doyle
- •Mark Twain
- •Education in russia
- •The system of education in great britain
- •University education in great britain
- •Isaak newton
- •Raditions of english speaking countries. Holidays in the usa
- •The united states of america
- •WasHrNgton d.C.
- •New york
- •The protection of nature
- •Приложение 2
- •Дополнительные тексты для чтения short stories
- •Lazy jim
- •Pickwick papers
- •The prince and the pauper
- •Treasure island
- •The difficulties of a foreign language
- •Dumb wife
- •The king and the critic
- •A broken vase
- •English houses
- •From the history of london
- •The tower
- •English universities
- •Charles darwin
- •Mayflower
- •Newton's dinner
- •A lesson in politeness
- •English character
- •American character
- •William shakespeare
- •Christopher columbus
- •Acid rains
- •The stars and stripes
- •What quality means
- •Dictionaries
- •The english alphabet
- •O. Henry
- •Spreading the word
- •The skylight room
- •Walter scott
- •Ivanhoe
- •Агабекян Игорь Петрович Английский для средних специальных заведений
A broken vase
One young man was going to marry a beautiful girl. One day the girl said to him that the next day she would celebrate her birthday and invited him to her birthday party. The young man was eager to make her a present, so he went to a gift shop. There he saw many beautiful things. Of all the things he particulary liked the vases. But they were very expensive, and as he had very little money, he had to leave the shop without buying anything. Walking tothe door he suddenly heard a noise: one of the vases fell on the floor and broke to pieces. A brilliant idea came to his mind. He came up to the counter and asked the salesman to wrap up the broken vase he wanted to buy. The salesman got a little surprised but did what the young man had asked him to do.
The young man took the parcel and went straight to the girl's place. By the time he entered the room the guests had already gathered. Everybody was enjoying the party. Some of the people were dancing, others were talking, joking and laughing. Saying «Many happy returns of the day», the young man told the girl that he had bought a small present for her. With these words he began to unwrap the parcel. Suddenly he got pale and said. «I am afraid, I have broken it. There were so many people in the bus...» But when he unwrapped the parcel, he saw that the salesman had wrapped up each piece of the vase separately.
English houses
The climate of a country is one of the factors that influence the style of its architecture. It can be best illustrated by British residential buildings. The weather in England is often cloudy and there are few sunny days in the winter season, therefore, as a rule, the windows in an English house are of a large size to catch as much light and sunshine as possible. In the houses built in the past century the windows, besides being large, opened upwards, which is very convenient on windy days.
Since there is much rain in England, typical British houses have high, steep roofs where rain water and melting snow can easily flow down.
Most of the houses have a fireplace which forms the most characteristic feature of an English home and is seldom seen in other European countries.
The plan of an English house also differs from that of the houses where we live. English architects plan some apartments vertically instead of planning them horizontally, so that an English family having a separate apartment lives on two or sometimes three floors with rooms connected with a narrow staircase. They find it the most convenient style of apartment.There are usually three rooms in each apartment besides a kitchen and a bathroom: a living room, a bedroom and a dining room.
From the history of london
In the year 55 before our era a Roman legion headed by Julius Cesar crossed the English Channel that divides the British Isles from the continent of Europe. Having landed in Britain the Romans founded a military station on the northern bank of the river Thames. Being skilled in the art of building they started fortifying1 their settlements with thick massive walls and laying roads across the country leading to the sea coast. After staying in Britain for two centuries the Romans returned to the continent having left behind excellent roads and strong fortifications. One of Roman settlements was called Londinium Augusta. Four centuries later, according to some historians, the capital of Britain was founded in its locality, part of the Roman wall still lying deep under the ground beneath modern London.
No other ancient monuments of Roman times have remained in the city. The earliest historical monument of English architecture is the so called Tower of London which has retained its name up to the present day. Being erected on the ruins of a Roman fortress, it consists of parts belonging to different periods of English history, its central and most ancient part being the huge square tower four storeys high. It was called the White Tower, deriving its name from the white stone it was built of. The White Tower was surrounded with a double row of walls with smaller towers forming the inner and outer court with the scaffold in the back of it.