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English is the Language of Communication




«Do you speak English?» – with this phrase begins the conversation between two people that speak different languages and want to find a common language.

It's very good when you hear: «Yes, I do», and start talking. People of different countries and nations have to get along well with the progress in world trade and technology as well as with each other.

So it is very useful to learn foreign languages. Knowledge of foreign languages helps us to develop friendship and understanding among people.

English is very popular now. It's the language of computers, science, business, sport and politics. It's spoken all over the world. It is the official language of the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States of America, Canada, and Australia. There are more than 1 billion speakers of English in the world.

Speaking a foreign language you can read papers, magazines and books in the original by great writers, watch satellite TV programmes. If you like travelling you can go anywhere without being afraid that other people will not understand you. English is very important to find a good job.

Exercise 2.1.1. Answer the questions.

1. Do you like to speak English?

2. Why do you study English?

3. Is it useful to learn foreign languages?

4. Is English the official language in the USA?

5. Does English help you make friends?

Exercise 2.1.2 Find these sentences in the text above and insert the prepositions where necessary.

1. Knowledge … foreign languages helps us to develop understanding among people.

2. People of different countries have to get along … each other.

3. There are more than 1 billion speakers … English …the world.

4. Speaking a foreign language you can read books in the original… great writers.

5. If you like traveling you can go anywhere … being afraid that other people will not understand you

 

Exercise 2.1.3. Translate from Russian into English using Present Simple

1. Знание иностранных языков помогаетмне понимать спортсменов из разных стран.

2. Люди во всем мире хорошо понимаютдруг друга

3. Я часто смотрюпрограммы на английском языке по спутниковому телевидению.

4. Команды из различных стран принимаютучастие в Олимпийских Играх.

5. Международная торговля позволяетразвивать экономику

 

Exercise 2.1.4. Check your memory. Why is it important to learn the English language? Express as many ideas from the text as you can. Add your own ideas.

Text 2.2. Readand translatethe text about sumo wrestling

 

Mountain Men

 

The history of Sumo wrestling goes back over 2000 years. Its origins are connected to the Japanese belief in Shinto, the 'way of the gods', where winning gains favour with the gods. This is why the ritual of a sumo match is taken so seriously.

The clay fighting ring is itself a sacred shrine. On entering it, the enormous wrestler first claps, to attract the gods' attention and indicate his own purity of heart. Having done that, he shakes his apron to drive away evil spirits, and raises his arms to show he carries no weapons. Next comes his most dramatic gesture. With his left hand on his heart and his right arm extended to the east, the huge fighter raises his right leg as high as possible – to send it crashing down with all his force. Then he performs the same earth-shaking stamp with the other leg. After that, he purifies himself and the ring by throwing salt, wiping himself, and rinsing his mouth with water. Finally, the opponents spend three or four minutes trying to intimidate each other with grimaces and threatening postures.

The fight itself is brief and brutal and consists of a thunderous collision that rarely lasts more than ten seconds, which ends when one giant is pushed to the ground or outside the circle.

Exercise 2.2.1. Vocabulary. Learn the words and expressions from the text:

to gain favour заслужить милость

clay глиняный; грунтовый

a sacred shrine священное место

enormous громадный

to clap хлопать

purity чистота

apron фартук

evil spirits злые духи

earth-shaking сотрясающий землю

to purify очищать

to wipe oneself вытираться

to rinse полоскать

to intimidate устрашать

threatening postures угрожающие позы

a thunderous collision оглушительные столкновения

 

Exercise 2.2.2. Check your understanding. Read the statements and decide whether they are true or false.

1. Sumo wrestling appeared more than 2000 years ago in China.

2. Sumo has a religious foundation.

3. Just before the fight, wrestlers try to scare each other with aggressive faces and gestures.

4. The only way to win the fight is to push your opponent to the ground.

5. The ritual before the fight takes longer than the fight itself

 

Exercise 2.2.3. Check your memory. Say as much as you can about sumo.

Exercise 2.2.4. Answer the questions.

1. What other sports (especially types of wrestling) are closely connected with religion and tradition?

2. Do you think that ritual is important in sports? Why?/Why not?

3. What are the differences between western (European) and eastern (Asian) sports in general?

Text 2.3. Mountaineering.

Exercise 2.3.1. Vocabulary. Learn the words below and write your own sentences using the Present Simple:

 

to enjoy наслаждаться

passion страсть

astonishment изумление

to suffer страдать

hardship трудности

to take risks рисковать

to cause вызывать, обусловливать.

leisure досуг

dangerous опасный

to ignore игнорировать

familiar знакомый

a rock face поверхность скалы

to be linked by a rope быть связанными веревкой

obviously очевидно

to require требовать

mental ментальный, умственный

waste of effort бесполезная трата сил

to be past one’s best миновать пик формы

 

Exercise 2.3.2. Read and translate the text

Most young people enjoy some forms of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling, swimming in summer, or skating or skiing in winter. It may be a game of some kind—football, hockey, golf, or tennis.

It may be mountaineering.

Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains? This astonishment is caused, probably, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure.

Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of a different kind, which it would be dangerous to ignore, but it is freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.

If we compare mountaineering and other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a 'team game'. We should be mistaken in this. There are, it is true, no 'matches' between 'teams' of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face, linked by a rope which their lives may depend on, there is obviously teamwork. A mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of nature. His sport requires high mental and physical qualities.

A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty, and most international tennis champions are in their early twenties. But it is not unusual for men of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. It may take more time, but they probably climb with more skill and less waste of effort, and they certainly experience equal enjoyment.

Exercise 2.3.3. Answer these questions:

1. Are you physically active to go in for games and sports?

2. What kind of sports do you like?

3. What game is the most popular in your country?

4. Is mountaineering popular among young people in your country? If so, where is the climbing to be held?

5. What, in your opinion, makes mountaineering attractive?

6. Is good teamwork important in football?

7. Is it right to say that there is no teamwork in mountaineering, or is that a mistake?

8. Give an example of an occasion when teamwork is important in mountain climbing.

9. Is it enough for a climber to be young and strong, or are there other qualities and skills that are needed?

10. When is a skier at his best, when he is under or over thirty?

11. Are the men and women who win international tennis championships usually young or middle-aged?

12. Does mountain climbing always become impossible when men reach the age of fifty or sixty? Can they often continue?

13. Do Swiss guides retire young or do they go on until fairly late in life?

14. Which would you prefer, to climb a high mountain in the Alps or to get to the top in a ski-lift?

Exercise 2.3.4. Change each sentence into a Yes/No question.

Example: Most young people enjoy some forms of physical activity.

Do most young people enjoy some forms of physical activity?

 

1. Mountaineering is a sport and not a game.

2. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.

3. The freedom from man-made rules makes mountaineering attractive to many people.

4. The mountain climber knows that he fights powerful forces.

5. This sport requires high mental and physical qualities

6. A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year.

7. A skier is past his best by the age of thirty.

Exercise 2.3.5. Translate from Russian into English

1. Большинство молодых людей любит разные формы физической активности.

2. Это может быть ходьба, езда на велосипеде, плавание, а зимой – катание на коньках или на лыжах.

3. На тех, кто имеет страсть к восхождениям на высокие и труднодоступные горы, часто смотрят с удивлением.

4. Если мы будем сравнивать альпинизм и другие, более знакомые виды спорта, мы можем подумать, что основная разница заключается в том, что альпинизм – не «командная игра».

5. Восходитель знает, что ему, возможно, придется бороться с силами, которые гораздо сильнее и могущественнее, чем человек.

6. Когда альпинисты находятся на скале, связанные веревкой, от которой зависит их жизнь, это, безусловно, «работа в команде».

7. Горовосходитель продолжает улучшать свои навыки год за годом, и человек в 50 или даже 60 лет может совершать восхождения на вершины Альп.

 

Exercise 2.3.6. Find in the text the words which fit the definitions given below

- the activity of climbing big mountains;

- a powerful emotion;

- very great surprise;

- activities you do to relax or enjoy yourself;

- a situation when life is very difficult;

- a very thick string.

 

Exercise 2.3.7. Check your memory. Saywhat you have learnt about mountaineering from the text.

Grammar notes. Special questions (Специальные вопросы)

Специальные вопросы – это вопросы, требующие развернутого ответа.

Порядок слов в специальном вопросе:

 

Вопросительное слово – вспомогательный глагол – подлежащее – смысловой глагол – прямое дополнение – косвенное дополнение – обстоятельство места, времени.

 

Такой порядок слов называется обратным.

 

What do you know about golf?

Where does she go every Friday?

When was Sharapova the winner of Wimbledon?

Why are you so tired?

What kind of sports do you like?

How many people are there at the stadium?

What is your name?

How much does it cost?

Вопросы к подлежащему и к слову, определяющему подлежащее, строятся без вспомогательного глагола,

 

Who knows the rules?

What team is playing today?

Which is the most popular game in your country?

Unit 3. Структура “There + to be“

(есть, находится, имеется, существует)

Формы: there is, there are, there was, there were, there will be, there has been, there have been.

+ There is a big stadium in the city.

– There isn’t a big stadium in the city. (There is no big stadium in the city.)

? Is there a big stadium in the city?

Перевод:

+ В городе есть большой стадион.

– В городе нет большого стадиона.

? В городе есть большой стадион?

 

Особенности перевода: перевод следует начинать с обстоятельства места или со сказуемого, если обстоятельство отсутствует.

 

There were two chairs at the table. Возле стола было два стула.

There was a bell. Был звонок.

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