Bullet hijacker gaol crashed hospital

1. The man who didn’t die went to ….

2. The plane … into the sea.

3. Wong-yu was a ….

4. The police found … holes in the plane’s walls.

5. The police took the thief to ….

 

TEXT 10

THE CURSE OF THE RING

Rudolph Valentino was a famous film actor in the United States in the 1920s. He acted in silent films. They were called 'silent' because they had no sound.

In 1922, Valentino went to a jeweller's shop to buy a ring. He saw a beautiful silver ring in the shop, but the jeweller did not want to sell it to him.

'It'll bring you bad luck, ’ he said. 'It has a curse on it’.

'I don't believe you, ’ Valentino replied. 'I don't believe in bad luck.’ He bought the ring and put it on.

In the same year, Valentino made a film called ‘The Young Rajah'. For the first time in his life, he made a film that few people liked. Valentino put the ring away for several years. His next two films did well and Valentino forgot about the curse of the ring. Then, in 1926, he put the ring on again. Suddenly he fell ill, and a few hours later he died.

Valentino left the ring to a friend in his will. As soon as she was given the ring, she fell ill. She gave the ring to a young artist called Russ Colombo, and she immediately got better. However, Mr. Colombo died when his car was in an accident. He had the ring on at the time.

Then a thief stole the ring. A policeman, who had a gun, saw him. The policeman shot the gun into the air to frighten the thief, but he accidentally shot and killed him. By now, many people believed that the ring was dangerous. No one wanted to wear it. The ring was put in a bank. Although the bank had never had a robbery before, just after the ring arrived, thieves robbed the bank twice. In one robbery several people died.

No one knows where the ring is now. No one wants to know!

 

Words and expressions to the text

сurse – проклятие

jeweller's shop – ювелирный магазин

bad luck – невезение, несчастье, неудача

 

Exercise 1. Выберите верный вариант ответа

The passage is about................

1 Rudolph Valentino's films.

2 a famous jeweller.

3 a ring that brought bad luck.

4 a bank robber.

5 an accident.

Exercise 2. Дополните предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста.

1. Rudolph Valentino wanted to buy....

2. The jeweller told him....

3. Valentino put the ring on and his next film did badly When he put it on again in

1926, ....

4. The ring went to someone who fell ill and she gave it to an artist who....

5. The last thing anyone heard of the ring was when it was in a bank. The bank...

Exercise 3. Дополните предложения, используя слова в рамке

Thief will artist accidentally

Policeman jeweller ring frighten

 

1. The … made beautiful things in gold and silver.

2. This picture was painted by a famous ….

3.______ A … stole my computer from my house.

4.___________ You can't … me!

5. I like the … on Helen's finger.
6. I have just made my … and left all my money to my friend, Jack.

7. Did James hit John … or did he mean to do it?

8. If you get lost, look for a … to help you.

Exercise 4. Выберите одно слово из двух предложенных ниже, чтобы заполнить пропуски

1. I like the... of birds singing. sound/noise

2. John has had an …. He’s fallen off his horse. accident robbery

3. If you … someone, you want them to have bad luck. curse/frighten

4. My father liked us very much so he left us everything in his …. will/curse

TEXT 11

The most commonly spoken

The language used by more people as their native language than any other is Mandarin ( мандаринское наречие китайского языка ), spoken by an estimated 68 per cent of China’s population. The next most commonly spoken language, and the most widespread, is English, with an estimated 300 million native speakers. Nearly twice as many use it as a second or a third language.

The English language contains about 490000 words plus another 300000 technical terms, the most in any language, but it is doubtful if any individual uses more than 60000. British people who have had a full 16 years of education use perhaps 5000 words in speech and up to 10000 words in written communication. Shakespeare used a vocabulary of about 33000 words.

(from The Guinness Book of Records)

Insert the necessary words

1) The most commonly spoken language is......

a) Chinese b) Mandarin c) Russian

2) There are about....words in the English language.

a) 800000 b) 60000 c) 5000

3) The British use.....words in their speech.

a) 68 b) 33000 c) 5000

4) In his words Shakespeare used.... words.

a) 60000 b) 33000 c)490000

2 Choose the right answer to the question: «What is the most widespread languagein the world? »

a) Spanish

b) Turkish

c) Welsh

d) English

3 Choose the right answer to the question: «What language do many people in theworld use as their second or third language? »

a) Mandarin

b) Russian

c) English

d) Swedish

Choose the sentence with a false information

a) Mandarin is the language of many Chinese.

b) Many technical terms are English.

c) The Shakespeare vocabulary is about 60000 words.

d) There are about 800000 words in the English language.

 

TEXT 12

People as they are

Almost every nation has a reputation of some kind. The French are amorous, gay, fond of champagne; the Germans are dull, formal, efficient; the Americans are boastful, energetic, gregarious and vulgar. The English are cold, reserved, rather haughty people. The English don’t yell in the street, make love in public. They are steady, easy-going and fond of sport and animals.

There are, however certain kinds of behavior, manners and customs which are peculiar to the nation. The English are a nation of stay-at-homes. There is no place like home, they say. «The Englishman’s home is his castle», - is a saying known all over the world; and it is true that English people prefer small houses perhaps with a small garden. The fire is the focus of the English home. What do other nations sit round? The answer is they don’t. They go out to cafes or sit round the cocktail bar. For the English it is the open fire, the toasting fork and the ceremony of English tea.

What’s the difference between an American and a European really? There’s the rhythm of life of course. In Europe there are people who have lived in the same house and been in the job for twenty, thirty, forty years. That’s not the American way of life. They love change, they call it «the spirit of adventure», a spirit that they think is more characteristic of America than of Europe. There is a very interesting remark in a book by an English writer.He wrote: «We in England, and the French, the Germans, the Italians, the Russians, have all got one thing in common – we are descended from the men who stayed behind. In the States they are descended from the folk who moved away». And so they still like to «move away», to change homes and jobs.They seem to be constantly pulling down old and often quite beautiful houses or throwing away things merely because they are old. They have nonne of the Englishman’s sentimental love for things because they are old.

However, any nation has its own peculiarities. The southerner differs from the northerner, the easterner differs from the westerner.

Vocabulary

efficient – рациональный

boastful – хвастливый

gregarious – общительный

vulgar – простей, грубый

reserved – скрытый, сдержанный, замкнутый, необщительный

haughty – надменный, высокомерный

yell = cry

easy–going – добродушно-весёлый, беспечный, беззаботный

peculiar – свойственный

peculiarity – свойство, характерная черта

stay-at-home – домосед(ка)

descend – происходить

descendant – потомок

direct (lineal) descendant – прямой потомок

southerner – южанин(ка)

northerner северянин(ка)

easterner – житель Востока

westerner – житель Запада

Indicate whether each of the statements is true or false

1) All peoples have the same peculiarities.

2) The English prefer to go out to cafes and sit round the cocktail bar.

3) The Americans like to change their jobs and homes.

4) «The spirit of adventure» is a characteristic feature of a European.

5) All nations differ from each other.

Match the words with their meaning

1 easy-going A having or showing a high opinion of oneself.

2 gregarious B happy and full of fun.

3 haughty C doing smith with much effort.

4 reserved D pleasant, relaxed, tolerant.

5 gay E liking the company of others

6 inuisitive F happy state of mind, cheerful mood.

7 good-humored G gay, bright, merry.

8 hard-working H kind and affectionate.

9 light-hearted I slow to show feelings or opinion.

10 warm-hearted J liking, showing a fondness for, having (too much)

interest in other people’s affairs.

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