Переведите с английского языка на русский:
Artist –
Scientist –
Shop-assistant –
Secretary –
Architect –
Politician –
Ballet-dancer –
2. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в Present Continuous или Present Simple.
His father (not to watch) TV at the moment. He (to sleep) because he (to be) tired.
Pat (not to cook) dinner at the moment. She (to talk) dinner every Monday.
I (not to drink) coffee now. I (to write) an English exercise.
I (not to drink) coffee in the evening. I (to drink) coffee in the morning.
Your friend (to do) his homework now?
Your friend (to go) to school in the morning?
Look! The baby (to sleep).
The baby always (to sleep) after dinner.
My grandmother (not to work). She is on pension.
My father (not to sleep) now. He (to work) in the garden.
3. Вставьте артикль A(An) или The, если необходимо:
What's your name? My name is___Alison.
Where are you from? I am from ____ USA, ___ Wisconsin.
Where do you live? We live in ____ eastern part of ____ Minnesota. Our grandparents live in ____ Hudson.
What street do you live in? I live in ____ Green Street.
What school do you study at? I study at ____Hudson Middle school.
Have you got ___ pen-pal in ____ England?
What nationalities are your parents? My mother is ____ English. My father is ____ Swiss.
Where and when were you born? I was born in _____ Moscow in ___ 1984.
What's your mom? My mom is ____ housewife.
What's your dad? My dad is ____ driver.
4. Прочитайте текст и выполните задания к нему:
William Shakespeare, the greatest and most famous of English writers, and probably the greatest playwright who has ever lived, was born on the 23d of April, 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon.
In spite of his fame we know very little about his life. At the age of six he was sent to school, but had to leave it at the age of 13. His father, John Shakespeare, was a glove-maker, and when he fell into debt, William had to help him in the trade.
Just what William did between his fourteenth and eighteenth year isn't known. At the age of eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. Ann was eight years older than her husband and the marriage wasn't a happy one.
When Shakespeare was twenty-one, he went to London. We don't know why he left Stratford-on-Avon. There is a story that Shakespeare's first job in London was holding rich men's horses at the theatre door. But nobody can be sure that this story is true.
Later, Shakespeare became an actor and a member of a very successful acting company. It's highly probable that The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet and some other plays by Shakespeare were performed for the first time on this stage.
Very soon, however, the actors were told that they could no longer use the land that their theatre was built on and the company had nowhere else to perform. There is a story that in the dead of night the whole acting troop took down their theatre, timber by timber, brick by brick. They carried it across the river and rebuilt it. The new theatre was called the Globe.
Shakespeare wrote 37 plays: 10 tragedies (such as Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth), 17 comedies (such as As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing), 10 historical plays (such as Henry IV, Richard III.). He also left 7 books of poems. His 154 sonnets are known all over the world nowadays.
Most of Shakespeare's plays were not published in his lifetime. So some of them may have been lost in the fire when the Globe burnt down in 1613.
Shakespeare spent the last years of his life at Stratford, where he died, ironically, on the same date as his birthday, the 23d of April, 1616. He was buried in the church of Stratford. A monument was erected to the memory of the great playwright in the Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey. In 1997, Shakespeare's Globe was restored.
Test
1. Where was William Shakespeare born?
A. Stratford-on-Avon
B. Belfast
C. Cardiff
D. Edinburgh
6. What theatre was opened by William Shakespeare?
A. Green theatre
B. Globe theatre
C. Royal theatre
D. Open theatre
2. When was William Shakespeare born?
A. 1594
B. 1564
C. 1561
D. 1560
7. The Globe theatre is in …
A. London
B. Paris
C. Stratford-on-Avon
D. Belfast
3. William Shakespeare married in …
A. 1582
B. 1583
C. 1590
D 1595
8. How many plays and sonnets did William Shakespeare write?
A. 40, 150
B. 53, 135
C. 35, 200
D. 37, 154
5. He wrote …
A. sonnets and tragedies
B. tragedies and comedies
C. sonnets, tragedies and comedies
D. only sonnets
9. “to be or not to be” that is question of …
A. Hamlet
B. King Lear
C. Othello
D. Crusoe