Вариант 5

ЗАДАНИЯ к упражнениям:

1. Перепишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык, повторив тему «Инфинитив», «Причастие», «Герундий». Инфинитив, причастие или герундий подчеркните.
2. Перепишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык, повторив тему: «Модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты». Подчеркните модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты, определите их время.
3. Перепишите предложения, выпишите глагол-сказуемое, определите его время. Предложения переведите.
4. Прочитайте и устно переведите текст на русский язык.

Задание № 1

1. I am happy not to have failed you. 2. He is not the man to trifle with. 3. People are still in the process of repairing the many damaged buildings and streets. 4. I bought some frozen vegetables at the supermarket. 5. Before leaving London I shell let you know. 6. . On learning that my friend was ill I went to see him immediately.

Задание № 2

1. I could get only two tickets yesterday. 2. You will have to repair the chair tomorrow. 3. When the rain stops we shall be able to look for your doll. 4. Can you lend me $10? - Yes, I can. 5. Mike was not allowed to go to the cinema yesterday because he is too little.

Задание № 3

1. Jack won’t pay the bill. 2. The waiter gave me a glass of water. 3. This student makes no mistakes in his dictations. 4. Don’t call me from 10 till 12 on Tuesday, I shall be getting ready for my test on Chemistry. 5. The children were dirty. They had played in the garden, and they were covered in mud. 6. Haven’t you bought your mother a present? That’s really mean of you!

Задание № 4

Great Britain

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and North­ern Ireland is situated on the British Isles — a large group of islands lying off the north-western coast of Europe and separated from the continent by the English Channel and the Strait of Dover in the south and the North Sea in the east.

The British Isles consist of two large islands — Great Britain and Ireland — separated by the Irish Sea, and a lot of small islands, the main of which are the Isle of Wight in the English Channel, Anglesea and the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, the Hebrides — a group on islands off the north-western coast of Scotland, and two groups of islands lying to the north of Scotland: the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands.

Great Britain consists of four main parts: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Administratively Great Britain is divided into 55 counties.

The biggest cities of Great Britain are London Bir­mingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Cardiff.

Great Britain is a parlimentary monarchy. Officially the head of the state is the Queen (or the King). However, the power of the Queen in Great Britain is not absolute. She acts only on the advice of the ministers and Parliament. There is no written constitution in Great Britain. The main principles of British legislation are expressed in other documents, like "Magna Charta", "Habeas Corpus Act", "Bill of Rights", the Parlimentary Act which decided the position of the House of Lords, the Judicature Act, etc. The British leg­islation does not provide written guarantees of individual political rights.

Parliament in Great Britain exits since 1265 and is the eldest Parliament in the world. It consists of two Houses — the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The House of Lords consists of 1000 peers who are not elected by the people. The House of Commons is a nation-wide representative body which is elected by the people at a general election not less friequently than once in 5 years. After the general election the Queen appoints the head of the government — the Prime Minister. As a rule the Prime Minister is the leader of the party that has won the election. The Prime Minister appoints the ministers to compose the government.

There are two main political parties in Great Britain: the Conservative party and the Labour party. The Concervative party came into being in the 19th century as a result of the evolution of the Tory party. The Labour party was founded in 1900. Since 1906 it has borne the name of the Labour Party. For the first time the Labour Party won the election in 1945.