Find the English equivalents in text 1.

поделиться опытом; несомненно; обязательный; присущий, общий; широко распространены во всем Соединенном Королевстве; безопасная тема; вставить слово; «специалист» по проблеме; теоретизирование о погоде; поддержать разговор; неисчерпаемость; семь пятниц на неделе; оказаться предательским; предвкушая великолепную погоду; настроение наверняка испортится; сожалеете, что не надели ветровку; не поддавайтесь заблуждению; льет как из ведра; вознаграждены небольшим промежутком ясной тихой погоды; на всякий случай; будете проклинать себя; компенсирует небольшое неудобство

Find the English equivalents in the dialogue.

решить, что делать; куда ты клонишь; ненадежный; вряд ли стоит им верить; не делай из мухи слона; ты говоришь так пессимистично; чушь; что тебя гложет; вероятны позже; успокойся; не так страшен черт, как его малюют; на всякий случай

3. Give the opposite to the following:

fresh flowers; in the sun; insular climate; to thaw; frost; close air; mild climate; dry weather; chilly wind; bright day; rainy summer; frosty weather

 4. Give synonyms or synonymous expressions to the following:

to melt, splendid weather, dusk, foggy, mist, close, to blossom, perfume, to rain, daybreak, damp, beastly weather, piercing wind, a violent wind, a gentle wind, a peal of thunder, puddle, steady rain, hard frost

5. What is the difference between the words:

to rain — to shower — to pour — to drizzle; mud — dirt; crop — harvest; twilight — dusk; snow — sleet — hail; hurricane — breeze; shower — drizzle — downpour; sunrise — dawn; fair — nice — fine (weather); foggy — misty; cold — chilly — cool; damp — wet — rainy; warm — sultry — hot

II. Give synonyms or synonymous phrases to the following

1. dirty; fair weather; to turn yellow; to put forth buds; to gather crops; hard frost; bad weather; wet weather; to be overtaken by a thunderstorm; dense fog; a black cloud

2. It is raining hard. It continues freezing. It looks like rain. The snow lies thick. It snows heavily. Winter comes on. What awful weather! What is the weather like today?

III. Give the opposite to the following.

1. dry climate; fair weather; at sunset; cloudless; sunny; to be­come longer; to melt; nasty weather; a light wind; above zero; cold rain; high temperature; heat

IV. Find a word in list a to fit each word in list b.

a) mild, sultry, severe, close, stuffy, chilly, misty, cutting, cool, wretched, slight, lovely, dull, piercing, damp, unsettled, hot, equable

b) weather, air, day, morning, climate, wind

V. Read the sentences. Paraphrase the words and word combinations in italics:

1. When the weather becomes hot, the air gets stuffy. The sky is suddenly covered with low black clouds and distant peals of thunder indicate the approach of a thunderstorm. Later, dazzling flashes of lightning are followed by claps of thunder and it pours. Anyone caught in the rain takes shelter, otherwise he would be wet through. After the thunderstorm the air is remarkably fresh. It is getting fine. 2. Clouds drift over the sky. 3. The sky is cloudy. 4. What a lovely day! 5. He got numb with cold. 6. The heat grows oppressive. 7. Has it ceased snowing? 8. What a gloomy day! 9. We are having a bitter frost. 10. What charming weather! 11. We shall have a thaw. 12. What a chilly day! 13. There is hardly a breath of air.

V. Give synonyms or synonymous expressions to the following:

to melt, splendid weather, dusk, foggy, mist, close, to blossom, perfume, to rain, daybreak, damp, beastly weather, piercing wind, a violent wind, a gentle wind, a peal of thunder, puddle, steady rain, hard frost

VI. a) Give the opposite to the following:

fresh flowers; in the sun; insular climate; to thaw; frost; close air; mild climate; dry weather; chilly wind; bright day; rainy summer; frosty weather

I. Say what is wrong with the statements:

1. Ice is hot. 2. January is the last month of the year. 3. The sun rises in the west. 4. Snowflakes are green. 5. The sky is cloudless when it is raining. 6. Violets and lilies of the valley are autumn flow­ers. 7. Birds lay eggs in autumn. 8. Fruit trees break into blossom in August. 9. Summer sets in September. 10. In autumn nature awakes from its winter sleep. 11. Little streams flow merrily when it is 20 degrees below zero. 12. Trees shoot out little buds in winter. 13. The sun shines brightly when the sky is overcast. 14. It lightens and thunders in winter. 15. How bitterly cold it is when it is 30 degrees above zero! 16. The snow lies deep in July in England. 17. Leaves turn yellow in spring. 18. Summer yields to winter. 19. Flowers do not grow in the meadows in summer. 20. Winter is the season of plough­ing and sowing; summer is the season of ice and snow; spring is the season of harvesting; autumn is the season of the first fruits and vege­tables.

II Form sentences from the table:

AT Leisure

Jokes

THE INDIAN AND TWO TRAVELLERS

Two men wore travelling in a very wild part of America. They saw no modern houses and no faces of civilization for many days. What they saw were only a few huts made of wood or tents where Indians lived. One day they met an old Indian who didn't work but trapped animals and ate them as his food. He was very clever and knew everything about the forest and the animals living in it and many other things. He could also speak English quite well.

«Can you tell us what the weather will be like during the next few days?» one of the two travellers asked him. «O, yes,» ho said. «Rain is coming, and wind. Then there will be snow for a day or two but then the sunshine will come again and the weather will be fine.» «These old Indians seem to know more about Nature than we with all our science,» said the man to his friend. Then he turned to the old Indian.

«Tell me,» he said, «how do you know all that?»

The Indian answered: «I heard it on the radio.»

A RAINY DAY

When Mr. Smith got up in the morning the weather was very bad. It was cold outside and it was raining heavily. He was about to leave for his office when he found that all his umbrellas were out of order. So, he decided to take them to an umbrella-maker. On his way to the office Mr. Smith left the umbrellas at the umbrella-maker's and said that he would come back and take them in the evening.

In the afternoon Mr. Smith went to have lunch at a restaurant. It was still raining, but the restaurant wasn't far from his office, and it took him only five minutes to get there. He sat down at the table and went through the menu. Soon the waiter took Mr. Smith's order. At that moment a young lady came in and sat down at the same table. Mr. Smith had his lunch and got up from the table. The lady was still having her lunch. By mistake Mr. Smith took her umbrella and went to the door. However, the lady asked him to give her back the umbrella. "Oh, I'm so sorry," said Mr. Smith. In the evening Mr. Smith took his umbrellas from the umbrella-maker, bought a newspaper and got on the tram. The young lady was in the same tram too. She looked at his umbrellas and said, "You've had a good day, don't you think so?"

Notes:

1. to be out of order — быть испорченным

2. by mistake — по ошибке

Proverbs

Blow the wind not so fast, it will lower at last.

When the dew is on the grass, rain will never come to pass.

When the wind's in the west, the weather's always best.

Winter's thunder is summer's wonder.

No weather is ill, if the wind be still.

Red sky in the morning is sailor's warning; red sky at night is sailor's delight.

Rain at seven, fine at eleven. (~Семь пятниц на неделе).

Small rain lays great dust. (~ Мал золотник, да дорог.)

Still waters run deep. (~В тихом озере черти водятся).

To lay by for a rainy day. (~Откладывать на черный день).

Poems

AUTUMN

I love the fitful gust that shakes

The casement all the day,

And from the glossy elm-tree takes T

he faded leaves away,

Long ago he was one of the singers,

But now he is one of the dumbs.

Edward Lear

COVER

Red leaves flutter,

Yellow leaves fall,

Brown leaves gather

Along a wall.

Brown leaves huddle

Against the gray

Stones some farmer

Set one way

Between two pastures.

Curled leaves keep

Any wall warm

When winter's deep.

Frances Frost

AUTUMN

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing,

The boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying,

And the year

On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead,

Is lying.

The chill rain is falling, the night worm is crawling,

The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling

For the year.

Percy Bysshe Shelley