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А сейчас хочу огласить результаты голосования:
Всего проголосовало: 346
За Гарри Поттера :  184
За Зеленую Милю:  162
Как видите разрыв совсем небольшой, поэтому читать будем и то и другое.

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А сегодня в выпуске вы увидите:

1. Модальные глаголы
2. Устная тема о Великобритании
3. Диалоги на все случаи жизни
4. Анекдот
5. Идиомы
   
6.  Читаем литературу

• The Green Mile
• Harry Potter

7. Упражнение

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Модальные галаголы.
Для начала: кто это? что это? и с чем его едят?
Модальные глаголы - это такие глаголы, на которые не распространяетя все то, что связано с временами, вообщем, они особенные, потому что они модальные. Например can, may, must, should
Давайте  рассмотрим для начала глагол can.

I can	We can
You can	It can
He can	They can
She can
А вот как в Past:
I could	We could
You could	It could
He could	They could
She could

Глагол can никогда не бывает сам по себе, с ним всегда есть инфинитив
Например

I can run	I can't run	Can you run?
I can jump	I can't jump	Can you jump?

И в прошедшем времени

I could drink three litres water	I couldn't run, because I break my leg	Could I drink tree litres water?
I could across the river without help	I couldn't across river.	Could you across the river?

Ну вот, я думаю с глаголом can разобрались, об остальных в следующий раз.

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Climate and Nature of Great Britain.

The climate in Great Britain is generally mild and temperate due to the influence of the Gulf Stream. The south-western winds carry the warmth and moisture into Britain. The climate in Britain is usually described as cool, temperate and humid.
British people say: "Other countries have a climate, in England we have weather."
The weather in Britain changes very quickly. One day may be fine and the next day may be wet. The morning may be warm and the evening may be cool. Therefore it is natural for the people to use the comparison "as changeable as the weather" of a person who often changes his mood or opinion about something. The weather is the favourite topic of conversation in Britain. When two Englishmen are introduced to each other, if they can't think of any thing else to talk about, they talk about weather. When two people meet in the street they will often say something about weather as they pass, just to show their friendliness.
Every daily paper publishes a weather forecast. Both the radio and television give the weather forecast several times each day.
The English also say that they have three variants of weather: when it rains in the morning, when it rains in the afternoon or when in rains all day long. Sometimes it rains so heavily that they say "It's raining cats and dogs".
Rainfall is more or less even throughout the year. In the mountains there is heavier rainfall then in the plains of the south and east. The driest period is from March to June and the wettest months are from October to January. The average range of temperature (from winter to summer) is from 15 to 23 degrees above zero. During a normal summer the temperature sometimes rises above 30 degrees in the south. Winter temperatures below 10 degrees are rare. It seldom snows heavily in winter, the frost is rare. January and February are usually the coldest months, July and August the warmest. Still the wind may bring winter cold in spring or summer days. Sometimes it brings the whirlwinds or hurricanes. Droughts are rare.
So, we may say that the British climate has three main features: it is mild, humid and changeable. That means that it is never too hot or too cold. Winters are extremely mild. Snow may come but it melts quickly. In winter the cold is humid cold, not the dry one.
This humid and mild climate is good for plants. The trees and flowers begin to blossom early in spring.
In the British homes there has been no central heating up till recently. The fireplaces are often used. but the coal is not used as it's very expensive. Britain has no good coal now and imports it itself. Many schools and universities have no central heating either, and the floors there are made of stone. The British bedroom is especially cold, sometimes electric blankets or hotwater bottles are used.

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Repairing Things

A:I would like  to have these shoes repaired.As you see ,my heels are worn down. 
B:Yes,new heels are to be put on.
A:Will you repair the shoes while I wait? 
B:I'm very busy now.You can pick up your shoes tomorrow. 
A:At what time?            
B:Any time.                
A:How much will it cost?       
B:Six dollars.What's your name ,please?  
A:Vladimir Soloveychik.           
B:All right.Here's your slip.You'll  pay tomorrow when getting the shoes.     
A:Thank you.                             
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Vladimir:Do you do alterations?
Tailor:Yes,we do.      
V:I'd like to have these pants shortened.  
T:All right.How many inches?      
V:Not more than two.       
T:Would you try the pants on? I'd like to see them on you.Our fitting room   is to the left.  
V:Okay.Just a minute.  
T:(taking measurements)Two inches will be fine.
V:When can I pick up the pants? 
T:They will be ready on Monday.      
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Vladimir:Excuse me ,is there a camera shop anywhere in this neighborhood?       
Passerby:Turn right at the next corner.  There is a camera shop.You can't miss it.
V:Thanks.     
V(entering the camera shop):Good morning.
Saleswoman:Good morning.May I help you?  
V:Yes,I'd like to have this film developed and printed. 
S:Okay.Anything else?             
V:Please give me two films for this camera.
S:Here you are.Four dollars and 35 cents.
V:When will my pictures be ready?      
S:It will take five days.Here's your receipt.
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A:Do you repair shavers?        
B:Yes,I do.                             
A:Okay.I've my shaver with me.Can  you fix it?                                 
B:When did you buy it?        
A:About five months ago.        
B:Did you keep the guarantee?          
A:No,I didn't.I lost it.            
B:Then I'll have to charge you.      
A:How much will it cost?          
B:That depends on what's wrong with it. 
A:I think the batteries are dead.They should be replaced.                 
B:I've to check it.Could you come in  tomorrow?                                    
A:All right.

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Anecdote

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 Billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300C.
The Russians used a pencil.
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A guy stops by to visit his friend who is paralyzed from the waist down. They talk for a while and then the friend asks, "My feet are cold. Would you be so kind as to go get me my sneakers please?"
The guest obliges and goes upstairs. There he sees his friend's daughters, both very good looking. Being the adventurous and quick thinking kind, he says:
"Hi, ladies! Your daddy sent me here to have sex with you!"
They stare at him and say, "That can't be!"
He replies, "OK, let's check!"
He shouts at his friend down the stairs, "Both of them?"
"Yes, both of them!"

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Idioms

cup of tea
- something one enjoys or does well
Что- то, что очень нравится, чем обычно наслаждаются.

Going to art galleries is not my cup of tea so I think that I will stay home this evening and not go with you.

cut the mustard
- succeed, do well enough what needs to be done
Преуспевать в чем-либо, делать это хорошо как это требуется.

He wasnt able to cut the mustard so he had to leave the army after only one year.

duck soup
- a task that doesnt require much effort
Задача, которая не нуждается в больших усилиях

It was duck soup. I was able to finish everything early last night.

eat crow
- admit one is mistaken or defeated, take back a mistaken statement
Признавать что-то ошибочным или пораженным, брать назад ошибочное заявление (взять слова обратно)

I was forced to eat crow and had to apologize for the mistake that I made about the restructuring of our company.

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The Green Mile

Thirty-five years or so later - had to be at least thirty-five - I saw that name on the obituary page of the paper, under a picture of a skinny-faced black lady with a cloud of white hair and glasses with rhinestones at the corners. It was Beverly. She'd spent the last ten years of her life a free woman, the obituary said, and had rescued the small-town library of Raines Falls pretty much single-handed. She had also taught Sunday school and had been much loved in that little backwater.  LIBRARIAN DIES OF HEART FAILURE, the headline said, and below that, in smaller type, almost as an afterthought: Served Over Two Decades in Prison for Murder. Only the eyes, wide and blazing behind the glasses with the rhinestones at the corners, were the same. They were the eyes of a woman who even at seventy-whatever would not hesitate to pluck a safety razor from its blue jar of disinfectant, if the urge seemed pressing. You know murderers, even if they finish up as old lady librarians in dozey little towns. At least you do if you've spent as much time minding murderers as I did. There was only one time I ever had a question about the nature of my job. That, I reckon, is why I'm writing this. The wide corridor up the center of E Block was floored with linoleum the color of tired old limes, and so what was called the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain. It ran, I guess, sixty long paces from south to north, bottom to top. At the bottom was the restraint room. At the top end was a T-junction. A left turn meant life-if you called what went on in the sunbaked exercise yard life, and many did; many lived it for years, with no apparent ill effects. Thieves and arsonists and sex criminals, all talking their talk and walking their walk and making their little deals. A right turn, though - that was different. First you went into my office (where the carpet was also green, a thing I kept meaning to change and not getting around to), and crossed in front of my desk, which was flanked by the American flag on the left and the state flag on the right. On the far side were two doors.  One led into the small W.C. that I and the Block E guards (sometimes even Warden Moores) used; the other opened on a kind of storage shed. This was where you ended up when you walked the Green Mile.It was a small door - I had to duck my head when I went through, and John Coffey actually had to sit and scoot. You came out on a little landing, then went down three cement steps to a board floor. It was a miserable room without heat and with a metal roof, just like the one on the block to which it was an adjunct. It was cold enough in there to see your breath during the winter, and stifling in the summer. At the execution of Elmer Manfred - in July or August of '30, that one was, I believe-we had nine witnesses pass out. On the left side of the storage shed - again - there was life. Tools (all locked down in frames crisscrossed with chains, as if they were carbine rifles instead of spades and pickaxes), dry goods, sacks of seeds for spring planting in the prison gardens, boxes of toilet paper, pallets cross-loaded with blanks for the prison plate-shop... even bags of lime for marking out the baseball diamond and the football gridiron - the cons played in what was known as The Pasture, and fall afternoons were greatly looked forward to at Cold Mountain. On the right - once again - death. Old Sparky his ownself, sitting up on a plank platform at the southeast corner of the store room, stout oak legs, broad oak arms that had absorbed the terrorized sweat of scores of men in the last few minutes of their lives, and the metal cap, usually hung jauntily on the back of the chair, like some robot kid's beanie in a Buck Rogers comic-strip. A cord ran from it and through a gasket-circled hole in the cinderblock wall behind the chair. Off to one side was a galvanized tin bucket. If you looked inside it, you would see a circle of sponge, cut just right to fit the metal cap. Before executions, it was soaked in brine to better conduct the charge of directcurrent electricity that ran through the wire, through the sponge, and into the condemned man's brain.

obituary - некролог skinny- тощий rhinestone- здесь: страза rescue- спасение single-handed - без  посторонней помощи backwater - завод, болото heart failure - сердечная недостаточность decade- десятилетие blaze - пламя hesitate - колебаться pluck - мужество jar- nбанка urge - потребность dozey - сонный reckon - считать tired old limes - зелные лимоны  pace- шаг restraint - смирительная (изолятор) junction-пересечение sunbaked - залитый солнцем apparent - видимый     arson -поджог    flank - бок           lead - здесь: вести guard - охранник storage-кладовка shed- сарай duck - пригибаться scoot - здесь: пролезать, проползать miserable- жалкий, позорный stifling- удушливый witness - свидетель pass out - здесь: убрать frame - рама crisscross - перекрёстный carbine rifles - здесь:карабины spades and pickaxes - лопаты и кирки sacks - мешки seed- семя pallet - поддон  plate-shop - здесь: типография lime- известь diamond - ромб gridiron - сетка cons - здесь: заключенные The Pasture - Пастбище plank- доска     broad - широкий sweat -пот jauntily - небрежно beanie - кепка cord - провод cinderblock -  шлакоблочный gasket-circled hole - отверстие с уплотнением galvanized tin bucket - оцинкованное ведро sponge - губка     soak -промочить  brine - рассол    conduct - проводить charge - заряд wire- провод condemned - приговоренный

to be continiued.......

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Harry Potter

But on the edge of town, drills were driven out of his mind by something else. As he sat in the usual morning traffic jam, he couldn't help noticing that there seemed to be a lot of strangely dressed people about. People in cloaks. Mr. Dursley couldn't bear people who dressed in funny clothes — the get-ups you saw on young people! He supposed this was some stupid new fashion. He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel and his eyes fell on a huddle of these weirdos standing quite close by. They were whispering excitedly together. Mr. Dursley was enraged to see that a couple of them weren't young at all; why, that man had to be older than he was, and wearing an emerald-green cloak! The nerve of him! But then it struck Mr. Dursley that this was probably some silly stunt — these people were obviously collecting for something… yes, that would be it. The traffic moved on and a few minutes later, Mr. Dursley arrived in the Grunnings parking lot, his mind back on drills. Mr. Dursley always sat with his back to the window in his office on the ninth floor. If he hadn't, he might have found it harder to concentrate on drills that morning. He didn't see the owls swooping past in broad daylight, though people down in the street did; they pointed and gazed open- mouthed as owl after owl sped overhead. Most of them had never seen an owl even at nighttime. Mr. Dursley, however, had a perfectly normal, owl-free morning. He yelled at five different people. He made several important telephone calls and shouted a bit more. He was in a very good mood until lunchtime, when he thought he'd stretch his legs and walk across the road to buy himself a bun from the bakery. He'd forgotten all about the people in cloaks until he passed a group of them next to the baker's. He eyed them angrily as he passed. He didn't know why, but they made him uneasy. This bunch were whispering excitedly, too, and he couldn't see a single collecting tin. It was on his way back past them, clutching a large doughnut in a bag, that he caught a few words of what they were saying. "The Potters, that's right, that's what I heard yes, their son, Harry" Mr. Dursley stopped dead. Fear flooded him. He looked back at the whisperers as if he wanted to say something to them, but thought better of it. He dashed back across the road, hurried up to his office, snapped at his secretary not to disturb him, seized his telephone, and had almost finished dialing his home number when he changed his mind. He put the receiver back down and stroked his mustache, thinking… no, he was being stupid. Potter wasn't such an unusual name. He was sure there were lots of people called Potter who had a son called Harry. Come to think of it, he wasn't even sure his nephew was called Harry. He'd never even seen the boy. It might have been Harvey. Or Harold. There was no point in worrying Mrs. Dursley; she always got so upset at any mention of her sister. He didn't blame her — if he'd had a sister like that… but all the same, those people in cloaks… He found it a lot harder to concentrate on drills that afternoon and when he left the building at five o'clock, he was still so worried that he walked straight into someone just outside the door.

edge - край drills - дрели cloak- плащ get-up -наряд drum - барабанить steer - маневрировать wheel - руль huddle - прижиматься друг к другу weirdo- чудак excite- заинтересовывать enrage- бесить emerald - изумруд strike- поражать, осенять stunt - трюк obviously - очевидно owl -сова swoop - налёт;  стремительное падение in broad daylight - средь бела дня gaze - (пристальный) взгляд speed - мчаться yell -вопить bun - сдобная булка uneasy - тревожный bunch - компания tin - (жестяная) банка clutch- сжимать doughnut - пончик to stop dead - останавливаться fear - страх flood -наполнять dash - рвануться to snap at  - кричать на кого-л. seize - хватать receiver - (телефонная) трубка stroke - гладить mustache - усы nephew - племянник upset -расстроенный mention -упоминание blame- винить straight- прямой

to be continiued......

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Упражнение

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Сегодня будет два упражнения одно -  полегче, другое - потруднее, выбирайте сами.

I Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Indefinite, the Past Continious, the Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Continious

1. He left a message that he (call)
2. A young man who (stand) on the pavement (come) forward
3. That evening, that Monday evening, I (get) a phone call when I (eat) dinner at the club
4. "You are welcome", she (say) and (walk) back to where she (sit) with her little son
5. While she (read) this notice, a middle-aged woman (appear) in the doorway
6. When he (come) home, he (see) that something (happen)
7. Eighteen years (pass) since he first (go) into this house
8. Then she found that the tears (flow) quietly from her eyes. Perhaps, they (flow) for a long time
9. He and I (be) friends since our early twenties
10. I hardly (read) ten pages when I (hear) some strange noise Somebody (querrel)

II Это что-то на проверку словарного запаса.

1. What do you do with a TEACOSY ?
   a) Drink from it
   b) Make tea in it
   c) Keep the teapot warm with it
   d) Wear it

2. What do you do with an ITCH ?
 
   a) Eat it
   b) Scratch it
   c) Send it
   d) take it to the police

3. What do you do with a JACK?
   a) Use it to change a wheel
   b) Use it to decorate your house
   c) Make it President
   d) Eat it

4. What do you do with a MUDDLE?
   a) Cook with it
   b) Take it for walks
   c) Feed it to the cat
   d) Sort it out

5. What do you do with a LADLE?.
   a) serve soup with it
   b) serve coffee in it
   c) write with it
   d) take it out for a walk

6. What do you do with a KETTLE?
   a) boil water in it
   b) cook potatoes in it
   c) grate cheese in it
   d) shake drinks up in it

7. What do you do with a TRACKSUIT?
   a) wear it when you do sport
   b) wear it in the rain
   c) wear it to an interview
   d) wear it at a wedding

8. what do you do with a PILLOW?
   a) use it to put pills in
   b) drink from it
   c) rest your head on it when when you sleep
   d) us it to mesure the temperature with

9. What do you do with a FILING CABINET?
   a) Store crockery in it
   b) Put all your books in it
   c) Store documents in it
   d) Put your clothes in it

10. What do you do with a COMIC?
   a) answer it
   b) see him/her at the theatre
   c) watch it on the television
   d) read it

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