1. Exercise 1 Translate the following sentences using the technique of semantic development. 1. A little water stood in her eyes. 2. It is time you were awake to the danger of your position. 3. The girl broke down again here, and could get no farther, choked with tears. Then she masteredher sobs. 4. She wasn't depressed. I mean she wasn't feeling suicidal or anything like that. 5. І always tried my best to beat Strickland, because he was a player who despised the opponent he vanquished; his exultation in victory made defeat more difficult to bear. On the other hand, if he was beaten he took it with complete good-humour. He was a bad winner and a good loser. 6. I am neither a believer nor an unbeliever. 7. Women are all waterproof and kissproof nowadays. 8. I’ll go where I belong. 9. His speech tends to put the entire blame for unemployment on the unemployed rather than right where it belongs ¬ on government policies which have brought about this unemployment. 10. About 100 passengers, held hostage in a Japanese airliner, went into their third day of imprisonment today on the runway of Seoul Airport. 11. Frankie noticed that her eyes were never long absent from her husband’s face. 12. In addition to his widow, Pratt is survived by a young daughter.
1. Learning a foreign language isn’t an easy thing.
2. Some people learn languages because they need them for their work, others travel abroad, for the third studying foreign languages is a hobby.
3. Yes, I do. I study English.
4. The native speakers of English live in Great Britain, the United States of America, Australia and New Zealand.
5. English is very popular now. Over 300 million people speak it as a mother tongue. It’s the language of computers, science, business, sport, politics, literature and glamour. English is the official voice of the air and the sea, and Christianity. English language is a wonderful language.