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15.03.2020 06:48 •  Английский язык

Как перевести текст : finding somewhere affordable to live in britain is hard. some parts of the country are cheaper than others, of course, but the cost of renting a home is horrendous, especially in london and the south. normally, the only answer is to share a house or a flat: you get a room of your own, but you have to share the kitchen and bathroom. in cities like oxford and cambridge, where rooms are scarce, prices will make your eyes water: more than £500 a month. in london, they’re even higher – not far off £700. oxford already seemed expensive when i lived there, and that was almost 40 years ago. when i started work after university, my room cost £40 a month – almost 15 per cent of my salary. with today’s rents in oxford, you’d need to earn £40,000 a year if you didn’t want to spend more than 15 per cent on your room. but when you finish university, starting salaries are usually between £20,000 and £30,000. apart from the cost, shared flats and houses are often in poor condition. landlords are slow to spend their profits on repairs. i was fairly lucky with mine. the house i lived in was scruffy, but the landlord took action when needed — like the time the bathroom ceiling fell in. i’d just run a bath and had returned to my room to get something, when i heard a loud crash. i went back to find the bathtub full of wet plaster. i had the ceiling repaired and took the bill to my landlord. для продолжающих (pre-intermediate — intermediate) чтение текстов – это не только возможность обогатить себя новыми знаниями, но и получить представление о структуре предложения, сленговых выражениях и в целом о современной речи. ведь часто бывает так, что изучая язык в школе, мы понятия не имеем о том, что некоторые слова уже употребляются совершенно в других значениях, а другие и вовсе на наших глазах и пополняют словарь языка новыми лексическими единицами, ранее не существовавшими. ученые отмечают, что уже через 5-7 лет появятся такие профессии, о которых мы сегодня ничего не знаем. ниже вы можете ознакомиться с художественным текстом. обратите внимание на структуру предложений и лексику. are you ready for this, amy? ” david asked his daughter. the girl finished tying the laces of her old walking boots, looked up and nodded slowly. “i think so.” they walked along a lane out of the village until they reached a gently winding path that led to the river. after crossing a wooden bridge, they followed the line of the riverbank, where tall trees kept the hot sun off their heads. david listened to the chatter of the fast-flowing river. the last time they had come this way, he had listened to a chattering stream of words from his daughter, who had told him about endless adventures and the scandals of friends and classmates. today, as they had crossed the bridge, a little grey and yellow bird had caught her eye. amy’s face had brightened, and the start of a story almost reached her lips, but then she remained silent. the path became steeper, leaving the river and splitting into two parts as they came closer to kinder reservoir. looking at his map, david pointed to the route that climbed above the reservoir. they followed it to the start of a narrow valley, where another steep path ran beside a fast-moving stream. as they climbed higher, amy began to notice the changing landscape. the stream was a series of little waterfalls that fell through green ferns and purple heather. intermediate — upper-intermediate when people ask me how i learned to speak german, i tell them it was simple: i met a german man at the oktoberfest, married him, and stayed in munich for 20 years. but there’s a bit of a backstory, too. in 1973, my friend sally and i decided to quit our jobs and travel through europe. we boarded a plane in early september, determined to stay abroad as long as possible — stretching our money by hitchhiking and staying in youth hostels. over the next eight months, we covered a lot of ground, from greece and turkey to finland, managing to limit our costs to an average of $5 a day. it all started in luxembourg, when we walked to the edge of town and stuck out our thumbs. it wasn’t long before a group of us soldiers on motorcycles stopped. they were on their way to a wine festival on the moselle river and were thrilled to have female companionship.