Lifestyle in Britain. Дворжец О.С. - 26 стр.

 6     Read the four descriptions of British houses and say which of them were taken
from fiction and which ones came from newspapers. Can you add any other description
of a house taken from fiction / newspaper?


a                      b                        c                         d
  As one of only         There was Mander-         Against the next          If you want to find
five        A-listed   ley, our Manderley,      batch of clouds, al-      Cherry Tree Lane all
buildings         in   secretive and silent     ready piling up ink-      you have to do is ask the
Bothwell,              as it had always         dark, broken chim-        Policeman at the cross-
Gleneden is truly      been, the grey stone     neys and parapets         roads. He will push his
a sight to behold.     shining      in    the   stood out. In her         helmet slightly to one
Making the 20          moonlight of my          once familiar street,     side, scratch his head
minute         drive   dream, the mullioned     as in any unused          thoughtfully, and then
from Glasgow           windows and the ter-     channel, an unfamil-      he will point his white –
was well worth         race. Time could not     iar queerness had         gloved finger and say:
the trip.              wreck the perfect        silted up.                “First to your right, sec-
  The red sand-        symmetry of those           The       staircase    ond to your left, sharp
stone building,        walls, nor the site      window          having    right again, and you’re
which dates from       itself, a jewel in the   been boarded up, no       there.
1855 and is at-        hollow of a hand.        light came down              If you are looking for
tributed to Alex-        The terrace sloped     into the hall. But        Number Seventeen –
ander “Greek”          to the lawns, and the    one door stood ajar.      and it is more than likely
Thomson, comes         lawns stretched to       There were traces of      that you will be, for this
complete        with   the sea, and turning I   long former habits        book is all about that
turrets and flag-      could see the sheet      of life – the yellow      particular house – you
pole, and these        of silver placid under   smoke-stain up the        will very soon find it. To
are the very fea-      the moon, like a lake    white marble man-         begin with, it is the
tures         which    undisturbed by wind      telpiece, the ring left   smallest house in the
make it visible        or storm. I turned       by a vase on the top      Lane. And besides that,
from a quiet           again to the house,      of the escitoire; the     it is the only one that is
country road.          and though it stood      bruise in the wall-       rather dilapidated and
  From the bot-        inviolate, untouched,    paper where on the        needs a coat of paint.
tom       of     the   as though we our-        door being thrown         But Mr Banks, who
sweeping drive-        selves had left but      open widely, the          owns it, said to Mrs
way, you instinc-      yesterday, I saw that    china handle had          Banks that she could
tively        know     the     garden     had   always hit the wall.      have either a nice, clean,
you’re in for a        obeyed the jungle           There were some        comfortable house or
treat, as the sheer    law, even as the         cracks in the struc-      four children. But not
size of Gleneden       woods had done.          ture, left by the last    both, for he couldn’t af-
manifests itself                                bombing.                  ford it.
in all its glory.


 7    Render the following passages from V. Ovchinnikov’s book ‘The oak’s roots’ into
English and compare your version with the given one.




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