Английский язык. Ч. 1. Гималетдинова Г.К - 11 стр.

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than 20 kg. with them;
     6) с выражениями next/last/this + week, Friday, day, time, etc.: next
Wednesday, last week, next time.
       Упражнение 16. Найдите в тексте “The United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland” случаи употребления определенного и нулевого артик-
лей и объясните их в соответствии с правилами.
       Упражнение 17. Поставьте определенный артикль там, где это необ-
ходимо.
       1) I enjoy reading … books. 2) He’s reading … books he got for his birthday. 3) …
Poverty seems to be getting worse. 4) Where can you buy … stamps? I haven’t got any
left. 5) It is a period of great problems for … Europe. 6) We went skiing in … Alps.
7) Where’s Meg? She’s feeding … baby. She won’t be long. 8) Can you play … violin?
9) Is Jessica still at … school? It’s after four. 10) What did you have for … breakfast?
11) Where are you meeting him? At … hospital. 12) He comes from … China, I think.
13) I can’t find … money I left out for you. 14) … Money is my biggest worry in life.
15) … Elderly should be given certain privileges. 16) I live in … Montague Road, num-
ber 27. 17) There is an interesting article in … Times. 18) … Lake Baikal is … deepest
lake in … world. 19) … Elbrus is … highest peak in … Europe. 20) … Sahara is …
greatest desert in … North Africa, stretching from Atlantic Ocean to … Nile.

                                      ТЕКСТ Б
                                 Dialects of English
      A nasty shock awaits many visitors to Britain. Imagine you have learnt Eng-
lish for years, you can read newspapers and you have no problem following the
television, but when you go into a fish and chip shop in Newcastle, you can not
understand a word they are saying. The language has been standardised for a
very long time, and regional dialects in Britain have largely died out – far more so
than in Italy or Germany, for example. That is to say, the vocabulary of the dia-
lects has died out, but the accents and a few bits of distinctive grammar remain. It
is the accent which gives the visitor a problem in the fish and chip shop. Some
accents are so strong that they present problems for British people, too. Varia-
tions within Britain are so great that accents from New York or Texas are often
easier to follow than ones from Liverpool or Glasgow.
      It is mostly the vowels which differ from one dialect to another. In Man-
chester, shut rhymes with put, and in the south it rhymes with but. Intonation pat-
terns also differ between regions.
      There is a kind of standard British English pronunciation, based in a confus-
ing way on class and geography. It is the accent of the south-east, but not that of
London itself. It could be said that the upper classes have a dialect of their own,
with a pronunciation known as RP (Received Pronunciation). The majority of mid-
dle-class people speak a sort of classless, democratic version of RP, with a slight
admixture of the local region accent.
      People’s attitudes to the various regional accents depend on a whole range
of historical and social factors. The Birmingham accent is considered ugly, cock-
ney is associated with criminals, Scottish is thought of as serious and sensible,
Irish as poetic. An interesting case is that of the so-called Westcountry accent.
This comes from the south and west, which is the least industrial region; conse-