Учебное пособие по темам "SEASONS AND WEATHER" и "TIME". Волошина Г.Н - 46 стр.

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afternoon the sky will clear, the sun will begin to shine, and for an hour or two
before darkness falls, it will be summer.
In England one can experience almost every kind of weather except the
most extreme. (Some foreigners, incidentally seem to be under the impression
that for ten months of the year the country is covered by a dense blanket of fog;
this is not true.) The snag is that we never can be sure when the different types
of weather will occur. Not only do we get several different sorts of weather in
one day, but we may very well get a spell of winter in summer and vice versa.
This uncertainty about the weather has had a definite effect upon the Eng-
lishman’s character; it tends to make him cautious, for example. The foreigner
may laugh when he sees the Englishman setting forth on a brilliantly sunny
morning wearing a raincoat and carrying an umbrella, but he may well regret his
laughter later in the day! The English weather has also helped to make the Eng-
lishman adaptable. It has been said that one of the reasons why the English colo-
nized so much of the world was that, whatever the weather conditions they met
abroad, they had already experienced something like them at home!
And, of course, the weather’s variety provides a constant topic of conversa-
tion. Even the most taciturn of Englishmen is always prepared to discuss the
weather. And, though he sometimes complains bitterly of it, he would not, even
if he could, exchange it for the more predictable climate of other lands.
2.1. Vocabulary Practice
Exercise 1.
Do the following points.
1) What is the difference between the words climate
and weather?
2) What is to ascertain
the truth?
3) What does balmy
mean?
4) What is meant by the extreme kinds of weather
?
5) Find another word for dense
in the phrase “dense blanket of fog”.
6) What does to appear from nowhere
mean?
7) What is a snag
?
8) What is “a spell
of winter”? What is the other meaning of the word?
9) What are the countries called that are colonized? What are the inhabitants of
those countries called?
10) Find a word or phrase meaning taciturn
.
11) What does predictable
mean? What is its opposite?
Exercise 2.
Answer the questions on the text “The Weather in Great Britain”.
1) How would you distinguish the weather in England from that in many other
countries?
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