Architecture. Зайцева И.В. - 41 стр.

         В precarious; humble; to supplement; to establish; rude; to suppose; to cut;
stout; to pattern; to scatter; primordial; to spend; to allot

        4.1.8 Form all possible word combinations:

        A circular                          B buildings
               horizontal                          balance
               perpendicular                        curtains
               precarious                           cities
               big                                  structure
               harrow                               halls
               auxiliary                            yard
               large                                holes
               spacious                             slabs
               patterned                            props

      4.1.9 Read the following word combinations and translate them
into Russian:

         to pass several stages; to be closely connected with the history; the
first inhabitants; dry caves of limestone; to form by a mere juxtaposition of
slabs; perpendicular props; infant architects; precarious balance of the
hanging stones; wattle-and-clay houses; fortificated fence; to bring into
contact; major systems of fortification; scattered villages and townships; open
hearth; in the middle of the earthen floor; low-roofed huts; to be protected by
a stout fence; to cover with oiled linen; bright-patterned curtains; hall allotted
for the master of house; flat broad stone; humble dwelling;

  4.2 Read the text and tell about the early period of British
architecture

                                              Text 4 A

                     British Architecture in the Period of Ancient History

       British architecture passed several main stages in its development. It is
closely connected with the history of the country.
        As far as historical research could establish, the first inhabitants of the
British Isles were nomadic Stone Age hunters. They lived probably in the dry
caves of limestone and chalk hills.
        An Alpine race came to the British Isles about 1700 B.C.
        A characteristic monument of this civilization, primordially rude and
primordially majestic, is the so-called Stonehenge, a sort sanctuary erected on
Salisbury Plain about 1100 B.C. or some-what earlier. This circular structure
was formed by a mere juxtaposition of tall horizontal slabs, capping those
perpendicular props for all the world like houses built by infant architects