ldren go to school ___________ the age of seven. 14. The Christmas holidays start _________ the end of January. 15. ______ that daynobody worked at the office. 16. We met _______ the spring of 1945. 17. I ll be back I _________ a few minutes. 18. We livethe 21st century. 19. I m meeting Jill ________ Monday morning.
Exercise 21. Put in prepositions of time if necessary.
1. I don t workMondays, but _______ last Monday I had to work, we re fullthe end of the month. 2. I m leaving ________ Friday, I go to my country house _______ every other Friday. 3. Will you be at home ________ this evening?- I m afraid not, let s meet __________ the afternoon. 4. We usually go to France ________ summer, but it has become so crowded there that we decided to go to Spain __________ this summer. 5.I don t often go out ________ night, but ________ this night is a special one, my son is gettingmarried. 6. I phone Robert _______ every Sunday, that s the first time I didn t manage it __________ Sunday.
Exercise 22. Translate into Russian.the lecture, during the war, during the meeting, for five years, for a week, for ten minutes, for a year, before breakfast, after dinner, after classes , from 3 till 5, from Monday till Friday, from morning till night, by 9 o clock, by tomorrow, by the end of the week, on Wednesday, on a warm summer day, on the first of September, at 11 o raquo ; clock, at night, in 15 minutes, in 10 days, in a year's time, in the morning, in winter, in March, in January.
Exercise23. Translate intoEnglish.
з ранку до вечора, під час канікул (holidays), в цей час, протягом багатьох років, в 10:00, з восьми до дев'яти, з десятої до одинадцятої, через 5 хвилин, в 2006 році , влітку, восени, у травні, вранці, ввечері, з понеділка до суботи, в неділю, в грудні, навесні, через рік, протягом 3:00, вдень, у грудні, навесні, через рік, протягом 3 тижнів, вдень, через 10 днів, вночі, до занять, після уроку, під час уроку, до обіду, після завтрака.24. Translate into English.
У 4:00, о пів на шосту, чверть до третьої, на заході, о чверть на п'яту, опівночі, в п'ять хвилин шостого, без десяти два, опівдні, на сході сонця, у двадцять п'ять третіх.
Exercise 25. Fill in the gaps with the prepositions.
. I get up ... seven o clock or ... a quarter past seven. 2. ... Sunday I usually get up ... nine o clock or ... half past nine. But last Sunday I slept very long and got up only ... noon. 3. My birthday is ... the ninth of July. 4. The school year begins ... the first of September. 5. ... the twenty-fifth of December people celebrate Christmas. 6. ... Wednesday I usually have a lot of homework. 7. Lev Tolstoy liked to get up ... sunrise. 8. Our lessons are usually over ... twenty minutes to two. 9. They returned from the wood ... sunset. 10. I began writing my composition ... seven o'clock and finished only ... midnight.VI. a) Read the text and try to focus on its essential facts. Choose the most suitable heading below for each paragraph:
) Specific Features of Different Cultures 2) What is Culture? 3) Common Features of Different Cultures) Make a pr? Cis of the text, using the following phrases:
. The title of the text is ... 2. The text is about ... The text deals with ... 3. The text covers such points as ... 4. It should be underlined that ... 5. In conclusion , I may say that ... 6. To my mind ... 7. In my opinion ... CULTUREis a term, which is used by social scientists for a people s whole way of life. In its narrow meaning, culture is activities in such fields as art, literature, and music. Social scientists consider that a people s culture consists of all ideas, objects, and ways how people create things. Culture includes arts, beliefs, customs, inventions, language, technology, and traditions. The term civilization is similar, but it refers mostly to scientifically more advanced ways of life. A culture is any way of life, simple or complex.cultures have features that result from basic needs, which are shared by all people. Every culture has methods of obtaining food and shelter. There is also a way to keep order: a system of police, courts, and prisons. Every culture has ways to protect itself against invaders. It also has family relationships, religious beliefs. All societies have forms of artistic expression, such as painting, music, etc. In addition, each culture has some type of scientific knowledge.differ in their details from one part of the world to another. For example, eating is a biological need. But what people eat, when and how they eat, and how food is prepared differ from culture to culture. People do not realize how greatly culture influences their behaviour until they come across other ways...
