Complete the following sentences. 1. Your sister is a real beauty

1. Your sister is a real beauty …. 2. He was a handsome young man …. 3. The woman who opened the door was …. 4. My niece is such a nice little thing …. 5. The most remarkable thing about her face is …. 6. She looks the very picture of her mother: she has the same …. 7. The girl charmed everybody; she …. 8. Can you describe that man? – Sure, he …. 9. Is your friend as beautiful as she used to be? – It’s a pity, but she is not. She …. 10. She is 25, she looks ….

1. Translate into English.

1. Її мати невисокого зросту, повненька, темноволоса та сіроока. Дочка зовсім на неї не схожа. Вона – висока, струнка блондинка з великими блакитними очима, темними бровами та віями. У неї великий, але гарний рот, прямий ніс та чудовий колір обличчя. 2. Мій сусід був високим худорлявим чоловіком п’ятдесяти років. Його обличчя було не надто привабливим. У нього був великий ніс, маленькі темні очі та тонкі губи. Але коли він говорив або посміхався, обличчя одразу ж ставало дуже приємним. 3. Це була літня жінка років за 60, із сивим волоссям, досить огрядна, але все ще красива. 4. Дівчинка чарівна з її круглим обличчям, великими синіми очима й кирпатим носиком.

1. Read and translate the following text, do the exercises below.

Beauty

For the Greeks beauty was a virtue: a kind of excellence. If it occurred to the Greeks to distinguish between a person’s “inside” and “outside”, they still expected that inner beauty would match beauty of the other kind. The rich young Athenians who gathered around Socrates found it quite paradoxical that their hero was so intelligent, so brave, so honorable – and so ugly. One of Socrates’ main pedagogical acts was to be ugly – and teach those innocent, good-looking young people of how full of paradoxes life really was.

They might not believe Socrates’ lesson. Several thousand years later, we are more wary of the enchantments of beauty. We not only split off the “inside” (character, intellect) from the “outside” (appearance); but we are actually surprised when someone who is beautiful is also intelligent and talented.

A beautiful woman, we say in English. But a handsome man. “Handsome” is the masculine equivalent of a compliment which has accumulated certain demeaning overtones (принизливий підтекст), by being reserved for women only.

Ø Comment upon underlined words.

Ø Give synonyms to the adjective “beautiful”.

Ø Give synonyms to the adjective “ugly”.

Ø Are adjectives “beautiful” and “handsome” absolute synonyms? What is the difference between them?

Ø What is more significant for you, inside or outside beauty? Why?

Ø Describe appearance that you consider ideal.

HUMOUR TIME

Do you feel like a glass of orange juice?

Why? Do I look like one?

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A man and a little boy entered a barbershop together. After the man received the full treatment – shave, shampoo, manicure, haircut, etc. – he placed the boy in the chair.

“I’m going to buy a green tie to wear for the parade,” he said. “I’ll be back in a few minutes.”

When the boy’s haircut was completed and the man still hadn’t returned, the barber said, “Looks like your daddy has forgotten all about you.”

“That wasn’t my daddy,” said the boy. “He just walked up, took me by the hand and said, Come on, son, we’re going to get a free haircut!”

LESSON 3

House. Flat

My house is my castle.

East or West, home is best.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

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