Read the sentences and translate them into Russian.

1. William Shakespeare was born on the 23 of April in 1564 and died on the same day in 1616 in Stradford-on-Avon. He wrote 37 plays. His play “Hamlet” was written in 1601. 2. Jack London was born on the 12-th of January 1876 and died at the age of 40. 3. On April 12, 1961 the whole world learned about Gagarin’s flight into space. 4. The entire repair will cost about $ 95. 5. “0” is pronounced nought before a decimal point and oh after a point in British English. 6. As agreed, you will begin to work on the 19th of October at a salary of 11 pounds per week. 7. Mind, that our office hours are from 9.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. with one hour for lunch, and every other Saturday from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. 8. To convert Fahrenheit temperature into Centigrade: subtract 32 and multiply by 5/9. To convert Centigrade temperature into Fahrenheit: multiply by 9/5 and add 32. 9. The boiling point of water in Centigrade is 100° and 212° in Fahrenheit. 10. According to liquid measure of capacity 8 pints equal 4 quarts or 1 gallon or 4.5435 litres. 11. Write money signs in front of the numbers. But pronounce currencies after the numbers: $56 (fifty-six dollars), £200 (two hundred pounds), ¥5000 (five thousand yen). 12. Here is the recipe of a home made cake: Take 250g of flour, 250g of castor sugar, 250g of seedless raisins, 50g of chopped almonds, 50g of preserved cherries, 170g of butter, 4 eggs, pinch of soda. Bake in a slow oven for 2 hours. Leave for 5 minutes in a tin, then turn it out and cool. 13. There is a humorous rhyme in order to remember some measurements:

2 pints, 1 quart,

2 quarts, 1 fight.

1 fight, 2 policemen.

2 policemen, 14 days.

14. Every night at 9.05 the bell in Tom Tower which was designed by Sir Christopher Wren for Christ Church in Oxford strikes 101 times in memory of the 101 students in Christ Church in Henry VIII’s time. 15. The King Edward III was at Woodstock, about 8 miles from Oxford, and ordered the Chancellor of the University and the Mayor of Oxford to appear before him.

6. Read the following facts about music and musicians recorded in the Guinness book of Records. Discuss the information with your classmates and enlarge the list of records.

1. Musical instruments 25,000 years old have been found in Hungary. 2. The longest musical instrument in the world is a Swiss alphorn which measures over 13 meters tall from end to end. 3. The biggest guitar in the world stands 2,6 meters tall and weights 36 kilograms. 4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his three symphonies in 42 days. 5. The longest church organ marathon lasted for 36 hr 3 min and was achieved by Nina Irslinger (Norway) at the Evje church in Evje, Norway, on 4 and 5 April 2009. 6. The American composer John Cage has written a piece of “music” which consists of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of total silence. 7. The most frequently sung English song is “Happy Birthday to you”. 8. Some violins made by Antonio Stradivari (1644 - 1737) are worth over 1million pounds.

9. Between 1962 and 1978, Paul McCartney wrote 43 songs which sold a million or more records. 10. On his 100^th birthday, the jazz musician Eubie Blake said, “If I’d known I was gonna live this long I’d have taken better care of myself”. 11. The longest drumming marathon by an individual lasted for 120 hours and was achieved by Russ Prager (USA). 12. The fastest rap MC is Chojin (Spain) who rapped 921 syllables in one minute on the set of 'Guinness World Records', in Madrid, Spain, on 23 December 2008. 13. The largest playable accordion in the world, built by Giancarlo Francenella (Italy), is 253-cm tall, 190-cm wide, and 85-cm deep, and weighs approximately 200 kg. 14. The deepest concert was performed by Katie Melua (UK) and her band at 303 m below sea level, on Statoil's Troll A gas rig, off the coast of Bergen, Norway on 1 October 2006. 15. The largest ballet class involved 989 participants in an event organized by Andrew Warth in Canal Walk Shopping Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, on 24 August 2008.

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