III. Vocabulary exercises

Text A.

The Cliché Expert Testifies on Low

(abridged)

by Frank Sullivan

Q; Now Mr. Arbuthnot, what's love?

A Love is blind.

Q: Good. What dots love do?

A. Love makes the world go round

Q; Whom does a young man fall in love with?

A With the Only Girl in the World.

Q: When do they fall in love?

A: At first sight.

Q: How?

A: Madly.

Q: They are then said to be?
A. Victims of Cupid's* darts
Q: And he?

A: Whispers sweet nothings in her ear.

Q: When the Only Man falls in love, madly, with the Only Girl, what does he do?
A: He walks on air.
Q: What happens after that?
A: They get married.
Q: What is a marriage?
A: Marriage is a lottery.
Q: Where are marriages made?
A: Marriages are made in heaven.
Q: What does the bride do at the wedding?
A: She blushes.
Q: What does the groom do?
A: He forgets the rings.
Note:

Cupid ['kju:pid] - Roman God of Love

Ex. 4. Reading the dialogue, make a short story in indirect speech.
The beginning is given for you: "He saw the Only Girl in the
World and fell in love...."

Ex. 5. Translate the sentences paying special attention to the italicized
parts.

1. He was in his late eighties.

2. Elaine Kent was well in her twenties.

3. They were long past forty.

4. He didn't look his age.

5. We were born in the same generation.

6. Roma was two years my senior.

7. He was seven years her junior.

8. He is of short lived stock.

9. My family on both sides is noted for longevity.

10. Bairne is gone.

11. I made it a rule never to speak ill of the dead.

12. He had a steady girl-friend at the moment.

13. I don't have relations on my mother's side.

14. He had a daughter by his first marriage.

15. He was а male replica of his mother.

16. She changed her name back to the one on her birth certificate

17. He saw a classmate with a date

18. She was married into the Evans family.

19. Tom dated the girl every now and then.

20. Do you have a boy-friend?

21. Everyone said that Tom was the image of my mother.

22. They had a strong resemblance to each other.

Ex. 6. Match the words and phrases in column A with the tho
in column B.

А В

J. christian name	a.	прозвище
2. teenager	b.	назвать чьим-либо именем
3. twenty odd	c.	Достичь совершеннолетия
4. look one's age	d.	родом из
5. come from	e.	говорить на ломаном
		английском языке
6. native tongue	f.	вдовец
7. -be good at languages	g.	мачеха
8. nickname	h.	предки
9. be of age	i.	сводный брат
10. speak broken English	j.	воспитать детей
11. bring up children	k.	хорошо владеть иностранным
		языком
12. a widower	t	выглядеть не старше своих лет
13. an old maid	m.	двадцать с лишним
14. stepmother	n.	подросток
15. ancestry	0.	имя
16. call smb after	P.	родной язык
17. half brother	q.	старая дева

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