Word Combinations and Phrases
to be as hard as nails 
быть выносливым, закаленным; to be apt 
склонным to do
to have (very much) a mind to do smth. smth.;
быть не прочь сделать..; to want finding (washing, a good beating, etc.) to fall out of love разлюбить; нуждаться в …;
to keep one's own counsel 
to take to one's bed слечь в постель
держать в секрете свои планы [намерения]; to be one's first consideration
быть на главном месте у…
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EXERCISES
A) Listen to the recording of Text Two and mark the stresses and tunes, b) Repeat the text in the intervals after the model.
2. Consult a dictionary, transcribe the following words and practise their pronunciation:
Inevitable неизбежный, menacingly 
угрожающе, necessity 
, quay 
причал, набережная стоянка, extricate 
выпутаться, experience, dispossess 
выселять, лишить собственности, prudence [pru:dns] осмотрительность, pathos 
, hazard [′hæzəd] опасность, apparently [ə′pærəntlɪ], persuade 
убеждать, callous 
чёрствый, dreadfully, scheming 
интригующий, angel, cheque, pathetic 
, jewel 
, acutely 
остро, solemn 
торжественный, oath 
клятвой, quandary 
затруднительное положение, release 
освободить, assess 
оценивать, immoderately 
чрезмерно, gesture 
, restaurant 
, sympathetic 
, chamber [′tʃeɪmbə] комната, agent 
, basement 
подвал, основание, attic 
классический, tiring 
изнурительный, patience 
, perseverance 
настойчивость, innumerable 
, reconsider 
переменить, endurance 
выносливость, revolt 
восстание, мятеж, content 
суть, сущность, assiduous 
усердный, прилежный, messenger 
курьер, herewith настояним, посредством этого
3. Read the following word combinations paying attention to different types of assimilation and the linking "r":
and the necessity for immediate 
action; round the world; at the selfsame port; that dispossessed 
лишило Roger of his common sense; on the point of filling with tears; between the hazards 
опасностей of life and this help-: less little thing; she twice trumped my best card; his eyes were opened; he swore 
поклялся a solemn торжественный oath клятвой; in her appealing 
way; people are apt склонны to think; in the basement; made the house unsuitable; they climbed thousands of stairs; but it did not affect the gentleness of his reply; we'll be married the very moment we find a house
4. Read the following sentences: beginning with "I have always been con vinced...", "Not always that..." and "Mrs. Barlow, for she was twice a widow. ...". Divide them into intonation groups; read them using proper intonation patterns
and beating the time; mind strong and weak forms of form words and all the phonetic phenomena of connected speech.
5. Read the following extracts: from "When Roger told me, ..." up to "...as hard as nails", from "If you don't find a house soon, ..." up to "...sixty houses on them", and from "Mrs. Barlow had the patience 
of an angel..." up to "...Ruth Barlow took to her bed" paying attention to the intonation of the stimuli and responses in the dialogues. Convey proper attitudes by using adequate intonation patterns.
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