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3d LITERATURE

3d ЛИТЕРАТУРА

Номер 1.

a) Think of three questions you would like to ask about Chekhov. Then, read the biography and see if you can answer them.

a) Подумай о трех вопросах, которые ты хотел бы задать о Чехове. Затем прочти биографию и посмотри, сможешь ли ты на них ответить.

   Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
      (1860–1904)

   Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in Taganrog in Russia. When he was nineteen, he went to medical school in Moscow and later became a doctor. It was while working as a doctor that he began to publish his stories in order to help support his family. By 1886, he had become famous as a writer of plays and short stories. His works include the play The Seagull (1896) and his famous short story The Steppe (1888).
   Chekhov was a very fast writer who could produce a story in under an hour! A typical Chekhov story is about the thoughts and emotions of the characters. In The Darling (1899), Chekhov describes a woman, Olenka, who uses other people to give her own life meaning.

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   Антон Павлович Чехов
      (1860–1904)
   Антон Павлович Чехов родился в Таганроге в России. Когда ему было девятнадцать, он поступил в медицинскую школу в Москве и позже стал врачом. Работая врачом, он начал публиковать свои рассказы, чтобы прокормить семью. К 1886 году он стал известен как автор пьес и коротких рассказов. Среди его произведений — пьеса "Чайка" (1896) и знаменитый рассказ "Степь" (1888).
   Чехов был очень быстрым писателем, который мог написать рассказ менее чем за час! Типичный чеховский рассказ — о мыслях и эмоциях персонажей. В "Душечке" (1899) Чехов описывает женщину по имени Оленька, которая использует других людей, чтобы придать смысл своей жизни.

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b) Imagine that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text to your friend. You have 1,5 minutes to read the text silently, then be ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 1,5 minutes to read it.

б) Представьте, что вы с другом готовите проект. Вы нашли интересный материал для презентации и хотите прочитать его другу. У вас есть 1,5 минуты, чтобы прочитать текст про себя, после чего вы будете готовы прочитать его вслух. На чтение у вас будет не больше 1,5 минут.

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Номер 2.

The picture shows Olenka and Sasha. How are they related? Read to find out.

На картинке изображены Оленька и Саша. Как они связаны? Прочитай, чтобы узнать больше.

      HE DARLING

   She now had her own opinions, and at supper discussed with Sasha’s parents, saying how difficult the studies had become for the children at the school. But after all, she felt a classical education was better than a commercial course, because when you graduated from school then the road was open to you for any career at all. If you chose to, you could become a doctor, or, if you wanted to, you could become an engineer.
   Sasha started at the school. His mother left on a visit to her sister in Kharkov A ..... As his father was away every day inspecting cattle and was sometimes gone for up to three whole days at a time, it seemed to Olenka that Sasha was completely abandoned, was treated as if he were quite superfluous, and must be dying of hunger.
   So she transferred him into her part of the house and fixed up a little room for him there.
   Every morning Olenka would come into his room and find him sound asleep with his hand tucked under his cheek, so quiet that he seemed not to be breathing. "What a shame to have to wake him," she thought. "Sashenka," she said sorrowfully, "get up, darling. It’s time to go to school."
   He got up, dressed, said his prayers, then sat down to breakfast. He drank three glasses of tea, ate two large cracknels and half a buttered roll. The sleep was not yet out of him, so he was a little cross.
   "You don’t know your fables as you should, Sashenka," said Olenka, B ..... "What a lot of trouble you are. You must try hard and learn, dear, and mind your teachers."
   "Oh, leave me alone, please," said Sasha. Then he went down the street to the school, a little fellow wearing a large cap C ..... Olenka followed noiselessly. "Sashenka," she called.
   He looked round and she shoved a date or a caramel into his hand. When he reached the street of the school, he turned around, ashamed of being followed by a tall, stout woman and said, "You had better go home, aunt. I can go the rest of the way myself."
   She stopped and stared at him until he had disappeared through the school entrance. Oh, how she loved him! Not one of her other ties had been so deep. Never before had she given herself so completely and so cheerfully as now. Her maternal instincts were all aroused. For this boy, who was not hers, for the dimples in his cheeks and for his big cap, she would have given her life and given it with tears of joy. Why? Ah, indeed, why?
   When she had seen Sasha off to school, D ..... Her face, which had grown younger in the last six months, smiled and beamed. People who met her were pleased as they looked at her.
   "How are you Olga Semyonovna, darling? How are you getting on, darling?"
   "The school courses are very difficult nowadays," she told people at the market. "It's no joke. Yesterday the first class had a fable to learn by heart, a Latin translation, and a problem. How is a little fellow to do all that?" And she spoke of the teacher and the lessons at the textbooks, E .....
   At three o'clock they had dinner. In the evening they did his homework together, both crying at how difficult it was. When she put him to bed, F ..... And when she lay
   in bed, she dreamed of the far-away, misty future when Sasha would finish his studies and become a doctor or an engineer, have a large house of his own, with horses and a carriage, marry and have children. She would fall asleep still thinking of the same things, and tears would roll down her cheeks from her closed eyes. And the black cat would lie at her side purring, "Mrr, mrr, mrr."

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Номер 3.

a) Read the extract and fill in the gaps (A–F) with the parts of the sentences marked by numbers 1–7. One part is extra.
b) Listen and check.

а) Прочитай отрывок и заполните пробелы (A–F) частями предложений, отмеченными цифрами 1–7. Одна часть является дополнительной.
b) Прослушай и проверь себя.

1. repeating exactly what Sasha said about them.
2. she returned home quietly, content, peaceful and overflowing with love.
3. and carrying a satchel on his back.
4. where he walked in the same manner, every day.
5. and never came back.
6. she stayed a long time making the sign of the cross over him, muttering a prayer.
7. looking at him as though he was departing on a long journey.

Перевод:
1. в точности повторив то, что сказал о них Саша.
2. она вернулась домой тихая, довольная, умиротворенная и переполненная любовью.
3. и несла на спине его рюкзак.
4. куда он ходил точно так же, каждый день.
5. и больше не возвращался.
6. она долго стояла, осеняя его крестным знамением и бормоча молитву.
7. смотрела на него так, словно он отправлялся в долгое путешествие.

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