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1) It was the French language that influenced the English one in the 11th– 14thcenturies.

2) It is clothing that goes out of fashion every 6–8 years.

3) It is a technologist who organizes and controls the technological process at a sewing factory.

4) It is chemistry that has greatly changed the world of fabrics.

5) It is you who can decide on your career.

6) It is the famous tailored suit that always looks elegant and up-to-date.

7) It is clothing that has become yet another means of communication for people, especially at the present time.

8) It was the 18thcentury that brought the rapid growth of the population of London.

9) It was the first decade of the 20thcentury that brought great changes in town life of England.

10) It was in 1961 that the first cosmic flight became possible.

1.4. Read and translate the sentences. Mind the use of the degrees of comparison of the adjectives. Formulate the rules.

1) Fashionable clothes are usually more popular with the young people than with the older ones.

2) The clothes designed by avant garde artists are the most extravagant.

3) Can we say that the new jobs are more attractive than the traditional trades and professions?

4) When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

5) Located in the greatest metalworking area, Birmingham is one of the largest industrial centres of the world and the second largest city in Great Britain.

6) The more you live, the more you see, the more you see, the more you know.

7) The work of designer is more creative than the work of technologist.

8) One should read the classics in winter, because then one’s mind is more concentrated; read history in summer, because one has more time... .

9) It is from Shakespeare’s works that we get the clearest picture of Elizabethan times.

10) The youngest daughter got up at 4 o’clock every morning, cleaned the house and got breakfast ready for her father and three brothers. The work improved her health and made her even more beautiful than she had been before.

1.4.1. Complete the sentences with the necessary words in the brackets.

1) The job of construction worker is (more creative, less creative) than the job of architect.

2) In the 19thcentury the skirts were (longer, shorter) than today.

3) The garments from the collection of the famous designer are (more expensive, less expensive) than the garments sold in the shops and markets.

4) The grandfather is the (youngest, oldest) of the family.

5) The girl eats very little and becomes (thinner, fatter) and (weaker, stronger).

6) The train is (faster, slower) than the plane.

7) The flats in the centre of the old cities are (more comfortable, less comfortable) than the flats in the new blocks of flats or houses.

8) Rich people usually dress (better, worse) than poor people.

9) I don’t know any apple that has a (worse, better) taste than a good English one, and no other cup of tea ever tastes as (good, bad) as tea that is made in England.

1.4.2. Think of the sentences of your own with the following adjectives in the comparative or superlative degree (в сpавнительной или пpевосходной степени).

Wonderful, important, ridiculous, large, little, helpless, difficult, old, bright, warm, long, interesting.

 

 

2. Word-Building

 

2.1. Form adjectives or verbs by adding prefixes with negative meaning. Consult the dictionary:

un-, in-, dis-, non-

comfortable – удобный unconfortable – неудобный

happy – счастливый unhappy – несчастливый

to dress – одеваться to undress – раздеваться

 

in-

direct – прямой indirect – косвенный

complete – полный incomplete – неполный

 

dis- этот префикс может выражать как отрицание, так и противоположное действие:

а) отрицание

to like – любить to dislike – не любить

б) противоположное действие

to appear – появляться to disappear – исчезать

 

to build – строить torebuild – перестраивать

to write – писать to rewrite – переписывать