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Whom is to blame (винить): modern technologies or people?





 

 

Journalist: Today we’re focusing on the problem of noise – noise at home and noise at work.

Medical experts agree that there are definite links between noise and stress levels … the noisier the environment, the more stress you are likely to experience. And it’s even worse when a person has to live and work in noisy environments. This is Kelly Emerson’s problem…

Kelly: … the first place I lived in when I moved here was really terrible. It was on a main road… and I was used to (привыкла) living in the country. There were lots of cars and lorries (грузовики) passing by the front door all day and night. Because of this I decided to move (переехать), but things got much worse…

Journalist: Kelly moved from her house on the main road to a block of flats. It was next to a park, so it should have been quieter, but it wasn’t.

Kelly: … the problem in the next place was the neighbours… the people directly upstairs from me. They had been playing music all night long and got very annoyed (раздражались) when I asked them to stop. The police used to come round two or three times a week, but they only stopped for a few minutes and then set off (начинали) again even louder. I mean … the proplem for me was that there was no break. It was noisy where I lived and noisy where I worked.

Journalist: Kelly was working in a laundry (прачечная) of a hotel, the only job that she could find when she left school, and decided at the same time to move away from her home town. She was advised to look for (поискать) a job in a quieter environment.

Kelly: … it was very well telling me to get a quieter job. If you’ve got qualifications, you can do what you like. If you’re not qualified, you’ve got to take what you can get. Anyway, I did what the doctor told me … I left the laundry and went to work in a factory. It was bringing in(приносило) less money, but it was quieter.



Journalist: Kelly was lucky enough to move to a really modern factory where the work involved assembling car stereos (сборка авто-радио). The change she experienced was remarkable.

Kelly: I used (бывало) to feel a pain in my back and my shoulders while I was working in the laundry. I didn’t realize it was stress. After a week at the factory, I really felt much better. I suddenly noticed that the pain had gone. Then I started feeling more energetic and I didn’t feel so tired at the end of the day. I mean … the difference was quite incredible (очевидна).

Journalist: But there was still the problem of the noisy neighbours. Fortunately for Kelly, a change was about to take place.

Kelly: My neighbours moved out. It’s much quieter now. The new people in the flat upstairs make less noise than I do. They’re so quiet. I think they must tiptoe (ходят на цыпочках) everywhere. When I think about the way things were, the contrast is incredible. There’s really no comparison.

 

XX. Work in pairs. Discuss the questions:

1. Do you have to put up (иметь дело) with a lot of noise?

2. Where do you experience more noise at home, in the street or at school (college)? Why?

3. Who is more guilty (виновен) in Kelly’s situation – technology or people?

4. What can be done to reduce (уменьшить) this problem?

 

Part III

 

XXI. Revise the Past Perfect Continuous Tense:

Прошедшее совершенное продолженное время (the Past Perfect Continuous Tense) обозначает действие, которое началось до определенного момента в прошлом, продолжалось до того момента и все еще протекало в тот момент или только что завершилось перед тем моментом (подразумевается какой-либо срок).



Поэтому показателями данного времени являются : обстоятельства впемени с предлогом for (в течение), since(с), союзом since(с тех пор, как) и вопросительное местоимение How long? (Как долго?).

Форма образуется с помощью глагола to be в Past Perfect – had been и причастия настоящего времени от смыслового глагола: I had been studying the rule for an hour when he came. (I was still studying it when he came). – Я учил правило в течение часа, когда он пришел. (Я все еще учил его, когда он пришел).

Why did he look so tired yesterday? – He had been studying hard. (He was not doing it any longer at the moment). – Почему он выглядел таким уставшим вчера? – Он очень усердно занимался. (Но в момент вопроса он больше этим не занимался).

 

Affirvative sentences + Negative sentences ---- Interrogative sentences ?
I had been writing You had been writing He had been writing She had been writing It had been writing We had been writing You had been writing They had been writing I had not been writing You had not been writing He had not been writing She had not been writing It had not been writing We had not been writing You had not been writing They had not been writing Had I been writing? Had you been writing? Had he been writing? Had she been writing? Had it been writing? Had we been writing? Had you been writing? Had they been writing?  

 

XXII. Read the situations and complete the sentences:

Example:We played tennis yesterday. Half an hour after we began playing, it started to rain. We … (play) for half an hour when it started to rain.

We had been playing tennis for half an hour when it started to rain.

 

1. Kelly got a job in a factory. A year after the factory was closed down. At the time the factory was closed down, Kelly … (work) there for a year.

2. I began walking along the road. 15 minutes later I saw a car. I … (walk) for 15 minutes when I saw the car.

3. It was very noisy in the flat upstairs. Two hours later Kelly came in her flat downstairs. Kelly’s neighbours … (have a party) for two hours.

4. Mary was sitting on the ground. She was out of breath. She … (run).

5. When I arrived, Kate was waiting for me. She was annoyed because I was late and she … (wait) for a very long time.



6. Ann was browsing online.Three hours later her mum came in and got angry that Ann … (browse) for three hours already.

7. We were very tired. We … (travel) since morning.

8. I’ve sold my car I bought two years ago. I … (drive) it for two years.

9. The hedgehog got into the container twenty minutes ago. I thought it wasn’t alive. It … (sit) there for twenty minutes.

10. Since it got into the container, it … (sit) there for twenty minutes already.

 

XXIII. For each situation make up a sentence using the words in brackets:

Model:Kelly was living in the country. The jounalist asked her … (how long/live) there.

He asked her how long she had been living there.

1. Kelly was living in a block of flats. The journalist asked her … (how long/ live) there.

2. The neighbours upstairs were very noisy. They always played music. The journalist asked Kelly … (how long/they/play music).

3. Kelly was working in a laundry of a hotel. The laundry machines were very noisy and the working day lasted long. The journalist asked her … (how long/her working day/last).

4. Kelly felt pain in her back and shoulders while she was working in the laundry. Her doctor asked her … (how long/ feel pain).

5. Kelly was assembling car stereos in a new factory. The journalist asked her … (how long/assemble) car stereos.

6. Kelly started feeling more energetic and the pain had gone. The doctor asked her … (how long /feel) more energetic.

7. Kelly’s noisy neighbours moved out. The new quiet ones moved in. The journalist asked her … (how long/the new neighbours/live) there.

 

XXIV. Put the verbs into the most suitable forms – Past (Simple, Continuous, Perfect and Perfect Continuous) or Present Perfect:

1. I (write) ten SMS yesterday.

2. I (write) an SMS. You may read it.

3. I (write) it before you came.

4. At nine I (write) an SMS while you (phone) me.

5. I (write) ten SMS for half an hour when you phoned me yesterday.

6. It (snow) heavily last week-end.

7. It (snow) heavily since morning when the skiers got to the mountain centre.

8. Look! It just (to stop) snowing. We can go out.

9. Before the skiers got to the mountain centre, it (stop) snowing.

10. When Dick went out, it (snow) heavily.

11. They (learn) the new words. You may check them.

12. They (learn) the new words only by nine o’clock in the evening.

13. They (learn) the new words yesterday from three till four.

14. They (learn) the new words for two hours when I came in.

15. They (learn) the new words yesterday.

 

XXV. Look at the diagram and make sentences describing the American teenagers’ predictions (предсказания):

Teens predict absolute technologies by 2015.

Part IV

 

 








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