Номер 1, страница 142 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс учебник Лапицкая, Демченко

1. Listen, read the story and formulate its main idea in one sentence. Define the genre of the story.

Three men in a boat

I remember a holiday of mine, which was completely ruined one late autumn because we were foolish enough to read the weather forecast in the local newspaper. “Heavy showers, with thunderstorms, may be expected today,” it said on Monday, and so we gave up our picnic, and stayed indoors all day, wait-ing for the rain. And people passed the house, as happy and merry as could be, with the sun shining out, and not a cloud to be seen.

“Ah” we said, as we stood looking out at them through the window, “won’t they come home wet?!” And we chuckled (ус-мехнулись) to think how wet they were going to get.

By twelve o’clock, with the sun pouring into the room, the heat became unbearable, and we wondered when those heavy showers and thunderstorms were going to begin.

“Ah! They’ll come in the afternoon, you’ll see,” we said to each other.

“Oh, won’t those people get wet!”

At one o’clock the landlady (хозяйка дома) came in to ask if we weren’t going out, as it seemed such a lovely day.

“No, no,” we answered, with a know-ing chuckle, “not we. We don’t mean to get wet – no, no.”

And when the afternoon was nearly gone, and still there was no sign of rain, we tried to cheer [tʃiə] ourselves up (под-бодрить себя) with the idea that it would come down all at once, just as the people had started for home, and they would fi-nally get wet more than ever. But not a drop ever fell, and it finished a great day, and a lovely night after it.

The next morning we read that it was going to be a “warm, fine, fair day; much heat;” and we dressed ourselves in light things, and went out, and, half-an-hour after we had started, it began to rain hard, and a bitterly cold wind began to blow, and both kept on for the whole day. So we came home with colds and rheumatism ['ruːməˌtɪz(ə)m] all over us, and went to bed.

The weather is a thing I never can understand.

After Jerome K. Jerome

1. Прослушайте, прочитайте рассказ и сформулируйте его основную мысль в одном предложении. Определите жанр рассказа.

Ответ:

The main idea: The story's main idea is that the weather is unpredictable, and blindly trusting forecasts can lead to ironic and comical situations.

The genre: The genre of the story is a humorous story.

Перевод:

Основная мысль: Основная мысль рассказа заключается в том, что погода непредсказуема, и слепое доверие прогнозам может привести к ироничным и комичным ситуациям.

Жанр: Жанр рассказа - юмористический рассказ.