2 Each of the words in bold is in the wrong place. Write the correct words on the lines. >
I haven't got a (1) quarter
but I've got a clock on
my wall and it says it's 12 o'clock. I have lunch at one (2) seconds
That's in one hour, or 60 (3) o'clock
And there are 60 (4) watch
in a minute, so that's 3,600
seconds from now. And (5) hour
an hour after lunch,
at half (6) to
one, I have a sleep, so that's another 1,800
seconds. I usually sleep for two hours. That's 120 minutes or 7,200
seconds. A (7) half
of an hour later, at about quarter
(8) minutes
four, I often have an apple. One of the
visitors gives it to me. A quarter of an (9) past
is 15
minutes. That's 900 seconds. So, if my maths is right, I get my apple in
about 13,500 seconds. It's true I'm just an old donkey called Ned, but
my brain still works well!
The city has several dozen libraries, including the V. G. Belinsky Scientific Library, which is the largest public library in Sverdlovsk Oblast.
The Kharitonov Palace (built 1794-1820).
Yekaterinburg is famous for its theaters, among which are some very popular theater companies: the Yekaterinburg Academic Ballet and Opera Company, the Sverdlovsk Academic Theater of Musical Comedy (a notable company known in Russia and in ex-Soviet republics as Свердловская музкомедия - Sverdlovskaya muzkomedia), the Yekaterinburg Academic Dramatic Theater, the Yekaterinburg Theater for Young Spectators, the Volkhonka (a popular chamber theater), and the Kolyada Theater (a chamber theater founded by Russian playwright, producer and actor Nikolai Kolyada). Yekaterinburg is the center of New Drama, a movement of the contemporary Russian playwrights Nikolai Kolyada, Vasily Sigarev, Konstantin Kostenko, the Presnyakov brothers, and Oleg Bogayev. Yekaterinburg is also often called the capital of contemporary dance for a number of famous contemporary dance companies residing in the city: the Kipling, the Provincial Dances, the Tantstrest, and a special department of contemporary dance at the Yekaterinburg University of Humanities. вот
2. to translate smb’s speech into another language – to interpret
3. willing to help, useful - helpful
4. to know and to understand the importance of something – to realize
5. later, after that - then
6. to understand - comprehend
7. a group of words used together as a word combination with a special meaning - idiom
8. the part of a building that supports it – foundation, base
9. rise and fall of the voice - intonation
10. ordinary, not special or the middle member of a group - average
11. training someone by doing an exercise again and again - drilling
12. connected – related, linked, joined
13. fashionable, modern or new - trendy, popular
14. sad or unhappy because the things you hoped for do not happen - disappointed
15. to do something often so that you will do it well – to practise
16. taking or acting in a way that makes other people sad or angry. – to be rude