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Чтение на английском - My home

My home town is Bristol. It's a small town in the South-West of England. I live in a two-storey house on the outskirts of Bristol, near the River Avon. In front of the house there's a
garden which goes down to the river bank and in spring and summer there are flowers everywhere.

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Чтение на английском - My family

The Simons are a large family. There are four generations of Simons alive today. The oldest person in Paul's family is his grandfather, Mr. Frank Simon. He is 78 and he is still full of life and energy. His wife, Mrs. Olive Simon is 5 years younger than him. She is very practical but, as Paul thinks, a bit stingy. David and Karen Clark are Paul's uncle and aunt. Karen Clark's 48 years old, a good-looking 48, who looks 10 years younger than she is.

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Чтение на английском - It's Saturday

It's Saturday, 2 p.m. Paul's feeling restless and a bit nervous. It’s natural. After all today is his first blind date. Tonight he is meeting Greta. Hans’s cousin, "a beautiful stranger" as he calls her to himself. Greta comes from Bonn but now she's living in Bristol with a British family. She is an au pair girl. She does light work in the house and helps with the children n return for learning English. Greta would like to work in Britain after graduation.

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Чтение на английском - In Love With Shakespeare

An ambitious, year-long Shakespeare festival starts in 2006 – the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s tragedy, Macbeth. What better time to follow in the footsteps of England’s great bard?

Shakespeare’s Macbeth, with its witches murmuring sinister chants and foretelling plots of ambition, treachery and bloody murder, was first performed by his own company, The King’s Men, at London’s Globe Theatre in 1606. The actors would have played in the open air as they do today at the capital’s re-created Globe on the South Bank, where audiences can experience a play as it would have been performed by the playwright’s company.

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Чтение на английском - Greta's childhood dreams

When you are young and willing to conquer the world, you seldom doubt that all your dreams will come true. Unlike most of her classmates Greta has never let her imagination run away with her. She never wanted to be an astronaut, a movie star, or a fashion model. Her childhood dream was to become a librarian. Since the time she learnt to read Greta has been fanatical about books. They were a constant source of wonder and amazement to her. Books helped her to discover a lot of interesting things about the world around her.

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