ENJOY YOURSELF. Exercise 45 Read and translate the poem of Robert L

Exercise 45 Read and translate the poem of Robert L. Stevenson, well-known writer and author of the novel ‘The Ireland of Treasure’. First railway so impressed him that he tried to describe his romantic admiration for a new means of transportation in verses. What thoughts do you have while travelling by modern railroads?

From a Railway Carriage

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,

Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

And charging along like troops in a battle,

All through the meadows, the horses and cattle;

All of the sights of the hill and the plain

Fly as thick as driving rain;

And ever again, in the wink of an eye,

Painted stations whistle by.

Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,

All by himself and gathering brambles;

Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;

And there’s the green for stringing the daisies!

Here is a cart run away in the road,

Lumping along with man and load;

And here is a mill and there’s a river;

Each a glimpse and gone forever!

Robert L. Stevenson (1850-1894)

Exercise 46 Define the form of the infinitive in the following proverbs and sayings. Memorize them. Give their Ukrainian equivalents.

1. Live not to eat, but eat to live.

2. Friendship is not to be bought at a fair.

3. To travel hopefully is better thing than to arrive.

4. These things are sent to try us.

5. Men are not to be measured by inches.

Do You Know That …

good-bye is the contraction of God be with ye? Good was substituted for God on the analogy of good night. Ye is an old form for you.

U N I T 9

Grammar: Complex Object and Complex Subject

Modal Verbs: Certainty and Possibility in Present and Past

Phrasal Verbs

Text: Railway Transport Economics

Supplementary text: Logistics on the Move

Word building: compound words, -ed, self+Present (Past) Participle

READING RULES

Exercise 1 Read the following words.

[θ] Theme, thick, three, thin, depth, tenth, fifth, sixth, width, teeth, theft, thong, thought, Thursday, third, thousand, theatre, health, tenth, path, lath, cloth, earth, south, birth, mirth, method, sympathy, anything.

[ð] These, they, then, with, within, them, breath, those, thus, thy, there, smooth, lathe, fathom, gather, rhythm, father, mother, brother, rather, either, neither, leather, feather, southern, together, further.