Для тих, хто володіє іноземною мовою

1. Прочитайте опис Різдва. Знайдіть прикметники, які передають атмосферу цього свята, і поясніть їх значення.

   «Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys».

2. Велика Британія – це острівна країна, що має особливий клімат. Прочитайте опис різдвяного дня і знайдіть два прикметники, які є ключовими в описі різдвяної погоди.

   «It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them».
   «Foggier yet, and colder. Piercing, searching, biting cold».

3. У поданому уривку зверніть увагу на слово, яке найчастіше використовується. З’ясуйте всі значення цього слова і доведіть, що в душі Скруджа відбулися певні зміни, укажіть які : «The chuckle with which he said this, and the chuckle with which he paid for the Turkey, and the chuckle with which he paid for the cab, and the chuckle with which he recompensed the boy, were only to be exceeded by the chuckle with which he sat down breathless in his chair again, and chuckled till he cried».