Номер 1, страница 22 - гдз по английскому языку 4 класс книга для чтения Кузовлев, Перегудова

It's time for me!

1. Here is a short story about the long history of the clock.

1) Read the story and match the names of the clocks and watches in Russian and in English with the pictures.

a) водяные часы

b) песочные часы

c) солнечные часы

d) механические часы

e) электрические часы

f) кварцевые часы

g) атомные часы

h) карманные часы и наручные часы

reading rules

See p. 120.

a clock [klɒk] — часы (настенные)

later — позднее

to use [juːz] — пользоваться

only ['əunlɪ] — только

to appear [ə'pɪə] — появляться

a tower ['taʋə] — башня

a watch [wɒtʃ] — часы (наручные)

1. Early people did not have clocks. But they had many ideas of how to tell the time. First, they told the time by the sun and later, they began to use sun clocks*.

2. But sun clocks were good only on sunny days and people made water clocks. Water clocks were better than sun clocks because they told the time during the day and at night. They were more accurate than sun clocks.

3. People also used the hourglass* or sandglass to tell the time.

4. Then the first mechanical clocks* appeared. They were very big and heavy. Some of them were with bells and people put them in large towers. Later clocks became smaller.

5. Soon the first watches appeared — pocket watches and wristwatches.

6. Later people made the electric clock*.

7. Today, quartz clocks* and watches are popular. Quartz clocks are very accurate. You can see quartz clocks in calculators and computers.

8. But the most accurate clock is the atomic clock*.

2) Vocabulary. Which meaning do these words have in the story? Read the sentences with these words and translate them.

accurate ['æk jərət] a 1) точный, правильный
2) меткий

bell [bel] n 1) колокол 2) звонок (звук)

early ['ɜ:lɪ] a 1) ранний 2) древний

first [fɜ:st] num. 1) первый
2) в грам. знач. наречия сначала

3) What type of watches do you wear? What clocks are there in your school/home? Which of them are the most accurate?

Какие часы вы носите? Какие часы есть в вашей школе/доме? Какие из них самые точные?

Ответ:

I don't wear watches.

Я не ношу часов.

In my school, there are wall clocks in every classroom and in the corridors. They are usually electric clocks.

В моей школе в каждом классе и в коридорах есть настенные часы. Обычно это электрические часы.

At home, I have a wall clock in the kitchen, a digital alarm clock in my room, and clocks on my phone and computer. The kitchen clock is probably a quartz clock.

Дома у меня есть настенные часы на кухне, цифровой будильник в моей комнате, а также часы на телефоне и компьютере. Кухонные часы, вероятно, кварцевые.

The digital clocks on my phone and computer are the most accurate because they are synchronized with very precise time sources. If I have a quartz wall clock, it is also very accurate.

Цифровые часы на моем телефоне и компьютере самые точные, потому что они синхронизированы с очень точными источниками времени. Если у меня есть кварцевые настенные часы, они также очень точные.