Exercise 4. Translate into English

Артикли с названиями городских объектов

И различных учреждений

Exercise 1. Study the tables.

Названия, в которых встречается предлог of, обычно употребляются с определенным артиклем.

Exercise 2. Add the if necessary.

1____House of Commons 2.___White Tower 3.____Big Ben 4.____Union Jack 5.____ Poets' Corner 6.___Easter 7.___Parliament 8.___Great Fire of London 9.___St James's Park

10.___Mall 11.____London Zoo 12.___Roman Catholic Church 13.___Spanish Armada 14.___Buckingham Palace 15.____Royal Albert Hall 16.___Victoria and Albert Museum

17.___Hyde Park 18.___Heathrow Airport 19.___Kensington Gardens 20.___Tower of London

Exercise 3. Подчеркните выражения, которые являются исключением из правила.

The Natural History Museum, the Covent Garden, the British Museum, Lloyds Bank, the Tretyakov Gallery, McDonalds, the Tower, the Odeon, the Astor, Edinburgh Castle, the Globe, the Iskra, Buckingham Palace, the National Gallery, Scotland Yard, the Kremlin, the Hilton, the Russian Museum, the Winter Palace, the Kunstkamera, the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, the State Central Puppet Theatre, the Moscow Art Theater, the State Academic Bolshoi Theater, the Red Lion, the Royal Albert Hall

Exercise 4. Translate into English.

1. Пушкинский художественный музей __

2. Государственный театр кукол ________

3. Московский художественный театр ___

4. Зимний дворец ____________________

5. Русский музей _____________________

6. Государственный академический большой театр ________________________

___

7. Кремль ___________________________

Exercise 5. Read the texts, fill in the articles the / a where necessary and match the texts with the names of museums. Four names are extra.

1. ____ museum houses _______ world’s greatest collection of decorative, fine and applied arts (декоративно-прикладное искусство). Danish furniture from the 1960s sits next to Roman columns. ____ museum has ___ unusual room of fake (фальшивый, поддельный) pieces of arts.

2. It’s one of _____best places in London. There are five large floors of discoveries, inventions and explanations about how things work, Lots of places say “hands on” (можно трогать руками) and you can do experiments in ____ interactive exhibits. You can learn how ___ helicopter works in ____ real windy experiments, or just sit on ____ wing of ____ airliner.

3. This is ___ museum of ____ light and ____ glass. Inside you can see how children have played through _____ ages. It has ___ huge and colourful collection of dolls, doll’s houses, trains, cars, toy soldiers, puppets, toy theatres and games.

4. This gallery near ___ Thames houses ____ national collection of British art from 1500 until ___ present day. (It used to be called ___ Tate Gallery).

5. ___ very huge ambitious gallery is situated in ___ former power station (электростанция) overlook ___ Thames and ___St Paul’s. It contains ____ best collection of international 20^th century art in ___ Britain from ____ Chagall to ___ Picasso.