Remember!

He saw us off. Он проводил нас.

He saw us to the bus stop. Он проводил нас до автобусной остановки.

9. Complete the sentences with the verbs from the box in the correct form.

show, doze, put, see, rope, send

1. The film was so boring that I... off in the middle of it.

2. Bernard Shaw said his hobbies were cycling and... off.

3. I'm sorry I can't come to your party tomorrow. I'm... off my sister. She
is leaving for London.

4. Look, we can't drive there! They've... off the road. I wonder what has
happened.

5. Don't... off till tomorrow what you can do today.

6. They wrote to us that they had... off all the documents a few weeks
before.

)10. Read the dialogue and say whose side in the argument you take - Fred­dy's or Dave's.

Two young tourists from Australia have just visited Washington. They were both greatly impressed by the capital of the United States and now a tourist bus is taking them to New York. One of the friends called Freddy is so tired that he dozed off in his seat. But as the bus emerges from the tunnel, the other boy -Dave, is so amazed at the panorama of Manhattan that he can't help trying to wake up his friend. D. Wake up, you are missing a lot! What a magnificent sight! The skyscrapers

are just breathtaking!

F. Oh, do you really like them? I don't. I think it's just unnatural for a house to

be so tall! Rectangular boxes! A jungle made of stones! Who would like to

live or work in one? Looking at the clouds and the walls of another monster

opposite yours?

D. You're absolutely wrong! Not all of them are rectangular. Look at that one

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over there. I even know its name. It's the famous Chrysler Building. Isn't it marvellous! They are all great achievement of architects and engineers. You can't object to that.

F. Yes, I can. They are a great achievement. Only not of architects but of prop­erty developers!

1 1 - Read the text and try to guess the meaning of the words you don't know.

Skyscrapers: problems and solutions*

Of course, with new technological developments, problems inevitably oc­cur. As skyscrapers became taller and lighter they began having trouble with the wind. When the wind was strong they began to sway, in some cases more than two feet in any direction! A solution to the problem had to be found urgently. The best specialists among architects and especially engineers put in a lot of effort to solve it and eventually they succeeded.

Another dramatic and very visible example of a typical problem caused by the height of skyscrapers was the John Hancock Tower in Boston, now consid­ered the city's most spectacular building. The structure is a tower of mirrored glass. The problem started during a winter storm in January 1973 while the tower was still under construction, when huge panels of glass, each weighing 500 pounds, shattered and fell to the street below. The streets and sidewalks were roped off as engineers tried to figure out what was going wrong. By April at least 65 panels had fallen and been replaced by plywood. Theories and ru­mours persisted, including suppositions that the tower was swaying too much, causing the windows to pop out, or that the tower's foundation was settling so significantly that it broke the windows. The truth was that the glass itself failed. Ultimately, all 10, 344 windows had to be replaced and the building has been safe ever since.

12. Comprehension check. Choose the right answer.

What caused the swaying of skyscrapers?

a) the poor quality of materials

b) the wind

c) the frost

The problem with the John Hancock Tower started when

a) the building had already been finished.

b) they were still building the tower.

c) the construction wasn't even started yet.

*https://www. wikipedia.org

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When huge panels of glass started falling down

a) the construction was put off.

b) passers-by were not allowed to approach the area.

c) engineers gave up the project.