III. Chose the appropriate words below and insert them to the sentences according to the text:

1. In an age of t…………and darkness, one king broughtp……..andp……..to his land, defended it from everyd………

2. Over the c……., an extraordinaryc……of art and literature has grown up around thism……figure.

3. Although not the earliest e…….source that mentions Arthur, it is the first toi……..him as a highk……from Britain's past.

4. He names Arthur's f…….and associates and relates theird……andb………….

5. As a W………whose culture had a richo……tradition and an understandablem…….of pride, Geoffrey may have wanted to see hisp……..take their place among thee………figures of thep……..

6. There is also a p……….., albeit a faint one, that Geoffrey told thet……..about the "certain very ancientb……" he consulted for hisf…….

7. In matters of detail such as clothing, a…….., shelter andt…………., they used thet………of their own time.

8. E………… authors wove fascinating, h………….., glorious tales that their contemporaries could understand and relate to, and in so doing ensured their own i………..

9. Thus, understanding the Arthur of l……. is not so much a historical i…………. as a literary one.

10. The s…….of King Arthur haunts them……….. ages so completely that he cannot, and should not, be ignored.

(Existing, extraordinary, spectre, trappings, Welshman, heartbreaking, middle, corpus, armor, oral, deeds, book, past, possibility, people, treachery, investigation, king, immortality, measure, legend, family, facts, centuries, transportation, identify, mythic, backgrounds, truth, peace, eminent, prosperity, danger)

IV. Make up the correct sentences according to the article:

1. To value, taught, and, his counselor, the ways of justice, wise, him, truth.

2. Artuth`s family, and, he, relates, names(v), deeds, their, and, backgrounds.

3. He, where, his, get, he, facts, so?

4. “Dark Age”, these centuries, the Western Roman Empire, after, collapsed, are still called.

5. From county to country, changed, from century to century, the paragon.

6. In the search, our ally, for the past, becomes, he.

V. Find English equivalents of the following words and phrases. Make up some sentences using these phrases:

Мудрый советник, знатный рыцарь, сражаться против зла, столкнуться с невообразимым риском, собрание литературы и искусства, существовать в любом воплощении, ранние существующие источники, быть смертельно раненым, существование древней книги, выдумать историю, вести образ жизни, литературные старания (попытки), достигать величия, небольшое сходство, прочитать ч-л с критической точки зрения, множество творческих умов, увековечить, сражаться в турнирах, современники, сражаться за превосходство, зависеть от ч-л, смутная (неясная) личность, исторический поиск.

VI. Study the given words and word-combinations:

Existence, to exist, existing.

1. Existence(n) – существование, бытие.

to lead a certain existence — вести определенное существование; to eke out a (miserable) existence — влачить (жалкое) существование; a drab, miserable, wretched existence — жалкое существование

2. To exist(v) - существовать; иметься в природе (by, on), жить

I exist by what I think... and I can't stop myself from thinking. — Я существую, потому что думаю… и никак не могу перестать думать; to exist on bread and water — жить на хлебе и воде; Did unicorns ever exist? — Существовали ли когда-нибудь вообще единороги?

Syn:be, live, subsistAnt: die

3. Existing(adj) - сложившийся, имеющийся, существующий