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.pdf3. Find the synonyms to the following words:
varnish, to make an accent, embellishment, textile, up-to-date, genuine, components, wall
paintings, splendid, statue, pillar, imposing, arcs, colorful, striking, open-air, various
4. True or false?
1)The Champions' sports bar looks like a club in the mid of the 20th century.
2)There are photos and sculptures of famous sportsmen in the sports bar.
3)The Shanghai Bar has lots of ornamental elements in its décor.
4)There is a large dome on the ceiling of the empire Room.
5)Caryatids flank the entrance of the Empire Room.
6)Floral patterns are etched on the frames of windows in the Empire Room.
7)The skylight of the restaurant is provided by the gorgeous chandelier.
8)There is no tent on the outdoor bar.
5. Match the parts of the sentences: |
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The style of the Shanghai Bar … |
a) an atmosphere of the East. |
2) |
Genuine elements of decoration … |
b) are performed in the grandest empire |
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style. |
3) |
Murals of the Empire Room … |
c) has an accent on elaborate décor. |
4) |
The chandelier of the room … |
d) connects all the public rooms. |
5) |
The balcony of the restaurant … |
e) is designed in Arabian style. |
6) |
Two-level promenade … |
f) provides an elegant atmosphere. |
6. Answer the questions:
1) What style is used in the décor of the Shanghai Bar?
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2)In what way is textile décor used in the design of the Shanghai Bar?
3)What atmosphere is created in the restaurants (the Shanghai Bar, the Empire Room and the Lido restaurant)?
4)How is the ceiling of the Empire Room decorated?
5)Are there any statutes or sculptures in the Empire Room?
6)What is the style of the Lido restaurant?
7)Where can the guests admire hand-made murals?
8)Where is an outdoor bar situated?
9)How are the public rooms of the ship connected?
7. Translate the sentences:
1)Спорт-бар известен барельефными изображениями легендарных чемпионов.
2)Стены ресторана задрапированы различными китайскими тканями.
3)Дизайнеры использовали шелк для текстильного декора ресторана.
4)Восточная атмосфера ресторана создана благодаря тщательно продуманному оформлению в китайском стиле.
5)Восхитительные фрески и хрустальные люстры создают элегантную,
утонченную атмосферу.
8. Project “The décor of a restaurant’. What are your design ideas about decorating
a restaurant? Use the following words and phrases:
to be decorated, to be designed, to be situated (located), to be characterized, to be done in the … manner (style), to be created (done), to be shaped like, to use ornamentation, to be draped, to be covered, to be illuminated, to feature some style, to be etched, to be embossed, to flank the entrance, to provide (create) an atmosphere, textile décor, architectural elements, bas-relief, sculpture, statues, floral patterns, crystal chandeliers, pillars, pilasters
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TEXT 9
1. Read the text
Feng Shui Tips for Your Home Office
Feng Shui is a very popular and intriguing concept in home design today. In addition to the life benefits it provides, it also offers a roadmap, so to speak, of not just how to decorate but why. In short, it offers you, the homeowner, design with purpose.
Did you know that over 50% of women now run their own home business or work from home? Get your compass out and find the following directions because we are going to try and make things run a little smoother for you using the ancient art of object placement – Feng Shui.
The most ideal locations to situate a home office are the North (the career sector), the Southwest (the wealth sector), the Northeast (skills and talents sector) or the South (the fame and recognition sector.) If it is possible, try to locate your home office in one of those locations.
Here are some other general tips that are thought to bring prosperity to your business.
Always sit with a solid wall behind your back to ensure that you have support in your life. Never sit with a window behind you.
In the office place the fax machine, telephone, and computers in the southeast wealth sector, as this will attract more contacts.
Position your desk to have a clear view of the door. If this is not possible, hang a small mirror so you can easily view the door's reflection.
Don't put a shelf over your desk. This symbolizes burdens of the world crashing down on you at any moment. The heavy shelf also symbolizes burdens and difficulties.
Avoid having sharp accessories, such as a paper cutter blade or the corner of a Xerox machine pointed at your desk. It is shar chi that symbolizes the cutting knife-edge or a disapproving finger pointing at you.
Make sure that you can walk completely around your desk in a full circle. The workload should not cramp you. You should have space to breathe!
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Do not have clutter in your office. Desktops must be kept tidy and clutter free.
Avoid placing “In” and “Out” trays on your desk. Try to keep what is in use on your desktop.
Avoid placing cactuses in your office as the needles of these plants are thought to create negative shar chi. Shar or sha chi is stagnant or harmful energy.
In your office, never have the main door opening into your desk as it causes you to be faced with unexpected situations to deal with. Never have a door jamming against your desk, or your prosperity will always be blocked.
Do not place your desk in a room so that it is between two doors because this causes chi to rush by and pass you by along with all of your good fortune. In other words, the good energy walks in one door, right past you and out the back door!
Never set your desk at the top of a staircase as chi will roll down the stairs and cause you loss of opportunity and wealth. If this is unavoidable, place a mirror above the front door looking in and facing the staircase.
If people entering your business immediately face a wall and a long corridor, try placing a hanging crystal in this area to allow good chi to accumulate. Also, place mirrors here to direct the chi into your office.
Do not place large electric equipment, such as photocopy machine or microwave near to the main door. These are considered to be "hot" items that cause energy to dissipate. Heat causes the dispersal of good chi.
Do not place paper cutter or fax machines or any machine with a blade next to the front door. The "cutting" energy can cause staff and customers to be unpleasant and even possibly to back stab and fight each with other.
Do not place an empty vase next to the main door, as empty vessels suck good chi trying to enter your place of business. If you have a vase make sure it is full of flowers!
If you have candles in your office, light the wicks to make sure they are burnt, even if you don't plan to light the candle. An unlit candle is bad feng shui as it represents the limitations of possibility.
Place a fish tank or fishpond in the southwestern corner of your office. If this is not possible consider building a pond in the southwestern sector outside your building.
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To enhance your wealth and prosperity, position your indoor water feature in the southeast element of your home or office. For career luck, place it in the north. A tabletop fountain made of bamboo or flat round stones is always good for this purpose.
If you have a company signboard or logo, it should be optimally placed in the southeastern area, the southern area or the northern area of your home office.
burden – груз, ноша workload – объем работы to deal with – иметь дело с
jam – зажимать, сжимать, блокировать; давить, жать dispersal – рассеивание; рассыпание; рассредоточение to back stab – наносить удар в спину
vessel – сосуд (для жидкости) wick – фитиль
2. Find the English equivalents in the text:
план действий, размещать (x4), основные советы, видеть отражение двери,
символизирует трудности, убеждаться, беспорядок, поверхность стола, потеря возможностей и богатства, накапливать, рассеивать(ся), «колющая» энергия,
фирменный знак, настольный фонтан
3. Find the synonyms to the following words:
fascinating theory, profits, arrangement of things, perfect position, wealth, critical, inactive and damaging power, restriction of chances, aquarium, to increase your richness
4. True or false?
1)Feng Shui helps to place pieces of furniture and other accessories in a proper way.
2)Feng Shui is a popular modern trend in design that has recently appeared.
3)According to Feng Shui you can locate objects in strictly definite places.
4)According to Feng Shui there are four sectors in your home.
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5)Each sector corresponds to a definite aspect of our life.
6)It is necessary to follow Feng Shui instructions if you want to have prosperity.
7)A heavy shelf can crash down on you at any moment.
8)The space around your desk should not be blocked.
9)Plants in your office can produce a negative energy.
10)Hanging crystals and mirrors accumulate good energy.
11)It is obligatory to have candles and aquarium in your office.
12)You must place the logo of your company in your office.
5. Match the words to their synonyms:
1) to attract |
a) to be a sign of, to indicate, to mean |
2) to place |
b) to guarantee, to make sure |
3) to symbolize |
c) to limit |
4) to avoid |
d) to pull towards you |
5) to cramp |
e) to stay away from |
6) to ensure |
f) to locate, to situate |
Fill in the gaps with the appropriate form of these verbs:
1)He … the book carefully on the shelf.
2)Please, …that all lights are switched off.
3)If you don’t place the objects in an appropriate Feng Shui way, it will … a bad energy
to your home.
4)The owl … wisdom and learning.
5)You’d better … placing sharp things near your desk.
6. Combine the words into phrases:
1) to run |
a) business contacts |
2) to follow |
b) a home office |
3) to bring |
c) business |
4) to attract |
d) good energy |
5) to situate |
e) prosperity |
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6) to accumulate |
f) feng shui instructions |
Fill in the gaps with these phrases:
1)According to Feng Shui some objects can … .
2)It is necessary … in sectors which correspond to career, wealth, skills and fame.
3)He didn’t … in furnishing the room.
4)She wants … when she graduates from the university.
5)According feng shui, the proper placement of office machines will … .
6)Some people don’t believe that if you design a home office in a feng shui manner, it …
.
7. Answer the questions:
1)How can feng shui help us in decorating?
2)What is feng shui?
3)Remember your working place at home. What is arranged according feng shui? What does not correspond to the directions of feng shui?
4)Are you a follower of feng shui? Do you follow feng shui directions in designing your home? Why?
8. Find any picture or photo of an office. Describe the design of the room from the point of feng shui. Use the following phrases in your description:
to be located (to be situated, to be placed) in a sector of … the sector corresponds to …
it is an ideal location (position, place) because …
to bring prosperity, to attract business contacts, to support in your life to symbolize
to create negative energy, to accumulate good (positive) energy
9. Project. Draw a sketch of a study furniture are arranged in accordance phrases from the text and ex.8.
(office, working place) where objects and with feng shui directions. Describe it using
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TEXT 10
1. Read the text
Feng Shui Bagua Map
The feng shui bagua map is an octagonal shaped map, which allows you to evaluate in feng shui terms any living or working space. The feng shui bagua is a very important feng shui tool and indispensable when we wish to harmonize a place and the elements in it.
According to the feng shui bagua map, each part of your house corresponds to a different life aspect. The life aspects are nine and each one of them has its own characteristics and elements. By properly harmonizing each of the bagua areas within your home or working place, you will be harmonizing each area of your life.
The nine life areas symbolized in the feng shui bagua are: prosperity, fame and reputation, relationships and love, family, health, creativity and children, skills and knowledge, helpful people and travel, and career.
Prosperity is the area which you should pay attention to when you are having money related problems, its color is purple and the elements you should use in it are wood and water.
The feng shui bagua life area called fame and reputation is the one, which should be paid attention to when wishing a reputation improvement of any kind; it is represented by the red color and its most important elements are fire and wood.
Relationships and love area is the one which should be improved when looking for starting or improving a relationship of any kind. Its color is pink and the elements are earth and fire.
Family is another feng shui bagua life area and you can harmonize family boundaries by working on it, its colors are green, black and blue and its main element is water.
Health, another life area represented in the feng shui bagua map, can be improved by working on that area of your house. Health colors are yellow, brown and orange, and its main elements are earth and fire.
The next feng shui bagua life area is creativity and children. Creativity and children should be harmonized when having problems with children in the family, when
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wishing to have children or when wishing to improve our creativity. The colors of this area are yellow and earth tones, and its element is metal.
On the other hand, the colors you should use in order to improve the skills and knowledge life area are black and green and the element you should add is earth.
Helpful people and travel is another feng shui bagua life area, it can be improved by using the colors white and black, and by making sure, it contains the elements metal and water.
The life area of career can be harmonized and improved by using blue and white in the space, which corresponds to it as well as by adding some metal in it.
octagonal – восьмиугольный family boundaries – семейные узы
2. Find the English equivalents in the text:
оценить, соответствовать аспектам жизни, обладать отличительными признаками,
гармонизировать, мастерство (умения), улучшение репутации, улучшить творческий потенциал
3. Find the synonyms to the following words:
feng shui instrument, essential (very important), to focus on
4. Answer the questions:
1)What is the feng shui bagua map?
2)How many life aspects are there in our house?
3)Do they have its own characteristics? What do they have in common?
4)What do these areas symbolize?
5)What color and elements correspond to each life area?
6)What do the necessary colors and elements of the areas help to improve?
TEXT 11
1. Read the text, then think of the title to this article.
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Cheap interior design ideas come in many forms these days: from television shows to magazines. The industry is trying to teach the consumer how to design cheap. In the past, ideas such as cheap design would have left most interior designers horrified. The industry of interior design has changed dramatically over the past few years in order to better accommodate consumers.
In its early to mid stages of evolution, interior design was an industry of prestige. Now, due to the demand for design for the average customer, designing on a budget and cheap interior design has become a topic of much interest and acceptance. Of course, you will always find the designers who insist that durability and style of a design is identifiable with the brand name. The brand is associated with the contents therein, which relates back to the price tag. Most everyday people do not relate to this line of thinking. A secret tool to marvelous rooms, which are created using cheap interior design ideas, is a good decision making. By purchasing some slightly more expensive key items of furniture and by cost-cutting on the smaller items or accessories you can save big bucks and still achieve the same look that is achieved in other more expensive, brand name rooms.
The first question that pops into your mind here is “where do I buy the bargain items?” It can be easily answered! Your hunt for cheap interior design ideas and items can begin successfully at any bargain-type store. The stores and availability of items in these stores will vary according to your locations. There are locally known bargain-fairs or stores at which you can by slightly damaged or used items at a fraction of the cost associated with similar store bought items. When buying at these stores, be careful not to overspend. Many of us have a tendency to get overly enthused and purchase items that are not good bargains or ones that we are not very likely to use. Save your money for where it counts. You will find the perfect items in the bargain shop that fit into your lifestyle and space. If you search and search for a certain item and are unable to find it, try to improvise or select another similar item to take its place. Cheap interior design ideas are abundant to the creative thinker who is willing to overcome obstacles with unusual, cheap solutions.
Other places where you can find cheap interior design ideas are yard sales, estate sales, and flea markets. Remember again when shopping in areas such as this that it is
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