English. Heavy gray clouds are quickly approaching and the forest on the horizon is already being poured with the shower

Heavy gray clouds are quickly approaching and the forest on the horizon is already being poured with the shower. Only the sea-gulls are impetuously rushing up and down above the river covered with ripples presaging the thunderstorm. This picture doesn’t show the frozen fragment of life in the nature but the process of its life. And the first raw of thunder has been heard by us. And the next lightning will have already flashed above the river. The thunder will have rattled louder. And the dense heavy rain will have joined the sky with the ground.

The insects, birds, and animals have hidden in their shelters in order to be protected from the storm rapidly moving towards them. We can hear the murmur of the forest, the lapping of water and the howl of wind. The artist used lots of tones of gray colour to portray the movement on the surface of water and the movement of clouds in the sky. Another moment and a thunderstorm will hit above the Siverko. The forest darkening on the horizon, the river-bed and the banks have been depicted so naturally that the picture is taken as a reality. The strong gust of wind bent down the grass till the very ground.

Task 12. Savrasov A.K. “The Rooks Have Come”

According to the Russian version of the text copy it in English in the proper order and read it perfectly:

Vocabulary:

rook – грач

one can say – кто-либо/иной скажет

outstanding – известный, выдающийся

contemporary – современник

to be heated – прогреваться

wet and soft – мокрый и рыхлый

to melt – таять

any moment – вот-вот

to cover – покрывать

foliage – листва

to awake (awoke, awoken) – проснуться

to come back to life – ожить, оживиться

melancholy – унылый

to be penetrated – быть пронизанным

spring warmth – весеннее тепло

to evoke despair – наводить грусть

joyful – радостный

cry – крик

not far in the distance – немного поодаль

church – церковь, храм

endless – бескрайний, бесконечный

and that’s that – вот так

brush – кисть

forgotten land – забытый край

to turn into – превратиться в

unforgettable – незабываемый