Read the text. Gareth Williams, London’s trendiest museum curator, speaks about the Victoria and Albert museum in London:

Gareth Williams, London’s trendiest museum curator, speaks about the Victoria and Albert museum in London:

“The Victoria and Albert Museum was established as a collection showcasing industrial design; it was never a museum of fine arts. The driving idea is to inspire designers and the industry in general to create beautiful things. Today, we are returning to these origins; we are in the very centre of the creation of style. The museum has undergone some appreciable changes: it’s become a more fascinating place to work. We now pay more attention to contemporary design and architecture. Open evenings and fashion shows at the museum attract visitors who only five to ten years ago had never even heard of it. The museum has become more responsive to new developments and is part of a programme for promoting British designers…”

The Victoria and Albert Museum – a museum in central London that has valuable decorative objects of all styles and periods and from all over the world, such as paintings, glass, clothes and jewellery.

to showcase – выставлять, демонстрировать

to undergo some changes – переносить некоторые изменения

appreciable – заметный, существенный

2. Find the English equivalents in the text:

изобразительное искусство, движущая идея, создание стиля, обращать внимание, отзывчивый

3. Match the synonyms:

1) to inspire a) to regard

2) to create b) to display, to demonstrate

3) to attract c) to encourage

4) to consider d) to make, to invent, to produce

5) to promote e) to give an incentive, to support

6) to showcase f) to captivate, to fascinate

Fill in the gaps with the appropriate form of these verbs:

a) Their new design project … a lot of attention of the public.

b) The decorators managed to … a special atmosphere of that interior.

c) The main aim of the exhibition is to … British design.

d) They arranged a big advertising campaign to … their new stylish clothes.

e) The innovations in the field of interior design … them to work harder.

f) Your ideas concerning the architecture of this building will be carefully ….

4. Find the synonyms in the text:

basis, attractive (captivating, charming), modern (up-to-date), vogue, innovations

5. Make up sentences with the following phrases:

fashion (мода)

to set a fashion — устанавливать моду

to come into fashion — входить в моду

to go out of fashion — выходить из моды;

current fashion(s) — нынешняя мода

the latest fashion(s) — последняя мода

in fashion — в моде

out of fashion – вышедший из моды

6. Translate into English:

1) Коллекция промышленного дизайны была выставлена в этом музее на прошлой неделе.

2) Изобразительное искусство всегда вдохновляет дизайнеров на создание нового декора в интерьере.

3) Одной из самых сложных дизайнерских задач является создание своего собственного стиля.

4) В настоящее время современной архитектуре уделяется много внимания.

5) Эта выставка современного дизайна привлекает много посетителей.

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