Выберите один из нескольких вариантов What does he say about the fans of the game? They are aggressive. Rival fans sit together. They come from the nobility. Read an Interview in which an Irish-Australian writer called Patrick O Reilly is talking about the Irish-Gaelic language, and answer questions 8-15 choosing option which best fits according to the text. Interviewer: Good evening, everyone. With me in the studio today is Patrick O Reilly, a third-generation lish-Australlan who is a writer and broadcaster and passionate supporter of the frish-Gaelc language. Welcome, Patrick. Patrick: Thank you, Sinead. Interviewer: Tell me Patrick, what significance does Irish have for you? Patrick: Wel, as you said, I'm an Irish-Austialien. Irish is my second language, I didn't learn it in Ireland, but here in Australia. In the 18th century it was the first language of many of the Irish people who settled here. Interviewer: And didnt it almost sio away at one point? Patrick: That's right, but it never quite vanished. So to me, Irish is a language of this country. It's in the streets of a Melboume suburb, the heat of Australian summers. It's the language in which I speak to my daughter, in which I broadcast and in which i write. I'm conscious of it history here Interviewer: How do you feel about the longuane itself? Patrick: Wel, Irish is a languoge of passionate songs, and it has one of the oldest iteratures in western Europe. It's descended from the language of those Colts who arrived in the British Isles at the end of the Bronze Age, so it datas back thousands of years. But for me, what is truly remarkable is that when ireland finally becama independent early in the last century, the trish language acquired renewed importance as a vehiclo of scholarship. Now it has a television network and has achieved something inconceivable, even 30 ycars ago: it has also become trendy and positively cool today. Interviewer: And what made you went to learn lrish as a languege? Patricie You may well ask/ When I began loaming the languago my enthusiosm was viawed as accantric. Interviewer: Whv? Patrick: Wel, some people thought that kish-Goalic was doad, like Latin, although in fact it was still spoken as a first language by a few thousand people on the west coact of Ireland. So why did I learn it? Ireland wasn't a part of my childhood in any significant way. My great- grandparents had come hare from Southern Ireland during the Gold Rush, and we had become solidly Australian, But I liked languages and the worlds they could reveal trish promised me a world of my own. I was conscious, I think, that my people's past lay elsewhere. Interviower: And vour Irich ancostry has olavod a bia part in vour writing too, I balloo? Patricke That's right. The stories I write in trish are published only in irefand, yet they deal with the peculiar situation of the language here in Australia. If I write in English, I use a language which has had tine to adapt to a new history, a new society. It has its own accent, its own everyday language. This has also happened with Italian, but Italian is the first or second language af a whale community. Irish in this country is the language of scattered incividuals, so it hasn't adapted to modern needs. As an Australian who writes in trish, I must bring about the inguistic adaptation which has taken 200 years to accomplish in English Interviewer: And vet vou imoled earlier that Irish had bocome fashionable. Is that the case in Auctralia? Patrick: Wel, yes, here it actually means that every year a number of pecole go to Irish language classes, and that a mincrity eventually become fluent. Irish has become a new trend because Ireland itsell is now a major draw for tourists Thousands of Australians visit Ireland ever year to seek the house their great-grandmother was born in, Wish relatives. Others want to see the green landscape of old lenends. For some the Irish language is part of all this. I once intervlewed a young woman from Melboume who became so fascinated by traditional Irish singing that she learned trish and now works in the Aran Islands off the coast of Ireland! interviewer: And what other motivation would Australians have for learning Irish? Patrick: Wel, many will tei you that it's something to do with their interes? in languages. But I would say that other motives are concealed in this phrase - motives as various as the incivicuals. It's also true, surely, that it alows the exoression of an aspect of identity long suppressed yet felt to be vital. Few people can bear to be rootless. We must all come from somewhere, and language is a fundamental part of identity. Not many feel the need to expicre their past by learning lrish, but that even a few should do so. is significant Interviewer: Thank you, Patrick, it's been interesting talking to you ЗАДАНИЕ 8 Выберите один из нескольких вариантов Patrick's offspring DOESN'T speak the Irish-Gaelic language. True False Not stated ЗАДАНИЕ 9 Выберите один из нескольких вариантов There are TV channels in Australia that broadcast in Irish. True False Not stated ЗАДАНИЕ 10 Выберите один из нескольких вариантов Why is the Irish language significant to Patrick? It is a major part of his cultural heritage. It came close to disappearing at one time. It was spoken to him when he was a child. It evokes city life in a particular era. ЗАДАНИЕ 11 Выберите один из нескольких вариантов Which aspect of Irish has particularly impressed Patrick? its age as a language its suitability for song lyrics its success in the modern world its role in broadcasting ЗАДАНИЕ 12 Выберите один из нескольких вариантов Why was Patrick keen to learn Irish? He lacked a strong identity as an Australian. He wanted to be actively involved in its revival. He was aware that it would broaden his horizons. • He was reacting against other people's views. ЗАДАНИЕ 13 Выберите один из нескольких вариантов According to Patrick, what makes Irish different from other languages in Australia? It is used as a second language. It is impossible to show how it sounds. It is not a language published in Australia. It has not gone through a process of evolution.