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II. Поставьте следующие предложения в отрицательную и вопросительнуюформы.

1. They’ve been waiting for half an hour.

2.She has been wearing glasses since she was ten.

3.It has been raining for two days now.

4.We have been fishing for two hours.

5.They have been living in France since 1980.

III. Заполните пропуски, употребив ‘since’ или ‘for’:

2.I’ve been waiting..... five o’clock.

3.We’ve been reading this book..... last January.

4.We’ve been studying English..... three months.

5.He has been sleeping..... seven hours.

6.He has been working..... seven o’clock this morning.

7.It has been raining..... yesterday morning.

8.I’ve been trying to open this door..... forty five minutes.

IV. Раскройте скобки, употребляя сказуемое во времени

Present Perfect Continuous.

e.g. How long you (wait)?

How long have you been waiting? 1. I (try) to phone him all day.

2.We (live) in this house for about twelve years.

3.How long you (learn) English?

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Present Perfect Continuous for since, all day, how long I have been writing letters all morning

IX. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в соответствующем времени: Present Perfect или Present Perfect Continuous.

1. I (sit) here waiting for you for nearly an hour. I (already drink) four whiskies.

2.What (you do) all this time? I (not see) you for weeks.

3.They (not work) for several days now. They (be) too ill.

4.It (not rain) for a month now. The grass is very dry.

5.They (go) to this pub every evening for the last 10 years.

6.I (sleep) for the last two hours and I (not wake) up properly yet.

X. Заполните пропуски следующими вопросительными словами.

what when where which who whose why how

1. ..... time do you finish work?

2. ..... is it who lives in that big house? 3. ..... of these coats belong to you?

4. ..... old is your daughter now?

5. I haven’t seen George for ages...... did you last come across

him?

6. ..... bag is this? It’s not yours, is it?

7. ..... did you live before you came to London? 8. But..... can’t you come? Are you busy?

XI. Поставьте вопросы к следующим предложениям.

1. George is buying her that necklace. Who.....

2.George is buying her a necklace. What.....

3.They have invited Mary and Philip. Who....

4.They give the keys to Peter. What.....

5.My daughter answers the telephone. Who.....

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UNIT 7

Grammar:1. The Past Simple Tense

2.The Past Tense of ‘to be’: ‘was’ and ‘were’

3.The repetition-word ‘one’

Texts: ‘Guy Fawkes’

Guy Fawkes

English children do not have bonfires on Midsummer Eve. Instead they have them on November 5th – Guy Fawkes’ Night or Bonfire Night.

Who was Guy Fawkes? A man called Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. He and some other men dug a tunnel under the Houses of Parliament and then put a lot of gunpowder in the tunnel. They planned to light it on November 5th, the day the King opened Parliament.

On November 4th Guy Fawkes went into the tunnel and waited. But someone told the King about the plot. The King’s soldiers found the gunpowder under the Houses of Parliament and they also found Guy Fawkes, – with three matches ready in his hand. Some days later they burnt him to death.

So, November 5th became Guy Fawkes’ Night and every year people lit a bonfire and burnt a ‘guy’. Some families still do this in their gardens today, but often towns have big bonfires and fireworks in a park. Children still learn the rhyme:

Remember, remember The fifth of November

Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason

Why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot!

Following an old tradition, even today Beefeaters from the Tower look under the Houses of Parliament for gunpowder every 5th of November.

Words and expressions to be remembered:

1. Peter has a party. What about you?

2.You have a book. What about Peter?

3.Harold has a bicycle. What about Nancy?

4.Ray has a brilliant idea. What about you?

5.Mr Parter has a bottle of lemonade. What about you and John?

6.We have an apple. What about Henry and James?

Grammar Exercises

I.ПроанализируйтеглагольныеформывовремениPastSimple.

II.Напишите следующие предложения в утвердительной

иотрицательной формах времени Past Simple.

III. Поставьтевсетипывопросовкследующимпредложениям.

1. He taught English in 1998.

2.They went to Italy on holiday last summer.

3.It began to rain 2 hours ago.

4.My watch stopped this morning.

5.Fred wanted coffee for breakfast.

IV. Дополните следующие утверждения отрицательными и утвердительными предложениями. Используйте слова, предложенные в рамке

e.g. Shakespeare wrote songs.

· Shakespeare didn’t write songs. He wrote plays.

radium the Eiffel Tower John F.Kennedy detective stories

the radio 1962 America the 20th century fish Italy Germany

1. Christopher Columbus discovered India.

2.Beethoven came from France.

3.Leonardo da Vinci lived in Brazil.

4.The Americans landed on the moon in the nineteenth century.

5.Gustave Eiffel built the Statue of Liberty.

6.Marconi invented the telephone.

7.Marilyn Monroe died in 1990.

8.Marie and Pierre Curie discovered penicillin.

9.Lee Harvey Oswald killed Martin Luther King.

10. Agatha Christie wrote children’s stories.

11. Last night I had grass for dinner.

V. Заполните пропуски нужными формами неправильных глаголов.

2.We always meet on Sunday. we..... last Sunday as usual.

3.I often find things on the beach. I..... this very old bottle yesterday.

4.They sell all kinds of rubbish now, but they once..... good handmade furniture.

5.She is very good at figures, you know. She..... first in maths at

school.

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6.I have the same car now I..... five years ago.

7.I don’t keep pets now, but I..... a dog when I was a boy.

8.Where did you eat last night? – We..... at a restaurant.

VI. Перепишите предложения, избегая повторения существительных.

1. St.Peter’s in Rome is a large building, but the Great Pyramid is

amuch larger building.

2.Galileo showed that the small weight dropped as quickly as the large weight.

3.He is fond of nearly all games, but tennis and football are the games he likes best.

4.You asked me to get you a dictionary. Is this the dictionary you

want?

5.These shoes are too small. Please get me some larger shoes.

UNIT 8

Grammar: 1. ‘Used to’. Past habit with ‘used to’

2.‘Used to’ and the Past Simple Tense

3.Degrees of Comparison

Texts: 1. ‘Transportation Used to be Much Slower than It is Now’

2. ‘Sultan of Brunei, One of the Richest Men in the World’

Text 1. Transportation Used to be Much Slower than It is Now

For many years in the desert, camels used to be the only form of transportation. Before the age of modern trains, camel trains used to carry all the goods for trading between CentralAfrica and Europe. Traders sometimes used to put together camel trains with 10,000 to 15,000 animals. Each animal often used to carry as much as 400 pounds and it could travel twenty miles a day. This form of transportation used to be so important that camels were called the ‘ships of the desert’.

Now modern trains travel across the desert in a very short time. One engine can pull as much weight as 135,000 camels.

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Air travel has changed, too. The earliest planes were biplanes, with two sets of wings. The top speed of this plane was 60 miles per hour. The plane engines sometimes used to stop in the middle of a trip. It used to be impossible to fly in bad weather.

Mechanical improvements during the first world war changed airplanes. Monoplanes took the place of biplanes.

Further improvements have lowered the cost of flying, and they have made air travel much safer than it used to be. A modern Boeing 707 can carry 170 people and can fly at 600 miles per hour. People never used to eat, sleep, or watch movies on airplanes. Now these things are a normal part of air travel!

Words and expressions to be remembered:

Text 2. Sultan of Brunei, One of the Richest Men in the World

His Majesty, Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, the twenty-ninth Sultan of Brunei, is one of the richest men in the world. He is descended from one of the oldest ruling dynasties on earth – a royal line that goes directly back over 600 years to 1363.

His money. The Sultan’s total wealth is more than $25 billion. He owns hotels all round the world. He has a fleet of private planes.

Some years ago, in Brunei, he built the biggest palace in the world. It has 1,788 rooms, 5 swimming pools, 257 toilets, 44 staircases, and 18 lifts. The dining-room can seat 4,000 people. The total cost of the palace was $400 million. In 1996, he had a special party there for his fiftieth birthday. It lasted three days and the guests included Michael Jackson, the American musician, the Infanta Elena from Spain, and Prince Charles from Britain.

His country. Brunei is one of the smallest but richest countries in the world. Its wealth comes from oil and gas. Many people in the west think that Brunei is in the Middle East but it isn’t. It’s in East Asia, on the north coast of the island of Borneo. It sells the oil and gas to Japan, and earns $2 billion a year from it. And the beauty is that there are so few people to share all this money. The population of Brunei is only 230,000. The Sultan and his three brothers are part of the government.

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