10. Put the verb in brackets into Past Simple or Past Continuous.

1. They (to meet) at the station two hours ago. 2. Where you (to spend) last Sunday? 3 We (to be) in a hurry because only twenty minutes (to be) left before the beginning of the performance. 4. I (to play) computer games when my friend (to come). 5. He (to ring) up his friend and (to ask) him about the homework. 6. Last Sunday we (to go) skiing in the country. There (to be) a lot of snow in the fields and we (to enjoy) ourselves. We (to ski) for two hours and a half. 7. They (to translate) a difficult text yesterday. 8. I (to open) the window at six o'clock yesterday. 9. I (not to see) Mike last week. 10. When I (to open) the door, my friends (to sit) around the table. 11. When you (to begin) doing your homework yesterday? 12. We (to discuss) the latest news from three till four yesterday. 13. When I (to read) the newspaper yesterday, I (to find) an interesting article about Bill Gates. 14. We (to work) the whole morning yesterday. 15. Mother (to cook) dinner at three o’clock yesterday. 16. She (to finish) cooking at four o’clock yesterday.

11. Read and translate the poem. Learn it by heart.

I, myself and me

I gave a little party this afternoon at three;

It was very small,

Three guests in all –

Just I, myself, and me.

Myself ate up the sandwiches,

While I drank up the tea,

And it was I

Who ate the pie

And passed the cake to me.

Notes

myself – (я) сам

a pie – пирог

a guest – гость

to pass – передавать

12. Read and translate the text.

A.S. Popov – Inventor of the Radio

The wireless receiving set or radio is one of the greatest achievements of human genius. The Russian scientist Popov was the first to invent it. On the 7^th of May we celebrate Radio Day because on that day in 1895 the Russian scientist Alexander Popov demonstrated his first radio set to a meeting of the Russian Physical and Chemical Society.

A.S. Popov was born in 1859 in the Urals. At school he spent all his free time on physics and mathematics. He studied at St. Petersburg University and graduated from it with honours, but was not satisfied with the conditions of the laboratories of the University and accepted the post of a teacher in the Mining School in Kronstadt. While he was working as a teacher, Popov began his research in electrical engineering.

The greater part of his life he devoted to the problem of the application of electromagnetic waves to wireless communication.

Popov worked on a sensitive receiving set which could pick up even the weakest radio waves. The year 1895 is considered to be the date of the invention of the radio when Popov demonstrated his radio receiving set in operation. By the end of the year he improved his apparatus. It was the first radio receiving set in the world.

After that many scientists and inventors worked on the device.

At present our country produces equipment for powerful broadcasting and television centres, and for radio-relay stations, electronic computers, radar stations, telecontrol and telemetric systems, and other purposes.

Notes

1. wireless receiving set – беспроводное принимающее устройство

2. achievement – достижение

3. to invent – изобретать

4. to celebrate – праздновать

5. the Mining School – минная школа

6. research – исследование

7. be satisfied – быть довольным

8. to accept – принимать, соглашаться

9. to devote (to) – посвящать

10. application – применение

11. sensitive – чувствительный

12. could pick up – могло ловить

13. to be considered to be – считается

14. in operation – в действии

15. to improve – усовершенствовать

16. equipment – оборудование

17. broadcasting – радиовещание

18. purpose – цель