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2. Open the brackets, put the verbs into the correct form, the Past Continuous Tense or the Past Simple Tense. Translate the sentences:

1. You (to listen) while he (to talk)? 2. I (not / to pay) attention while I (to write) the letter, so I (to make) several mistakes. 3. I (not / to help) him because I (to prepare) for my History exam. 4. You (not / to listen) to me when I (to tell) you to turn the oven off. 5. You (not / to understand) what they (talk) about? 6. The Titanic (to cross) the Atlantic when it (to strike) an iceberg. 7. She was so annoying! She always (to listen) to music. 8. He (to prepare) report all day yesterday? 9. My friend (to come) home, (to switch) on the computer and (to check) his e-mails. 10. While I (to sit) at the lesson, my mobile phone suddenly (to ring). 11. She (to play) on the computer when you (to come)? 12. The receptionist (to welcome) the guests and (to ask) them to fill in the form. 13. When we (to do) a language course in Ireland, we (to visit) Blarney Castle. 14. Archimedes (to discover) the theory of buoyancy while he (to take) a bath.

3. Translate into Russian, find all the verbs in the form of the Past Continuous Tense. Ask general, alternative, special and disjunctive questions to the sentence in bold:

1. Aristotle (384-322 BC) lived at the time when Philip of Macedonia was conquering areas of Greece such as Attica.

2. In the century before Darwin (1809-1882) was born, scientific observation and the powerful rationality of the Age of Enlightenment were slowly changing the way people looked at the natural world.

Some thinkers were beginning to question the idea that all species have been there from the start unchanging. More and more naturalists were looking at fossils and finding they were of species that often seemed very different from those alive today.

At the same time, geologists such as James Hutton were beginning to challenge the orthodox idea that the world was just a few thousand years old, and that all the landscapes were created in a series of brief catastrophes. A growing minority were arguing that the Earth is in fact very old.

4. Read and translate. Replace the infinitives given in brackets by the Past Simple Tense or the Past Continuous Tense:

New worlds: micro and macro

In the 17th century science just (to begin) to make its mark in the world, and the greatest minds of Europe (to be) eager to learn more about the natural world. This (to be) the time when Newton (to discover) gravity and the basic rules that (to govern) every movement in the universe; the time, when Newton and Leibniz (to create) the mathematics of calculus; when Hooke and Leeuwenhoek (to discover) the world of microscopic life. Huygens (to be) at the forefront of this scientific revolution, and (to live) at its hub in Northwest Europe.

When Huygens (to be) a growing boy in the Netherlands, papal authorities in Rome (to threaten) Galileo with torture (пытка) for suggestion that the Earth might not be the fixed centre of the universe.

Many scientists of that period (to have) wide range of interests. Hooke, Huygens and Leeuwenhoek (to make) their own microscopes and (to make) important discoveries in the microscopic world. Newton, Hooke and Huygens (to make) their own telescopes, especially Huygens whose telescopes (to be) superior to anything that had been done before. With them he (to discover) Saturn’s moon Titan and the nature of Saturn’s rings, (to map) the surface of Mars for the first time, (to identify) stars within the Orion nebula and (to discover) a number of other nebulae.