11. Complete the following dialogues:

A: Pardon me, where is the taxi stand?

B: ...

A: Oh, yes. Thank you.

B: ...

* * *

A: Excuse me, is this Brest-Lytovsky Prospect?

B: ...

A: Thank you.

B: ...

* * *

A: ...

B: No, take the street on the left, go straight and the the­atre is in front of you across the river.

A: ...

B: You’re welcome.

XII. Ask questions on the text and retell it:

In the streets, roads and squares of the town 'we see people walking and vehicles driving. The vehicles are: trams, buses, trolley-buses, taxis and motor-cars, motor-cycles, motor-scooters and bicycles.

Along the streets there are street lamps, at the corners of the streets there are traffic lights. The street lights are switched on when it gets dark; they are switched off when

it gets light. When the red traffic light is switched on, the traffic stops; when the green light is switched on, the ve­hicles drive on.

Along the streets we also see bus, trolley-bus and tram stops. People get on and off public transport there. In the streets there are also Tube stations where people get on and off the underground electric railway.

At big crossroads in large towns and cities there are subways for pedestrians and fly-overs for vehicles. At nearly all street corners there are pedestrian crossings for people to cross the road.

In England vehicles drive on the left. In Ukraine the traffic drives on the right.

Outside the towns we travel from one place to another by train, plane or boat.

The past continuous tense grammar exercises

I. Replace the Infinitives in brackets by the Past Continuous Tense (active):

1. My friends and I (to look) for the nearest telephone booth when we met them yesterday. 2. He (to drive) a car aH day long yesterday. 3. We (to stay) at the hotel the whole week. 4. They (to wait) for a trolley-bus during some minutes. 5. It (to rain) the whole evening yesterday and we had to stay at home. 6. Jack (to speak) to his friend when I saw him at the terminus of tram 2.

2. Agree or disagree with the following statements. Begin your sentences with: I agree with you or It seems to me you are wrong:

1. A lot of buses, trolley-buses, trams, cars were running along the street. 2. We were looking the nearest under­ground station. 3. Some people were waiting for buses at the bus stop. 4. It was raining but the public transport was functioning well. 5. Pedestrians were hurrying to cross the street while the green light was switched on.

4. His friend was travelling by train at that time yester­day.

3. Complete the following sentences translating the words in brackets into English:

1. When the red light switched on (вона переходила вулицю). 2. When they met him at the taxi-rank (він розмовляв з другом). 3. (Я збирався запитати одного з перехожих про найкоротший шлях до оперного театру) when I saw an information booth. 4. (Він виходив з кім­нати) when the telephone rang. 5. (Він їхав зі швидкістю 90 кілометрів на годину) when he saw a militiaman at the crossroad. 6. (Літак приземлявся в аеропорту) when the thunderstorm broke out.