The Teenager and the Telephone

It was a fine day yesterday. Jane looked nice in her cotton blouse and blue jeans at school. Tom stopped her in the corridor and promised to make her a call. It was a surprise.

When she came home she didn’t eat her lunch as usual. She was very excited for it. She fell in love with Tom two years ago and was thinking about him all this time keeping silence. Each time she met him in the school corridor she got red and looked away. So the only thing she could do to wait for his call impatiently. Jane was lying on her back with closed eyes. She was dreaming while she was waiting for his call. What was he going to tell her? She didn’t know. She wasn’t interested in anything in her bedroom neither music or posters nor stuffed animals. She was propping her feet on the wall and looking into the ceiling when the telephone rang. Yes, she spent a lot of time on the phone yesterday but what they were talking about nobody knew.

Start your story the following way:

It will be a fine day tomorrow. …

Unit 3. Climate

Part 1. Climate Affections

Study the information in the table below:

Present Perfect Active – служит для выражения действия, которое произошло до момента речи, где имеется в виду результат этого действия, либо для выражения действия или состояния, происходившего с какого либо момента в прошлом вплоть до момента речи. Time Markers – already, just, ever, never, recently, then, yet, since … (since last week, since 1995, since 5pm, since we were children, …), for … (for many years, …)
Positive	Negative	Interrogative
□ have/has Ved/V3 ■. The temperature has already fallen by about 6º Celsius. □ – The temperature has V3 – has fallen ■ – by about 6º Celsius T.M. – already	□ haven’t/hasn’t Ved/V3 ■. It is snowing but the crops haven’t grown yet. □ – the crops haven’t V3 – haven’t grown T.M. – yet	1. Optional: Have/Has □ Ved/V3 ■? Have you taken into account climatic data? – Yes, we have./ No, we haven’t. 2. Special: Q.w. have/has □ Ved/V3 ■? Where have you been? – in Egypt

Exercise 1. Change the tense of the sentence according to a time marker:

1. The temperature has already fallen by about 6º Celsius. V1=fall(irreg.) (yesterday) –

The temperature fell by about 6º Celsius yesterday.

2. The water in the canals and rivers rose higher in 1995. V1=rise(irreg.) (since last week)

3. Thousands of people have already left their homes because of the danger of floods.

V1=leave(irreg.) (usually)

4. They went to other towns and waited. V1=go(irreg.) (just)

5. The water level will fall next week. V1=fall(irreg.) (for some weeks)

6. Hurricane Andrew hit Florida in 1992. V1=hit(irreg.) (rarely)

7. The hurricane often kills people. V1=kill(reg.) (recently)

8. The strong wind has already destroyed thousands of buildings. V1=destroy(reg.) (two days ago)

9. More than 50 000 people have just lost their homes. V1=lose(irreg.) (in 1992)

10. It doesn’t rain often in desert climate. V1=rain(reg.) (for six years)

11. The winds are changing direction today. V1=change(reg.) (just)

12. The area wasn’t receiving any rains from 1968 to 1974. V1=receive(reg.) (yet)

13. People and animals didn’t find any water in the Sakhel in West Africa in 1968. V1=find(irreg.) (for six years)

14. Nearly half of the animals of this area didn’t survive in 1968. V1=survive(reg.) (since 1968)

15. People haven’t stayed in the Sakhel in West Africa since 1968. V1=stay(reg.) (from 1968 to 1974)

16. The level of the World Ocean doesn’t rise 55 meters every year. V1=rise(irreg.) (yet)

17. Is snow melting early this year? V1=melt(reg.) (already)

18. Craven and Charles weren’t mushing back to the Navy’s Arctic Observation Weather Station when Craven fell and fractured his leg. V1=mush(reg.) (yet)

19. Charles never spends Christmas Eve in less comfortable surroundings. V1=spend(irreg.)

(ever)

20. Did Charles tell people the truth last year? V1=tell(irreg.) (before he met Gertrude)