- •Isbn 978-5-600-01014-7
- •The imperative mood
- •A few golden rules
- •Roast chicken with rosemary
- •Ingredients:
- •D o’s and don’ts around dogs
- •How to put things right
- •If you phone:
- •The verb to be
- •Sacred mountains of the world
- •Amazing but useless facts
- •Richard Wagner
- •It’s an Amazing World!
- •Ice and water
- •Amazing facts about your body
- •The present indefinite tense
- •It is so hard to be an Irishman!
- •How people greet each other in different countries
- •Little Red Riding Hood
- •The past indefinite tense
- •Roald Dahl
- •Lamb to the slaughter
- •Lazy Jack
- •История почтовой марки
- •The future indefinite tense
- •5 Things you can expect from the house of the future
- •Irish wife
- •Умная Эльза
- •General review: indefinite tenses
- •The turnip
- •Битва с бабочками
- •The present continuous tense
- •Welcome to the World of Fun!
- •The strange doctor
- •The past continuous tense
- •The founding of Narnia
- •B. Несчастный старик
- •The future continuous tense
- •General review: continuous tenses
- •The man who could work miracles
- •Роман биржевого маклера
- •The present perfect tense
- •Digory and his uncle
- •Start exploring your life on earth!
- •Медовый месяц
- •The past prefect tense
- •The lady vanishes
- •A confession
- •The star talers
- •The mouse and Henry Carson
- •Hello? Anybody there?
- •The future perfect tense
- •Learn your horoscope for the coming week!
- •General review: perfect tenses
- •The Man, the Boy and the Donkey
- •Дама, которая никогда ничего не выбрасывала
- •The present perfect continuous tense
- •The story of the Three Bears
- •The past perfect continuous tense
- •General review: perfect continuous tenses
- •A gateway to “the Otherworld”
- •Долгое ожидание
- •The passive voice
- •Thanksgiving
- •Doctors without Borders
- •How chocolate is made
- •103. Open the brackets using the Passive form of the Past Indefinite tense. Amazing facts from History
- •The history of yo-yo
- •A laconic answer
- •A. Death comes to the squire
- •B. The hanging gardens of Babylon
- •A brief history of Facebook
- •Spartan upbringing
- •By Henry Miller in New York
- •T he history of Barbie
- •General review: the passive voice
- •Do you know that…
- •Quitters, Inc.
- •The sequence of tenses. The reported speech
- •I will not
- •Agony aunt
- •I don’t feel the same.
- •Муравей и кузнечик
- •General review: tense and voice forms
- •Реформация Джимми Вэлентайна
- •Modal verbs
- •Twenty ways of saving money!
- •How good a detective are you?
- •Rules for kids
- •Б укет колокольчиков
- •The oblique moods
- •If I Were King
- •I often wish I were a King,
- •Memory problems
- •A truly bizarre death
- •The depression years
- •General review: modal verbs. The oblique moods
- •П рогулка по пляжу
- •The infinitive
- •How to be a good friend
- •Идеальная женщина
- •The participle
- •The history of the sewing machine
- •A meal to remember
- •The complex object
- •Beatrice and the nightingale
- •Однажды в понедельник
- •The complex subject
- •Secrets of the world’s oldest people
- •Интересные факты из жизни американских президентов
- •The gerund
- •Mark Twain’s famous quotes
- •The top ten fears
- •The meaning of dreams
- •1. Flying 2. Getting stuck 3. Falling 4. Fire 5. Mountains
- •Strange deaths
- •Gerund and infinitive after certain verbs
- •General review: the verbals
- •Flying Dutchman
- •The great mouse plot
- •General review: mixed structures
- •Героиня
- •Sources
- •Internet sources
- •Contents
Irish wife
At the 1998 World Women's Conference, the first speaker from England (stand 1) up: "At last year's conference we (speak 2) about being more assertive with our husbands. Well after the conference I (go 3) home and (tell 4) my husband that I no longer (cook 5) for him and that he (have 6) to do it himself. After the first day I (see 7) nothing. After the second day I (see 8) nothing. But after the third day I (see 9) that he had cooked a wonderful roast lamb."
The crowd (cheer 10).
The second speaker from America (stand 11) up: "After last year's conference I (go 12) home and (tell 13) my husband that I no longer (do 14) his laundry and that he (have 15) to do it himself. After the first day I (see 16) nothing. After the second day I (see 17) nothing. But after the third day I (see 18) that he had done not only his own washing but my washing as well."
The crowd (cheer 19).
The third speaker from Ireland (stand 20) up: "After last year's conference I (go 21) home and (tell 22) my husband that I no longer (do 23) his shopping and that he (have 24) to do it himself. After the first day I (see 25) nothing. After the second day I (see 26) nothing. But after the third day I could see a little bit out of my left eye."
45. Translate the fairy-tale into English.
Умная Эльза
Жил да был человек, и была у него дочь. Звали ее Умной Эльзой (Clever Elsie). Вот выросла она, а отец и говорит: «Отдам-ка я ее замуж, если только найдется такой человек, что захочет ее взять». И вот пришел, наконец, из дальних мест человек, звали его Ганс (Hans). Понравилась ему Эльза. «Ну, - сказал Ганс, - если я увижу, что она и вправду умная, я на ней женюсь».
Сели
они за стол пообедать, а мать и говорит:
«А кто принесет нам пива из погреба?»
(cellar)
Взяла Умная Эльза с полки кувшин и
спустилась в погреб. И вдруг заметила
Эльза в погребе кирку (pike)
на стене. Начала Умная Эльза плакать и
причитать: «Коли выйду я замуж за Ганса,
родится у нас ребенок. Когда он вырастет,
пошлем мы его в погреб за пивом. И когда
он придет в погреб, кирка упадет ему на
голову и убьет его». Долго плакала Эльза.
Наконец ее родители с женихом спустились
в погреб и увидели Эльзу в слезах. Ганс
спросил ее, что случилось (to
be
wrong).
И рассказала ему Эльза, что когда она
выйдет за него замуж и родит ребенка,
они отправят его в погреб за пивом, и
как только он туда спустится, упадет
ему на голову кирка, и потеряют они
своего сына. Ганс решил, что это очень
умно, и сказал, что женится на Эльзе.
(after the Grimm brothers)
General review: indefinite tenses
46. Find and correct ten mistakes in the following text.
A traveler, wet with rain and feeling cold, arrived to a country inn, which he founded so full of people, that he could not get near the fire. He said to the landlord: “Take some oysters to my horse!” “To your horse?” exclaimed the landlord, “your horse shall never eat them”. “Do as I will ask you,” answered the traveler. All the people, hearing this, run out to the stable to see the horse eat oysters. The traveler now had the whole room to himself, and so he set down comfortably by the fire and warm himself. When the landlord returns, he said to the traveler: “I was sure that your horse will not eat the oysters”. “Never mind,” replied the traveler, “put them on the table and when I will be dry, I will try to eat them myself”.
47. Open the brackets using appropriate tense forms.
