- •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
Agony aunt
I don’t feel the same.
Dear Agony Aunt,
I’ve been in a relationship for over 2 years now but I don’t feel the same as I did towards her anymore. Little things are annoying me and I’m just not happy. We are planning to move in together which I really don’t want to do because I know it will be a nightmare. I’m not sure whether to ride it out or end it. I don’t want to hurt her.
I used to have commitment issues and we have split over these before. We got back together because I really did love her but it’s less than a year since that and now I’m doubting whether I want a future with her. Any advice would be great.
B. Should I contact him?
Dear Agony Aunt,
I was 15 when I met my ex, 16 when we split up. I’m now 23 and I still think about him daily. I don’t know what is going on with his life, I haven’t seen him for about a year or more. I would like to contact him but have no address other than his mother’s, and I know he doesn’t live at home any more. Should I contact him and tell him I still think about him and maybe still love him or should I leave him alone? Maybe he still thinks about me? I was stupid to let him go and I broke his heart, I was young and didn’t understand love and relationships. Now I know he was the one for me, but do I contact him and risk upsetting him or myself?
C. I want to break but he cries.
Dear Agony Aunt,
I’ve been with my boyfriend over 15 months. In the last two months I’ve tried breaking up with him twice, but he just cries and begs me not to leave him. The thing is I feel like I’m not allowed to do anything without him, but he’s allowed to do what he wants without me.
Everyone says that I wear the trousers in the relationship, which I do to some extent, but when it comes to my life he overalls.
If I break up with him I know that I won’t like it because I don’t want him to be with anybody else, but I really need some space and he just doesn’t understand. What can I do?
D. I have cheated on him several times.
Dear Agony Aunt,
I have been with my boyfriend for nearly 4 years and have cheated on him several times. I recently met someone else who I was seeing for just over a month but decided that I wanted to make things work with my boyfriend so I finished it but now I can’t stop thinking about the other guy and want to get back in touch with him.
I feel that maybe my boyfriend isn’t the one as I’ve cheated on him so much but feel he would give me security for the future. I’m so confused and don’t know what to do. Please, help!
E. Her granddad is dying, how can I help her?
Dear Agony Aunt,
My girlfriend is having a very emotionally hard time, because her granddad is dying of cancer. She loves him very much, and I think it’s horrible for her because he only has about 6 months to live, and how does she spend this time with him?
I care about her more than anything else right now, and I wish I could do something. I wish I could stop her granddad from dying, but I know this is impossible. I want her to know I am here for her, but I think she is a little wary of talking to me about the situation as I have never had to deal with it.
However, I would like to know if there is any way I could support her in her time of need. I know this will be difficult as I cannot fully relate experiences, as I am inexperienced in loss of loved ones, particularly grandparents, as all of mine died before I was even born.
I would really appreciate it if there was any advice for how I could help her, however small or large.
F. My boyfriend has recently lost his job.
Dear Agony Aunt,
Please, could you possibly help me as I don’t know how to handle this.
My boyfriend has recently lost his job and is having difficulty in finding another one. Money is slowly running out and he is worried but he keeps taking it out on me and whilst this is upsetting at the best of times I’m 27 weeks pregnant and can’t cope. I’m being shouted at, insulted, blamed for everything and arguments are just awful. I don’t have to do very much wrong and the abuse starts.
I love him very much but every time he is like this a part of me dies inside for him. There was once a time when he thought I was special and now it’s just all my fault.
What can I do? Shall I leave him or do I stay … I don’t know.
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