- •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
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Contents
The Imperative…………………………………………………………………......3
The Verb to be…………………………………………………………………......7
There + to be………………………………………………………………………11
The Present Indefinite Tense…………………………………………………….17
The Past Indefinite Tense………………………………………………………..25
The Future Indefinite Tense……………………………………………………..32
General Review: Indefinite Tenses……………………………………………..40
The Present Continuous Tense…………………………………………………..43
The Past Continuous Tense……………………………………………………...49
The Future Continuous Tense…………………………………………………...54
General Review: Continuous Tenses…………………………………………...55
The Present Perfect Tense……………………………………………………….59
The Past Perfect Tense…………………………………………………………..65
The Future Perfect Tense………………………………………………………..70
General Review: Perfect Tenses………………………………………………..72
The Present Perfect Continuous Tense…………………………………………..74
The Past Perfect Continuous Tense……………………………………………...79
General Review: Perfect Continuous Tenses…………………………………...83
The Passive Voice……………………………………………………………….86
General Review: The Passive Voice…………………………………………...111
The Sequence of Tenses. Reported Speech……………………………………..114
General Review: Tense and Voice Forms. Reported Speech…………………..124
Modal Verbs……………………………………………………………………..129
The Oblique Moods……………………………………………………………...145
General Review: Modal Verbs. The Oblique Moods…………………………..152
The Infinitive…………………………………………………………….............157
The Participle…………………………………………………………………….161
The Complex Object……………………………………………………………..165
The Complex Subject……………………………………………………………171
The Gerund………………………………………………………………………176
Gerund and Infinitive After Certain Verbs………………………………………182
General Review: The Verbals…………………………………………………..184
General Review: Mixed Structures……………………………………………..190
SOURCES……………………………………………………………………….195