Раздел 3 (задания по грамматике и лексике)

This story happened long ago. My son was six and we lived in an old house near a large park. There __________________ lots of people in the park at weekends and we enjoyed walking and playing there too.

BE

One day, my son __________________ an injured bird from the park.

BRING

It was a crow. Its wing __________________ and the bird could not fly.

BREAK

I didn’t know what to do with the crow, but my son said that he __________________ care of it.

TAKE

“If you were a couple of years__________________, you could manage it. But I doubt you can do it now,” I tried to talk him out of keeping the crow but finally agreed to take the bird home.

OLD

The next day we took the crow to the vet. The vet fixed and bandaged the wing and explained to __________________ what medicines we should give to the bird.

WE

“Ok,” he said, as we left, “I __________________ everything I can. There’s no need to bring this crow here any more.

DO

The bird is young and strong, and I think it __________________ soon. This is the good news. The bad news is that it will never be able to fly again.”

RECOVER

“We’ll see,” my son __________________ to agree with this fact too easily.

NOT/WANT

The festival of Halloween has its roots in Celtic traditions.

Over 2,000 years ago the Celts in Britain had a special holiday in late October to mark the __________________ of winter.

BEGIN

Another autumn __________________ was connected with the passing of the dead. These two events later became Halloween.

CELEBRATE

On Halloween children often dress up as ghosts, witches and monsters and go around people's houses, asking for sweets. In most cases the ghosts and witches are not frightening at all, they are even __________________!

FUN

But remember that if the children don’t get the sweets, they may play some __________________ joke, for example splash some water on you.

PLEASANT

Pumpkins also __________________ Halloween.

SYMBOL

People __________________ make lanterns from them.

USUAL