Времена английского глагола в сравнении = English Tenses Compared. Пособие

Well, everything (end) happily. The girl was rescued and her parents (thank) me by giving me a large bunch of flowers. The story (be) in the newspaper too! That’s all my news – write and tell me yours soon.

With love, Lucy

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Simon (walk) home from work the other day when he (notice) something shining on the pavement on the other side of the road. A car (come) down the street, so he waited until it had driven past, then he (cross) over. When he (get) to the other side he saw that it was a shiny gold coin! He (look) around to make sure no one (look), then he (bend) down to pick it up. Imagine his surprise when he (not / can) move it! He (be) just about to give up when he (hear) a strange sound behind him. Someone (laugh) at him, but he couldn’t see who it (be). Two little boys (hide) behind a hedge, laughing at anyone who tried to pick up the coin they had stuck to the pavement with glue!

4. Lorna Bright is a long-distance walker. Look at this part of her diary describing a morning’s walk along the coast. Write the missing words. Use one word only in each space.

It was a fine day () when I started out on the last part of my walk around the coast of Britain. The sun was ... , and a light wind... blowing from the south-west. I was pleased that it ... raining. I knew by now that I ...

like rain. In fact I ... it. I ... along the cliff top and then down into the lovely little fishing village of Wellburn, past a cafe where people... having morning coffee. Three miles past Wellburn I ... down for five minutes and ... a drink. Now it ... getting warmer as I ... off one of my sweaters. I

... stop for long because I ... to reach Seabury by lunchtime. ... I finally got there, it... just after half past twelve.

5. Translate into English.

1. Вчера вечером шел сильный дождь, и мы не смогли пойти на стадион. 2. Я не ожидал тебя здесь встретить. Когда ты приехал? 3. Я не успел на поезд в 10 часов и мне пришлось ждать следующего целый час. 4. Мы не поняли друг друга. Я ждал его в здании университета, а он в это время ждал меня на улице. 5. Стюардесса

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попросила пассажиров пристегнуть ремни, так как самолет шел на посадку. 6. Ты вчера вечером был дома? — Нет, я ходил в театр. Мне очень понравился спектакль. Игра актеров была великолепной.

7.Когда ты был в отпуске последний раз? — Прошлой зимой. — Как ты его провел? — Прекрасно. Ходил на лыжах, катался на коньках.

8.Когда ты позвонил вчера, я был занят. Я переводил наш новый контракт. 9. Вчера я опоздал на урок английского языка. Когда я пришел, студенты писали сочинение. 10. Аня подмела пол, вымыла посуду, а потом стала готовить домашнее задание. 11. Вчера мы купались, загорали, катались на лодке, играли в теннис. Мы очень хорошо провели время. 12. Шел ли дождь, когда ты вышел из дома? 13. Он спускался вниз по лестнице, когда я его увидел. 14. С кем ты разговаривал, когда я встретил тебя в коридоре? 15. Что ты делала, когда я позвонила тебе вчера вечером? — Я готовила ужин.

16.Ты была вчера дома в 5 часов? — Нет, я была в университете. В это время я сдавала экзамен по грамматике. 17. В то время как я искал ключи в гостиной, моя жена искала их в столовой. 18. Она без конца била посуду. 19. Она вечно жаловалась. 20. Почему тебя не было на собрании вчера? — Я должен был встретить сестру на вокзале. 21. Когда ты видела его последний раз? — Неделю назад в библиотеке. 22. Пока я готовила обед, мой муж чинил автомобиль.

23.Когда ты писал родителям в последний раз? — Месяц назад.

24.Мы жили в Москве 10 лет, а потом переехали в Минск.

25.Когдаявошелвзал,студентывсееще обсуждалипервыйдоклад.

26.Мальчик ловил рыбу, когда он упал в воду. 27. Пять лет назад я имел обыкновение рано вставать. 28. Неделю назад я потерял свои очки, но два дня спустя я нашел их. 29. Стоял прекрасный летний день. Светило солнце и пели птицы. 30. Он был очень занят, когда я его видел, так как на следующий день он уезжал в командировку.

31.Почему ты был так сердит на него? 32. В прошлую субботу мой отец ходил на рыбалку и поймал много рыбы. 33. Почему ты не позвонил мне? — Я вернулся домой слишком поздно.

34.Кто видел вчера Елену? — Я. 35. Какие журналы он хотел показать мне? — Я не знаю. 36. Вчера весь вечер они обсуждали планы на летний отпуск. 37. Вы работали на этом заводе три года тому назад? 38. Вы просмотрели вчера эти документы? 39. Мы ужинали, когда моя старшая сестра вернулась из университета.

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40. Где ты встретил Анну? — Я встретил ее около библиотеки, когда возвращался домой. 41. Кто купил подарок для Джейн? — Ник. 42. Сколько писем вы напечатали вчера? — Двадцать. 43. Когда часы пробили двенадцать, мы пошли спать. 44. Я обедал, когда он мне позвонил. 45. Куда ты ходила после занятий? — В универмаг. 46. Когда он вернулся из Лондона? — Неделю тому назад. 47. Он ведь показал тебе свою новую квартиру? 48. Дождь шел с пяти до семи. 49. Петр просматривал газеты, в то время как Аня смотрела телепередачу. 50. Ты переводил статью весь вечер, не так ли? — Да, статья довольно трудная, и мне пришлось многие слова смотреть по словарю. 51. Когда я пришел, машинистка все еще печатала мои документы. 52. В прошлом году было много снега? — Да. 53. Когда вы получили это письмо? — Вчера утром. 54. Погода была хорошая, и дети попросили меня отвести их в парк. 55. На уроке английского языка преподаватель задавал вопросы, а мы отвечали на них. 56. Я прочитал изложение сестры. В нем было несколько ошибок. 57. Где вы его видели на прошлой неделе? — Мы видели его в театре. 58. Кто навестил вас вчера? —Друзья моего сына. 59. Где ты была сегодня после обеда? Я приходила к тебе, но тебя не было дома. 60. В котором часу ты сегодня обедал? — Я обедал в два. 61. Он пожал мне руку и пожелал успеха в работе. 62. Вчера я прождала тебя в метро 20 минут и ушла домой. 63. Когда она садилась в автобус, он тронулся. 64. Где и когда это случилось? – Это произошло год назад в Альпах. 65. Что произошло вчера? Почему вы не пришли? – Извините, мы были очень заняты. Мы вам звонили, но линия была занята. 66. Сколько времени тебе потребовалось, чтобы найти эти сведения? – Мне понадобилось несколько часов. 67. Что тебе помогло выбраться из этой ситуации? – Мне просто повезло. 68. В какой ресторан вы ходили на днях? – Это был китайский ресторан в центре города. – Тебе понравилось? – Не очень. 69. Что у вас сегодня было на завтрак? 70. Мой брат и я имели обыкновение драться, но затем мы выросли и сейчас мы большие друзья. 71. Был январь. В университете было много студентов. Они сдавали экзамены. 72. Мы вошли в караокеклуб. Все пели и танцевали.

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FLUENCY

Study and practise the texts below and do the exercises that follow them.

Jane isn’t Very Pleased

John rang Jane last week. He wanted to invite her to the theatre. She was free on Friday, so they arranged to meet outside the theatre at seven. It was raining and John came twenty minutes late. Jane wasn’t very pleased. They saw a thriller, but it wasn’t very good. In fact, it was awful. They went to an Italian restaurant after the theatre and had pizza and wine. The pizza was terrible and the wine wasn’t very good. John found he didn’t have any money, so Jane paid for the meal. It was late when they came out of the restaurant and there were no buses and no taxis, so they walked home in the rain. John rang again the following Saturday to invite Jane to the cinema. Jane said she wasn’t free.

•Complete the conversation. Use have / have got or the action verb have.

Claire: You (have) an empty plate, Henry. Would you like some more food?

Henry: Oh, yes please. I must say, we (have) a great time. Luckily you (have) lots of room in here.

Claire: Yes, it’s a nice big flat, although it (not / have) a balcony. Mark: How was Brazil? (you / have) a good holiday?

Claire: Yes, I (have) a lovely time, thank you. Henry: (you / have) some photos here to show us?

Claire: Yes, you must (have) a look at them some time. But I was so busy doing things I (not / have) time to take very many.

•Situation: Your friend says he was at a restaurant last night. You ask him / her questions about his/ her visit to the restaurant.

•When did you last go to a restaurant? On what occasion? Did you enjoy yourself?

What’s the Matter?

Yesterday Helen woke up at seven thirty. She had a quick shower, a cup of coffee, got into her car and drove to work. She found a parking space outside the office door. ‘That’s very strange,’ she thought as she walked

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up to the front door of the office building; usually there were a lot of cars outside the office and she left her car in another street.

The door was locked when she tried to open it. This was very unusual. She looked at her watch... it was exactly nine o’clock! ‘The door is never locked at nine o’clock,’ she said to herself. She took out her key and unlocked the door.

As she walked into the office, Helen saw that all the windows were closed. It was summer and her secretary opened the windows and curtains when she arrived in the morning. But Helen’s secretary wasn’t at her desk this morning. ‘Is there anybody here?’ she shouted nervously. There was no answer.

Helen went to her office and sat down behind her desk. What was the matter? Where was everyone? Then she saw her diary on the desk. ‘Oh no!’ she said. ‘Today is Sunday!’

•Tell your partner what you did yesterday.

Reward for Virtue

My friend, Herbert, has always been fat, but things got so bad recently that he decided to go on a diet. He began his diet a week ago. First of all, he wrote a long list of the foods which were forbidden. The list included most of the things Herbert loves: butter, potatoes, rice, beer, milk, chocolate and sweets. Yesterday I paid him a visit. I rang the bell and was not surprised to see that Herbert was still as fat as ever. He led me into his room and hurriedly hid a large parcel under his desk. It was obvious that he was very embarrassed. When I asked him what he was doing, he smiled guiltily and then put the parcel on the desk. He explained that his diet was so strict that he had to reward himself occasionally. Then he showed me the contents of the parcel. It contained five large bars of chocolate and three bags of sweets!

•Did you ever go on a diet? What was it like? What was the result?

Too Late

The plane was late and detectives were waiting at the airport all morning. They were expecting a valuable parcel of diamonds from South Africa. A few hours earlier, someone had told the police that thieves would try to steal the diamonds. When the plane arrived, some of the detectives

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were waiting inside the main building while others were waiting on the airfield. Two men took the parcel off the plane and carried it into the Customs House. While two detectives were keeping guard at the door, two others opened the parcel. To their surprise, the precious parcel was full of stones and sand!

An Experience on the Tube

A woman is talking about her experience on the tube.

I was travelling from Hamburg to London. In fact it was on my way from Heathrow. I was very tired and I was looking forward to getting home. As I was walking along the platform I saw two men walk up behind a young woman. She was carrying her handbag over her shoulder. It was open. I was carrying two suitcases, but I walked quickly and came up behind the two men. As one of them took the purse out of the handbag, I told him to put it back. He dropped it immediately, turned and ran.

An Adventure

It was a typical summer afternoon; the sun was beating down, the cars were creeping slowly round the corner of the park. Five or six children were playing in the stream by the fountain, jumping in and out of the water, their laughter mixing with the noise of the traffic. All the world was wearing shorts or T-shirts, or bathing costumes; yet Walter Harrison, sitting on a park bench in his overcoat, was feeling cold and lonely. ‘Where will it all end?’ he thought, as he watched the children splashing and laughing. After a few minutes, he got up and walked through the park gates. His adventure was about to begin...

He stopped just before putting his key in the front door. Something was happening in the back garden... Quietly, he crept around the side of the house and looked through the gate. Two men were standing at the back of the house, holding a ladder. A third man was at the top of the ladder and a fourth inside the house: he was passing furniture through the window to his partner, who then gave it to his friends below. All four were working quietly and efficiently and the pile of furniture in the garden was getting bigger and bigger by the minute. Walter could not believe his eyes: the strangers were emptying his entire flat, and they were behaving as if it was the most normal thing in the world. He coughed loudly and then said, ‘Excuse me!’ — and the man at the top of the ladder dropped his portable TV onto the concrete below.

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• Tell about an interesting / frightening / painful / amusing experience in your life.

An Accident

Mrs Cross is an old lady who lives in a village in the country outside Bristol. As she is a widow she lives alone.

Last week she had an accident. It was raining and she was walking to the village store. She slipped on the wet road, fell down and broke her hip. By chance, a local farmer was passing on his tractor. He went back to his farm and telephoned for an ambulance.

•Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple or the Past Continuous.

P: Where (you / be) when you (see) the accident, Sir? W: I (stand) on the corner of Jameson Street.

P: What exactly (happen)?

W:Well, a boy (ride) his bicycle along the road towards the traffic lights when suddenly a car (drive) quickly around the corner. The driver

(lose) control and (hit) the boy. P: (the boy / cycle) fast?

W: No, not at all.

P: (anyone else / see) the accident? W: No, I don’t think so.

P: Thank you very much for your help, Sir.

Hitchhiking

James was a student at Oxford University, where he was studying law. Like many students he did not have much money because his grant was only just enough to live on. Last year, during the autumn term, he decided to go to Manchester to visit some friends for the weekend, but he could not afford a train ticket, and even the coach was too expensive, so he had to hitchhike. He caught a bus to the beginning of the motorway and waited. It was a cold, windy November day and while he was waiting he got soaked to the skin. After waiting two hours he finally got a lift from a lorry driver, who was in fact going all the way to Manchester. James felt extremely relieved. The lorry driver seemed a friendly fellow of about 35, reasonably well-dressed and he and James talked a lot. Suddenly, as they

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were driving along the motorway, a police car raced past them and made them stop. They were taken to the police station because the police suspected that the lorry was carrying stolen goods. A detective interrogated James for two hours, and he even had to spend the night in a cell. He was eventually released the next day. Apparently, the lorry was carrying stolen television sets. James swore that he would never hitchhike again.

•Write about a memorable journey that you have made.

Victor’s Trip to New York

Victor: I went to New York last week. John: Really? When exactly did you go?

Victor: Last Monday. I flew. I went to the airport and checked in. The girl behind the counter was beautiful. She said, ‘First class, business class or economy class?’

John: Which did you choose? Did you have enough money for first or business class?

Victor: I hesitated, but I chose economy class. John: Smoking or non-smoking?

Victor: Non-smoking. You know I gave up smoking a year ago. John: Did you have anything to declare?

Victor: Mmh. No, but the customs officer told me to open my luggage. John: Did he find anything?

Victor: No, he found nothing.

John: Victor, did you have an aisle seat? Victor: No, I had a window seat.

John: Did you stay at a good hotel?

Victor: Not bad. I stayed at the Hotel Chelsea. It wasn’t very expensive. John: What sort of hotel was it?

Victor: It was full of artists and musicians.

John: I hope they didn’t wake you up during the night.

Victor: No, because I didn’t sleep during the night, I slept during the day. John: And what did you do during the night?

Victor: I went out. John: Every night? Victor: Practically.

John: Did you meet any nice girls?

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Victor: Sure. I met a lot of nice girls.

John: Did you drink a lot of whisky?

Victor: Yes, I drank a lot of whisky.

John: Did you have a good time?

Victor: Yes, I had a great time.

John: Really!

•Speak about Victor’s trip to New York.

•Ask each other questions about your last holiday.

Old Jim: We had a hard life! When I was a boy — eight years old — I used to work for a few pennies. I made tea for the coal miners here in Derbyshire.

Grandson: How many hours did you use to work at the weekend, Grandad?

Old Jim: Well, we were busy from six o’clock on Saturday morning until eleven on Sunday evening. We used to stay in the mines for thirty-six hours at the weekend.

Grandson: That was a long time, Grandad!

An Old Man Remembers

An old man was sitting on a seat in a small park, surrounded by new red brick houses. A young man with a dog came up and sat down beside him.

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‘It’s all changed,’ said the old man. shaking his head sadly. ‘You see over there, where those houses are. That used to be the orchard. They used to grow some of the finest pears and apples in the County there.

And over there; you see that house with the green door; there used to be a pond there. When I was a lad, we often used to fish in it. I don’t know what happened to that pond. It must be there somewhere under somebody’s foundations.’

‘Are you sure it was there?’ asked the young man. ‘Where the house with the green door stands?’

‘I’m positive,’ replied the old man. The young man looked a little anxious.

‘That’s my house,’ he said, ‘the one with the green door.’

•Turn the following thoughts into USED TO ideas:

They grew fine apples there. or

They used to grow fine apples there.

1. They kept cows in that field. 2. There was a tall hedge there. 3. We went to the seaside in the summer. 4. My father took us sailing on the lake. 5. We often went for picnics in the woods. 6. Silvia lived in Kiel, now she lives in Munich. 7. I liked sugar in my tea when I was very young, now I don’t. 8. There was a meadow where that school stands. 9. He had his own horses at one time.

• Study this sentence:

My brother used to work for PanAm, now he works for Intercontinental Hotels.

We often use this combination of used to with a simple present idea. Make similar sentences:

1.Kim live Georgia / now Texas

2.Alice dancer / now actress

3.Sylvia play guitar / now cello

4.Bob drive long distance lorry / now coach

5.Mr Church repair clocks / now watches

6.Cyril write The Times / now The Telegraph

7.George play for Spurs / now Fulham

8.Frank teach children / now adults

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