1. You have fallen behind the group with your English. You ask your partner to help you to catch up.

• Hello!

• Hi!

• Oh! I have many problems with English. I was absent from classes for a long time. I was ill. I had stomachache and there was nothing left for me to do but go to the hospital.

• Were you examined by the doctor?

• Yes, of course. I had a bout of gastritis.

• I’m sorry. But are you feeling better now?

• Yes. The nurse made an injection and gave me medicine. I also had all my analyses taken.

• It’s very good. I noticed you have been absent for a very long time.

• What you have learned during my absence?

• We learned participle 1&2. Our group has many difficulties with this structure. We read all rules, composed and translated sentences into English. We did a lot of grammar exercises.

• Oh. We worked hard.

• I fell behind the group in English. I want to catch up with the group. May be if I work hard, I will be receiving a monthly scholarship.

• If you study the rules you won’t make so many mistakes. I think you will catch up with the group.

• It is no easy matter.

• I can help you! I have lots of theoretical material on this topic. Our university is well stocked. After learning the rules you should go to additional classes with the teacher. You can take necessary books in the library.

• My mother makes me learn English every day. I know that it is important to speak English.

• Yes, you are right. Especially, if you like to travel. More than 70% of people in the world speak English and many sign posts in the big cities are in the English language.

• I devote much time to study.

• I’m not a regular wonder. I finished school with honours. I was of the cramming sort. I was the same in the school, but I always had difficulties with pronunciation.

• Oh! It isn’t the problem. There is a laboratory in our university. We can go to this laboratory together. I give a helping hand every time for anyone.

• Oh! It’s fine. We will have an exam this year. I am very busy reading for exams. Let’s work together.

• Oh! It’s a good idea. I have a book in the original, which we must read.

• I started to read for exams already. Our teacher made our group learn all the topics.

• I feel like passing the exam very much. The teacher said, that we must use more structures of gerund, bare – to – infinitive, participle, modal verbs in our speech.

• I know, but it’s not an easy matter.

• I have been sitting in the reading room all day reading and looking for the structures in the book in the original.

• Being very busy I didn’t go there. I stayed home, my mind deep in rules of grammar. I started working hard very much.

• I believe we can pass this exam.

• Yes, you are right. We worked hard throughout the year. Let’s go kill our’s inner man to the canteen.

• No! I know one good café. There is a good cook and tasty coffee. The coffee and soft doughnuts are really first class.