Extended Activities

Ex. 10.Use for or since and the correct form of the verb.

1. We (not to meet) _____ ages. I (not to hear) from her _____ we finished school.

2. She (have) this terrible toothache _____ morning.

3. _____ last year we (not to be allowed) to park here.

4. Ever _____ that accident she (be) afraid of driving a car. She (no to drive) a car _____ a year already.

5. I am worried. I (not to see) the children _____ morning.

6. _____ last year his health (become) much worse.

7. In the story the Princess married the Prince and they (live) happily ever _____.

8. I (not to earn) any money _____ two months. They (not to pay) our salaries _____ New Year.

9. We (have) terrible weather _____ last week. I (not to go) out _____ two days already.

10. Nobody (come) to see us _____ two weeks _____ we bought this new house.

11. He (wear) glasses _____ childhood. He (have) eye problems _____ more than twenty years already.

12. I (not to see) her _____ last year. _____ many years at school she (want) to be a lawyer, but I think she (change) her mind _____ then.

Ex. 11.Choose between the Present Perfect and the Past Simple.

1. I (lose) my black gloves. You (see) them anywhere? – No, I … . When you last (wear) them? I (wear) them at the theatre last night. – Perhaps you (lose) them at the theatre.

2. I just (be) to the film War and Peace. You (see) it? – No, I … . Is it like the book?

Sorry to say but I (not to read) the book.

I (read) it when I (be) at school.

When Tolstoy (write) it?

He (write) it in 1868. –

He (write) anything else?

Yes, he … . He (write) some good novels and a lot of stories.

3. I just (receive) a letter saying that we (not to pay) the electricity bill. I (not to give) you the money for that last month?

Yes, you …, but I’m afraid I (spend) it on something else.

4. What (happen)? –

There just (be) an accident not far from our house.

You (see) everything?

Yes, a motorcycle (run) into a lorry.

Anybody (suffer)?

The ambulance (take) a young man to hospital. I already (speak) to the policeman.

5. They say Mr Pitt (serve) in the Second World War. –

When that war (begin)? –

It (begin) in 1939 and (last) for five years. –

When Mr Pitt (die)? – Oh, I (see) him lately. He (live) a long life.

Ex. 12.Choose between the Present Simple, the Present Perfect and the Past Simple. Dramatize the dialogue.

Bill:	– You (have) a lot of books in your home library, _____ you? – You (read) many of them?
Ann:	– Yes, I _____. And what’s more, my father (read) them all. When I (talk) to him about books, it (seem) to me that he (read) every book I ever (hear) of.
Bill:	– You (have) any books by the well-known modern English writers and _____ you (read) any of them?
Ann:	– Certainly. I (read) a lot and some of them I even (reread). I (be) deeply impressed by the novels of Aldous Huxly, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, J.B. Priestly, Somerset Maugham, Graham Green, to say nothing of J. Galsworthy.
Bill:	– I (hear) much of B. Shaw, the modern writer of play in England.
Ann:	– Everyone (hear) of Shaw, the famous English playwright. The English (laugh) at him and his plays for many years already and his plays always (be) a great success though he (be) an Irishman not an Englishman. You (see) any of his plays at the theatre?
Bill:	– Sorry to say, but I _____. And you?
Ann:	– We (go) to see his St. Joan at the Old Vic theatre this week. I know that in his plays time and again he (say) that he (not to like) England and the English. But I think this is one of his Irish jokes. You see, he (say) he (not to like) England, but he (live) in it, not in Ireland, for fifty years and people (pay) him very well for his telling them that he (not to like) them. B. Shaw (be) a very rich man.
Bill:	– I think you (be) right. I never (know) any other author who (be) so famous for his gift of wit. Many of his plays (be translated) into foreign languages. You (happen) to know when B. Shaw (die)?
Ann:	– He (die) in 1950, and I hope you (remember) that he (be born) in 1856. If there (be) any of his plays in our library you (not to read) yet, you may borrow any of them.
Bill:	– Thanks a lot, That’s very nice of you.

Task: Make up your own dialogue about your favourite books and writers.

Ex. 13.Read and translate the text. Do the task given below.

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