G. Fill in the blanks with “before” or “till/until” .

1. Call me before you go.

2. The crocodile read the book till the end.

3. The child could not go for a walk before his parents came.

4. I'll be done before you know it.

5. Brooks' comet may be visible till the end of the year.

6. Get out of there before you get dirty.

7. Your whole life is before you.

8. He did not write us till last week.

9. Get out of here before I call a cop.

10. I haven’t met Sally before.

11. Wait till I come, and we’ll lunch somewhere in town.

12. The dwarf would starve before he'd steal.

13. This ticket is valid up till the 12^th of March.

14. Have you been to a night club before?

15. The match had to be postponed till Monday.

16. Gary was working for IBM till 1969, when he got a job at Sperry.

17. Black people were denied the vote till well into the 1950s.

18. I saw Andrew the day before yesterday.

REVISION

A. Read the joke and use the verbs in brackets in the appropriate tense forms, active or passive.

Сomputer: man or woman?

A French teacher was explaining to her college class that in French, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. House is feminine "la maison." Pencil is masculine "le crayon."

A student asked, "What gender is 'computer'?"

Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups - male and female - and (to ask) them to decide for themselves whether "computer" should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for their recommendation.

The men's group decided that "computer" should definitely be of the feminine gender (la computer) because:

1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic

2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;

3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later review; and

4. As soon as you have made a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine (le computer) because:

1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;

2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves;

3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and

4. As soon as you have committed to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.

The women won.

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