III. Translate into English.
1. Она смертельно поссорилась с моим мужем десять минут назад. 2. На старой даме было бархатное платье, которое не видело света двадцать лет. 3. Гости ушли. Теперь они сидели одни перед камином в гостиной. 4. Люди, которых она встречала по дороге домой, улыбались ей и спрашивали, как она провела отпуск. 5. Я думаю, он показал мне около тридцати картин. Это был результат шести лет, в течение которых он рисовал. 6. Она больше не получала от него писем. Он перестал писать за три года до этого. 7. Я переписал письмо от Элизы, положил его в конверт и пошел на почту. Снег прекратился. Когда я вернулся, я выпил чаю и сел к пианино. 8. Она изучала искусство рисования три года, прежде чем стала работать в издательстве. Когда я попросил ее сделать иллюстрации к моей книге, она заканчивала иллюстрировать свою первую книгу. 9. Когда я вчера принимала ванну, как всегда, зазвонил телефон. 10. Перед отъездом мы зашли к миссис Чандлер. Мы не видели ее некоторое время, и моя сестра заметила, что она сильно изменилась. 11. Не успели они проехать и пяти миль, как их остановила полиция. 12. Он путешествовал уже два дня, но выглядел свежим и не чувствовал усталости. 13. Буря утихла, небо прояснилось, и опять светило солнце. 14. Мистер Мэтлок посмотрел на своего сына, его взгляд смягчился. 15. Прошлым летом я посетила места, где я провела детство. Деревца, которые отец посадил, когда я была еще ребенком, стали теперь большими высокими деревьями.
IV. Comment on the use of the Past Indefinite, Past Continuous, Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous.
1. The cook used to snatch away the letters from home, before she [Ma Parker] had read them. (Mansfield) 2. As she neared the kitchen, Chris came from the garage where he’d been attending to a lorry with a magneto trouble, wiping his hands on some waste. (Lindsay) 3. She was always telling herself that the only rational course was to make Edward a final statement of her intentions, then break off all communications. (Maugham) 4. I realized that he had come away with me in order to discuss once more what he had been already discussing for hours with his sister-in-law. (Maugham) 5. 1 saw that it was 2 o’clock. We had been sitting there an hour and a half. (Du Maurier) 6. It had long been dark when Arthur rang at the front door of the great house in the Via Borra. (Voynich) 7. It was three o’clock. The wind had fallen, the moon was shining over the quiet sea. (Christie) 8. Every Sunday morning Ethel would read aloud while Ma Parker did her washing. (Mansfield) 9. We’d got to Ruby’s room by then. She wasn’t there, of course, but she’d been there, because the dress she had been wearing was lying across a chair. (Christie) 10. To take off her boots or to put them on was an agony to her, but it had been an agony for years. (Mansfield) 11. Here I saw this man, whom I had lost sight of some time; for I had been travelling in the provinces. (Dickens) 12. When the Gadfly raised his head the sun had set, and the red glow was dying in the west. (Voynich) 13. It was Sunday morning and they had all been back at Grayhallock for three days. (Murdoch) 14. Rainborough noticed that she had been crying, her face was stained with tears... (Murdoch) 15. Ann was certainly being bravely cheerful in a way which both exasperated Hugh and half compelled his admiration. (Murdoch) 16. The moment the noise ceased, she glided from the room; ascended the stairs with incredible softnees and silence; and was lost in the gloom above. (Dickens) 17. We hadn’t been married a month before I was out of love with him. He was in Lincolnshire at the time, and I was living near him. (Hansford Johnson) 18. When Cowperwood reached the jail, Jasper was there. (Dreiser) 19. Susan Nipper stood opposite to her young mistress one morning, as she folded and sealed a note she had been writing. (Dickens) 20. The whole party arrived in safety at the Bush before Mr. Pickwick had recovered his breath. (Dickens) 21. He [Hugh] jumped to feel Ann's clasp upon his arm. She had been saying something to him. (Murdoch) 22. He had scarcely had time to form this conclusion, when a window above stairs was thrown up. (Dickens) 23. The door was just going to be closed... when an inquisitive boarder, who had been peeping between the hinges, set up a fearful screaming. (Dickens) 24. Mr. Pecksniff and his fair daughters had not stood warming themselves at the fire ten minutes, when the sound of feet was heard upon the stairs. (Dickens) 25. He- [Cowperwood]... was forever asking questions with a keen desire for an intelligent reply. (Dreiser) 26. He turned off the electric light. The electric light had been burning all night. (Hemingway) 27.... she would go on discussing a book she said she had read but manifestly hadn’t or she would break up a dull conversation with some fantastic irrelevance for which everyone was secretly grateful. (Hilton) 28. When Katie brought in the tea-tray, the boy opened his eyes and sat up with a bewildered air. (Voynich) 29. When we were boy and girl we used to call each other by our Christian names. (Maugham) 30. There were bits of the work that, because I had been doing them so long, I knew better than anyone else. (Snow) 31. He had sat down with the, child on his knees, and was helping her to put the flowers in order. (Voynich) 32. He had sat ruminating about the matter for some time, when the voice of Roker demanded whether he might come in. (Dickens) 33. He seemed to be quietly and carefully deciding what he was going to say. (Murdoch) 34. There was no doubt that their arrival had transformed the factory for her. Rosa had been working in the factory for about two years. Before that she had been a journalist. (Murdoch) 35. After dinner Ruby came and sat with us in the lounge. She remained even after the dancing had started. We had arranged to play bridge later, but we were waiting for Mark... and also for Josie. She was going to make a fourth with us. (Christie) 36. She used to sit with him and his family a lot. He used to take her for drives sometimes. (Christie) 37. George made no answer, and we found... that he had been asleep for some time. (Jerome K. Jerome) 38. She talked and laughed and positively forgot until he had come in... that Pearl Fulton had not turned up. (Mansfield) 39. Some years ago, when I was the Editor of a Correspondence Column, I used to receive heartbroken letter's from young men asking for advice and sympathy. (Leacock) 40. I took the sculls. I had not been pulling, for more than a minute or so, when George noticed something black floating on the water. (Jerome K- Jerome) 41. The voice had no sooner ceased than the room was shaken with such violence that the windows rattled in their frames. (Dickens) 42. The figure had suddenly retreated from the gate, and was running back hastily to the mill. (Ch. Bronte) 43. As he was in dinner dress, Fanny asked where he had been dining. (Dickens)
V. Insert the Past Indefinite, Past Continuous, Past Perfect or Past Perfect Continuous.
1. Then she found that the tears quietly from her eyes. Perhaps they for a long time, (to flow, to flow) (Murdoch) 2. One day of the new year she as usual at her window when Edward came prancing up the drive on horseback, (to sit) (Maugham) 3. He and I friends since our early twenties. At this time he was fifty-two, and already an elder statesman of science. (to be) (Snow) 4. I out Honor’s letter and it, and to the post. The fog When I I some biscuits and myself with whisky and hot milk, (to copy, to seal, to go, to clear, to return, to eat, to dose) (Murdoch) 5. He told me that an American Signore there for three months, (to stay) (Maugham) 6. She (Aileen) stole downstairs and Out into the vestibule, opening the outer door and looking out into the street. The lamps already in the dark, and a cool wind (to flare, to blow) (Dreiser) 7. It was true that we one another almost intimately for five and twenty years, (to know) (Maugham) 8. I hardly more than the first three chapters when my attention was diverted by a conversation going on in the front of the store, (to read) (Leacock) 9. She mortally with my husband only ten minutes ago. (to quarrel) (Shaw) 10. He scarcely outside the door when he heard Wardle’s voice talking loudly, (to get) (Dickens) 11, The next day he some honeysuckle against the porch, when he heard the Miller’s voice calling to him from the road, (to nail up) (Wilde) 12. Roddy rapidly and nervously up and down the room for a minute or two. (to walk) (Christie) 13. I knew right away that there was the place I all my life, (to look for) (Maugham) 14. Half-past eleven. He [the Gadfly] still, though the hand was stiff and swollen, (to file) (Voynich) 15. A few seconds after the stranger to lead Mrs. Budger to her carriage, he darted swiftly from the room, (to disappear) (Dickens) 16. At nine o'clock that evening a long black Packard roadster drew up to her door, and Arnie stepped out of the front seat where he with the driver and a girl between them, (to sit) (Wilson) 17. I do not stop to say what adventures he began to imagine, or what career to devise for himself before he three miles from home, (to ride) (Thackeray) 18. Mrs. Banty put down the telephone receiver. She up twice and each time the answer the same: Mrs. Marple was out. (to ring, to be) (Christie) 19. The sun a long way up and it to get really hot. (to move, to begin) (Abrahams) 20. He was in the extremity of indecision and very wounded by Rosa’s refusal to help him. She even him for the last few days, (to avoid) (Murdoch) 21. The light in his flat showed that Mrs. Simpson in for him. (to wait) (Greene) 22. I called on Mrs. Strickland before I left. I her for some time, and I noticed changes in her; it was not only that she older, thinner, and more lined; I think her character (to see — negative, to be, to alter) (Maugham) 23. He since nine that morning and his stomach with hunger, (to eat — negative, to growl) (I. Shaw) 24. They no sooner: at this point than a most violent and startling knocking was heard at the door, (to arrive) (Dickens) 25. The old lady was dressed out in a brocaded gown which the light for twenty years, (to see — negative) (Dickens) 26. Very often, afterwards, in the midst of their talk, he would break off, to try to understand what it was the waves always (to say) (Dickens) 27. Now he was alone with his mother in the little two-roomed shack, (to go) (Abrahams) 28. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It beating, (to stop) (Jerome K. Jerome) 29. After he there some time, he sold the sack of flour for a very good price, (to wait) (Wilde) 30. Mr. Moore now silent for several minutes, (to sit) (Ch. Bronte) 31. I think he showed me about thirty canvases. It was the result of the six years during which he (to paint) (Maugham) 32. Grimly she began to pack her goods and to prepare to leave the hovel. It „ for days and water up on the earthen floor... (to rain, to well) (Buck) 33. Seven o’clock hardly striking on the following morning when Mr. Pickwick’s comprehensive mind was aroused from the state of unconsciousness in which slumber it, by a loud knocking at the chamber door, (to cease, to plunge) (Dickens).
VI. Make up dialogues to the suggested situations. Choose any 2 you like. Extend your response by giving descriptive details (adjectives) and using the proverbs and phrasal verbs given to you before.
1. You ask your sister if she has visited her sick friend yet. She hasn't, as she has been too busy for the last few days and has practically no time to go anywhere.
2. You are anxious to know if Mary has heard the latest news yet. She says she hasn't as their radio has been switched off and she hasn't been anywhere out the whole day.
3. Your neighbours have moved into a new flat. You ask Andrew if he has seen any of them since they moved out, also, if he has been to their new place yet.
4. You are wondering what has happened to your friend who shows up in wet clothes. He explains to you that his car broke down five blocks from your place and he had to walk in a pouring rain.
5. You ask Jane, your classmate, about her term project, what it is about, what books she has used, what research she has done, if she has finished writing it and submitted it already.
6. You are helping to organize a conference. Due to some emergency situations your key speakers cannot come at the scheduled time. You have to postpone the conference. This is a crisis because you have to inform about a hundred participants about the change of dates and maybe return a lot of registration fees. You are speaking with your colleagues about how it all has happened, what you have done, whom you have informed and what else needs to be done.