Задание №7. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в Past Simple или Past Continuous.

1. Yesterday at one o'clock I (to have) lunch at the canteen.

2. When he (to come) in, I (to do) my exercises.

3. What you (to do) at eight o'clock yesterday?

4. At this time yesterday I (to go) home.

5. You (to sleep) when I (to go) out.

Вариант №7.

Задание №1. Переведите текст

Most European countries "celebrate" April 1st in some strange way, either by mocking the simple-minded or honouring the fool.

Most of the tricks played on this day are far from original, and many have been used so often that they have become traditional.

The most common form of the joke is to send a simple-minded person on some fruitless errand. Naturally, children are the easiest victims. They may be sent to get a dozen cock's eggs, or a stick with one end, or a litre of sweet vinegar, or, probably, a leather hammer, or a pint of pigeon's milk.

A popular joke is to say that something is wrong with your victim's dress (when in fact everything is in order) or that a cockroach is crawling over his or her clothes (there's no cockroach, of course).

At school children try to pin notices like "Kick me", or "I'm a fool" on each other's backs. Teachers have to be very careful or they, too, might find themselves walking around with a silly sign on their backs.

Some jokes are not so harmless. For example, you may step into a basin of water placed secretly where you are sure to step into it. You may get salt in your coffee instead of sugar. You may fall on the floor because your trousers are sewn up or your shoe-laces are tied.

These jokes may be silly, but they succeed again and again.

On April 1st television and radio services join in the fun. They tell unbelievable stories and advertise nonexistent goods. Newspapers print long articles which turn out to be jokes. Often, you have to read the long article to the very end to realise that you have been fooled.

Задание №2. Озаглавьте текст

Задание №3. Образуйте существительные, используя суффиксы ness и i(ty).

Задание №4. Заполните пропуски существительными, образованными от слов, напечатанных в конце строк заглавными буквами.

Задание №5. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в Present Continuous или Past Continuous.

1. You (to drink) tea at this time yesterday? — No, I (not to drink) tea at this time yesterday, I (to eat) a banana.

2. My sister is fond of reading. She (to read) the whole evening yesterday, and now she (to read) again.

3. Look! My cat (to play) with a ball.

4. When I went out into the garden, the sun (to shine) and birds (to sing) in the trees.

5. You (to eat) ice cream now?

Задание №6. Составьте из приведенных слов предложения

1. doesn`t have/ in the bank/ Larry/ any money

2. only two hours/ I/ last night/ slept

3. the boys/ taught/ last year/ she/ geography

4. were/ big green bottles/ on the shelf/ five/ there

5. the restaurant/ parked/ in front of/ his car/ he

Задание №7. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в Past Simple или Past Continuous.

1. He (to read) on the sofa when I (to come) in and (to sit) down beside him.

2. I (to walk) along the street with my friend when a tram (to pass).

3. She (to look) out of the window when I (to see) her.

4. We (to answer) the teacher's questions when the headmistress (to enter) the classroom.

5. They (to drink) tea when I (to come) home.

Вариант №8.

Задание №1. Переведите текст

Children and grown-ups are doing it. Skiers and ice hockey players are doing it.

Athletes and acrobats are doing it. What is "it"? In-line skating!

In-line roller skates are more and more popular. Millions of people in Europe and the USA are putting on their skates and doing the strangest things.

Ice-hockey players and skiers use them in summer. Some have stopped playing ice hockey and play roller hockey with in-line skates instead. Why? It's more fun! Roller hockey combines elements of hockey and basketball. Even women play in-line roller hockey.

The streets of America are full of children playing hockey on their skates. In London parks there are now special skating sections so that skaters don't frighten joggers and walkers when they whizz past at 50 kilometres per hour!

Of course, some people like competition, so there are in-line speed-skating championships with different distances.

Joseph Merlin, a Belgian inventor and musical instrument maker, invented the roller skates in about 1760. He was also the first person to wear them. He wore his new metal skates to a party in London, where he crashed into a very expensive mirror.

He wasn't very interested in skating after this experience.

In 1863, James Plimpton, an American businessman, invented a roller skate that could turn. Plimpton opened a skating club in New York where gentlemen enjoyed showing off for the ladies by doing fancy figures, steps and turns.

Within 20 years, roller skating had become a popular pastime for men and women.

Indoors, wealthy gentlemen played "roller polo," a hockey game. Others held contests in dance and figure skating. Outdoors, men and women were racing in speed contests.

The more the public saw of skating, the more they wanted to try it themselves. Roller skating was soon enjoying its first boom. Roller hockey teams were playing throughout Europe as early as 1901.

In the 1970s, the first plastic skate wheels were made. Such wheels were quieter than those made of wood or metal, and skaters could move faster and easier.

In 1980s, a new kind of roller skates appeared. They are called in-line roller skates.

They were invented by two brothers in Minnesota, USA, who wanted to practice icehockey in the summer.

Everybody liked the invention and soon the two brothers started to produce in-line skates commercially. In 1984, Rollerblade, the first in-line skate company was bom.

Today, there are lots of companies and lots of skates.