I. translate the phrases into english:
1. зевать
2. отключить электричество
3. мерцать, мигать
4. успокоить, ободрить
5. заснуть быстро
6. сонно
7. болтать
8. тяжело дышать
9. вздыхать
10. смеяться
ii. put the words in the correct order.
1. raft/broke/their/rocks/against.
2. found/a/they/old/knife/very.
3. was / wind / gust / there / of / powerful / a.
4. to/ back / we / room / living/ went / the .
3
simple.
1. agatha christie
(write) over thirty novels.
2. hercule poirot
(be) a belgian detective.
3.
＿ (you / help) your mum with the housework
yesterday?
4. they
(be) too tired. they
(not/ want) to play
football.
5. how many novels ＿
(create) agatha christie?
6. sherlock holmes wore a cape and ＿
＿(smoke) a pipe.
iv. rewrite the sentences with used to.
1. she has short hair now.
2. he doesn't play football.
3. she is a hairdresser now.
4. i don't watch tv anymore.
5. do they live in new york?
v. choose the correct item:
1. i was sleeping as soon as / when the phone rang.
2. i turned on the light until / as soon as i arrived.
3. she ran to the police station until / after she saw the thief.
4. please turn off the computer after / when you leave.
5. she made dinner when / then she took the dog for a walk.
vi. culture corner: answer the questions:
1. where is ireland? what is the weather like in winter there?
2. what are the two groups of irish stories?
3. what is a great obstacle for you?
4. who is finn mac cumhal? what did he do?
5. what do the folk tales teach?
6. do you know any endings of russian folk tales? what do thes
teach? give an example.
Let's start with some good news - people live longer nowadays.
Children and teenagers watch less TV than 50 years ago but they spend five times longer on computers, mainly playing computer games.
On the one hand a 50 year period for the country is not very long but on the other hand great changes have been rapidly taking place in this country since the 70s. What are these changes? First of all I'd like to mention the development of new technologies in modern society, for example wireless connection, appearance of the mobile phones. For people from that time it was fantastic but for all of us it's quite an ordinary thing today. Then we can't stand mentioning the Internet that is a necessary thing almost everywhere nowadays and it's difficult to imagine how people lived, worked and studied without computers at that time.The bad news is the difference between the rich and the poor people. It was much less 50 years ago. But on average, people live now longer: for 78 years (75 for men and 80 for women). It's because now more people try to follow a healthy lifestyle. More people see smoking as a bad health habit; only a quarter of the population smokes compared to 50 years ago. People eat more fruit and vegetables now and less fat.(But still many people are seriously overweight.)
To my mind, on the whole the life in this country became more complicated than it was 50 years ago, but more challenging and interesting.