1 A: Linda ...is learning... (learn) to drive at the moment.
B: I know. She told me last week.
2 A: Has Alan got a job?
B: Oh yes. He … (be) the manager of a leisure centre.
3 A: Do you want to have a break now?
B: Not yet. I … (write) a report for tomorrow's meeting.
4 A: It's ten o'clock. Have you given the manager his letters?
B: Yes, and I … (also/type) six reports so far this morning.
5 A: Is Jeff still in the garden?
B: Yes. He … (plant) flowers all afternoon.
6 A: That author is very well-known, isn't she?
B: Yes. She … (write) twenty novels so far.
7 A: You look very happy today.
B: I am. I … (just/hear) some good news.
8 A: What time … (the play/start) tonight?
B: Seven o'clock, I think.
9 A: Are you new to this company?
B: Not really. In fact, I … (work) here for almost two years.
10 A: Are you ready for the concert?
B: Yes. I … (practise) for weeks.
11 A: Do you do any exercise at all?
B: Yes. Actually, I … (go) swimming three times a week.
In the barn, from the right, there was only a large cage for the storage of cabbage, but it was a hole. Dima decided to cover the parrot's cage, and the other side where there were not enough bars to lean against the large trunk of an old pear that popped up.
Long hunted my friend for the bird. Parrot and then flew from branch to branch, once almost gone from the yard, but then changed his mind. Dima heard somewhere that these parrots like cheese. He went home and took out a piece of cheese. Cockatoo really interested in the treat and flew closer. He looked incredulously at the boy, but the cheese still took. And at this point Dima grabbed the parrot, not forgetting before that to put on a tight glove. And not for nothing, parrot dug its sharp beak into his hand, and if not for the glove, as if it hurt. When the bird realized that escape will not succeed, it was to issue such screams that woke even the neighbors.
The recalcitrant parrot cage Dima still planted and put it against the tree. Parrot scowled and sat there all day while everyone went to look at him. When my friend came out the next morning into the courtyard, he saw that the parrot had to peck out half the trunk of a pear tree, which leaned against his cage, and safely got out. He was sitting on the same branch, where he soon discovered Dima. The bird looked at the boy, issued a similar to the cawing of a crow sound and flew away. As if specially waited for him to come out and see how she masterfully managed to escape.
Pear, by the way, had to cut down.