1. теперь она избегает ходить туда так часто, как раньше.
now she avoids going there as often as she used to go before.
2. он, бывало, внезапно появлялся в доме своей матери и так же внезапно исчезал.
he used to appear suddenly at his mother's home and to desappear in the same way.
3. она, бывало, часами сидела у открытого окна, глядя на лес за холмом.
she used to sit next to an open window for hous looking at the forest behind the hill.
4. иногда она жаловалась на свою трудную жизнь, и ей становилось легче.
sometimes she used to complain of her difficult life and she felt better.
5. я лично думаю, что теперь вы говорите по- лучше, чем раньше.
i think that now you speak english better than you used to speak before.
6. теперь он совсем не курит, так как у него плохое здоровье, а ведь раньше он курил сигарету за сигаретой.
now he doesn't smoke at all as he has bad health but earlier he used to smoke sigarettes one by one.
7. он начал изучать французский, а в детстве он занимался с частным преподавателем .
he began to learn french and in his childhood he used to study english with a tutor.
8. когда-то он был весьмя состоятельным человеком.
some time he used to be quite rich.
Chewing gum is usually associated with some thoughtless automatic process. Television has recently become like a chewing gum too. For many years it has been considered the main source of information. But in recent years it has turned out in some endless entertainment full of silly commercials and stupid soap operas. Very often people can’t tell one film from another, or one TV show from another because they are so much alike. For some people watching TV turned into the constant switching of the channels. They fail to find what they like so they prefer to watch a little bit of everything which leads to total absence of any integral or useful information. It is very hard to get a full picture of a film when every five minutes it is interrupted by commercials. Permanent blinking of bright colours and a rapid change of images make people lose the sense of what is shown. In the end they just passively watch the programmes as if they were chewing a gum. And when a programme becomes too boring, they just switch to another channel. And the next day people just take a new fresh chewing gum and chew it till it becomes tasteless and then they spit it out ruthlessly. Don’t you think watching TV is the same?
