Reproduce the text, mind the verb-forms and the use of tenses.

 

TEXT 2

 

  Hob sat in the doctor's waiting-room. On the chairs round the table other patients were sitting. Some had coughs, some had colds and some had headaches. They all looked sad, except Hob who was reading an exciting story in a magazine. Just then the doctor came in to say he was ready to see the next person. Hob got up and went into the consulting-room.

Before Hob could say a word the doctor said, "Now, what's your trouble? Lie down there. We'll soon cure you, unfasten your coat and shirt. I'll listen to your heart ".

"But..." Hob started to speak. "Say ninety-nine", orde­red the doctor. Ноb said it.

"Now let me see your throat. Open your mouth".

The doctor had a good look and then he said, "Well, young man, you are not ill at all. There's nothing wrong with you".

"I know there's not", said Hob, "I just came to get a bottle of medicine, for Uncle Tom".

(C.S.Eckersley)

 

1.   Write the four forms of the following verbs and translate them: to sit, to have, to look, to read, to come, to get up, to go, to say, to be, to lie, to cure, to un­fasten, to start, to speak, to order, to let, to see, to open, to know.

2.   Find the predicates, define the tense-forms and explain their formation.

3.   Read and translate the text using the dictionary.

Explain the use of tenses.

Put questions to the underlined words.

Put general questions to the underlined sentences.

Put the alternative and disjunctive questions to the sentences:

- Hob got up and rat into the consulting room.

- On the chairs round the wall other patients were sitting.

- You are not ill at all.

Reproduce the text, mind the verb-forms and the use of tenses.

 

TEXT 3

Ruby

 

It was the Monday of the next leek that Len brought home Ruby. He was always bringing home something, Sparrows with broken legs or stray kittens.

Mum had been washing all day, and had just brought up the first lot of dry things as the children came out of school.

She was a small, fat girl from Jamaica. Her nose was running and her knees were bleeding.

"What on earth?" began Mum, as she opened the door.

" They 've been mocking her about at school", said Len. "It is not her fault she's black".

Mum wiped Ruby's nose with her apron and carried her into the flat.

Ruby stayed to tea. She was a nice little girl and soon cheered up over her chips.

Dad took Ruby home, but he only knocked at the door of Ruby' flat and hurried away, because he did not want to explain that the white children had been so cruel.

(after E. Stuckley. Magnolia Buildings.)

 

1. Write the four forms of the following verbs and translate them: to be, to bring, to break, to wash, to come, to run, to bleed, to begin, to open, to muck, to say, to wipe, to carry, to stay, to cheer up, to take, to knock, to hurry, to want.

2. Find the predicates, define the tense-forms and explain their formation.

3. Reed and translate the text using a dictionary.

4. Explain the use of tenses.

5. Put questions to the underlined words.

6. Put general questions to the underlined sentences.

7. Put alternative and disjunctive questions to the senten­ces:

- They have been mocking her about at school.

-  Mum wiped Ruby's nose with her apron and carried her into the flat.

-  She was a nice little girl.

8. Reproduce the text, mind the verb-forms and the use of tenses.

 

TEXT 4

The Holiday

 

It wasn't a very long journey, and the railway station was half a mile from the chalet camp, so they walked in procession along the sаndу path. Dad went first with the heavi­est suitcase. They went straight to the office to fetch the key of their chalet.

When they reached the chalet, there was a tremendous excitement. The key of the door would n ot turn because Mum shook so.

"Give it to me", cried Dad. "There!" They all rushed in to look at the three bedrooms, the parlour with a divan, the kitchen, the toilet, everybody talking and exclaiming at once.

"Can we sleep here, Mum" "What a small kitchen." "Mum, can I have a drink of water?" "Mum, can we go to the beach?"

Val wasn't going to waste his time on packing. He ran across the field, and came to the sea.

He knew that it was what he wanted....Water, light, air and space.

Val threw off his shoes and socks and ran on, feeling the joy of wet sand under his toes. His only idea was to get to the water. Val came to the quiet sea that scarcely seemed to move. He was into it, with no thought of carelessly rolled up clothes. The sea was all around him and everything was quiet. He was in the sea at last!

When he came out, he felt hungry and went back to look for his shoes.  It took some time to find them. With his vet trousers clinging to his legs, he started tack up the path. At the top, he met a fat, smiling little man.

" It's a nice place ", said the fat little man. "You got a chalet?"

"That’s right.” Val did not wish to stay and talk, as his whole mind was full of sea. "Number fifteen we've got".

The little man beamed all over his face, "Me and my sis­ter's got fourteen. Our name is Truby. Are you a big family?"

"Seven, if you count Mum and Dad and Auntie Glad".

"And how will you all fit into the chalet?" asked the little man with friendly curiosity.

" Haven't been inside yet", said Val.

As they walked towards the chalet, they saw that the Burners family was moving in. Mum had opened the windows, Dad had got out two deckchairs. Doreen was running back from the camp shop with a basket of food. Val could hear Mum's excited voice: "Put it there! Move yourself, Ally, pass me that". Inside the house Ally was singing at the top of her voice. Len rushed out yelling. "I want to go to the beach".

"What a jolly family!" sighed Mr. Truby. "I am glad you are next door to us". "William. Your tea's been ready for half an hour ". A thin elderly lady came down out of number four-teen. "Where have you been? My head's awful. Those terrible people who've just moved in". She banged the door behind her brother.   

(after E.Stuckley. Magnolia Buildings.)

 

  1. Write the four forms of the following verbs and translate them: to be, to walk, to go, to reach, to turn, to shake, to cry, to rush, to exclaim, to know, to want, to throw, to run, to feel, to come, to seem, to roll, to feel, to take, to cling, to meet, to smile, to say, to wish, to get, to beam, to count, to fit, to see, to open, to put, to move, to pass, to sing, to yell, to sigh, to move in, to bang.

2.   Find the predicates, define the tense-forms and explain their formation.

3.  Read and translate the text, using a dictionary.

4.  Find the interrogative sentences in the text and define the types of questions.

5.  Explain the use of tenses.

6.  Put questions to the underlined words.

7.  Put general questions to the underlined sentences.

8.   Put alternative and disjunctive questions to the sentences:

- They all rushed in to look at the three bedrooms, the par­lour with a divan, the kitchen, the toilet.

- Val threw off his shoes and socks.

- Inside the house, Ally was singing at the top of her voice.

9. Reproduce the text, mind the verb-forms and the use of tenses.

 

TEXT 5

The Selfish Giant

 

Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant's garden, it was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass and twelve peach-trees. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them.

One day the Giant came back. He had been to visit his friend and had stayed with him for seven years. When he ar­rived he saw the children playing in the garden.

"What are you doing here?" he cried and the children ran away.

"My own garden is my own garden", said the Giant, "and I will allow nobody to play in it but myself". So he built a high wall all around it.

He was a very selfish Giant.

The poor children had now nowhere to play.

Then the spring came, and all over the country there were little blossoms and little birds. Only in the garden of t he Selfish Giant it was still winter.

"I cannot understand why the spring is so late in co­ming", said the Selfish Giant, as he sat at the window and looked out at his cold, white garden.

One morning the Giant was lying awake in bed when he heard some lovely music. He jumped out of bed and looked out. What did he see?

He saw a most wonderful sight. Through a little hole in the wall the children had crept in, and they were sitting in the branches of the trees. And the trees were so glad to have the children back that they covered themselves with blossoms. The birds were flying about.

And the Giant's heart melted.

"How selfish I have been!" he said; "now I know why the Spring would not come here". He was really sorry for what he had done.

"It is your garden now, little children", said the Giant, and he took a great axe and knocked down the wall.

(after O.Wilde. Fairy Tales)

 

1.Write the four forms of the following verbs and translate them: to come, to be, to sit, to stay, to arrive, to see, to play, to do, to cry, to run, to allow, to build, to have, to understand, to say, to lie, to hear, to jump, to creep, to cover, to fly, to melt, to know.

2. Find the predicates, define the tense-forms and their formation.