II. Translate into English:

1. Уже целый месяц не было ни одного дождливого дня. 2. Ты выключила свет, когда уходила? 3. Я потеряла зонт, думаю, что оставила его в институте. 4. Мы ждали его полчаса, а он так и не появился. 5. С тех пор, как я его знаю, он никуда не опаздывает. 6. Насколько я его знаю, он всегда был добр к ней. 7. Я видела его на днях и разговаривала с ним. 8. Ты накрыла на стол? Обед готов. 9. Я зажег свет, так как уже темно. 10. Почему в чашке нет молока? – Я его выпил. 11. Куда ты поставила голубые чашки? – Я поставила их в сервант. Разве их там нет? 12. Куда ты положила ножи, когда убирала со стола? – Я положила их в сервант. 13. Он в Лондоне уже месяц, и за это время мы не получили от него ни одного письма. 14. Этот фильм идет уже месяц, но я его еще не видела. 15. Ты видел этот фильм? – Да, я видел его на прошлой неделе. 16. Извини, я потерял газету, которую ты мне вчера дал. 17. С тех пор, как они получили новую квартиру, они счастливы. 18. Он все еще в библиотеке? – Да. – Давно он там? – Он там с утра. 19. С тех пор, как я окончил школу, я его не видел. 20. Он все еще спит? – Нет, он уже проснулся, но еще не встал.

III. Make up dialogues on suggested situations. Use the model below:

I (he, she) for the last … years

haven’t done for a long time months

anything of the kind since weeks

have been out of practice few month

1. Andrew would like Caroline to come to a dace with him and asks her if she would do him the favour. Caroline refuses saying she hasn’t danced for months and is rather out of practice.

2. Mrs. Green would like her younger son, Steven, to read a French book to her. She has not heard him doing so for weeks. The boy seems rather unwilling to read anything, the more so, in French. He refuses.

3. Mrs. Jerram asks her niece who is visiting her to play the piano. The girl apologises and refuses. She is out of practice. She hasn’t played for years.

4. Mrs. Brown wishes her husband would do some gardening on Saturday afternoon and is telling him so. Mr. Brown doesn’t seem to be very enthusiastic about it and is trying to refuse.

5. You ask John to tell you the news from home. He says there isn’t any. He’s had no news from home for the last weeks.

IV. Speak about yourself. Use expressions of time: for many years, all my life, since 1975, since we moved here in 1970, since I left school, etc.:

1. Have you always lived in this town? How long have you lived here? 2. Do you enjoy living here, in this huge city or do you prefer a smaller and quieter place? 3. Have you ever been out of the city? 4. What towns have you been to? When did you go there and how long did you stay?

V. Change the following sentences into those with predicates in the Present Perfect Tense. Make the new statements more extensive:

Model: They are going to prepare all the things for the experiment. They have already prepared all the things for the experiment and can start performing it without any further delay.

1. The weather is going to change for the worse. 2. They are going to finish their work. 3. They are going to talk these things over. 4. We are going to have a lot of troubles with our new tape-recorder. 5. She is going to see it with her own eyes. 6. She is going to see the place in the moon-light. 7. He is going to tell us all about the work he is going now. 8. I am going to speak about this urgent matter more than once. 9. The delegation is not going to leave yet. 10. We are going to write to him and ask him to share in the work we are doing. 11. I am going to send the message by airmail. 12. He is not going to show you some pretty post-cards of the places you are going to visit. 13. It’s a pity he is not going to spend the day with them.