Exercises after the text

1. Answer the following questions.

1. What is Betty? Who asks Betty to baby-sit?

2. Who does she look after on Saturday night?

3. Is it easy to look after the children?

4. What does Betty do when the boys were in bed?

5. Does she find the boys in bed when she comes into the bedroom?

6. Has she said to Mrs. Smith that the boys are not in bed?

7. What does Mrs. Smith say when she looks into the bedroom?

2. Find in the text English equivalents for the following Russian phrases.

Ровно в пять часов; хотят, чтобы я посидела с их детьми; время ложиться спать; спуститься вниз; привидение; проводить до дома на машине; идти спать; пьеса; пустой; выключать; засыпать; внутри; подниматься наверх; идти до; заглянуть; спят как ангелочки.

3. Disagree with the following sentences and correct them.

Make sure you begin your answer such commonly accepted phrases as:

I don’t think that’s quite right.

You are not quite right (there).

I’m afraid I don’t agree with you.

That’s not quite right.

I wouldn’t say so.

Oh no, quite on the contrary.

As far as I remember.

1. Betty is thirty, she is an experienced teacher.

2. She likes the following subjects: mathematics, music and physical training.

3. Betty’s mother doesn’t allow her to be a baby-sitter.

4. George and Tom do all the things that Betty has asked them.

5. Betty has done her homework, she doesn’t watch TV.

6. When Betty has gone upstairs the boys are in their beds.

7. When Mrs. Smith has entered the boys’ bedroom their beds are empty.

4. From the passage “It’s Saturday night … Are the boys asleep?” write down all the sentences with the Present tenses and translate them into Russian. Explain the use of these tenses.

5. Find in the text the interrogative sentences. Put them down and indicate the type of the question.

The 3rd variant

1. Put in the modal verbs can, may, must.

1. … I look at this scheme? – Yes, you …

2. … you do it well?

3. The bus stop … be next to that house.

4. They … be kind and nice people.

5. You … not go in the evening alone. It’s dangerous.

6. She … do it in time, … she?

2. Put verbs in the brackets in Present Simple, Present Progressive, Present Perfect and Present Perfect Progressive and comment on their use.

1. He (to work) at this company for 7 years.

2. Oh, close the window! Look, all my papers (to fall) on the floor because of the wind.

3. Now the students (to talk)in the classroom, their teacher (not, to come) yet.

4. He (to like) to go away from home for his weekend.

5. Silence! The baby (to sleep).

6. We (to go) shopping on Saturdays.

7. Where is my dog? I (to look for) it for two hours.

3. Put the verbs in Past Simple in the following sentences.

1. Yesterday she (not, to go) to work because she (not, to feel) well.

2. Last Monday she (to stay) home all day.

3. Two days ago Robert (to spend) all his money on hamburgers and French fries.

4. Last term we (to study) hard and now we are the best students of our group.

5. A week ago the neighbour (to heard) a strange noise in the flat 10.

4. Use either Present Perfect or Past Simple in the sentences given below.

1. I hope you (to meet) already a lot of interesting people.

2. Last summer we (to go) to the boarding house, we (to make) many new friends there.

3. He never (to ride) a motor-cycle.

4. Our family (to move) to a new house three months ago.

5. Yesterday they (to go) to the party.

5. Ask all kinds of questions to the sentence.

At the end of each term the students take their terminal exams.

6. Put the verbs in the brackets into the proper passive tense form:

1. How many buildings (to burn) in the Great London Fire ?

2. About twenty films a year (to produce) by this studio.

3. The actor (to ask) many questions by the reporter tomorrow.

4. Flowers (to sell) in shops and in the streets.

5. St. Petersbourg (to found) in 1703.

7. Translate the following sentences into Russian, don’t forget about various meanings of the verbs to be, to have, to do.

1. I have to get up early in the morning, because I don’t want to be late.

2. The students were doing their English tests now.

3. He was to come at 5 p.m.

4. She has already read this novel.

5. We have got many pets at home, they are two cats, a dog and a parrot.

6. Did you go to Paris last month?

7. That boy’s name is Paul. He is twenty years old.

8. Translate from Russian into English.

1. Наш сын всегда обедает в университете.

2. Обычно она опаздывает.

3. Они дружат с детства.

4. Они сейчас сажают цветы.

5. Мы только что нарисовали этот плакат.

Read the text “SHE WANTS TO HAVE MONEY OF HER OWN” and translate from “It’s Saturday night…” till “There is nobody in the kitchen…” in writing.