Exercises after the text

1. Answer the following questions.

1. What is Anna doing in London? How long is she going to be in England?

2. Why does Anna want to find a room of her own?

3. Why does she want to find a room in Putney?

4. Why did Anna ask the manager for the morning off? When did she do it?

5. Where and when did Anna meet Susan? What was Susan doing in the advertising department of the local newspaper?

6. Why did Anna agree to go and see the room?

7. What was the name of the street where Susan lived and how did the girls get there?

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

По крайней мере; дорогой (о цене); своя собственная комната; посмотреть много квартир; умеренная плата за квартиру; во вторник 15 апреля; дорога на работу занимает 20 минут; можете быть свободны целый день; отправиться куда-либо; редакция местной газеты; поместить объявление; напротив кого-либо; улыбнуться кому-либо; смотреть на кого-либо некоторое время; сказать что-либо по-английски; сдавать комнату кому-либо; меблированная комната; шесть метров в длину и пять метров в ширину; на верхнем этаже; въехать в квартиру.

3. Disagree with the following statements and correct them.

Make sure you begin your answer with 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. When Anna asked her manager for the morning off, he refused.

2. Anna is staying at the hotel but she wants a room of her own.

3. Anna doesn’t like Putney.

4. On the morning of April the 15^th Anna set off for shopping.

5. Anna left the office of The Echo alone and went to her office.

6. When the girls arrived Mrs. Bond was busy in the kitchen.

7. At first Anna didn’t like the house and the room.

4. From the first passage write down all the sentences with 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 2nd variant

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

1. I … study harder because I am going to take an exam.

2. … I have some money, Dad?

3. She … understand English.

4. He… hear everything now, he is all right.

5. You … not tell Bill: I don’t want him to know.

6. … I go out?

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

1. Wake up! You (to sleep) for 10 hours already.

2. I (to wait) for a letter from my cousin for a month but (not, to receive) it yet.

3. She is in the kitchen now. She (to cook) dinner.

4. Mary always (to help) her mother about the house.

5. This is the company where my father (to work).

6. Oh, how dark it is! A large black cloud (to cover) the sky.

7. He is busy now. He (to translate) the text for the next lesson.