203 Complete the conversations with the present perfect form of the verbs in brackets and where necessary, never. Then listen 3 and check. 1 A: I've never sung. X sing) in a concert. What about you? B: 12 (sing) in a concert and ... (V play) the piano too. (have) a lot of accidents, but she (X break) her arm or leg. B: That's lucky! My brother 6 ( break) his 2 A: My cousin 4 5 leg twice. B: Well, 18 3 A: 1(X meet) anybody famous, have you? (V play) football with Cristiano Ronaldo A: Really? Where? B: On a computer game! 4 A: 1 (X go) to New York, have you?
Exercise 7. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the besinning (0).
If you are (0)…interested… in the life of birds you should know that birds do not USUALLY …(1) fly very high and we can EASILY …(2) see them flying from the ground. A lot of birds when on MIGRATION … (3) fly from 100 to 400 metres high as the EQUIPMENT …(4) shows. Some birds, like penguins, cannot fly, but they are good SWIMMERS …(5) and good JUMPERS (6) too.
They QUICKLY …(7) jump into and out of water and they look so
FUNNY …(8) when they walk.
"Don't get NERVOUS …(20). Try and read the passage ATTENTIVELY …(21), learn from context. Pay ATTENTION …(22) to what the rest of the passage says. English has a very EFFICIENT
(23) method of adding words BORROWED …(24)! As an English SPEAKER (25) travels the globe he adds a wealth of words from other languages. By the 1600's the English were ACTIVELY (26)
involved in EXPLORATION (27). They were looking for countries to establish trade CONNECTIONS with. In those countries a TRAVELLER …(29) was exposed to new ideas, climates full of heat and ICY …(30) cold, DIFFERENT …(31) plants and animals. Rather than make up ENDLESS …(32) rows of new words for everything he saw, an EXPLORER (33) often used the words of the natives. These words became an IMPORTANT (34) part of the English vocabulary.
Exercise 8. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
The English language is CONSTANTLY (1) growing and changing. No one has ever included every word from the language in a
single dictionary. To do that would mean to REWRITE …(2) the dictionary every day, which is IMPOSSIBLE …(3). But people have a lot of INFORMATION …(4) about the (5) GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT …(6) of the language, its EXPANTION (7). Scholars have VARIOUS (8) ideas of how any new discovery contributes to the process of new words ADOPTION …(9). When people are faced with a new SITUATION …(10) and they do not have a word for its DISCRIPTION …(11) they sometimes make up one. But no one makes a formal DECISION (12) about it. Many READERS …(13) begin to have trouble when they start to read passages about UNFAMILIAR …(14) subjects. Such people often MISUNDERSTAND …(15) the passage as they cannot tell what the MEANING (16) of the sentence is. They come across UNKNOWN …(17) words which prevent the process of COMPREHENSION … (18). There are many USEFULL …(19) ideas that can help you and the first is,
Exercise 7. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the besinning (0).
If you are (0)…interested… in the life of birds you should know that birds do not USUALLY …(1) fly very high and we can EASILY …(2) see them flying from the ground. A lot of birds when on MIGRATION … (3) fly from 100 to 400 metres high as the EQUIPMENT …(4) shows. Some birds, like penguins, cannot fly, but they are good SWIMMERS …(5) and good JUMPERS (6) too.
They QUICKLY …(7) jump into and out of water and they look so
FUNNY …(8) when they walk.
"Don't get NERVOUS …(20). Try and read the passage ATTENTIVELY …(21), learn from context. Pay ATTENTION …(22) to what the rest of the passage says. English has a very EFFICIENT
(23) method of adding words BORROWED …(24)! As an English SPEAKER (25) travels the globe he adds a wealth of words from other languages. By the 1600's the English were ACTIVELY (26)
involved in EXPLORATION (27). They were looking for countries to establish trade CONNECTIONS with. In those countries a TRAVELLER …(29) was exposed to new ideas, climates full of heat and ICY …(30) cold, DIFFERENT …(31) plants and animals. Rather than make up ENDLESS …(32) rows of new words for everything he saw, an EXPLORER (33) often used the words of the natives. These words became an IMPORTANT (34) part of the English vocabulary.
Exercise 8. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
The English language is CONSTANTLY (1) growing and changing. No one has ever included every word from the language in a
single dictionary. To do that would mean to REWRITE …(2) the dictionary every day, which is IMPOSSIBLE …(3). But people have a lot of INFORMATION …(4) about the (5) GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT …(6) of the language, its EXPANTION (7). Scholars have VARIOUS (8) ideas of how any new discovery contributes to the process of new words ADOPTION …(9). When people are faced with a new SITUATION …(10) and they do not have a word for its DISCRIPTION …(11) they sometimes make up one. But no one makes a formal DECISION (12) about it. Many READERS …(13) begin to have trouble when they start to read passages about UNFAMILIAR …(14) subjects. Such people often MISUNDERSTAND …(15) the passage as they cannot tell what the MEANING (16) of the sentence is. They come across UNKNOWN …(17) words which prevent the process of COMPREHENSION … (18). There are many USEFULL …(19) ideas that can help you and the first is,
1. There were some Englishmen at this hotel yesterday.
2. The sun is shining now, but there weren't clouds in the sky two
hours ago.
3. Do you often meet Torn? — Not very often, but yesterday I saw
him in the theatre.
4. Last year I was a second-year student.
5. What's the matter? My room was clean in the morning.
6. Last week we attended an interesting exhibition.
7. I bought a new dress some days ago.
8. The Smiths live in a big apartment, but some years ago they lived in a small house in the country.
9. Kate stayed in Paris last summer.
10. I had a headache yesterday.
11. Peter didn't read any books last winter.
12. My husband goes to work by car, but yesterday it snowed and he
went by train.
13. My father didn't smoke before, but he smokes a lot now.
14. As a rule we don't watch TV, but last week we watched a lot of
interesting programmes.
15. Every day Simon helps his father in the garage, but last week he was very busy with his exams and didn't help him at all.
16. I don't like meat, but some days ago I visited my friends and ate mutton there.
17. Usually we have breakfast at 7 o'clock, but yesterday we had
it much later.
18. The tourists asked the guide a lot of questions after excursion.
19. Last week Helen spoke to his boss about her vocation.
20. An hour ago they told us about the accident.
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