Complete the sentences below using the as... as similes in the box. As white as snow, as smooth as silk, as slow as a snail, as free as a bird,
as light as a feather, as cold as ice, as blind as a bat, as black as coal, as
changeable as weather
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1. The night was…
2. Her hateful eyes were
3. Without my glasses, I am…
4. Her face has become…
5. The bicycle looks heavy, but it feels..
6. On the first day of his vacation, the boy felt…
7. My computer is very fast at times, and at other times…
a snail
8. When I was a child, a man of seventy seemed to me to be
9. After using our body lotion, your skin is guaranteed to feel…
Let me introduce myself. My name is Igor. I’m sixteen years old. I’m at 10-th grade. I’m tall, slender, dark-haired boy with blue eyes.
I live in Kiev. I have a brother and a sister. My elder brother Sergey is twenty, he studies at the Kiev National University, and he will be a lawyer. My younger sister Olga is ten, she studies at school. By the way, we have one more member of our family, cat Ryzhik. We love him very much.
My Mum is forty-two, she is a Spanish teacher. My Dad is forty-five, he is a computer programmer.
My grandparents are already retired. My Grandma likes gardening, and Grandpa likes fishing. They live in our city and visit us at weekends.
I have many friends. We spend a lot of time together. We play football, volleyball, basketball. In summer we like swimming in river and lakes.
Besides school, I go in for sports. I play tennis. It’s exciting game, and I like it very much. Sometimes I take part in different tennis competition.
Soon I will graduate a school and I have to choose a profession. However, I have many interests and hobbies, for example, sports, travelling, music, so it’s not so easy to choose an occupation. My parents want me to be a computer programmer, like my Dad.
But I’m not sure because I’m not very good in mathematics. I like computer games, I like to surf the Net, to communicate with people in different social nets and forums. I even have my own blog. But I don’t want a computer programming to be my profession. Also I like tennis, but I don’t want to be a professional sportsman. You can ask me, why? Because I have another passion!
I’m fond of travelling so I’d like to work for a tour company. I dream to visit all countries throughout the world and to see all sightseeings and great places. I hope my dreams will come true!
4) Sanzhar just went to the supermarket.
5) She scored twenty points in the match.
6) Did you ever do a bungee jump?
7) Did they already took their History project?
8) That’s a,along! She ran fifteen kilometres this morning!
9) Did you ever saw the Sharyn Canyon in Kazakhstan?
10) Dad didn’t took a holiday since last August.
11) She broken her leg.
12) Did Tina and Ben ever visit France?
13) Did you ever climb a mountain?
14) I never been to Burabai National
Park.
15) He didn’t ate his lunch.
16) Did she went hiking in the mountains?
17) I didn’t saw her since Monday.
18) Dad, you’ve been in an aeroplane?