D2. b) Find the answers in the text. 1) Why are people interested in weather predictions? 2) Who did people ask if they wanted to know about the future? 3) What is an omen?
My favourite book is "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
I first discovered these stories when I was about twelve and I've loved them ever since. They're brilliantly written, full of bizarre crimes and they've got a terrific Victorian atmosphere.
When you read them you really feel like you've been carried back to nineteenth-century London.
All the twentieth century detectives like Miss Marple and Inspector Morse seem really boring compared to Sherlock Holmes.
That's where Conan Doyle, really makes you believe that Holmes is unique — a genius with amazing mental powers.
Normally I only read detective stories once. I mean, why read them again when you know what happens in the end?
With the Sherlock Holmes stories, though, its different.
Each time I re-read them I discover more and more to enjoy.
1. I need go to reading-room and prepare my lessons there as I don't have a text-book at home. 2. You must translate this text without a dictionary. It is not difficult. 3. It is very hot in the street. It was rain in the evening. 4. You mustn't smoke here. 5. I need read English books.
to be - was, to go - went, to have - had, to come - came, to work - worked, to begin - began, to live - lived, to read - read, to write - wrote, to speak - spoke, to study - studied, to meet - met, to become - became, to give - gave, to build - built, to know - knew, to take - took, to see - saw, to stop - stopped, to help - helped.
1. Man began to study plants many hundred years ago. 2. Ann and Kate became students last year. 3. Yesterday Kate got a letter from her brother. 4. Peter met Ann in the reading-room two days ago. He was in the reading-room at that time too. 5. They took books about plants and began to read them. 6. Man began to grow the first food plants 10 000 years ago. 7. I saw Kate many years ago.
My Favourite Book
My favourite book is "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
I first discovered these stories when I was about twelve and I've loved them ever since. They're brilliantly written, full of bizarre crimes and they've got a terrific Victorian atmosphere.
When you read them you really feel like you've been carried back to nineteenth-century London.
All the twentieth century detectives like Miss Marple and Inspector Morse seem really boring compared to Sherlock Holmes.
That's where Conan Doyle, really makes you believe that Holmes is unique — a genius with amazing mental powers.
Normally I only read detective stories once. I mean, why read them again when you know what happens in the end?
With the Sherlock Holmes stories, though, its different.
Each time I re-read them I discover more and more to enjoy.
2. You must translate this text without a dictionary. It is not difficult.
3. It is very hot in the street. It was rain in the evening.
4. You mustn't smoke here.
5. I need read English books.
to be - was, to go - went, to have - had, to come - came, to work - worked, to begin - began, to live - lived, to read - read, to write - wrote, to speak - spoke, to study - studied, to meet - met, to become - became, to give - gave, to build - built, to know - knew, to take - took, to see - saw, to stop - stopped, to help - helped.
1. Man began to study plants many hundred years ago.
2. Ann and Kate became students last year.
3. Yesterday Kate got a letter from her brother.
4. Peter met Ann in the reading-room two days ago. He was in the reading-room at that time too.
5. They took books about plants and began to read them.
6. Man began to grow the first food plants 10 000 years ago.
7. I saw Kate many years ago.