Informal style
When writing postcards, we use informal style including short forms
e.g. we're and everyday words/expressions e.g. Hope you are well.
** Find and write the words/phrases in the
postcard in Ex. 1 which mean:
1 I must stop writing.
2 I'm looking forward to it.
3 I'm writing to you from Rome. ...
4 ... I don't mind.
My mother and father (1) C got divorced about ten years ago. Six years later,
my mother met a kind and (2) ___ C considerate man called Tom and she
(3) B remarried . He had two sons from his previous marriage, Michael and Harry,
who are now my (4) __ A step brothers. They (5) ___ B use to live with their
mother, but now we live together in an enormous house that Tom bought and we
are quite a(n) (6) C loving family. It’s nice having brothers to play with because
otherwise I would have been a(n) (7) __ A only child. My father lives with a
woman called Sarah. She is a very (8) _ D warm and friendly person and I really
like her. She and my father are thinking of (9) ___ B adopting a child. The problem
is that Sarah works for an airline so she is always flying around the world and
sometimes she is away from home for a whole week. She says that she is not very
(10) __ C ambitious and that she might stop working to look after a baby.
he played football a lot, he did his homework at 6., he didnt play cricket, somebody told him to spend his free time wisely, nobody agreed with his opinion. he is playing football a lot, hi is doing his homework now,, he isnt playing cricket now, somebody is telling him to spend his free time wisely, somebody is cooking the dinner. Past progressive x3) делать нечего было