Om Writing
6 Write an email to a friend. Tell your friend
about a person from a different country.
You can write about Jon from the listening
or another person. Use the sentences in
exercise 3 to help you. Begin like this:
Hi ...,
I've got a new friend! His / Her name's ...
He / She's from ...
1. They had completed all the preparations for the ball by 6 o’clock.
2. On leaving the hospital the man thanked the doctor who had cured him of his disease.
3. In the morning all the passengers felt good after the night they had spent in the comfortable sleeper.
4. During my last visit to the picture gallery I found that I no longer liked the pictures which had impressed me when I first had seen them.
5. Last night he completed the experiment which he had begun some months before.
6. No sooner had she opened the drawer than she found the photo which she thought she had lost long before.
7. They had been friends for some ten years before I met them.
8. I had refused to give a definite answer before I received a letter from him.
9. Hardly had he touched the pillow when he fell asleep.
10. Everybody was already at the bus station, but the guide had not come yet.
2. Belarus was attacked and occupied by all sorts of aggressors many times.
3. The book-printing business in Belarus was started by Francisk Skaryna in the 16th century.
4. During the years of World War II many Belarusian woods were cut down and burnt by the fascists.
5. The economy of the republic was restored by the Belarusian people with the help of all people of the former Soviet Union.
6. The Independence Day is celebrated by the Belarusian people on the 3rd of July.
7. Tractors and automobiles, refrigerators and TV sets, computers and other goods are produced by the Belarusian industry.
8. Grain, vegetables, herbs and flax are cultivated by the Belarusian farmers.
9. The first dictionary of the Belarusian language was published by I. Nosovic in 1870.
10. The Belarusian language has been greatly influenced by the Russian and Polish languages.