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Dear Martin,
How are you and Sally?
11) ... hope... (hope) you're
well. 12)
(write) to give you some good news.
I have got a summer job for the holidays! I 3)
(repair) telephone lines
for a telephone company.
14)
(usually/ride) my bicycle
to work because it's only a ten minute ride from
home. We 5) (start) work at 8:30. We
6)
(finish) at 4:30 on Mondays to
Thursdays, but at 2:30 on Fridays, so I 7)
(have) long weekends.
18)
(work) very hard at the
moment. To tell you the truth, 19)
(be)
a bit nervous because
my
boss 10) ...
(leave) for Scotland on business next week, so Pll be
on my own. Lizzie says I 11)
(worry about it too much. She's probably right!
Please write with your news. Say hello to Sally for me.
Best wishes,
Richard
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2 He doesn't like playing chess.
3 We like corresponding with each other very much.
4 Bob hates washing the dishes.
5 We enjoy travelling round our country.
6 They like chatting with each other in the evening.
7 Mary and her mum love doing shopping.
8 My parents don't like going to the theatre.
9 I hate staying at the weekends.
10 What do you really enjoy doing?
11 What do you like making?
12 She continues working in the school library.
13 Finally it stopped raining.
14 After you finish studying take some time to relax.
15 Unfortunately many people dislike doing morning exercises.
2 Mother didn't let the children play in/on the street.
3 She was so frivolous as to go there alone
4 To put it mildly, she wasn't very pretty.
5 I had nobody to ask.
6 The teacher likes the students to record his lectures.
7 I heard him say that he had nothing to apologize for.
8 The delegation is likely to stay in Moscow for several days.
9 He has gone there to check out all the facts.
10 The children were happy to be taken to the circus.
11 He seemed to be displeased with the results of his work
12 It's necessary to decide today if we should or shouldn't invite the Ivanovs.
13 When asked what had made him cheat us, he failed to (=couldn't) answer or didn't want to do it.