1. Nina celebrated her birthday yesterday. Her room looked beautiful, there were many flowers in it. When I came in, somebody was playing the piano, two or three pairs were dancing. 2. Listen! Somebody is playing the piano. 3. I like music very much. 4. When I looked out of the window, it was raining heavily and people were hurrying along the streets. 5. What were you doing at seven o'clock yesterday? — I was having supper. 6. When I came home yesterday, I saw that all my family was sitting round the table. Father was reading a letter from my uncle who lives in Paris. 7. Where were you yesterday? — I was at home the whole day. — How strange. I rang you up at two o'clock, but nobody answered. — Oh, I was in the garden. I was reading your book and did not hear the telephone. 8. What wereyou doing at five o'clock yesterday? — I was working in the library. — I was there, too, but I did not see you. 9. Yesterday I was working at my English from five till seven. 10. It was raining the whole day yesterday. 11. Where is your sister now? — She is in her room. She is doing her homework.
A crossword puzzle is a game of words where the player is given a hint and the number of letters. The player then fills in a grid of boxes by finding the right words. Liverpool journalist, Arthur Wynne invented the first crossword puzzle.Arthur WynneArthur Wynne was born on June 22, 1871 in Liverpool, England. He immigrated to the United States at the age of nineteen. He first lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and worked for the Pittsburgh Press newspaper. An interesting side-note, was that Wynne also played violin in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.Later, Arthur Wynne moved to Cedar Grove, New Jersey and started working for a New York City based newspaper called the New York World. He wrote the first crossword puzzle for the New York World, published on Sunday, December 21, 1913. The editor had asked Wynne to invent a new game for the paper's Sunday entertainment section.View a copy of Arthur Wynne's first crossword puzzleWord-Cross to Cross-Word to CrosswordArthur Wynne's first crossword puzzle was initially called word-cross and was diamond-shaped. The name later switched to cross-word, and then as a result of an accidental typo the hyphen was dropped and the name became crossword.Wynne based his crossword puzzle on a similar but much older game played in ancient Pompeii that translated from Latin to English was called Magic Squares. In Magic Squares, the player is given a group of words and has to arrange them on a grid so that the words read the same way across and down. A crossword puzzle is very similar, except instead of being given the words the player is given clues.Arthur Wynne added other innovations to the crossword puzzle. While the first puzzle wasdiamond-shaped, he later invented horizontal and vertical shaped puzzles; and Wynne invented the use of adding blank black squares to a crossword puzzle.The crossword puzzle in a British publication was published in Pearson's Magazine in February 1922. The first New York Times crossword was published on February 1 1930.First Book of Crossword PuzzlesAccording to the Guinness Book of Records, the first collection of crossword puzzles was published in the USA in 1924. Called The Cross Word Puzzle Book it was the first publication by a new partnership formed by Dick Simon and Lincoln Schuster. The book, a compilation of crossword puzzles from the newspaper New York World, was an instant success and helped to establish publishing giant Simon & Schuster, who continue to produce crossword books to this day.
