hall. 10. There was a mistake in his test. 11. Ann was having dinner at six o'clock.

1 2. They had to take four exams,

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V.

Answer the following questions:

1. Have you bought this book? 2. When did you buy it? 3, Have you seen this

play? 4. When did you see it? 5. Have you made this dress yourself? 6. When did

you make it? 7, What were you doing at 7 last night? 8. Were you knitting at that

moment? 9. What were you reading when I entered? 10, What were you singing

when he came? 11. Why were you laughing when you saw him? 12. Why was the

baby crying? 13. What were you doing when we rang you up? 14. What were they

writing when the teacher entered? 15, What was he listening to when you called

him? 16. What were you reading when the door-bell rang? 17. Where were you

going to when I stopped you? 18. Where was the boy running when you saw him?

VI,

Use the following sentences in indirect speech:

1. He said: "I want to see you today." 2. She said: "I am free tonight. May I

come to see you?" 3. Mother said to me: "I feel bad today." 4. The students of

Group 106 said to us: "We have four exams this spring." 5. The pupil said to the

teacher: "I can do my homework after dinner." 6. The teacher said: "You work

hard, I know. You are a good boy." 7. The teacher said to the students: "We have

18 hours of English a week." 8. The dean said at the meeting: "The first-year

students must work well."

9. The girl asked: "May I wait for my friend here?" 10. She said: "Are you

going to the club together?" 11. The old man said to her: "You can sing perfectly."

12. My sister said to me: "You look very well, I hope you are all right?" 13. The

girl said to me: "I am going to become a doctor." 14. Some of our students said to

him: "You are not right. You don't work hard enough."

15.

He said to us: "I agree, I don't always work systematically,"

16.

My uncle said to us: "I buy several newspapers every day."

17.

"You are an excellent cook. Everything is so tasty," my guest said.

VII.

Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense-form:

1. They (to go) to the Maly Theatre last week. 2. They (to be) to the theatre

twice this week. 3. He (to come) home, (to have) a short rest, (to read) an article

from the latest magazine and (to begin) to prepare his lessons. 4. When (to return)

your friend from the South? — She (to return) yesterday. — You (to go) to the

station to meet her? — No, I (can) not. I (to be) too busy. 5. With whom (to

discuss) you this question yesterday? 6. I (to see) this film this week and I like it

very much. 7. When I (to enter) the kitchen, I (to see) that my mother (to stand) at

the table and (to cut) some cabbage. She (to cook) dinner. 8. As soon as I (to hear)

a cry I (to run) out of the room and (to see) that the child (to lie) on the ground

and (to cry). "What (to happen)? (To hurt) you yourself?" 9. I (to want) to get

tickets to the Bolshoi Theatre. — You (to want) to hear the new opera? (Not to

hear) you it yet? 10. What (to go) you to do? — Now I (to go) to have a bite. I (to

have) not any dinner today. 11. As soon as I (to see) him, I (to understand) that he

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(to work) hard. He (to think) of something very important for him and (not to

notice) anything. 12, Your brother (to return) from the North? — Yes, he (to

come) two days ago. 13. (To be) you to the Crimea? When (to be) you there? — I

(to stay) there for two months in 1979. I (to remember) I (to like) everything

there, and most of all I (to like) the sea.

VIII.

a) Compose sentences of your own using have { h a d ) to in the affirmative,

interrogative and negative forms, b) Ask one another questions and answer them as in the

models.

M o d e l 1: Did he have to prepare for his entrance exams? — Yes, he had to

take four exams.

M o d e l 2: Did he have to wait long? — No, he didn't have to stay there.

TEXT 1 OUR UNIVERSITY

( A Letter)

Dear Helen,

Don't be angry with me for my long silence, but really I was too busy to

write.

As you know, I left school in June and began to prepare for my entrance

exams to the University. As both my mother and father are teachers I have made

up my mind to be a teacher too. I think teaching is a noble profession.

I had to take four exams and passed all of them with excellent marks. So I'm

glad to tell you that now I'm a first-year student at the Moscow State Teacher

Training University.

I should like to show you the main building of our University. I can't help

admiring this fine old building with its beautiful columns. The first students

entered it more than 120 years ago.

It goes without saying we, students, are very proud of this fact.

There are 18 faculties at our University which train teachers in many subjects:

Russian, Literature, Mathematics, Physics, Geography, Chemistry, Biology,

Foreign languages and others. Many well-known professors teach at our

University.

We have good libraries and reading-rooms and for those who go in for sports

there are good gymnasiums and a stadium.

At present we have quite a lot of work as we have English practice, Grammar

and Phonetics, Linguistics, History of our native land and other subjects. There is

an English speaking club at our faculty. It gives us a good opportunity to master

the language, but I don't take part in it yet. I'm working hard at my

pronunciation. There is a good language laboratory at our faculty where we work

with cassette-recorders. It helps us to find out our mistakes and to get rid of them

in the shortest possible time.

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So that's the latest news about myself. Please write to me about your life and

studies.

My best regards to your parents.

Yours, Ann.

TEXT 2 A TELEPHONE CALL

Alex is about to ring up a friend of his. He picks up the receiver, and dials the

number. The first time the line is engaged but then he gets through.

A: Bob?

B: Speaking.

A: This is Alex. Hello, old chap. Haven't heard from you for ages. How are

you ?

B: Oh, hello, Alex. I'm fine, thanks.

A: Wonderful, I hear you passed all your entrance exams with excellent marks.

So you are a student now, aren't you? B: Well yes, and you?

A: I wasn't so lucky at the exams, in fact. I only got good marks in the main

subjects: physics and maths.

В: I wonder if you find it difficult to study mathematics?

A: Rather. I spend a lot of time doing my home assignment. But I'm not at all

sorry. You've got to work hard to make good progress.

В: Do you have time to go in for sports ?

A: Yes, of course, I joined the University sports society, as I'm fond of skating,

skiing and tennis.

B: As for me, I'm a member of our English speaking club. I've joined our

drama society and the choir. They say I'm rather good at both singing and

acting.

A: Good, isn't it? Hope to see you some day. Will you invite me to your club?