Ex.8.Answer the questions

Examples: Did you work at your English Yesterday? – Yes, I did.

How long had you been working at your English before you went for a walk?(for an hour )- I had been working at my English for an hour.

1.Did it rain yesterday?........ . How long had it been raining when you left home?(for 3 hours)....... . 2. Did she work at the University before she retired?......... . How long had she been working there before she retired?(for 25 years).... . 3. Did you stay at the hotel when you were in London?........ . How long had you been living there when Jane arrived?(for a fortnight)..... .4. Did they study French before they went to France?...... . How long had they been studying it before they went there?(for 5 years ).... 5. Did they work on their book last year?....... . How had they been working on it before they sent it to the publishing house?(for 2 years).... .

Ex.9.Make up sentences according to the pattern.

Example: You come home. Your children were watching television.(they/ not/ do/ any work)-They hadn’t been doing any work.

1.Brother and sister came home with angry faces.(they/ quarrel/ on the way home) 2. There was nobody in the flat. But a delicious smell of fresh bread was in the air.(Mother /bake bread) 3. Mary closed her eyes. She felt very tired. (she/ read/ too long) 4. You came home from a party. You were nearly dropping on your feet.(you /dance/ all night) 5. When I looked at my typewriter, I saw a sheet of paper in it.(somebody/ use/ my typewriter)

Ex.10. Put the verb in brackets into the Past Indefinite, the Past Continuous and the Past Perfect Continuous.

1. When I (get) home that evening, my little son(eat) dinner himself for the first time.2. My sister’s wedding (be) the only thing everybody (talk) at home for the last two weeks. 3. They (go) back to the hotel and up to their suite, where they (expect) the inspector at six – thirty.4. Presently he (turn) to look at the corner where she (stand). 5. He just(leave)for the airport when I (call). 6.” Who are you thinking of?” he (ask) after he (look) at me for a few seconds.7.They stand in the open front doorway, waiting for her to come in out of the rain.8. Nobody (know) where Smith (go). 9.When he (come) back to the conference room, he (see) that the situation (change).

Ex.11. Translate into English.

1.Гости ушли. Теперь они сидели перед камином в гостиной. 2. Люди, которых она встречала по дороге домой, улыбались ей и спрашивали, как она провела отпуск.3. Я думаю, он показал мне около тридцати картин. Это был результат шести лет ,в течение которых он рисовал. 4.Она изучала искусство рисования три года, прежде чем стала работать в издательстве. Когда я попросил ее сделать иллюстраций к моей книге, она заканчивала иллюстрировать свою первую книгу.5. Не успели они проехать и пяти миль, как их остановила полиция.6. Мистер Мэтлок посмотрел на своего сына, его взгляд смягчился.7. Буря утихла, небо прояснилось, и опять светило солнце.

Unit 6.

LEISURE TIME

Text: A night at the theatre.

Grammar: The Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Практические цели: Ознакомление лексического материала по теме "Leisure time" и закрепление активной лексики в речевых упражнениях, развитие умений и навыков монологической речи. Введение новой грамматической темы: “ The Future Perfect Continuous Tense ” и выполнение грамматических упражнений на закрепление.

A night at the theatre.

Here we are outside the theatre. It is the Library Theatre which is underneath the General Library in Manchester. We are going to see a modern play which is very popular with theatre-goers.

Passing through the revolving door and down the stairs we come to the box office where the tickets are sold. Luckily we booked our seats a few weeks ago or would not be able to get in, because for this play all the seats had already been sold. It is so popular that this is the second time it has been produced here.

We leave our raincoats in the cloakroom. At the entrance to the theatre itself an attendant in uniform tears our theatre tickets in half. He gives us our halves back so that we can find our seats by their numbers. Another attendant shows us to our seats and sells us a program that will tell us which parts the actors are playing and how many acts there in the play. Then we take our seats about halfway down the auditorium.

All around us people are settling down into their seats , reading their programmes, passing chocolates . Everybody is excited, looking forward to the play. We all have a clear view of the stage because the seats are set on wide steps which slope down to the level of the stage. On the front row, you are so close you can smell the paint on the scenery but not too close to spoil your view of the actors. Even on the back row you have a perfect view of the stage because this is a small theatre.

This auditorium holds only 300 seats, but many theatres are much larger . In a small theatre you can always be sure to hear and see everything and really feel that you are with the actors in everything they do and in all the places they visit. But many plays are still produced in very large , old theatres where it is difficult to see and hear properly if you are in the back rows. There are sometimes so many stalls (ground-floor seats) in these theatres that they are divided into orchestra stalls, center stalls, and rear stalls, with the pit behind them. Above, there is the dress circle and boxes , then the balcony and, high above, the gallery, or the “gods”!

The auditorium seems to be full now. In a few minutes the play will begin. The attendants close the doors and draw the curtains over them. The warning bell rings to tell everyone the play is about to begin. People whisper excitedly. Slowly the lights begin to come up on the stage.

Topical vocabulary.

1. leisure досуг

2. spare time свободное время

3. to entertain, entertainment(n) развлекать,развлечение

4. box office театральная касса

5. ticket билет

6. to book заказать

7. seat место

8. play пьеса,спектакль

9. cloak-room гардероб

10.cloak-room ticket номерок

11.drama theatre драматический театр

12.matinee дневной спектакль

13.to stage,stage (n) поставитьспектакль,сцена

14.orchestra оркестр

15.stalls,in the orchestra stalls партер,в первых рядах партера

16.row,on the front, back row ряд,в первом ряду,в последнем ряду

17.box,in the box ложа,в ложе

18.gallery, ”the gods” галерка

19.curtain (rises,falls) занавес (поднимется,опускается)

20.scene сцена,(часть действия)

21.scenery декорации

22. dress circle бельэтаж

23.audience зрительная аудитория

24.perfomance игра актеров,спектакль

25.to applaude,applause (n) аплодисменты

26.pit амфитеатр

27.theatre-goer театрал

Ex.1.Find in the text the equivalents to the following:

очень популярна среди театралов; театральная касса; купить билеты; поставлена (пьеса) во второй раз; гардероб; найти места ( в театре); роль; передние (задние) ряды; зал вмещает; партер; амфитеатр; зал заполнен; загораются огни.