Audiences have always connected melodrama with "popular culture'. Melodrama was the … (popular) form of theatre during the
19th century. The word "melodrama" … (come) from "music drama". At that time they used music to increase the … … (public) emotions. Usually melodramas are about
(woman), and female viewers enjoy them to a much ＿ ＿ (great) degree than men. In 1930- 1940, American soap producers sponsored such performances and they … (receive) the name "soap opera".

2. Откройте скобки и поставьте глаголы времени.

A

1. We (saw) a good film on TV last night.

2. My mother (went) to India for a week in August.

3. Josh (studied) English in Oxford two years ago.

4. When he (bought) a car, he (made) a lot of money.

5. On Sunday Rob (did not go) to the art museum with us.

B

Yesterday (was) a terrible day. Diana (got) up late, so she (did not have) any breakfast. She only (drank) a glass of milk. She (went) out of the house. She usually walks to school, but yesterday she (decided) to take a bus. When she (got) to school she (could not) find her homework. She (left) her bag in the bus. All the children (laughed) at her. Miss Dunn, Diana's teacher, did not laugh, she (was) angry.

Carolyn (had) a problem at school last week. She (was) in class and her tooth (started) to hurt. The next day her mother (took) her to the dentist. The dentist (looked) at Carolyn's teeth and (saw) a bad one. He (took) the bad tooth out.

Show White was a little princess who's mother died when she was born. The king took a new wife. That woman had a magical mirror and she didn't like her stepdaughter because the girl was more beautiful than the Queen. The Queen ordered a huntsman to take Snow White into the woods to be killed.But huntsman let her go. In the forest Snow White met seven dwarfs. The dwarfs took pity of her and she stayed with them. Meanwhile, the Queen knew about this from her mirror. She took three attempts to kill Snow White. Finally little princess accepted a poisoned apple and fell into a deep stupor.The dwarfs placed her in a glass coffin, assuming she was dead. Time passed and a prince travelling through the land saw Snow White. He saved her and they lived happily ever after.