B. Complete the sentences with for or since.. 2007
1. Jake has played in this team
2.I have lived in New York
three years
yesterday
3. Dennis and I haven't seen Peter
months
4. Paul hasn't been to the cinema
5. I haven't heard this song
last summer!
2 weeks.
6. Cheryl has known Jane
C. Use the prompts to make sentences. Use the Present Perfect Simple and for or since.
4. Becky / not visit / grandmother/ March
1. Our band / play / four times / at / youth club/ June
Our band has played four times at the youth club
since June
5. We / not win / cup / two years
2.1/ not see / Jack / this morning
6. Robert / travel abroad / twice 7 last summer
3. They / be / on tour / three months
2) It was a cold day. The wind was blowing hard and the rain was falling heavily.
3) John was swimming in the sea while the children were playing on the beach.
4) We were drawing the plans while our boss was talking about the project.
5) While John was giving the presentation, nobody was listening.
2.
1) A group of friends was having dinner in an old house in the country when suddenly there was a noise and the door opened slowly.
2) John was sitting in his office reading the newspaper when he heard the sound of a car crash in the street.
3) Mary was walking home late one night when a strange man stopped her and asked for a cigarette.
4) Policeman Plod was leaving home one morning when his wife called to him from the door. "You`ve forgotten your umbrella!" she said.
5) We were driving along a country road when suddenly a fox jumped out in front of the car and looked at us.
6) While I was studying my English grammar lessons, my roommate came in and said he wanted to watch the television.
Born into the Russian aristocracy in 1799, Pushkin was brought up in a heavily European-influenced environment. From his early years in Moscow, Pushkin had easy access to French and British literature—Voltaire, Byron, and Scott would become his early literary models. After graduating from a government lycée at Tsarskoe Selo in 1817, he obtained an appointment to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in St. Petersburg. While there he alternated between periods of reckless dissipation and intense writing, finishing his first full-length work Ruslan i Lyudmila (Ruslan and Lyudmila) in 1820. Just prior to its publication, however, Czar Alexander I exiled Pushkin to southern Russia for the allegedly revolutionary political sentiments expressed in his poetry. During the first four years of his six-year exile, he retained his civil service position and lived in various towns in the Caucasus and Crimea. Despite bouts of gambling and drinking, he was productive during his years in southern Russia and wrote prolifically. Pushkin was eventually pardoned by Nicholas I in 1826, though the czar appointed himself the poet's personal censor, keeping him under strict observation and forbidding him to travel freely or leave Russia. In 1831 Pushkin married Natalia Nikolaevna Goncharova, and in the final ten years of his life he lived primarily in St. Petersburg, producing his most enduring poetic works, including Eugene Onegin and all of his shorter fiction. In 1837 he was severely wounded in a duel with George d'Anthès, an Alsatian nobleman who had openly made sexual advances toward Pushkin's wife. Pushkin died two days later