Exercise 1. Fareed is buying a new laptop. Change the underlined words into comparative adjectives.
WOMAN: These two, the Helix 400 and the VKC 28, are very popular
at the moment, sír. The VKC 28 is a little (new) newer 0, but the Helix
is (cheap)
1.
FAREED: Can I touch them? Which one is (heavy)
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WOMAN: The VKC is (light)
3 than the Helix, but it's also
(wide)
4.
FAREED: Yes, you're right. The VKC is (big)
5, but
much (thin)
6. And I suppose it's (powerful)
7 too, if it's newer.
WOMAN: it's (fat)
8, yes. But the Helix is still a good
computer. We sell hundreds every week.
FAREED: You said the VKC was (expensive)
9.
What's the difference in price,
WOMAN: The Helix is £400 and the VKC is £600.
FAREED: Thanks. I think the VKC is a little (good)
but I'll take the Helix!
10,

The family of hares lived in one fine, green wood. Mother Zaychika and her sonny Zayka, and fathers at them wasn't.Somehow time the Hare has asked very interesting question mother:"Mother, and how we breathe?""By means of oxygen the sonny" - the Doe hare has answered"And from where he undertakes?" - the son has asked again."And let's descend we on a birchwood? Leaves of white-trunked birches, will in detail tell us to us with you about it."Well mother and hare have also gone to a birchwood.When they have come into her, hare has quickly jumped with the most beautiful and a high birch. Also I have addressed one of leaflets on her."Leaflet, hi! It is interesting to me from where oxygen undertakes. You can tell me?""Hi, hare. Of course, with pleasure! So, well look I both my brothers leaves and all other plants on Earth eat carbon dioxide and water, and in exchange we give you that oxygen which you breathe. Well and organic substances. It is called PhotosynthesisNow has understood?""Thanks, kind leaflet. For your good explanation. Now I know as we breathe, and I have learned about the new word photosynthesis"Hare grew, became him the biology after conversation with a leaflet is interesting. Now he has grown up and studies biology

Diana Frances Spencer was born on 1 July, 1961 in the estate of the Spencers in Norfolk. Diana's parents were from aristocratic families: her father's name is Viscount Althrop and her mother's name is Frances Roche. The ancestors of her father Earl Spencer were relatives of a royal dynasty. The mother had a noble title too. When Diana was six, her mother left the family and in 1969 the marriage of her parents was officially dissolved.

In 1975 Althrop inherited the title of Earl Spencer from his father and for the second/time married Raine, the Countess of Dartmouth, the daughter of the writer Barbara Cartland.

Diana was sent to the private school. She dreamt of being a ballerina, but, then, as she told herself, she had to give up this idea because it appeared that she was too tall for that. Diana studied at normal schools — at first in Norfolk, then in Kent. When she was 16 she left for Switzerland and finished school there. Having returned, she lived with her friends in London, earning as a cook or a nanny, and then found the job of a teacher in a kindergarten.

For the first time Diana met the Prince in 1977, in the estate of Diana's father. Diana's sister Sarah introduced them to each other. They began to date. At this time it was considered in Buckingham Palace that the heir should marry. Diana seemed to be a suitable candidate, though Spencers were not royal by descent. But Diana was not catholic, so one of the main conditions of a royal marriage was observed, and the decision was made. They were married at St. Paul's Cathedral on July 29, 1981 and this wedding became rather most brilliant event in Britain. Diana was twenty, Charles — thirty-two.

However, after the honeymoon the relations between the couple started getting worse.

In June, 1982 the Princess of Wales gave birth to her first son, Prince William, and in September, 1984 she gave birth to her second child Prince Henry. The Royal family hoped that with birth of the sons peace would reign in the family. But the hopes appeared to be vain. Charles and Diana were moving away from each other. The situation became even worse, when the Princess understood, that heart of the Prince belongs to another woman — Camilla Parker-Bowles (later, in 1986, it became known, that he renewed the relations with her). Then Diana, in her turn, began to take lessons of horse riding from the major Hewitt, a heart breaker from the high society. The exposing scandalous photos and overheard telephone conversations of the husband and wife appeared in mass media.

Since autumn 1987 the couple began to spend practically all the time separately. In December, 1992 the Prime Minister John Major announced to the Parliament, that Diana and Charles were going to divorce. The official divorce was held in August, 1996.

Several last weeks of her life Princess Diana spent together with her friend Duddy Al-Fayed, 41 years old, the senior son of the Egyptian billionaire Mohammed Al-Fayed, the owner of the most fashionable London shop «Harrods», Paris hotel «Ritz», and a lot of others.

On August 31, 1997 Princess Diana was killed in a car accident together with Duddi. Diana's death was a great tragedy and loss for the whole British nation. In her life she did a lot of charity all over the world and became the most popular and beloved figure of the royal family. Her death is still full of mysteries.