I. Замените Active на Passive 1. Columbus discovered America.
2. They translated this text.
3. People talked much about this story.
4. They are selling their house.
5. They have sung ”Happy Birthday”.
6. He will invite us.
7. A boy interrupted the teacher.
8. They have told me everything.
9. Nobody has seen you.
10. I clean the room every day.
II. Переведите на английский, используя наиболее подходящее время глагола:
1. Письмо уже написано.
2. Музей каждый день посещает много людей.
3. Дом построят в следующем году.
4. Книгу сейчас переводят на французский.
5. Я был приглашен на ужин.
6. Аманда сейчас готовит обед.
7. Этот фильм покажут по телевизору.
III. Переведите на русский:
1. The letters have been signed by the secretary.
2. Tennis is being played now.
3. We will be invited to him, I’m sure.
4. Your luggage will be brought by the porter.
5. The text was translated at the last lesson.
6. All the texts were looked through yesterday and not a single mistake had been found.
7. The doctor will be sent for.
IV. Выберите правильный вариант
1. Great Britain is separated from the continent by …
a) The Pacific Ocean b) the English Channel c) the Irish Sea
2. The north of Scotland is called …
a) The Highlands b) the Lowlands c) Ben Nevis
3. The western coast of the USA is washed by …
a) The Pacific Ocean b) the Gulf of Mexico c) the Atlantic Ocean
4. The official national symbol of the USA is …
a) The flag b) the eagle c) dollar
My favorite author - a Russian classic writer Nikolai Gogol. I love to read his stories from the series "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka". They have an amazing sense of humor, funny characters, puzzles and mystery. In the stories of Gogol, for example, "Sorochinskaya Fair," "The Lost Letter," "Christmas Eve", side by side, and true tales, folk beliefs and legends.With people in Gogol acts evil spirits, but it is funny. Hell even act like men, one in a tavern guzzle coat, the other takes care of Solohoj witch, and she hides a bag of his admirers. Good and savvy eventually win evil spirits. Gogol creates a very interesting images of people: fun Cossacks, playful girls and boys who brave, cunning women, that podkoldovyvayut at leisure.Since people are funny stories: pig in "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich" stealing the paper, the crowd braves the fair runs from one swine erysipelas. In bags with nakolyadovannym good people find themselves in the garden grandfather finds an enchanted place, and then he pours it slops own wife.There Gogol and scary stories for reading that takes your breath away. It's "May Night, or drowned," where mermaid avenges evil stepmother, "Basavryuk or evening before Midsummer." Gogol as a warning: the one who wants to take advantage of impure deeds, defeated.But usually Gogol kindly laughs disadvantages people: greed, stupidity, cowardice, gossip: "Utopia smith! And I say, will be hanged. " And over the petty resentment, bureaucracy (in the story of Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich). Gogol is a pleasure to read. His characters speak in such a lively, colorful language, which does not want to, but usmehneshsya.
I would like to say a few words about my favorite author and my favorite book. I like to read detective stories very much, so I like to read stories about Sherlock Holms written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Conan Doyle was born in Scotland, he was a doctor and in 1882 he moved to England to set up a practice. One of the doctors he worked for was the model for Sherlock Holms's friend, Dr Watson. Conan Doyle's medical knowledge was a great help to him in his detective stories. Sherlock Holmes was created in 1885 and later his name was a name that everybody knew. When Doyle began to get tired of writting detective stories, he tried to kill Holmes. But the public didn't like it and he had to write another story to bring him back.