Put the verbs in brackets in the Past Indefinite or the Past Continuous. a) Last week I (decide) to invite some friends over for dinner. I (buy) lots of delicious food, including some Parma Ham. At about 6.00 I (cook) in the kitchen. The sun (shine) and it (be) a beautiful evening, so I (open) the back door. Then the telephone (ring). I (go) to answer it, and when I (come) back the ham (not be) on the table. I (look) out of the window. A cat (sit) on my garden wall, and it (eat) my ham. What could I do? I (fill) a pan with water and (go) quietly outside. The cat (not look) in my direction, and it (enjoy) the ham so much that it (not hear) me. I (walk) slowly up to it – I (want) to empty the water over its head. A bit cruel, I know, but the ham (be) so expensive! But at the last moment the cat (hear) me, (jump) over the wall, and (escape). The happiest cat in the neighbor-hood…
b) Mrs. May, our District nurse, (drive) home at 3 a.m. one night after an urgent visit to a sick patient. She (drive) along a deserted country lane, when she (see) a new kind of animal. She (stop) her car and (get out). The animal (be) clearly visible in the blaze of her headlights. It (look) like a hedgehog with a tall white hat. It (cross) the road without paying any attention to Mrs May. When Mrs.
May (come) closer to it, she (notice) that there was a plastic yoghurt pot on the hedgehog’s head. The poor animal had got its head stuck in the plastic pot! Her instincts as a nurse (tell) her to help, so she (pull) at the pot but the hedgehog (pull) too. After a struggle, she (pull) the pot off the hedgehog’s head. Mrs. May (think) the hedgehog (look) rather sad, when she (notice) that the pot was half full of strawberry yoghurt. She (give) it back to the hedgehog. The animal (put) it on its head again and (continue) the journey across the road.
In my composition I would like to tell you about myself and my amicable family. First of all I want to tell you about myself a little. My name is Madina. My surname is Olimova. I am eleven. I like to sing songs, dance, read adventure, fascinating and fantasy books. I study at school №3 in the fifth form. I would like to say that I am a good student. I like my school very much. At our school we study a lot of interesting, useful, necessary and important subjects in our live such as: Maths, Literature, History, P.E, I.T and many others. I learn two foreign languages: English and German. Particularly I likean English language. At the lessons we speak English, learn easy poems and songs by heart, ask and answer the questions, read and translate stories and articles connected with lives and traditions of our contemporaries in English-speaking countries from English into Russian. We know much new and entertaining information at these lessons. My teacher explains well and we understand her excellently. She is kind, clever and cheerful. She can interest us and make our lessons more colourful. At my school there are some kinds of circles and we attend them with pleasure. Also I go to the musical school and play the piano. I have got a dream to become a teacher at the musical school.
And now I would like to tell you about my amicable family. My family consists of my parents, two sisters and I. We live in a beautiful town Rtizhchevo. I can say that our family is not big but we love one another very much. My father`s name is Dadoshon. My mother`s name is Lola. My sistrers` names are Navbahora and Zilola. All the members of our family have their own hobbies but we don`t forget about general hobby to spend our weekends together. We like to do different things in different seasons: gather berries and mushrooms in the forest, swim, run in the morning, play volleyball, skate and ski. We are an excellent family