Read the passage below and fill in the gaps with names of characters of the famous epoc "The
Alpamysh". The names are given in the box. You can
use each name more than once.
Baysari Alpomysh
Konirat Kalmyc
The Alpomysh
Taycha khan
Barchin Bayburi
Kalmycshah
The first part of 1)
tells about 2)
and his bride
3)
whom he has been engaged to since childhood. Their
fathers, 4)
and 5)
tribe
were from the 6)
and were childless for a very long time, until their pleas were heard by
God, and 7)
had one daughter, whilst 8)
had a daughter
and a son. After an argument, 9)
and his family moved to the
10)
country. There 11)
by then a very pretty young lady,
attracted the attention of the pehlivans (strongmen) of 12)
13)
In order to avoid an involuntary marriage to any of the
hated by her pehlivan, 14)
declares that she will marry anyone,
who wins all four contests: horse race ("bayga"), archery skills, target
shooting from a bow, and wrestling...​

A lot of teens go in for different kinds of sport. Sport helps them to feel as fit as a fiddle. In both countries there are special programmes for problem teenagers, such as a high-risk activities, for example they are taught to jump out of aeroplanes. But despite the increase in the number of teens participating in sport, the majority of young people still prefer to be spectators. They prefer to be couch potatoes. Watching sports on TV is a popular leisure activity, as is going to football matches on Saturday. Cinemas have been redesigned with four or more screens, each showing a different film at the same time, and a lot of teens like going to the cinemas too.

1. The secretary has said the press conference is taking place now in the main hall.

2. My brother has said aunt Sally will come on Monday.

3. The students have said they had two tests last week.

4. Her daughter said she was not listening to music then.

5. My friend said he had visited all these places.

6. Tom said he was a first year student then.

7. She said she had not been speaking to him since the previous day.

8. Susan said she had been in the library two days before.

9. The boy said he had not been watching TV in his home at 8 o’clock.

10. The teacher said they had been writing since early morning.

11. He said he would visit me the following Friday.

12. She said she would be leaving her home at 10 o’clock that night.

1. John asked if anybody had seen the film.

2. He asked me if I was listening to music then.

3. She asked me if I had been working hard on that problem.

4. She asked me if I had been in the library the previous day.

5. He asks her if she works now.

6. He asks her if she has been reading this book since Monday.

7. Jane asked if anybody could tell her what we had been discussing all the time.

8. He asked me if I would be at Nick and Carol’s party that night.

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