Составьте предложения с данными словосочетаниями.
1. to take smth for granted
2. to be called upon / to call (up)on smb to do smth
3. to earn one’s living
4. apart from
5. fairly well-to-do
6. to settle down
7. to one’s great relief
8. to draw away
9. to account for
10. ample evidence of smth
11. in the distance
12. to make smb’s acquaintance
13. to set smb at his/her ease
14. to take one’s eyes from
15. to rub (one’s head) against
16. to draw to a close
17. to the extent of/ to some extent
18. how one’s affairs stand
19. to set smth in order
20. (not) to have a head for figures
21. to turn smb cold
22. to make a row

Norman Baker meets John Wiley and Nigel Mc. Can at John’s office.

 N. Hello, John. How are you?

 J. Good, thanks. How are you?

 N. I’m OK. Thank you. Nice weather, isn’t it?

 J.I agree with you. It’s very warm today, isn’t it?

 N. Yes, and it’s not so warm back home in Canada.

 J. By the way, I want you to meet Nigel Mc Can. He is the head of our sales department.

 Nig. . . Is this your first visit to Lincoln?

 N. Yes, and I enjoy it very much.

 J. OK, gentlemen, it’s a quarter past nine. Let’s meet. I think we may start with…

 

It was a cold snowy day. Santa woke up in the morning and looked at the clock. It was already 12 o`clock! Santa in horror realised, that it was 24th of December and he needed to do a lot of work! He quickly put on his clothes and went to his toy factory. It was Christmas day, and he had to pick all presents in to his sleigh. When he opened the toy factory`s door, he started to smile. His little dwarfs were working really hard. They were packing all presents in beautiful and bright boxes. Santa thought, that children would be really pleased.   Then Santa went into his office and started to check letters from children. All letters looked like: „I want a dog”, „I want a computer”, but one letter really touched him. A boy, from Scotland was really upset about his parents` argument. He really loved his parents and asked Santa to make them a couple again.  Santa quickly called his best dwarf and told him about this letter. The dwarf promised to do his best. It was 6 o`clock and Santa started to collect all presents in to his slegh. Then his deer flew up in the sky.  That Christmas day was very sad for the little boy. He always dreamed about a family Christmas evening, but his parents were always abroad and that time they were in argument. Suddenly, appeared the little dwarf and waved with his magic stick in the air. Instantly, all the boy`s family appeared in the room. Mother and Father layed the table, the Christmas tree`s pine-needles smelled freshly, there were pretty stockings with presents on the fireplace. The little boy was really happy and said: „Thank you Santa, now I know that miracles exist...”