Speaking Task 4. Choose ONE picture and tell about this machine. Name the machine, describe it, and tell what it can do, how it moves, where or how we can use it.

Example: It’s a wheelbarrow. A wheelbarrow has one small wheel. It is green and new. It is slower than a cart. We can use it to move flowers in the garden.
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1. Teacher: "Are there …any problems with this?"

2. Can I have …some more water, please?

3. "You have just said that today's meeting has ended in deadlock. Is there …any hope left now of a settlement before tomorrow night?"

4. "Have …some wine," the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. "I don't see …any wine," she remarked. "There isn't …any" said the March Hare (Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland).

5. One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell …anything. (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance).

6. …Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and …some few to be chewed and digested (Bacon Essays, Of Studies).

7. The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and …everybody

1) Did they hear the news on the radio?

2) He didn't fight in World War II.

3) Andrew didn't speak to his teacher before the lesson.

4) Sherlock Holmes didn't wear a coat.-He wore a cape.

5) When did the police send him to prison?

6) I had a parrot when a child.

7) How long did you write a letter?

8) They didn't find any message.

9) They went on a dangerous journey to look for the centre of the earth.

10) Their raft broke against rocks.

11) They heard a strange noise and hid behind some bushes.

12) Who did they see ?

13) It wasn't Arne’s knife.