Task 1 Complete the text about travelling attractions. Choose the best phrase from A-H to fill in the gaps 1-8. other countries, modern cities and the ruins of ancient towns they are eager to meet different people, to taste different food, to listen to different musical rhythms visiting museums and art galleries, doing the shopping and dining at exotic restaurants quiet places where they can relax, bathe in a river or lake and lie in the sun mostly for the needs of trade nature's most spectacular attractions food and travel are inseparable companions search of beauty Why Do People Travel? People have been travelling all over the world since ancient times. In those times they set off for a journey (1) . Nowadays millions of people travel because they want to broaden their knowledge of the world. They are eager to see everything with their own eyes: (2). Travelling is the movement and change which people need. Some people travel in (3) , they marvel at (4) . They are looking for new impressions and thrilling experiences. (5) . Those, who live in the countryside, usually make trips to big cities, they spend their holidays (6) whereas city-dwellers prefer to go to (7) . (8) . You can make your travel a movable feast full of new unforgettable impressions.Task 2 Present Perfect / Past Simple Choose the correct answer (a, , .c o rd) 1. ... to this part of the city before? a) were you b) have you be c) have you been d) did you be 2. She... to the shops and bought five carrots and a kilo of apples. a) been b) has been c) was d) have been 3. We ... our homework yet. a) didn't finish b) haven't finished c) finished d) hasn't finished 4. How long ... your friend from Spain? a) did you know b) you did know c) have you known d) you have knownTask 3. Write a postcard to a friend. You may answer the questions while you are writing. Who will you write to? Where are you? Are you having a good time? Where are you staying? What is the place like? What are the people like? What did you do yesterday? What are you doing tomorrow?
1 He has been reading this new novel for the last several days.
2 The soup has been boiling since 12 a.m. Should I turn it off?
3 Let's go. We are already latel -Relax! I have been prepairing for this party for the last 8 hours. It can wait 2 more minutes.
4) Have you been cleaning the yard for the last 2 hours?
5). We have been living in this house for twelve years already.
6). He doesn't give any attention to me. He has been talking to this woman for the last 40 minutes.
7). Have they been sleeping? No, they have not been sleeping.
8)Has he been reading? No, he has not.
1. Last summer the children were by the river. The nature was beautiful and the weather was fine.
2. Yesterday Fred wasn’t tired. He was happy.
3. Where were you last night? I called you, but you weren’t at home.
4. What did you see in the museum? There were lots of pictures but there weren’t any statues.
5. Who took my pencil? – I don’t know. It wasn’t me.
II. Make the sentences negative and interrogative.
1. We enjoyed the view of the mountains.
We didn’t enjoy the view of the mountains.
Did they enjoy the view of the mountains?
2. The birds flew to the south last autumn.
The birds didn’t fly to the south last autumn.
Did the birds fly to the south last autumn?