This text deals with … 1. World’s strangest name.
2. Famous people’s names.
3. The name of the computer.
4. The names children dislike.
5. Unusual names.
6. The importance of names.

A. Your name is extremely significant. It’s how you identify yourself. It’s how other people identify you. Elton John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight. Can you imagine someone famous with a name like that? He had to change it. Marilyn Monroe sounds so much more glamorous than Norma Jean Baker.
So parents make one of the most important decisions in the lives of their children - giving them a name.
B. Some people choose names because they are fashionable. Other parents do the opposite and call their children strange names, or they even invent names. People who choose strange names for their children want to show how special they are. However, the children are not always happy with their parents’ choice. David Bowie’s son found the name Zowie so embarrassing that he changed it to Joe.
C. These days it’s fashionable to give your child the name of a place that is important to you: Victoria and David Beckham decided to call their son Brooklyn because they were in New York when they discovered that Victoria was going to have a baby. Madonna named her daughter Lourdes after the town in France, the ex-US-President Bill Clinton named his daughter Chelsea after a part of London that he and his wife liked.
D. A woman, Mrs Bennet, was in hospital after the birth of her son. She was trying to decide what to call her son, when she walked past a door. It had the name ‘KING’ on it. That’s a good name, she thought. A little later, she walked past another door, and this time she saw the name ‘NOSMO’. Interesting, she thought. But she liked it, too, and so her son was named Nosmo King Bennet. It was only six months later that she discovered her terrible mistake.
E. A.L.I.C.E. is an award-winning chat robot at www.alicebot.org. She’s intelligent and funny and has won prizes for being the most human-like computer. She was created by Dr Richard S. Wallace. Six thousand people a month chat to A.L.I.C.E. Some people spend up to four and a half hours a day chatting online with her, and some have even said they prefer her to their own girlfriends.

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HURRICANE

Hurricanes are the biggest, most dangerous and most destructive (разрушительный) storms on the Earth. The word “hurricane’ comes from “Hurican”, 1 ___c__. There are about 10 hurricanes around the world each year 2 _b__. As hurricanes get close to land they suck up (поглощать) water from the sea. The winds can make waves as tall as a skyscraper! Hurricanes only break up 3e___.  

A hurricane, cyclone and typhoon are all the same thing – a swirling (вращающийся) storm: 4 __a___, a cyclone above the Indian Ocean and a typhoon above the Pacific Ocean. 5 __d___, they are important because they transfer heat and energy from the equator to the poles. Since 1954 names have been given to hurricanes in alphabetical order, so people don’t get confused when they listen to weather forecast.  

A. And they all start over warm, tropical oceans

B. Though hurricanes begin all of a sudden

C. Who is the Carib god of evil

D. Although hurricanes can cause a lot of damage

E. When they reach cold water or land

F. But a hurricane occurs above the North Atlantic Ocean

2.3. Put the Verbs into Correct Forms:

1.They  went to the British Museum last week.

2.While I was cooking dinner I cut myself the finger.

3. We rushed to the station, but it was too late. The train had just gone.

4.He have been watching TV since 5 o/clock.

5. He will have changed his mind by that time.

6. I was walking along the street when I heard a terrible cry.

7. Mary was waiting for me when I arrived home.

8. She is having her birthday today. She has already invited us.

9. The text is very difficult, the students have been translating since morning.

10. I have known her for many years.

11. She didn’t want to go to the cinema because she had seen the film before.

12. Bob started his job two years ago.

13. He broke his leg when he was skiing in the mountains.

14. I can’t find my umbrella. I think I have lost it.

15. Sally answered the telephone calls yesterday.

Объяснение:

1. snows (регулярное действие)

2. is snowing (действие происходит сейчас)

3. cooks (регулярное действие)

4. is cooking (действие происходит сейчас)

5. leaves (регулярное действие)

6. is leaving (действие происходит сейчас)

7. watch (регулярное действие)

8. are sitting, are watching

9. does (регулярное действие)

10. is doing (действие происходит сейчас)

11. rains (регулярное действие)

12. is raining (действие происходит сейчас)

13. has (регулярное действие)

14. is having (действие происходит сейчас)

Present simple (окончание -s для he, she, it) мы используем, когда действие происходит регулярно, как привычки, обычаи.

Временные маркеры, которые указывают на это время: always, often, sometimes, usually, every morning/ Monday/ week ...

Present continuous (is/are + окончание ing) мы используем, когда действие происходит сейчас, в момент разговора.

Временные маркеры, которые указывают на это время: now, at the moment, look at ...