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Task 1. Choose the verbs or phrases which are followed only by the gerund. Make up 7 sentences of your own using a verb + gerund construction and your active vocabulary.
To like, to mind, to suggest, can’t help, to forget, to make, to admit, to avoid, to threaten, to detest, to resist, to get used (to), can’t stand, to let, to mean, to offer, to fancy, to start, to put off, to discuss, to regret, to remember, to look forward(to).
Task 2. Complete the sentences with the required form of the gerund and insert prepositions where necessary.
1. A conviction for larceny is to be allowed only … (to prove) fully that a larceny has actually taken place.
2. He did it … (to give) circumstantial evidence of an exceptionally strong character.
3. They spoke about the importance … (to conceal) the fact from here.
4. She was afraid … (to give) evidence against him.
5. … (to convict) a person of murder this evidence will not be sufficient.
6. French public law has never been codified, and French courts have produced a great deal of case law … (to interpret) codes that become out of date because of social change.
7. In English law, a defendant can avoid guilt … (to injure) someone if he can convince the court that the force he used was reasonable to protect himself in the circumstances.
8. If his lawyer is not here, an individual may be drawn … (to make) misleading statements that could adversely affect his case.
9. ... (to give) any direct testimony, the plaintiff or defendant stays with his lawyer at the counsel’s table and observes the trial.
10. The thief regrets … (to be) so rude to the policeman.
11. After a short break the psychologist continued … (to speak) with young offenders of the Boot Camp.
12. Walking past the living room with an ajar door Mrs Marple could hear the cousins … (to discuss) the last letter from their uncle from Madeira.
Every summer in June, thousands of people visit the Pskov land. They come here to the village of Mikhailovskoye to the wonderful festival of poetry, to see the places where he lived and worked.
Pushkin is always alive for us, he is the man we all know and love, the greatest of poets. Generations come and go, but Pushkin still remains. We are all grateful to Pushkin for each line of his works. Pushkin is not only a great poet for us. He is the perfect man combining brilliant talent with civil courage. His name is associated with our love for the Motherland, and the best in our life.
Hundreds of new concepts, hundreds of new words have appeared in the language in the years that have passed since his death, but not a single word of his poetry has become obsolete. Everything written by Pushkin continues to live. It has not become something of the past, it does not need any corrections and hardly needs commentary. His feelings and his views still correspond to our own feelings and views.
We admire the great world of Pushkin's poetry as a whole, each of us finding some special lines for ourselves, lines showing his sympathy and respect for his people. The reader cannot imagine his inner world without him.
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