Ex.4. Replace the words in brackets with the corresponding words from the texts

1. (Начало нового года) has been welcomed on different dates throughout history.
2. Southeast Asians (освобождают птиц) and turtles to assure themselves (удачи) in the twelve months ahead.

3. We wish each other good luck and (обещаем себе сделать все лучшее) in the following year.

4. He (предположительно он лечил) the jailer's daughter of her blindness.

1. Another Valentine was an Italian (епископ) who lived at about the same time.
2. The custom of choosing a sweetheart on this date (распространилось) through Europe in the Middle Ages.
3. If the sender is (застенчив), valentines can be anonymous.
4. Anyone can send in a message, for a small fee of course, (предназначенный) for a would-be sweetheart, a good friend, an (знакомой) or even a (супруге) of fifty years.

Grammar: Non-finite form of the verb: Participle II.

The form of Participle II is regular verbs by adding –ed or –d to the Infinitive and the past participle of irregular verbs

It uses:

· As an adjective; stolen money

· To form the perfect tenses/infinitives and participles and the passive voice: he has seen, it was broken, to have loved.

· The participle II can replace a subject + passive verb as the participle I can replace subject + active form: She enters. She is accompanied by her mother./ She enters, accompanied by her mother.