She wrote her first novel at the age of nineteen

11. Her daughter started college last October.

12. He walked as far as Trafalgar Square with me.

13. My teacher gave me a very good mark for my essay.

14. We went on an excursion five days ago.

15. Anna used to play tennis when she was at school.

16. I last saw her in 2002.

17. I used to have long hair when I was younger.

18. She invited 25 guests to her party.

19. My elder brother got married last year.

20. It took me forty minutes to get here.

Exercise 3. Put either “would” or “used to” in the spaces. In some cases both are possible.

1. John’s children ___________ be well-behaved but now they are quite naughty.

2. They ___________ live here. Now they live in Germany.

3. He ___________ be fat, but now he’s quite thin.

4. They ___________ come and visit on weekends.

5. When he needed extra money, he ___________ work overtime.

6. There ___________ be a building here, but now it’s just a park.

7. When I was younger I ___________ go for long walks in the country.

8. I never ___________ enjoy Sundays, but I do now.

9. She ___________ be very punctual, but she isn’t any more.

10. She always ___________ tell us a story before we went to bed.

Exercise 4. Translate into English.

1. Мы все получили большое удовольствие от прогулки.

2. У меня было много работы, но мне удалось все закончить вчера вечером.

3. Вы провели прошлые выходные на даче? К сожалению, на прошлой неделе мне пришлось уехать в командировку в Москву.

4. Когда билеты были дешевле, я обычно летал самолетом, а теперь мне приходится ездить на поезде.

5. Кто выиграл чемпионат мира по футболу в прошлом году?

6. Когда я учился в школе, я, бывало, ходил в бассейн два раза в неделю, но сейчас у меня нет времени.

7. Он задал мне несколько вопросов, но я ответил только на два из них.

8. Я позвонил в ваш офис и поговорил с вашим заместителем.

9. Президент выступал почти сорок минут.

10. Когда ты в последний раз ходил в кино?

11. Мы приехали заранее, купили билеты и посидели немного в баре.

12. Сколько времени вы провели в Лондоне?

13. Мы позвонили им, как только узнали о происшествии.

14. Где и когда вы впервые встретились?

15. Кому вы отдали кошелек?

16. В конце июня мы сдали последний экзамен, а после этого у нас была практика.

17. Кто повлиял на твое решение стать юристом?

18. Ты ведь вчера никому не рассказал об аварии, не так ли?

19. Почему ты не связался со мной (to get in touch with), когда приезжал в командировку?

Exercise 5. Think of the title of the story and put fifteen questions to it.

A German company held negotiations in Moscow trying to sell some 100 million worth of manufacturing equipment to a Russian State corporation. Negotiations went smoothly but differences remained. So Martin Bayer himself, the CEO of the German Company, decided to come to Moscow to head the talks. Besides caring about his business, the CEO wanted to go to Russia to hunt bears.

Martin Bayer was one of the greatest hunters of our time (and the Russians knew about it). He went to safari more than one hundred times and hunted lions, rhinos and crocodiles. He hunted polar bears in the North Pole and tigers in the rain forests of India. But he never hunted Russian bears.

So the Russians decided to organize a bear hunt for Mr. Bayer to sweeten the talks. This wasn’t a simple task. Some people in the west still believe that one may find and see bears everywhere in Russian cities just like we may see squirrels in our back yards. This is not true. The closest place one may find bears in the wild is maybe 2,500 miles away from Moscow. Nonetheless, the Russians found a solution quickly. The businessmen went to Moscow Circus and for $2,000 bought a very old bear. This bear used to amuse and amaze audiences in many countries for 30 years, but got and looked too old, had bald spots, and was retired.

“Be careful, the Russian bears are very aggressive, ferocious and strong,” they told Mr. Bayer. “If compared to the Russian bears, your African lions are nothing more than harmless cats.”

They brought the bear to a conservation forest 50 miles from Moscow and left it there. They also told Mr. Bayer that bears were plentiful in that forest and that they attacked cattle and even people in the surrounding villages.

Meanwhile, an 18-year old female drove through the forest on a motorcycle and suddenly saw a bear (the last time people saw bears in those places was 200 years ago). She was frightened, fell, left her helmet and her motorcycle and ran away.

Mr. Bayer was excited and ready to hunt. This could become the pinnacle of his extraordinary hunting experience. The next moment he saw a bear in a helmet driving a motorcycle through the forest in front of him. The bear had a happy expression on his face as he was doing something he used to do before: circling on a motorcycle …

Mr. Bayer lives in a private institution near Hamburg happily ever after and the German company sold manufacturing equipment to Iraq instead of Russia.