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Exercise 2. Practise the use of the Present Perfect and the Past Simple Tenses.

1. I (to shout) at them and they (to run) away.

2. What’s the best film you ever (to see)?

3. Simon is not at home. He (to go) to a football match.

4. It was such a wonderful performance that we (to applaud) for 15 minutes.

5. Why do you look so sad? Anything (to happen)?

6. Jaime lives in Venezuela, he never (to se) snow.

7. Anyone (to see) my dictionary? I can’t find it.

8. I (not to wake) at 7 o’clock yesterday because my mother (not to be) at home.

9. A lot of rain (to fall) last week.

10. I (to know) Helen for 10 years. We (to study) at University together. She was one of the best students.

11. When I (to get) home late yesterday evening my dad (to be) angry.

12. Alexander Fleming (to invent) penicillin in 1928.

13. The house the (to buy) looks much larger than ours.

14. I (to order) a taxi to take me to the airport.

15. You (to cut) your finger! How (to happen) it?

16. Peter (not to eat) all the bread and butter, he (to leave) some on the plate.

17. He (to be) interested in jazz ever since he (to leave) school.

18. – We (to have) a lovely time in Wales.

- So you (to enjoy) your holiday, didn’t you?

19. I (to use) to like swimming but I don’t now.

20. I never (to see) so many beautiful girls as here at the party.

Exercise 1. Do you know all these words?

1. a receptionist – дежурный, администратор

2. to expect – ожидать

3. a bit – немного

4. early – рано, ранний

early in the morning – рано утром

to be early – приходить рано

to come early – приходить рано

5. actually – фактически

I’m a bit early, actually.

6. in – через

I’ll be ready in a minute

7. a few – несколько, немного

We’ve received a few letters today.

8. pretty – довольно, достаточно

I’m pretty tired today.

It’s pretty difficult to do it.

9. a conference room – конференц-зал

We usually have talks in our conference room.

10. lately – недавно

11. closely – внимательно

I’ve studied your quotation closely.

12. a high price – высокая цена

We’ve sold our goods at a high price lately.

13. quality – качество

to be of high quality – высокого качества

Our goods are of high quality.

14. just – только что

We’ve just started learning English.

15. to produce – производить

16. a lot (of) – много

17. an order – заказ

an order for – заказ на

We’ve received a lot of orders for our goods this week.

18. a requirement – требование

to meet the requirements of smb. – отвечать чьим-либо требованиям

to meet smb.’s requirements – отвечать чьим-либо требованиям

These goods meet the requirements of our customers.

19. to buy (bought, bought)

We’ve bought a lot of goods from French companies lately.

20. a contract form – типовой контракт

Have you seen our contract form?

21. to let – разрешать, позволять

Let me do it.

Let’s go to Kiev together.

22. again – снова

23. next – следующий

We are having the next English lesson on Wednesday.

We are extending our business next year.

24. ever – когда-либо

25. yet – еще

26. a month – месяц

27. a year – год

28. a date – дата, число

What’s the date today?

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