Exercises after the text. Answer the following questions

Answer the following questions.

1. What is Betty? Who asks Betty to baby-sit?

2. Who does she look after on Saturday night?

3. Is it easy to look after the children?

4. What does Betty do when the boys were in bed?

5. Does she find the boys in bed when she comes into the bedroom?

6. Has she said to Mrs. Smith that the boys are not in bed?

7. What does Mrs. Smith say when she looks into the bedroom?

Find in the text English equivalents for the following Russian phrases.

Ровно в пять часов; хотят, чтобы я посидела с их детьми; время ложиться спать; спуститься вниз; привидение; проводить до дома на машине; идти спать; пьеса; пустой; выключать; засыпать; внутри; подниматься наверх; идти до; заглянуть; спят как ангелочки.

Disagree with the following sentences and correct them.

Make sure you begin your answer such commonly accepted phrases as:

I don’t think that’s quite right.

You are not quite right (there).

I’m afraid I don’t agree with you.

That’s not quite right.

I wouldn’t say so.

Oh no, quite on the contrary.

As far as I remember.

1. Betty is thirty, she is an experienced teacher.

2. She likes the following subjects: mathematics, music and physical training.

3. Betty’s mother doesn’t allow her to be a baby-sitter.

4. George and Tom do all the things that Betty has asked them.

5. Betty has done her homework, she doesn’t watch TV.

6. When Betty has gone upstairs the boys are in their beds.

7. When Mrs. Smith has entered the boys’ bedroom their beds are empty.

4. From the passage “It’s Saturday night … Are the boys asleep?” write down all the sentences with the Present tenses and translate them into Russian. Explain the use of these tenses.

5. Find in the text the interrogative sentences. Put them down and indicate the type of the question.

THE 3^RD VARIANT

Put in the modal verbs can, may, must.

1. … I look at this scheme? – Yes, you …

2. … you do it well?

3. The bus stop … be next to that house.

4. They … be kind and nice people.

5. You … not go in the evening alone. It’s dangerous.

6. She … do it in time, … she?

2. Put verbs in the brackets in Present Simple, Present Progressive, Present Perfect and Present Perfect Progressive and comment on their use.

1. He (to work) at this company for 7 years.

2. Oh, close the window! Look, all my papers (to fall) on the floor because of the wind.

3. Now the students (to talk)in the classroom, their teacher (not, to come) yet.

4. He (to like) to go away from home for his weekend.

5. Silence! The baby (to sleep).

6. We (to go) shopping on Saturdays.

7. Where is my dog? I (to look for) it for two hours.