Don't listen to reason. It's boring!
She has had a screw loose! She has quarrelled with all her acquaintances/friends!
Урок 18
1. I know all. I have known him for ages. I know, that you are looking at me now. I knew him in childhood. I had known him before he came in our class.
We are close friends. We have been friends since childhood. We had been friends before we began to work in the same school. We were friends last year. We used to be friends.
To my mind, she is married. She has been married for 2 years. She was married, but she is divorced at the moment.
I have put on a lot of weight and I am on a diet now. I had put on weight before I got married. I put on weight last year. I put on weight, and then I went on a diet and grew thin.
She is in love with him. She has been in love with him since childhood. She had been in love with him before they became acquainted personally.
My grandpa has never travelled by air. My grandpa was very nervous during the flight, because he had never travelled by air before.
I met her a few days ago. She had just come back from Prague. She is at home. Go to see her, she has just come back from Prague.
She isn't hungry, because she has just had breakfast. In general, she hardly ever has breakfast. She used to have breakfast when she was at school, but now she doesn't have time for breakfast.
When we arrived at the cinema, the film had already begun. The film began after we had arrived at the cinema. We arrived at the cinema, took our seats, and the film began.
I had been at home by 5 o'clock. I was at home when the phone rang. I was at home while my friends were getting ready for the exams. I didn't use to be at home very often, but I have turned into a real stay-at home: I am always at home in the evenings.
Урок 19
A.
Hardly had I seen her when I fell in love.
Scarcely had I seen her when I was overhead and ears in love.
No sooner had I seen her then I was overhead and ears in love.
Hardly had you touched the pillow when you fell asleep immediately.
Scarcely had you touched the pillow when you dropped off to sleep
No sooner had you touched the pillow then you began to snore.
Hardly had he recovered from cold when he caught another infection.
No sooner had he recovered from cold then he began to ache again.
No sooner had they got married then they began to abuse by nothing.
Scarcely had they left Moscow when they felt themselves quieter.
B.
Hardly had I seen her when I lost the gift of speech. She was so beautiful! Perhaps, she was the most beautiful girl that I had ever seen.It was rumoured that she had lived in Paris before she moved to our town. When I saw her for the first time, she was looking out of the window and singing a funny song. I was in a great hurry, so I didn't manage to take an all-round view. But in spite of this, scarcely had I seen her when I was overhead and ears in love. It can't be helped. The next day I proposed to her. Strangely enough, but she agreed immediately. We have been married for 20 years and haven't quarrelled so far. You can envy, can't you?
Урок 20
A
I am so exhausted because I have been going shopping.
You are such a slowcoach because you have been watching TV.
Why is she so wet? — Because she has been running in the rain.
What has he been doing? Why is he so irritated?
They are so pleased because they have been playing football.
B
1. I often invite my friends to our school parties. I've just invited her to our school party. Look what happened! When I was inviting her to our school party, her nasty friend came in and spoiled everything.
2. You look so stupid with this hair cut. You looked so stupid yesterday. You have been lookingstupidly since birth.
We are in the same boat: we both shout at each other while quarrelling. Why are you so irritated? — Because I have been shouting at my brainless subordinates. Why are you so upset? — Because I haven't controlled myself/I have lost temper and have shouted at my wife in spite of the fact that she is in the family way.
Did you phone your dad yesterday? Have you phoned your dad? When did you phone your dad? Were you phoning him from 3 till 4? Had you phoned him before you learnt /got to know the news? I am so pleased because I have phoned my dad. I am so upset because I have been speaking to my dad.
Just imagine/fancy that! Our neighbour has had a screw loose! He has gone down in history! He has thrown a bad egg at the minister!
Урок 21
I had been explaining this rule to you for half a lesson before I gave you a test. I have already explained this rule to you. I had explained the rule before I gave a test. While I was explaining the rule, you were talking to each other.
You apologize to me every day. You apologized to me yesterday. You have apologized to me today. While you were apologizing to me, I felt pity. You used to apologize to me. You had been apologizing to me for a log time but I didn't forgive/ excuse you for all that.
He always took care of his kin. He has taken care of everybody. He had taken care of his sister before she got married to the right person. He was taking care of me while you were playing the fool through inexperience.
Урок 22
1. I don't approve of his behaviour. I didn't approve of his yesterday's behaviour. I hadn't approved of his behaviour before he explained the motive. I used to approve of his behaviour but I don't like it any more. I'll never approve of your option/choice.
All of us depend on our government. We always depended on them. We depended on them last year. We'll depend on them next year. We used to depend on communists but things are different now.
She has never dreamt of being a filmstar. She dreamt of being a filmstar in childhood. She used to dream of being a filmstar. She often dreams of being rich and healthy. She would dream of being a top-model. After a while she will begin to dream of being a top-model.
Урок 23
I like to go sightseeing in old towns. Yesterday when I was going sightseeing, I met my old friends. I usually go sightseeing on Saturdays. Well, tomorrow we are going sightseeing and the day after tomorrow we are becoming brown on the beach. We'll see the sights of age-old Russian town Novgorod during our summer hike/walking tour. He is so thick-skinned! Once in a blue moon we see the sights of such a marvelous town but he doesn't care! As a last resort, I'll go sightseeing tomorrow after dinner. Children would feel exhausted after we had gone sightseeing during our summer walking tours.
I usually get up early. He has just got up. He got up 2 minutes ago. I had got up before I heard a noise. When are you getting up tomorrow? Will you get up in the end? Watch out, to my mind, she is getting up. I've never got up early. I never get up early. I'll never get up early. When I was getting up, I felt dizzy.
Why do you always run away from me? Why are you running away from me? Why did you run away from me yesterday? Why were you running away from me while I was running after you at a top speed? Why did you use to run away from me? Why didn't you run away from me in childhood? Why have you never run away from me? Why do you never run away from me?
Урок 24
1. My husband never goes into details when he tells about his scientific work. I am not about to go into details of our private life, at any rate, for the time present.
He has already taken a decision. He is going to take a decision. He'll take a decision tomorrow. He had taken a decision before he met the lawyer. He managed/was able to take the decision worthy of Solomon.
She dressed her daughter in red for carnival. My mummy always dresses me tastefully. She is going to dress her like a doll. My parents used to dress me. I'll dress her in a couple of minutes. I'll put it on in a couple of minutes.
Урок 25
I'll write a letter if I have time.
You'll phone me when you come back home from work.
She will give me her address when she finds the right flat.
We'll come to see you when we are in London.
I won't give you a treat you if you are late.
We'll get wet if we go out.
She won't talk to you until you apologize to her.
I'll go straight home after I have done all the purchases/buying.
I'll have a rest while my parents are out.
We'll write down the title of the book in case we forget it.
I'll draw the plan of the town in case it is lost.
He won't be able to understand you if you don't speak distinctly and slowly.
I'm going to find another job if the company doesn't offer me a bigger salary.
I won't go to the party if you go there.
He will do his homework as soon as he comes back home.
You can borrow the money providing that you give it back as soon as it is possible.
She will read every day providing that you give her the right books.
You won't get in unless you are a member of the club.
I'll buy you a present if you are a clear head.
We'll go to sea when the weather is warmer.
Урок 26
For a change I from time to time think before I take a decision to do something.
Don't think about this crying shame.
I'll have thought twice before I get this crazy idea out of my mind.
I used to think about it as a child.
Don't bother me, I'm thinking.
I think, you should get this crazy idea out of your mind.
With all my heart I advise you to think about it.
Think about it at your convenience.
I've been thinking about this since morning and I've thought out nothing so far.
I've never thought about it.
I never think about it.
I'll never think about it when I grow up.
I've just thought about you.
I was thinking about you when you phoned me.
I used to think about you very often.
Have you ever thought about such great success?
We would think together about the future of the mankind.
I'll think about it when it stops raining.
I had been thinking about it for many years before I began to realize my idea.
I'm thinking about you all days long.
Nobody has ever thought about it.
Did you think about it yesterday?
Have you thought about it?
When will you think about it?
Are you going to think about your career?
Any man of worth from time to time thinks about his future.
Will you have thought over my proposal before I phone you?
He is a man of his word, I know it from experience, and he always thinks before he makes promises providing that he knows all the details of the matter.
Have you thought twice yet?
Have you already thought over my proposal?
Урок 27
Year in, year out unlucky people apply for a job to their more successful friends.
You'll be sick to death if you apply for a job to the employment bureau.
In short, you'll apply for a job when pigs fly.
When I applied for a job to him last year, he was overhead and ears in his business.
What is eating him? When this time yesterday I was applying for a job to him, he looked so furious but absolutely exhausted.
Have you applied for a job to anybody yet?
I know it at first hand that if you don't apply to him for a job he will never offer it to you himself.
When my ship comes home, I won't apply for a job to my friends at least twice a year.
Please, hold me by the hand while I'm applying for a job to my ex-husband tomorrow.
If he doesn't apply for a job, he'll follow his nose ever before sunset.
I've never applied for a job to my kin.
I used to apply for a job to him but I've missed the bus: he has lost everything himself.
Until you apply for a job, I won't lend you money.
He applied for a job to me but I pretended to be ill.
After he had applied for a job to my dad, we dropped an acquaintance.
Урок 28
In short, when I meet you for the second time, I'll have been cycling for 2 hours.
He has been cycling since childhood.
My daughter was very tired when she met you, because she had been cycling for 2 hours.
Don't hope against hope! He'll never be able to cycle!
One of these days I'll cycle to the country.
By trial and error we came to the conclusion that he had never cycled before.
I've already made up my mind: I'm cycling to school tomorrow it doesn't come easy to me though.
I'll have been cycling until my ship comes home.
He used to cycle to work but, to my mind, now he will cycle only when pigs fly.
She was going out of her way while she was cycling/while cycling, because by all means she wanted to demonstrate to everyone that she wasn't born yesterday.
Урок 29
Техника речи 1.
He said he had been ill the day before.
He said it was hot there.
He said he didn't know what to say.
He said he was working very hard then.
He said he had been waiting for me since morning.
He said the dog had stolen meat.
He said he had done it the previous week.
He said he would do it better.
I invited him to go fishing at 6 o'clock in the morning but he said he would be sleeping that time.
He said he thought it would have stopped raining by the next morning.
She said that she would have been doing this work for 2 hours before I came.
He said you were running across the road when he saw you.
He said Einstein was born in 1779, but he made a mistake: Einstein was born in 1879.
Fancy that! He said he had forgotten everything he knew.
He told me he had forgotten everything he knew.
He asked me if I knew the way to the railway-station.
He asked me where I lived.
He said her parents were well.
She said she was going to learn to drive.
She said her brother had given up a job.
She said she couldn't come to the party on Friday.
She said she wanted to go for a holiday but she didn't know where to go.
She said she was going away for a few days and she would phone me when she came back.
He informed that they were going to get married the next month.
She said she had seen/she saw her ex-husband at the party and he was looking gloomy.
I thought you said that restaurant was cheap.
I thought you said that she wouldn't come to see us.
I thought she said that she didn't like her job.
I thought you said that you didn't know English at all.
I thought you said that you had never eaten snails.
She asked me how old I was.
She wondered if I knew any foreign language.
She tried to find out how I was feeling.
She asked me where I had been.
She wondered when I had come back.
She asked me what I was doing.
She asked me where I lived.
She wondered why I had come back.
She asked me if I was glad to being back home.
She asked me if I could lend her some money.
She wondered if I had any plans for the future.
He asked me if there was a bank near there.
She informed she had no idea who had committed that insolent robbery.
You knew that she hadn't got my letter.
You wondered when he had come back.
You found out what that word meant.
He had no idea if it was a long way from there to the airport.
He didn't wonder if I was married.
He asked me why we met so seldom.
He asked me when I would get free after work.
Техника речи 2.
I'm hungry. She says she is hungry. She said she was hungry. She has just said she is hungry. She said she had been hungry before she went to work. She said she had been hungry since morning. She asked me if I was hungry. She asked me why I was hungry. She wondered if I had been hungry before I sat down to the table.
He is deep in the hole and he has no money to pay for his flat. He says he is deep in the hole and he has no money to pay for his flat. He confessed he was deep in the hole and had no money to pay for his flat. Today he has declared for everyone to hear that he is deep in the hole and has no money to pay for the flat. They wondered if he had any debts. They tried to find out if he had money to pay for the flat. They want to know why I have no money to pay for the flat. Do you want to know if I can pay for the flat? Did you want to find out if I could pay for the flat? Do you want to know when I will pay for the flat? He wondered if I was going to get clear of debts in the foreseeable future.
How long are you going to stay in our town? He wonders how long we are going to stay here. He tried to find out how long we were going to stay there. He wondered if we would have been there before it started raining. Do you want to know if we will have been here till Christmas? Why didn't you try to find out how long they were going to stay there? Do you guess why he didn't ask them how long they were going to stay there? He has just told he won't be able to find out how long they are going to stay here. I've just found out how long they are going to stay here.
We can't afford to spend money like water. They say they can't afford to spend money like water. They confessed they couldn't afford to spend money like water. They complained that under the circumstances or, rather, in their parents' presence they couldn't afford to spend money like water. Are you pleased with the fact that you can spend money like water? She wondered if we were pleased with the fact that we could afford to spend money like water at last. I am not sure we can afford to spend money like water. Are you sure that you can afford to throw your money around?
She failed in exams to university. She said she had failed in exams to university. She confessed that had failed in exams to university ever the previous year/the year before. She is crying because she has failed in the exam. He wondered why she had failed in exams. Didn't you wonder why she had failed in exams? Did she tell you that she had failed in exams? I don't know when she will confess to her parents that she has failed in exams.
Урок 30
I give English lessons every day. - I'm given English lessons every day.
I pay taxes honestly. - I'm never paid a salary in cash.
He usually tells fabulous stories. - He is usually told fabulous stories.
He seldom offers his help under the delicate circumstances. - He is often offered help.
I hardly ever give advice. - I'm often given advice how to act in some unforeseen situation.
I always invite a lot of people to my birthday party. - I am usually invited to blow round with great pleasure.
He never envies anybody but he is envied by everybody.
Unfortunately, we excuse our enemies too seldom. - We are always glad when we are excused.
I refuse to get this job. - I'm usually refused to get extra profit.
I allow you to stay up late. - I'm usually allowed to stay up late very seldom.
Урок 31
Put it into your pipe and smoke it: you won't set the Thames on fire that's why you are asked at school so often. My heart usually sinks into my boots when I'm asked some tricky question, especially when I am not ready for the exam properly. A young hopeful! It's the first time I've asked you such a tricky question on history and you have got out of a difficulty with great ease!
You are always making a mountain out of a molehill! Good ice cream is made of high-quality food. It isn't usually done like this! These miniature toys are made of ivory. Is your ice cream made of liquid milk? He has just made such an ugly thing! We have been doing lessons since the very morning. If you make a mountain out of a molehill, we'll live a cat and dog life. Just imagine: he told me if I made a mountain out of a molehill, we would live a cat and dog life!
That's the heart of the matter! You are always openhearted that's why you are tricked so often. I've never tricked anybody! I've been sitting on a powder keg since I understood that everyone was tricked there. Don't let the grass grow under your feet and if you are tricked once again, leave our town immediately and go in search of a job somewhere to a proper place. If I'm tricked, then I'll trick anybody with the greatest pleasure.
Урок 32
I refuse point-blank to explain new material to you if you don't bring yourselves to your senses. She has been explaining her favourite theorem to us for an hour and, to my mind, she is on the top of the world. He is at odds with math and even if everything is explained to him in detail, he can't solve even a primary sum. Have you explained the main thing to her yet? Have you already explained the main thing to her? Have you already managed to explain the main thing to her? By the way, is everything always explained to you in detail?
It's the first time; I've read an English book in the original. I have the title of the book I read last week with great pleasure on the tip of my tongue. In my opinion, she is from a different world: just imagine, she perceives nothing when it is read to her aloud; and one day when I asked her why it happened like that, she answered very roughly: " It's out of your business!" — " It serves you right! Never interfere in other people's business if you aren't asked." How often English texts are read to you at the lessons? To my mind, she won't read this book completely if you don't make her do it.
Have you ever read English writers in the original? Nothing is never read to us at English lessons and it is real careless work if call a spade a spade.
Урок 33
A
I usually wait for the necessary bus for hours. - The necessary bus is usually waited for hours.
We often send him for beer. - He is usually sent for when somebody needs first aid/is in need of first aid.
I speak about it quite often. - It is often spoken about.
We always listen to classical music with great pleasure. - Classical music isn't always listened to with great pleasure.
Sometimes I look at today's young people with great surprise. - Rebellious young people are usually looked at with misunderstanding and dislike.
Teenagers usually look for something unrealizable. - She is often looked for before the beginning of the classes.
You are laughing at her for nothing. - Unfortunately, she is often laughed at.
I look after aged people; it's my extra earnings. - Evidently, this child is looked after very well.
She referred me to you. - Ancient authors are often referred to in the lectures on history.
Our principal usually finds fault with his favourites. - For some reason, I'm always found fault with at physic lessons.
My daughter usually looks forward to the coming of heat. - The 14th of February and the 25th of December are usually looked forward to in all the Catholic countries.
I am glad that I can always rely on you in everything. - Sometimes kids are relied on more often than their disorganized parents.
The young seldom pay attention to weather. - The slightest change in weather is paid attention to in London.
We never live in the country-cottage in winter. - In winter the country-cottage is never lived in.
We drink out of old cups. - Old cups are drunk out of in our family.
B.
How long have you been looking for your keys? Why are you usually looked for in the attic? Will you have been looking for him before it starts raining? Had you looked for the keys in your own room before you phoned me?
He is never found fault with because he has showed himself as an excellent hard-worker. He said he would never find fault with me providing I learnt some poems by heart.
He said I was spoken about at every corner. I had been speaking about you for an hour before you entered the room.
Have you heard from him recently? Have you heard about him? I've never heard of him. Can you hear me?
I've been waiting for you for 15 minutes. Unfortunately, I am not waited for there. He said he wasn't waited for there. I'll be waiting for you at the cinema at 5 o'clock sharp.
Урок 34
How often do you do your flat? He is just playing for time and isn't going to tide up his room. It goes without saying that you are madly glad that your room is always done/is always tided up by your friends' arrival / coming. The hall is being tided up now so you will be able to get in at any moment. He promised he would do his room sooner or later. I can't understand why it is never tided up here; this mess just drives me wild and I confess I'm fed up with all this complete chaos.
Follow me! Oh, I'm scared, to my mind; I'm being followed closely. Don't worry! It just seems to you: there are always so many people on a bus in the rush hour that any person can suppose that he is followed.
We are having a heart-to-heart talk, so please, don't bother us. We are always being bothered here, it's just unbearable! I feel that I always bother you. It looks as if you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth if you aren't prevented to work on/at your book under present power.
Урок 35
He has been duped since morning, but he is a knowing old bird — nobody has managed to cheat him. I've never cheated you, Honest to God! Why are you always cheated? He used to cheat me when I was child. I would cheat my trustful good-natured parents in childhood. You are always being cheated and you are out of the swim! If I am not cheated again, I'll come to my senses and enter the University come rain or shine. He said he had been cheated since birth. Look here! You are being cheated at the moment!
I always feel ill at ease when I'm treated so hard. Help yourself, please, and be at your ease. She invited us to see her place, treated with some delicious food and then suggested spending the night at her place as it started raining cats and dogs. Shame on you, you've, probably, had a screw loose: you have been amused, treated and pampered since morning, but you behave yourself as if you don't wear the trousers. She is being treated with black coffee at the moment.
She is often shown on TV because everybody thinks her the pink of perfection. Have you shown your usual trick yet? These tricks have been shown on TV since 7 o'clock in the evening. I will have been showing tricks till I am not asked to stop. How many years had you been showing tricks in the streets before you decided to try working at the circus? This film is shown on TV every Sunday. This film is being shown on TV at the moment. Is this film being shown on TV at the moment? Why do you show tricks so seldom? He promised he would show a trick as soon as he got free.
Урок 36
There is no need to tip to staff: service is included in a bill. I remember that when we had dinner in this restaurant in summer, a tip was included in a bill. This diet includes all the necessary ingredients but not for love or money I keep to this diet because making salads will take me too much time and, as I'm always busy, I can't permit it. Are you included in the list of invitees to the 20th anniversary of their wedding?
We were allowed to get into the holy of holies of this unique medieval castle, I mean, the library. Circumstances don't allow me to live in a big way. Are you really allowed to stay up late? I didn't know you were allowed to stay up late.
She was brought up in the spirit of obedience to their parents. If you aren't brought severely, you'll never grow wise. We try to bring up our children as well as possible. He is a strange child, neither fish nor good red herring; there is nothing special about him. I can't imagine a human being who will be able to bring him up as a worthy and honest person. He always knows which side his bread is buttered, I wonder, who brought him up? Our parents were brought up in a very difficult historical period, in stagnation years, they were promised a land of milk and honey when the communism was in. No doubt, all that left an imprint on them, in a word; we can't always understand each other.
He was looked after well in childhood, I hope; he pays back to his parents in the same coin. These kids are being looked after bad at the moment, and I can't put up with it. Will you be able to look after my child while I am doing shopping? She promised she would look after my little-one while I was at the hairdresser's. I have been looking after my neighbour's kids since their parents were offered a part-time job.
I've been reading this book since Monday. This book has been read since Monday. This book is usually read before night. This book is being read at the moment, I can't give it to you. What are you reading now? Is anything interesting being read to you at the courses? An extract from his article about the political situation in our country was read to us yesterday. If you have read this book by tomorrow, I'll be able to give it back to the library on time. He asked me what I was reading then. He wondered if I had read any of ancient writers. He wonders if I'm going to have read this book by the end of the holiday. He swore he would have read that book before the light in the camp was turned off.
Урок 37
1. When I was being awarded, I felt suddenly that I was ready to burst out crying. All the outstanding people are awarded in our country. She will be left holding the bag if you haven't awarded her before she is fired.
You are being led by the nose by the hysterical woman and forcing panic in society, nobody will excuse you for that. You were excused long ago. What did you feel when you realized, that you were being excused?
He was in his element and chatted nonstop and only because of him we weren't bored stiff while the lecture on the harm of smoking was being read to us. You have been chatting on the phone for 2 hours — it's just disgusting! We had been chatting for a few minutes before we were paid attention to. You are chatting nonstop at the lessons; I'm fed up with it.
I was nearly tickled to death when I understood that such nasty and self-enamoured pressmen were always left holding the bag. The devil will pay for these manuscripts but, at any price, I'll try to find out when this wonderful town was found.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22