Examples: Did you work at your English Yesterday? Yes, I did.
How long had you been working at your English before you went for a walk?(for an hour)- I had been working at my English for an hour.
1.Did it rain yesterday?......... How long had it been raining when you left home?(for 3 hours)........ 2. Did she work at the University before she retired?.......... How long had she been working there before she retired?(for 25 years)..... 3. Did you stay at the hotel when you were in London?......... How long had you been living there when Jane arrived?(for a fortnight)......4. Did they study French before they went to France?....... How long had they been studying it before they went there?(for 5 years).... 5. Did they work on their book last year?........ How had they been working on it before they sent it to the publishing house?(for 2 years).....
Ex.9.Make up sentences according to the pattern.
Example: You come home. Your children were watching television.(they/ not/ do/ any work)-They hadnt been doing any work.
1.Brother and sister came home with angry faces.(they/ quarrel/ on the way home) 2. There was nobody in the flat. But a delicious smell of fresh bread was in the air.(Mother /bake bread) 3. Mary closed her eyes. She felt very tired. (she/ read/ too long) 4. You came home from a party. You were nearly dropping on your feet.(you /dance/ all night) 5. When I looked at my typewriter, I saw a sheet of paper in it.(somebody/ use/ my typewriter)
Ex.10. Put the verb in brackets into the Past Indefinite, the Past Continuous and the Past Perfect Continuous.
1. When I (get) home that evening, my little son(eat) dinner himself for the first time.2. My sisters wedding (be) the only thing everybody (talk) at home for the last two weeks. 3. They (go) back to the hotel and up to their suite, where they (expect) the inspector at six thirty.4. Presently he (turn) to look at the corner where she (stand). 5. He just(leave)for the airport when I (call). 6. Who are you thinking of? he (ask) after he (look) at me for a few seconds.7.They stand in the open front doorway, waiting for her to come in out of the rain.8. Nobody (know) where Smith (go). 9.When he (come) back to the conference room, he (see) that the situation (change).
Ex.11. Translate into English.
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Unit 6.
LEISURE TIME
Text: A night at the theatre.
Grammar: The Future Perfect Continuous Tense
: "Leisure time" , . : The Future Perfect Continuous Tense .
A night at the theatre.
Here we are outside the theatre. It is the Library Theatre which is underneath the General Library in Manchester. We are going to see a modern play which is very popular with theatre-goers.
Passing through the revolving door and down the stairs we come to the box office where the tickets are sold. Luckily we booked our seats a few weeks ago or would not be able to get in, because for this play all the seats had already been sold. It is so popular that this is the second time it has been produced here.
We leave our raincoats in the cloakroom. At the entrance to the theatre itself an attendant in uniform tears our theatre tickets in half. He gives us our halves back so that we can find our seats by their numbers. Another attendant shows us to our seats and sells us a program that will tell us which parts the actors are playing and how many acts there in the play. Then we take our seats about halfway down the auditorium.
All around us people are settling down into their seats, reading their programmes, passing chocolates. Everybody is excited, looking forward to the play. We all have a clear view of the stage because the seats are set on wide steps which slope down to the level of the stage. On the front row, you are so close you can smell the paint on the scenery but not too close to spoil your view of the actors. Even on the back row you have a perfect view of the stage because this is a small theatre.
This auditorium holds only 300 seats, but many theatres are much larger. In a small theatre you can always be sure to hear and see everything and really feel that you are with the actors in everything they do and in all the places they visit. But many plays are still produced in very large, old theatres where it is difficult to see and hear properly if you are in the back rows. There are sometimes so many stalls (ground-floor seats) in these theatres that they are divided into orchestra stalls, center stalls, and rear stalls, with the pit behind them. Above, there is the dress circle and boxes, then the balcony and, high above, the gallery, or the gods!
The auditorium seems to be full now. In a few minutes the play will begin. The attendants close the doors and draw the curtains over them. The warning bell rings to tell everyone the play is about to begin. People whisper excitedly. Slowly the lights begin to come up on the stage.
Topical vocabulary.
1. leisure
2. spare time
3. to entertain, entertainment(n) ,
4. box office
5. ticket
6. to book
7. seat
8. play ,
9. cloak-room
10.cloak-room ticket
11.drama theatre
12.matinee
13.to stage,stage (n) ,
14.orchestra
15.stalls,in the orchestra stalls ,
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16.row,on the front, back row , ,
17.box,in the box ,
18.gallery, the gods
19.curtain (rises,falls) (,)
20.scene ,( )
21.scenery
22. dress circle
23.audience
24.perfomance ,
25.to applaude,applause (n)
26.pit
27.theatre-goer
Ex.1.Find in the text the equivalents to the following:
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