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A: I tell you that I have
done a lot of work about the
house.
B: What does A tell B?
D: A tells B that she has done a lot of work about the
house.
1. I have never been to London. 2. Mary has already had
some practice at the laboratory. 3. We don’t like this poem.
4. They are leaving for the Crimea tomorrow. 5. I am not going to
stay at home. 6. It takes me half an hour to get to the skatingrink.
7. My parents always listen to the seven o’clock news.
8. I can sew a button on for you. 9.
There is a new film on this
evening at the club. 10. Nick can repair your cassetterecorder
very easily.
XXI. Read and translate the following. Pick out all the words, word
combinations and phrases that can be used for the topic “Housework” or
“The Daily Programme”.
I
D a v i d : Look, dear, a button has come off my coat.
M a r y : Have you got the button?
D a v i d : Yes, I have.
M a r y : Well, bring me my sewingbasket from the next
room.
D a v i d : Here you are!
M a r y : Thank you. I must get a needle and some thread.
D a v i d : Shall I thread the needle for you? It is not an easy
thing to get the thread through the eye of the needle, is it?
M a r y : Ah, I’ve done it. Now take your coat off and I’ll sew
the button on for you.
II
This is my daily programme. I wake at about seven o’clock
and then it is time for me to get up. I like a cold shower every
morning, so I put on my dressinggown and slippers and go to
the bathroom. The water feels
very cold on winter mornings, but
I rub myself hard with the towel and soon I feel quite warm.
Then I shave, brush my teeth, wash my face and go back to
the bedroom to dress.
I brush and comb my hair, take a clean
handkerchief out of the drawer and have breakfast at a quarter
past eight. After breakfast I sit and read my morning paper. If the
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weather is fine, I usually walk to my office. At nine o’clock the
day’s work begins. At twelvethirty I have a break for lunch.
I generally finish my work about six o’clock.
Then I have a cup of
tea and a biscuit, and in summer I spend an hour or so outof
doors, play a few games of tennis or volleyball.
We have supper about seventhirty or eight o’clock and then
we
sit and talk, or listen to the wireless. Often in summer we
take out the car and go for a run in the country;
in winter we go
to the cinema or the theatre. But that is not often. I have a lot of
work to do, and usually after supper I read or write until twelve
or one o’clock.
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