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1. He was born in 1841 in Torgai Region. 

2. His father died when he was very young, that’s why he was brought up by his grandfather. 

3. He learnt the works of the worldwide writers and poets, such as Shakespeare, Byron, Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Ferdausi, Nizami. 

4. In 1860 he opened the specialized school for Kazakh children (for girls) to teach them the Russian language. 

5. He had been elabourating the New Kazakh Alphabet for 3 years. 

1. He was born in 1845. 

2. He finished the muslim religious school (medresse). Also he studied at Russian school and started writing poems there. 

3. Being influenced by his mother he was fond of books and poetry. 

4. He translated many works of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gothe, Tolstoi, Saltykov–Schedrin and other poets and writers from Russian into Kazakh. 

5. He died in 1904. 

1. He was born in 1897 in Semey region. 

2. His first work “Enlik-Kebek” was written in 1917. 

3. In 1928 he graduated from Leningrad University, where he studied at the faculty of History and Philology. 

4. He had written a great number of famous stories and novels, interesting articles and books, which represent one of the most important directions in Kazakh written literature. 

5. He died in 1961; his stories and novels became very popular among young people. 

CPC 47

Tenses in Active Voice Put the verbs in brackets in the right grammar form: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple, Future Simple

1. I always … (to help) Mummy about the house.

2. I … (not / to understand) the man because I … (not / to know) English well.

3. A lot of people … (to learn) foreign languages.

4. My brother … (to go) to school on weekdays.

5. My mum … (to cook) a tasty cake every Saturday.

6. The boys … (to play) football now.

7. Look! The train … (to leave). It always … (to leave) at 5 p.m.

8. Yesterday we … (to watch) an interesting TV program.

9. I … (to go) to the museum last week.

10. I … (to read) that book last year.

11. Our friends … (to come) to our place next weekend.

12. I’m sure you … (to enjoy) your visit to the zoo next week.

13. … (to be) these stories interesting? Yes, they … (to be).

14. We … (to be going to) visit our friend tonight.

Find the right verb-form

1. My little puppy … very funny. When it … hungry, it … “wow-wow”.

a. is, was, said; b. is, is, says; c. was, was, said

2. Yesterday, when I … to school I … a big Christmas tree in the corner of the corridor.

a. come, see; b. came, see; c. came, saw

3. I … TV now, because I have nothing to do.

a. watch; b. am watching; c. watched

4. He … last month in the forest, but this month he … to swim, because the weather … warm.

a. skied, wants, is; b. skies, wanted, was; c. skied, wanted, was

5. The boys … football now, because they … any homework.

a. play, have; b. are playing, don’t have; c. played, didn’t have

6. The cat … the milk and … to sleep on the sofa.

a. drank, went; b. drinks, goes; c. is drinking, is going

7. Kate and Pete … a very interesting book. They … to read it in the evening.

a. had, like; b. have got, likes; c. have got, like

8. I … a pet a year ago, but now I … a parrot and a hamster.

a. had, had; b. had, have got; c. didn’t have, have got

9. If you … to play with a puppy, come to my house, because my Dad … me a pet yesterday.

a. wanted, brought; b. want, brought; c. want, bring

10. She … not … her homework now, she … computer games.

a. is... doing, is playing; b. does... do, plays; c. did... do, played