Oral practice

31 Составьте диалоги по следующим ситуациям, употребляя Past Continuous Tense.

Situation 1. You called your friend several times yesterday, but no one answered. Find out why nobody answered the phone at different times. Like this:

– I called you at 3 p.m. but nobody answered.

– I was at home. Bui I was making coffee in the kitchen and didn't hear the phone ringing.

Situation 2. You have a friend who always phones you at a bad time. Yes­terday she called you four times, all of them were bad. Speak about it like this:

First she called at 9 o'clock in the morning when I was rushing to work, then at 5 p.m. when I was ..., etc.

Situation 3. You're a journalist; your editor wanted you to interview a fa­mous journalist, lawyer, writer, etc., but he was busy all that week. Look back to your diaries of a journalist, a lawyer, a writer and say why you couldn't interview him. Like this:

I couldn't interview him on Monday, because at 9 o'clock he was having a press conference, at 2 he was having a business lunch, etc.

32 Cоставьте диалоги из рассказов.

Both Mistaken

Once a well-dressed man traveling in a train discovered that his cigarette case was missing, and said he would take the man next to him to police at the next station.

Looking down, however, the well-dressed man found his cigarette case lying under the scat. He apologized to the other passenger, saying he was sorry he had thought badly of him.

"Never mind," said the passenger. "You thought I was a thief, and I thought you were a gentleman, and we were both mistaken."

Key words: to pick up, to take one person for another, to admit.

Their Advantages

The bus pulled up at the stop, but to the disappointment of the people waiting there, there wasn't room for everybody. So a thin, nervous man, who was the last to get in, thought he was lucky to get the only vacant seat that was left. Soon, however, he felt very uncomfortable. The passenger silting next to him was so stout that he nearly pushed the poor little fellow off his seat. In an angry tone the thin man asked his stout neighbor to move up, but the latter refused to do so.

"If I were managing (he city transport," the thin man then said, "I would take fares according to (в соответствии с) the passenger's weight."

"If that were so, my man," the stout man immediately replied, "no conductor would allow you on the bus."

Key words: to refuse, bad manners, according to.

33 Перескажите рассказы, используя данные ключевые слова. Pair work

34 Выполните задания:

1) Разучите следующий диалог по ролям.

If a driver does not obey the traffic rules, he is sure to be stopped by a traffic officer. In our case the policeman stopped the driver for going right past the traffic lights when they were red. The man had to give the policeman his name and address and the policeman gave him a talk about a dangerous driving.

Here is a possible dialogue between the driver and the policeman.

policeman: Let me see your driving license, Sir.

driver: Here you are. What's the matter, officer?

P.: Nothing's the matter except that you aren't obeying the traffic rules.

D.: I'm doing my best.

P.: Then why don't you stop before the red light?

D.: But it isn't red, it's green, can't you see?

P.: I can. Take off your dark spectacles and you'll sec it as well.

D.: Oh, my! I clean forgot about the spectacles! The doctor prescribed them to me, and now I see everything green. I'm sorry, officer.

P.: You are, are you! But then you don't seem to realize how dangerous your driving is both to yourself and other people. Here's the ticket for you. Now take off those spectacles and drive straight home. And you mustn't try to drive again until your eyesight returns to normal.