EXERCISES. Exercise 3. Focus on Grammar: The Past Perfect Tense.

EXERCISES

Exercise 1. Give the English equivalents:

давайте уйдём за Великую стену и займёмся торговлей; доход был немалый; наняли одного человека; они отдали письмо путнику; я собираюсь уезжать в Гучыне и зайду за ответом; он увидел на воротах траурный знак; слезами горю не поможешь; оплакивать; в письме был перепутан всего один иероглиф.

Exercise 2. Answer the questions:

1) Where did the old man and his son want to go?
2) What did they tell their relatives?
3) Their relatives liked the idea of going behind the Great Wall, didn’t they?
4) What was their trade like?
5) What did the man who was writing the letter mix up?
6) Who gave an answer to the relatives?
7) Why did the traveler not enter their house when he came for the answer?
8) Who actually died?
9) Where did the son and his father go after they’d known about their relatives?
10) Why did the son think his wife had died?

Exercise 3. Focus on Grammar: The Past Perfect Tense.

Look at these sentences:

1) The old man thought that his wife had died,
2) I found out we had already been to this museum.

Open the brackets putting the verbs in the Past Simple or the Past Perfect tenses:

1) The son (think) his wife (die).
2) When I (arrive) my mother (cook) already dinner.
3) George (say) he (be) never to Paris.
4) We (write) a dictation before our teacher (read) a new story.
5) My friend (see) a horse before we (come) to the restaurant.
6) Rachel (say) she (write) already an e-mail letter to her uncle.
7) I (go) to the supermarket after I (do) my homework.
8) Daniel (paint) a picture after he (buy) water-colors.
9) My sister (ask) me if I (be) to the clothes shop.
10) Our neighbor (tell) us he (hear) a strange noise upstairs.

Exercise 4. Discuss these questions:

1) Why is it necessary not to mix up any hieroglyphs or words?
2) What is the moral of the story?

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