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Happy to see you! Let’s keep working on our English skills!

What good things happened to you today?

Speaking Scheme

Read the stories and look at the pictures. Complete the gaps with one of the sentences below.

A. Then they realized that there was a shark at the other end! B. A large wave had carried the shark into the pool during the night. 1. Which action happened first, A or B? 2. What are the two parts of the verb in sentence B?

Did these actions happen before or after the main part of the story?

Past Perfect is used to make it clear that one event happened before another in the past. 1. John had gone out when I arrived in the office. 2. I had saved my document before the computer crashed. 3. When they arrived we had already started cooking.

by two o’clock к двум часам by noon к полудню by Saturday к субботе by the 15 th of September к 15 сентября by then к этому/тому времени by that time к тому времени by the end of the week к концу недели by the end of the year к концу года

Complete the following sentences in your own words. Use the past perfect. 1. When I got to the check-in desk I suddenly realized that… 2. When we arrived back from our holiday we found that… 3. When the film started I realized immediately that… 4. I couldn’t answer any of the exam questions because I … 5. We spent 20 minutes in the car park looking for the car because we couldn’t remember…

GOSSIP

Reported Speech If we report what another person has said, we usually do not use the speaker’s exact words (direct speech), but reported (indirect) speech. Therefore, you need to learn how to transform direct speech into reported speech. When transforming statements, check whether you have to change: • pronouns • present tense verbs (3 rd person singular) • place and time expressions • tenses (backshift)

SAY or TELL Direct speech: • John: "I'll be late". Reported speech: • John said (that) he would be late. OR • John told me (that) he was going to be late. With 'tell' we NEED the object (e. g. 'me', 'you', 'her'). With 'say' we CAN'T use the object (e. g. 'me', 'them', 'us'). So we CAN'T say: • John said me that he would be late. • John told that he would be late.

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