Тема: Великобританія 01.04

1.  Prepares the questions.

A

1 How many countries/UK?

2 What/capital/England?

3 What/name/English fl ag?

4 What/most popular sport?

5 Can/name/famous singers?

B

1 How/England/its name?

2 How many people/England?

3 Who/patron saint/England?

4 What/symbol/England?

5 Can/name/well-known actors?

 

2. a) Match the parts of the sentences.

1 Scotland is a country in

2 The national fl ag (blue with the white cross)

3 Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland and

4 Scotland is surrounded by

5 There are about 3 000 smaller and bigger lakes in Scotland

6 There are almost 800

7 Tartan is a woolen material with crossed stripes of different

8 Scotland occupies

 islands in Scotland.

 the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea.

 the north of the United Kingdom.

 is known as St Andrew cross.

 called lochs.

 its second largest city.

 a third of Great Britain.

 colours. The particular pattern is the symbol of a clan or a family.

PAST TENSES REVISION

3 Match each tense form with the situation(s) of its use.

1 Past Simple

2 Past Continuous

3 Past Perfect

 for a past activity beginning before a past event and continuing until or after it. For the event we use ‘when’ + the past simple

 for completed actions, events and situations in the past

 to talk about something that happened before a past event. In sentences that have ‘when’ + past simple, to show that one event happened before the other.

 for an unfinished activity around a time in the past

 

4 Put the verbs in brackets using Past Simple or Past

Continuous form to complete the sentences.

1 They (wait) for her when she fi nally (arrive).

2 I (see) Carol at the party. She (wear) a beautiful dress.

3 When she (get) a steady job, they (buy) a better house.

4 I (read) the Economist, while my sister (watch) BBC 1.

5 He (burn) his hand when he (cook) dinner.

6 When I arrived, the lecture had already started and the professor (write) on the overhead projector.

7 I (write) a letter when the lights went out.

8 I (share) a fl at with him when we were students. He always (complain) about my untidiness.

9 He suddenly (realise) that he (travel) in the wrong direction.

10 You (look) very busy when I (see) you last night. What you (do)?

5. Choose Past Simple or Past Perfect

form to complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets.

1 I (to want) to see you yesterday.

2 He (to tell) me that he (to see) me the day before yesterday.

3 There (to be) a strong wind last week.

4 Pete (to find) the toy which he (to lose).

5 When I (to run) a mile, I (to be) very tired.

6 The tourist (to speak) about places he (to visit).

7 When Mike (to be) a child he (to study) music.

8 After he (to check up) his students’ papers he (to go) to bed.

9 They (to complete) all the preparations for the trip by 5 o’clock.

10 On leaving the hospital the man (to thank) the doctor who (to cure) him of his disease.

11 In the morning all the passengers (to feel) good after the night they (to spend) in the comfortable sleeper.

12 Last night he (to complete) the experiment which he (to begin) some months before.

13 They (to be) friends for some ten years before Mike (to meet) them.

14 He (to find) the girl even more beautiful than he (to expect) her to be.

15 Sam (to forget) that the Stones (to ask) him to dinner a week before.