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Базовый курс английского языка - Эккерсли К.Э.

Эккерсли К.Э. Базовый курс английского языка — М.: Лист Нью, 2002. — 704 c.
ISBN 5-7871-0174-X
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5. The students are not all Turkish,__________?
6. He can't play football well,________?
7. He isn't a good player,________?
8. He doesn't play very well,_________?
9. He didn't play very well,______?
10. He couldn't play very well,________?
11. He hasn't played very well,________?
12. That wasn't your brother who spoke to me
13. You hadn't any letters this morning,_________
14.1 oughtn't to ask the driver for a ticket,____
15. She won't play tennis tomorrow,____________?
16. They don't come here every day,____________?
17. They didn't come here yesterday,__________?
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The Priestleys' House
You have heard (in Book I) about Mr. Priestley and his students. 1 want, now, to tell you something about his house. He is an old friend of mine, and I went to visit him about a fortnight ago and stayed at his house for the week-end.
He lives in a very nice house. It is about ten miles from London. There is a big garden all round it, and I went in at the garden gate and walked along the path to the front door. There is a smooth lawn in front of the house with beds of roses in it. I knocked at the front door.
Mr. Priestley opened it and, with a smile and some words of welcome, shook hands with me, and we went into the hall. Then Mrs. Priestley came to greet me.
I said, "How do you do?" and gave her the flowers that 1 had bought for her.
She said, "Oh, thank you. What beautiful roses! How kind of you to bring me them! I love roses, and ours haven't been good this year. These are lovely."
Mr. Priestley and I went into the sitting-room and sat down in armchairs before the fire, for it was a rather cold day and I was very pleased to see the bright fire burning in the fireplace.
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Their sitting-room is quite a big room, about 25 feet long by 15 feet wide. There was a thick carpet on the floor. One or two good watercolours hung on the walls, and there was a large and very interesting oil-painting that I hadn't seen before. There was a piano on one side
of the room (both Mr. and Mrs. Priestley are fond of music, and Mrs. Priestley plays the piano beautifully). There were three or four comfortable armchairs, a radio, and three or four bookcases filled with books. On a small table near the window there were copies of The Times, Punch and some foreign newspapers and magazines. Mrs. Priestley returned with the roses in a bowl which she put on the table and a few minutes later Susan came in with tea and a very nice cake.
I had expected to see John Priestley and Margaret. 1 had brought a box of chocolates for her; I knew she liked chocolates, but they told me John was up at Oxford and Margaret had gone to a birthday party at the house of a friend of hers.
After we had chatted for a little time, Mrs. Priestley said, "Will you excuse me, please? I want to see about the dinner. Did you know that Lizzie had left us?" "No, I didn't," I said. "Yes," continued Mrs. Priestley, "she got a letter about a month ago to say that her sister-in-law had died, and so Lizzie has gone to keep house for her brother. That cake that we had at tea was hers; she sent it to me yesterday. Since she left, I have done the cooking and baked the cakes, but mine are never as good as hers."
"Nonsense, my dear; 1 don't think Lizzie's cakes were better than yours," said Mr. Priestley.
"Take no notice of Charles," said Mrs. Priestley with a smile. "They say love is blind; it seems to me he can't taste, either."
She went out, and Mr. Priestley said, "It's bad luck about Lizzie, isn't it? I'm afraid Susan will go, too, before long. A young fellow near here, has asked her to marry him. He is trying to buy a cafe. I'm pretty sure Susan will marry him and go to help him to run the cafe. It will make things difficult for my wife. Ours is quite a big house for one woman to run, and it's almost impossible, nowadays, to get help in the house."
After a little time Mrs. Priestley joined us again and said, "Dinner is ready," so we went to the dinning-room, a pleasant-looking room with a Persian carpet on the floor, a dark oak dining-table, six chairs and a sideboard. A red lampshade gave a warm colour to the room, and an electric fire kept it comfortable while we had dinner, a very English one-roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, and cabbage grown in their own garden, followed by apple-pie with thick cream and sugar.
When we had finished dinner, Susan took the dishes from the dining-room to the kitchen, and Mrs. Priestley went with her to make coffee. Mr. Priestley took me to his study for a quiet smoke and to show me some of his books.
After a quarter of an hour or so, Mrs. Priestley came to tell us she had made the coffee and it was in the sitting-room. So we went there to take coffee and talk together and listen to the news on the radio. It was now eleven o'clock and I was feeling rather tired. Mr. Priestley saw this and said, "You have had a tiring day and you look sleepy; come along upstairs to your bedroom."
Upstairs there are five bedrooms, a bathroom and a lavatory. We went to my room and he said, "Here you are. There is running water in your room and you can wash there or go to the bathroom, whichever you prefer. You will find soap in the soap-dish, and here are your towels. There are sheets and three blankets on your bed, and my wife has put a hot-water bottle in it. Now, do you want anything else?"
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