ДАЮ 50

ДАЮ 50 БАЛЛОВ.
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Exercise 1.

Complete the sentences with likes... or doesn't like... + one of the following (in the correct form Ving):

drive, fly, solve mysteries, take photographs

1. George is a detective. He enjoys his work. He _____________________________________
Ann very rarely travels by plane. She ____________________________________________
Rose always carries her camera with her. She ______________________________________
Christine doesn't use her car very often. She _______________________________________


Exercise 2.

Write sentences about yourself. Say whether you like or don't like these activities. Choose one of these verbs for each sentence: (don't) like/love/hate/enjoy/mind.

(flying) I ____________________________________________________________
(playing cards) I ____________________________________________________________
(doing the ironing) I __________________________________________________________
(going to museums) I _________________________________________________________
(lying on the beach all day) I ___________________________________________________


Exercise 3.

Write sentences about yourself. Say what you stopped/finished/gave up doing some time ago.

I stopped ___________________________________________________________________.
I finished ___________________________________________________________________.
I gave up ___________________________________________________________________.


Exercise 4.

Complete Shakespeares biography with the following words.

education, known, deathless, created, word, playwright, fame

Shakespeare

Shakespeare was a famous (1) _______________________, poet and actor of the past. He was born on the 23rd of April 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon. At the age of 19 he married Anne Hathaway. When he was 22 Shakespeare left Stratford for London, where he joined a company (2) ______________ as Chamberlains Men and began to write poems for the company. But most of his plays were written and staged at the Globe Theatre. It is considered to be the height of his (3) _____________________. Shakespeare died on the 23rd of April 1616. And it is all we know about Shakespeares biography.

There has been a good deal of debate about the level of Shakespeares (4) __________________. Some people considered him to be an illiterate man. But now we know that such reactions are unnecessary. Shakespeare attended Grammar School, where he studied grammar, history and English. It was quiet enough to develop his literary skills.

During his life Shakespeare (5) __________________ 37 plays and poems. Among them comedies (The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing); tragedies (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Macbeth); historical plays (Henry IV, Henry VI, Richard III) and sonnets. All his creative works considered to be masterpieces.

Whether Shakespeare was writing poetry, tragedy or a comedy his every (6) _____________ has its own meaning and value. It was Shakespeare who gave the world poetry of (7) ________________ beauty.