Exercises

1. Paraphrase the following sentences using the patterns:

1. He was crossing the road and it happened so that he was run over by a fast car (Pattern. 1). 2. They turned on the TV because the match was about to start and they were going to watch it (Pattern. 1). 3. It is difficult for me to run such a long distance; I have to train a bit (Pattern. 2). 4. Is it possible for us to join you right at the stadium (Pattern. 2)? 5. The skater I was shouting for was the first one to reach the finish but he seemed very exhausted (Pattern. 3). 6. After the accident the man got to hospital and was alive but very weak (Pattern. 3). 7. It was impossible for her to look better and prettier then (Pattern. 4). 8. Though he looked tired he introduced his project wonderfully; it was impossible to cope better (Pattern. 4).

2. Complete the following sentences using the patterns:

1. The ball flew high ________________. 2. The man opened the morning paper to ________________. 3. She got an idea of ________________. 4. Marsha says she has some difficulty in ________________. 5. Let’s use this fine opportunity of ________________. 6. The book appeared very involving, ________________. 7. The match happened immensely interesting, ________________. 8. The expensiveness of the tickets couldn’t ________________. 9. The motor car race couldn’t ________________. 10. The late beginning of the match ________________.

3. Make up 2 sentences of your own on each pattern.

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4. Translate into English using the patterns:

1. Він взяв участь в змаганні і так сталося, що переміг. 2. Діти побігли до футбольного поля подивитися, як грають їх батьки, та по вболівати за них. 3. Всі підтримали думку разом подивитися боксерський бій у спорт-барі. 4. Чому тобі важко перекладати статті про спорт? 5. Щоб уникнути труднощів у виконанні цих вправ, треба постійно тренуватися. 6. Атлет успішно завершив змагання, хоча й виглядав (був) знесилений. 7. Ці вправи, хоча й важкі, проте надзвичайно корисні для м'язів спини. 8. Капітан нашої баскетбольної команди отримав травму, проте це не могло завадити студентам нашого інституту стати переможцями регіональних змагань. 9. Вони ніколи б не зіграли краще, ніж того дня. 10. Поразка їх команди все одно не могла змусити фанатів не підтримувати своїх улюблених гравців.

III. Text Agatha Christie

O ften billed as “The Queen of Crime” Agatha Christie was one of the most creative writers of the 20th-century. She was born in Torquay on 15 September 1890, the daughter of Frederick and Clarissa Miller; she was christened Agatha Mary Clarissa. Like many children of the times, her early education took place at home and at the age of 16 she was sent to a school in Paris to complete her education. Amongst other subjects, she studied singing and the piano. She had always enjoyed writing, from an early age her mother had encouraged her in the use of her extraordinary vivid imagination. At the age of 24, Agatha married Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. Five years later in 1919, a daughter Rosalind was born and nine years later, in 1928 the couple were divorced. By this time Agatha had become a prolific writer of murder, mystery and suspense. Her first novel “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” was published in 1920.

Agatha Christie married for the second time and in 1938 the family moved to Greenway House, a handsome residence on the River Dart in the West Country. “Sleeping Murder” was written around the Imperial Hotel in Torquay and she used her own home to great advantage in the pages of “Dead Man’s Folly”. The great, white Georgian house with camellia clad grounds, picturesque boathouse, on the banks of the River Dart, is quite mystical with timelessness, superbly suited to the “dapper” Hercule Poirot, delightful Belgian detective the author introduced to us in her first book. Miss Marple first appeared in 1930 in Murder in the Vicarage. Agatha Christie’s second husband was an archaeologist and it is thought she drew her inspiration for “Murder on the Nile” and “Murder on the Orient Express” from her experiences whilst travelling with him.

In her lifetime, she wrote 66 detective stories. Seventeen featured Miss Marple, over 40 featured Hercule Poirot. Agatha also wrote plays. The Mousetrap ran in London for over 30 years and she wrote six other novels under the name of Mary Westmacott. Over two billion copies of her books have been sold and her work has been translated into more languages than Shakespeare’s. Charming and delightful, she was a lady who shunned publicity and often exclaimed at the fuss her presence sometimes caused, once remarking – “after I have been dead ten years, it will be as though no one has ever heard of me” – Agatha Christie would have been amazed at how far and wide her fame had spread and that her work was featured on the silver screen and television.

Agatha Christie was invested as a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1971. She died on 12 January, 1976.