Стр.16-17 Unit 2 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 11 класс
02 Aren’t we amazing? Read, listen and talk about amazing people, geniuses and intelligence. Practise narrative tenses with the Past Perfect Continuous;
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Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Вербицкая, Камине Д.Карр, Парсонс 11 класс, Просвещение:
02 Aren’t we amazing?
Read, listen and talk about amazing people, geniuses and intelligence.
Practise narrative tenses with the Past Perfect Continuous; suffixes.
Focus on presentation skills: keeping your audience involved.
Write a memorable story.
GRAMMAR AND READING
1 Look at the illustrations, the title and the headings. In pairs, predict what each text might be about.
2 Read the texts and check your predictions. What is so special about these people?
Amazing People
In this weektasks edition of Amazing People, we have decided to include not only well-known celebrities. They may not be world famous or household names, but, as we often say, theretasks more than one way to be special!
I am a traveller …
Fedor Konyukhov is the first person in the world to have reached the five poles of the planet – Everest (the highest pole), Cape Horn (the sailorstask pole), the Southern Geographic Pole, the Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Arctic Ocean and the North Pole, which he has conquered three times. When praised for his achievements, Fedor said, taskI am a traveller,task and attributed his success to the people whotaskd helped him. In 2002, Konyukhov set the world record crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a single row-boat in 46 days. Previously hetaskd participated in a solo, round-the-world sailboat race beginning and ending in Charleston, South Carolina. Hetaskd also sailed round the globe from Sydney through Cape Horn.
Lightning never strikes twice?
Roy Sullivan, a forest ranger from Virginia, was: struck by lightning seven times in his thirty-six-year career. The first strike was in 1942. He wasntaskt hit again until twenty-seven years later, driving his truck. The following year, another bolt of lightning burnt his shoulder, while his hair caught fire in a fourth strike in 1972. A year later, Sullivan was driving around the park when a bolt came out of: a small cloud, knocking off his shoe. taskI actually saw the lightning coming straight for me,task he said. Lightning struck for the sixth time in 1976. But it was the final strike in 1977, while he was fishing, that put him in the Guinness Book of World Records. Two of his Ranger hats, burnt by lightning, are now in Guinness Exhibit Hall - proof that lightning does strike in the same place twice.
Child prodigy
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed musical gifts at a very early age and was already composing his first works when he was four. Born in Salzburg in 1756, he was one of the greatest musical geniuses in history. By the age of six, hetaskd played before the empress Maria Theresia and had begun to write his: earliest symphonies. A year later, he was playing to audiences in London and Paris, astonishing them with his brilliance. He worked all over Europe during the next seventeen years, finally settling in Vienna. He lived just a little over half of Wagnertasks life span but was amazingly prolific. He died in 1791, aged only thirty-five, having composed over 600 works, including great operas like The Magic Flute. Just before his death, hetaskd been composing the Requiem, one of his most famous works.
3 Read the texts again. Are the statements true, false or not stated?
1 Fedor Konyukhov was the first to reach the Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Arctic Ocean.
2 Konyukhov crossed lite Atlantic Ocean alone.
3 Lightning struck Roy Sullivan for the third time in 1970.
4 By 1973, Sullivan had survived five lightning strikes.
5 Mozart wrote his earliest symphonies when he was four.
6 Beethoven was twice the age of Mozart when he died.
4 Think Back! Write the names of the tenses and add two more examples of each from the texts.
Tense
1 the Past Simple
2 the Past Continuous
3 the Past Perfect
Examples
1 sailed, set, reached, said, attributed etc.
2 was driving, was fishing, was composing, was playing.
3 had helped, had played, had begun, had been.
5 Replace the verb with the two other tenses from Exercise 4. How does the meaning change?
• When Mozart was six, he composed his earliest symphonies.
• When Mozart was six, he was composing his earliest symphonies.
• When Mozart was six, he had composed his earliest symphonies.
Work it out
6 Look at sentences a and b and answer questions 1 and 2.
a Before his death, hetaskd been composing the Requiem. (Past Perfect Continuous)
b Before his death, hetaskd composed 600 works. (Past Perfect)
1 Which form shows a completed action?
2 Which form shows an action that was not completed?
7 Match sentences a and b to sentences 1 and 2. How does the form change the meaning in sentences 1 and 2?
1 When I got home, I saw that hetaskd been painting the kitchen.
2 When I got home, I saw that hetaskd painted the kitchen.
a It looked really fantastic and the colour was great.
b There were cans of paint and brushes all over the place.
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8 Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the Past Perfect Continuous of the phrases below.
rain for a week; train for months; not work hard enough; not listen carefully; wait for an hour
1 He lost his job because he hadn’t been working hard enough.
2 The town was flooded because it had been raining for a week.
3 They were furious when she arrived because they had been waiting for an hour.
4 I didntaskt understand what to do because I hadn’t been listening carefully.
5 We won the match because we had been training for months.
9 Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets in the Past Perfect or the Past Perfect Continuous.
1 By the time he was twenty-five, he had earned his first million.
2 She had been living in the town for ten years before she met him.
3 After they had finished dinner, they went out.
4 When I went to pay the bill, I realised that had left my wallet at home.
5 Just before the accident, he had been driving at 150 mph.
6 At the time of the wedding, they had been going out together for six years.
7 We had been playing football in the same club for ages before we became friends.
8 I had already given up waiting when he phoned.
*10 Complete each sentence with the Past Simple, the Past Continuous, the Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Continuous. Compare your sentences and discuss why you used each tense.
1 When I looked at my watch, I realised that …
2 Tom was upset because …