4 READING
a What do you think are the perfect colours to paint
your flat or house? Look at the chart and complete
column 1 (My opinion) with a colour from the box.
blue
red/orange
green/white
yellow
Rooms
1 My opinion
2 The expert's opinion
Bedroom
Living room
Dining room
Study​

every person has his own family. it may be good, unusual etc.

i`d like to tell you about my family. it`s not very large. my mother doesn`t work. she is good, clever and she always waits for me from school. she can do everything and she teaches me a lot of things. i like her very much.

my father is a captain of the police. he has a very responsible work. he helps people. he is seldom at home because he has a lot of work, but we know that he loves us. to my mind, my father is the best man i have ever met.

i have a sister, called ksyusha. she studies at the ural medical academy. when she graduates from it, she`ll become a dentist. she is a creative person. she likes to write funny verses and compose songs. it`s always interesting and funny with her. she is sociable and she has a lot of friends. i miss ksyusha very much because she lives in yekaterinburg and i always wait for weekends when she comes home.

we are having a great time together. we like to go camping and play table games. i like my family. i want to be a good daughter and make my family happy.

1. теперь она избегает ходить туда так часто, как раньше.

now she avoids going there as often as she used to go before.

2. он, бывало, внезапно появлялся в доме своей матери и так же внезапно исчезал.

he used to appear suddenly at his mother's home and to desappear in the same way.

3. она, бывало, часами сидела у открытого окна, глядя на лес за холмом.

she used to sit next to an open window for hous looking at the forest behind the hill.

4. иногда она жаловалась на свою трудную жизнь, и ей становилось легче.

sometimes she   used to complain of her difficult life and she felt better.

5. я лично думаю, что теперь вы говорите по- лучше, чем раньше.

i think that now you speak english better than you used to speak before.

6. теперь он совсем не курит, так как у него плохое здоровье, а ведь раньше он курил сигарету за сигаретой.

now he doesn't smoke at all as he has bad health but earlier he used to smoke sigarettes one by one.

7. он начал изучать французский, а в детстве он занимался с частным преподавателем .

he began to learn french and in his childhood he used to study english with a tutor.

8. когда-то он был весьмя состоятельным человеком. 

some time he used to be quite rich.