A Girl On the Move, by Sally Coldwell Girl On the Move is an emotional novel about the life of Destiny Jones. Destiny and her parents live in a mobile home, and they move around the country, looking for work. But many people don’t want ‘travellers’ to move into their village or onto their farm. One day, Destiny meets a boy, and for the first time, she begins to question her life on the road. What would it be like if she could stay in one place? Soon, Destiny begins to dream of a better, more ordinary life. But her parents and a local farmer have different ideas.
B Home Maker: All the Secrets, by Fiona and Scott Bradley
Following the highly-successful TV series Home Maker, husband and wife team Fiona and Scott Bradley have found time to produce a great book. Just like the TV series, the book is full of useful, easy-to-follow ideas, and simple building projects. Learn how to repair and decorate old furniture, how to change your garage into the brightest, most comfortable room in your house and many more great ideas. So if you would like a home to be proud of, this is the book for you.
C The History of your Home, by Michael Fossepath
The History of your Home is full of interesting – and sometimes crazy – facts about houses in Britain. Did you know that a thousand years ago, most houses in Britain had only one room? People cooked, ate and slept in it. There was no privacy at all, and no bathroom either. If you wanted to wash, you went to a bath house in the city – or jumped in the local river!
Fossepath’s amusing book also looks at how houses have changed the English language. For example, we say ‘full board’ to talk about a hotel room with meals because the earliest dining tables were actually ‘boards’ − pieces of wood to put on your knees.
D The House of Broken Lives, by Tamara Vale
When Josh and Katie Alder see a beautiful house for sale in Pacific Grove, they buy it immediately. It might be a little dilapidated, but it would look much better if they painted it and tidied the garden. And after all, it’s a big house with a great view, at a very good price. But soon after buying the house, they learn the shocking truth about what happened there one hot
August night in 1992. They also begin to hear strange sounds upstairs. Someone − or something − is living in their house. And it wishes they would leave.
In this book, you can read about
1 easy ways to make things.
2 how some words entered the English language.
3 frightening events in a house.
4 the life of a teenage girl.
5 how to change a place in your home.
Из активногo залога в пассивный:
1.It took her a long time to write the composition but at last she wrote it
2. Why weren't you at the birthday party? - I wasn't invited
3. I will be left behind if i'm not quick
4. I don't think all this work should be done today: there is too much of it
5. Don't leave these sweets on the table: they will be eaten
Из пассивного залога в активный:
1. We have sent invitations to all the old pupils to be present at the schools thirtieth anniversary
2. I finished work in time
3. Every student must read this book
4. Parents taught Spartan children to endure all hardships
Перевод:
1. New skates will be bought tomorrow
2. Misha will be asked to tell about his journey
3. The doctor will be asked to treat me
4. A new film will be brought tomorrow
5. My friend will be helped with German
One day the king showed his pictures to a great painter who lived in his country and said that he wanted to know what he thought of his pictures and asked the painter if he liked them and he wanted to know if he was a good painter or not.
The painter looked at the king's pictures and said that he thought king's pictures were bad and that the king would never be a good painter.
The king said that he was very angry with the painter because he had not liked his pictures, but later he had forgotten about that. Then he added that the painter was a free man again and that he was his friend.
After the dinner the king showed his pictures to the painter and asked how he liked his pictures at that time.
He turned to the soldier who was standing near him and asked the soldier to take him back to prison.