pavem sweets trainers 5 What is the British English equivalent for the words in bold? Use a dictionary to help you. 1 She thought the brochure was in her purse, but she must have left it at home. 2 What a busy town! It took an hour to get out of the parking lot. 3 You shouldn't eat chips too often as they're full of salt. 4 Don't throw that wrapper on the floor! Put it in the garbage can! 5 I need to clear out my closet - l've got too many clothes! 6 We need to buy the baby a pacifier.
1. Starting in the late 16th century, the Spanish, the British, the French, Swedes and the Dutch began to colonize eastern North America.
2. European immigrants came to make new homes in the Americas. They came in search of a better life. In their native countries, they often had little money and could not worship God in the way they wished. Not all immigrants came to America because they wanted to. Beginning in 1619, millions of Africans were brought to the Americas against their will and were forced into slavery.
3. Before the American revolution, agriculture was the primary livelihood for 90% of the population, and most towns were shipping points for the export of agricultural products.
4. Ten years after the landing of the "Mayflower" Pilgrims more than twenty thousand people lived in the colony and the majority were from England.
5. It was here in New England that the literature of the New American nation appeared.
6. The first American university, Harvard College, was founded in 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
7. The first books of the colony were about religion, the story of the colony and the true nature of the puritanism of those days.
8. The development of American literature was influenced by French and German culture which was brought to America by new immigrants from Europe.
9. The Negroes contributed greatly to the development of the arts. Negro songs and acting have become part of American national music and drama. Negro folklore has given American literature a specific colouring: a mixture of jocularity and sadness.
10. American literature owes its revolutionary traditions to the War of Independence.
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12 Put the verbs in brackets into the past perfect simple or the past perfect continuous.
Yesterday was a bad day for Andrew. He 1) ...hadn't slept... well because there was a terrible storm in the night. After he 2) (had had) a shower, he made breakfast After he 3) (had eaten), he got into his car and drove to work. He 4) (had only been driving) for five minutes when he remembered that he 5). (had left) his briefcase at home. He turned the car around and went home again. Then, he realised that he 6) (had locked) himself out. The keys were still inside the house. Andrew was already late for work, so he decided to leave the briefcase and go to work. When he arrived, his secretary told him that his boss 7) (had been trying) to call him at home. Andrew went to find his boss. When he asked his boss why he 8) (had called), he told him that it hadn't been necessary for him to come to work that day after all. Poor Andrew drove all the way home again.