Read the story and put the verbs in brackets into the Past Indefinite or the Past Continuous Tense.
What a day!
The day (start) very well for Ethel Stoketon of Highgate, London,
yesterday, but it got worse. It (be) a day many people could find
difficult to believe. Sometimes strange things happen. Ethel Stoketon (get)
up early as usual. She (feel) a bit ill and (have) a
slight temperature but she (have) a lot of Christmas shopping to do, so
she (go) to the shopping center. At 9:30 am she (walk)
past Woolworths, and (step) on a banana peel. She (fall)
and (break) her right arm and two fingers on her right hand. Thats not
all. John Severius and his daughter
Carmen (walk) next to her,
and Ethel (fall) into them
and (knock) them down,
too. John Severius (smoke)
a cigarette when they (fall)
and (burn) his daughters
nose. He also hurt his knee and couldnt
stand up. His daughter, except for the
nose, (be) still all right,
so she (call) an ambulance.
It got there in minutes. The driver of the
ambulance (have) a bad
cold. As he (drive)
them to the hospital just at the corner of
Highgate Hill and Magdala Avenue, he (sneez) . He (crash)
into a bakery delivery van. The driver of the van (get)
a broken arm, a stiff neck and a lot of whipped cream on his back. The ambulance and the
driver could still drive, so the bakery van driver (get) in next to Carmen
Severius who in the crash (lose) a tooth and they (go)
on to the hospital. They (get) to the hospital with no more accidents.
But when they (make) an X-ray of Ethels arm, part of the X-ray machine
(fall) off and (hurt) her shoulder. They (put)
her in the best room of the hospital. When we (talk) to
Ethel this morning, she said, Funny thing is I dont ever eat bananas!»
2 How can we protect it? Как мы можем защитить ее?
3 I’m sure that some of us don’t notice global problems which are taking place Я уверен, что некоторые из нас не замечают глобальные проблемы, которые сейчас имеют место
4 Has everyone heard about global warming, climate change, sea level rise, overpopulation? Слышал ли каждый о глобальном потеплении, изменении климата, увеличении уровня моря, перенаселения?
5 I think that we are more or less familiar with these issues Я думаю, что мы более или менее знакомы с этими вопросами
6 The problem is that we don’t pay enough attention to it Проблема в том, что часто мы уделяем достаточного внимания этому
7 Certainly, we need to think thoroughly about these problems Конечно, нам нужно тщательно подумать об этих проблемах
8 Let’s look at the problem of overpopulation Давайте взглянем на проблему перенаселения
9 How can we solve this problem? Как мы можем решить эту проблему?
10 We shouldn’t get married and have children, shouldn’t we? Нам не следует женить (выходить замуж) и иметь детей, не так ли?
11 Certainly not Конечно, нет
12 On the contrary, Russia has the opposite problem Наоборот, у России обратная проблема
Может
И ещё слова drowing не существует проверь, а в 1-Ом предложении в слове get нужно поставить букву s в пунктах #1,5 и 6 ( тоже проверь )