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4. Read some anecdotes about famous Americans and complete the tasks.

a) Name the past tenses in the following stories and explain why these tenses are used.

A. Humans had been dreaming of flights for hundred of years before the Wright Brothers tried to solve the problem. “Still, hardly anyone believed it was possible until he had actually seen it with his own eyes,” Orville Wright once recalled. Indeed, after their historic 12-second flight on December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers tried to inform the press but no one believed they had done it. Even the U.S. Patent Office, with more than 100 flying machines on file when they first applied in 1904, turned them down!

B. Thomas Edison was a workaholic who believed formal dinners to be a waste of time. At one such meal – finding the company rather dull – he decided to escape to his lab at the earliest opportunity. When Edison was making his way to the door, however, he was found out by his forgetful host. “It certainly is a pleasure to see you, Mr Edison,” he declared. “What are you working on now?” “My way out”, said Edison.

b) Choose the correct tense in each case.

Mark Twain was once impressed by the tale of a hard-working young man. The man was offered a job after his future boss saw / was seeing him when he collected / was collecting pins which someone was dropping / had dropped on a sidewalk outside a company’s offices. Some time later, Twain, intent on working for a certain firm, was seen theatrically collecting pins (which he himself dropped / had dropped earlier) on the sidewalk facing its windows. Sure enough, after Twain was collecting / had collected several pins, a clerk from the firm interrupted / had interrupted him.

“The boss asked me to tell you to move along,” the man explained / was explaining. “Your idiotic behaviour is distracting people working in the office.”

Oprah Winfrey once recalled / had recalled the moment that she realised / was realising that she had / had had to lose some weight. Once she attended / had attended a World Heavyweight contest in Las Vegas. She enjoyed / was enjoying the show until the moment she realised / was realising that she weighed / had weight more than the winner. She hated / was hating the hot-dogs she was eating / had eaten that day immediately.

c) Put the verbs in brackets into the correct narrative tense.

In May 2003, Christina Aguilera (visit) a computer exhibition in Las Vegas. While she (look) at a PC (completely confused), a funny-looking man (come) up to her, (introduce) himself and (offer) to answer any questions she might have. Aguilera naturally (think) he (be) just another crazy fan she (see) many times before. “Thanks, buddy,” she (reply), “but I’ve already got a computer guy who can do that.”

Aguilera (be) later surprised to learn that she (turn down) Bill Gates who was the Chief of Microsoft.

4. Прочтите несколько анекдотов об известных американцах и выполните задания.

a) Назовите прошедшие времена в следующих историях и объясните, почему эти времена используются.

b) Выберите правильное время в каждом случае.

c) Поставьте глаголы в скобках в правильное повествовательное время.

Ответ:

a)

b) Mark Twain was once impressed by the tale of a hard-working young man. The man was offered a job after his future boss saw him when he was collecting pins which someone had dropped on a sidewalk outside a company’s offices. Some time later, Twain, intent on working for a certain firm, was seen theatrically collecting pins (which he himself had dropped earlier) on the sidewalk facing its windows. Sure enough, after Twain had collected several pins, a clerk from the firm interrupted him.

“The boss asked me to tell you to move along,” the man explained. “Your idiotic behaviour is distracting people working in the office.”

Oprah Winfrey once recalled the moment that she realised that she had to lose some weight. Once she attended a World Heavyweight contest in Las Vegas. She was enjoying the show until the moment she realised that she weighed more than the winner. She hated the hot-dogs she had eaten that day immediately.

c) In May 2003, Christina Aguilera visited a computer exhibition in Las Vegas. While she was looking at a PC (completely confused), a funny-looking man came up to her, introduced himself and offered to answer any questions she might have. Aguilera naturally thought he was just another crazy fan she had seen many times before. “Thanks, buddy,” she replied, “but I’ve already got a computer guy who can do that.”

Aguilera was later surprised to learn that she had turned down Bill Gates who was the Chief of Microsoft.

Перевод:

a)

b) Марк Твен был однажды впечатлен рассказом о трудолюбивом молодом человеке. Мужчине предложили работу после того, как его будущий босс увидел его, когда тот собирал булавки, которые кто-то уронил на тротуар у офиса компании. Некоторое время спустя, Твена, намеревавшегося устроиться на работу в одну фирму, увидели театрально собирающим булавки (которые он сам уронил ранее) на тротуаре перед ее окнами. И действительно, после того как Твен собрал несколько булавок, его прервал клерк из фирмы.

«Босс попросил меня сказать вам, чтобы вы уходили», — объяснил мужчина. «Ваше идиотское поведение отвлекает людей, работающих в офисе».

Опра Уинфри однажды вспомнила момент, когда она осознала, что ей нужно сбросить вес. Однажды она посетила конкурс тяжеловесов в Лас-Вегасе. Она наслаждалась шоу до того момента, как осознала, что весила больше, чем победитель. Она тут же возненавидела хот-доги, которые съела в тот день.

c) В мае 2003 года Кристина Агилера посетила компьютерную выставку в Лас-Вегасе. Пока она рассматривала компьютер (в полном замешательстве), к ней подошел смешно выглядящий мужчина, представился и предложил ответить на любые вопросы, которые у нее могли возникнуть. Агилера, естественно, подумала, что это был просто еще один сумасшедший фанат, каких она видела много раз до этого. «Спасибо, приятель, — ответила она, — но у меня уже есть компьютерщик, который может это сделать».

Позже Агилера была удивлена, узнав, что она отказала Биллу Гейтсу, который был главой Microsoft.