un-: uncomplimentary, unflavoured, uncreative, unexciting, unfulfilling, uninteresting, unpopular, unprestigious, unrewarding, unrequired, unlimited, unwrapped, uninjured;
in-: inaccurate, incapable, independent, inexpensive;
il-: illiterate;
im-: immoral;
ir-: irregular
in-: inaccurate, incapable, independent, inexpensive;
il-: illiterate;
im-: immoral;
ir-: irregular
1. My parents don’t let me smoke.
2. Are you sure your mum will let you go with us?
3. … her granny did not let her.
4. He never lets me drive his car.
5 —
6. Let me explain.
7. —
8. —
2. Are you sure your mum will let you go with us?
3. … her granny did not let her.
4. He never lets me drive his car.
5 —
6. Let me explain.
7. —
8. —
1. lying; 2. lay; 3. laid; 4. lie; 5. laying; 6. lay; 7. lay; 8. lying; 9. lied; 10. laid; 11. lie; 12. Laid
B. 1. — b; 2. — b; 3. — a; 4. — b; 5. — a; 6. — a; 7. — a; 8. — a
The moment when he wrote down his first story.
A. 1. — d; 2. — g; 3. — e; 4. — c; 5. — a; 6. — f; 7. — b
B. 1. hold the view; 2. it’s little wonder; 3. in your own good time; 4. turn down the offer; 5. headed for; 6. a month’s leave; 7. apart from that
B. 1. hold the view; 2. it’s little wonder; 3. in your own good time; 4. turn down the offer; 5. headed for; 6. a month’s leave; 7. apart from that
1) hold the view; 2) was given a week’s leave; 3) headed for; 4) it was little wonder; 5) to turn down his offers; 6) apart from that; 7) in my own good time
1. Boarding.
2. Talking in the dormitories and running in the corridors.
3. They didn’t think much of it. They thought the boy was incapable of putting his words on paper, that his vocabulary was limited, he was idle and illiterate and didn’t have any interesting ideas.
4. As he was not going to become a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer or some other kind of professional he saw little point in wasting time in these universities.
5. He wanted to go abroad.
6. To East Africa.
7. He saw great sandy deserts, Arab soldiers on camels, palm trees and flying fish.
8. He became a war pilot in RAF.
9. He flew for about 3 years (from 1939 to 1941) and stopped flying because of his injuries.
10. He was sent to Washington DC as assistant air attache.
11. C.S. Forester, a famous British writer (did). He wanted Dahl to tell him about Dahl’s war adventures.
12. He was too much concentrated on the duck he was eating and he thought he was not good at telling stories aloud.
13. He called it “A Piece of Cake”.
14. It was “The Saturday Evening Post”.
15. С.S. Forester wrote that the story was marvellous and that R. Dahl was a gifted writer.
2. Talking in the dormitories and running in the corridors.
3. They didn’t think much of it. They thought the boy was incapable of putting his words on paper, that his vocabulary was limited, he was idle and illiterate and didn’t have any interesting ideas.
4. As he was not going to become a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer or some other kind of professional he saw little point in wasting time in these universities.
5. He wanted to go abroad.
6. To East Africa.
7. He saw great sandy deserts, Arab soldiers on camels, palm trees and flying fish.
8. He became a war pilot in RAF.
9. He flew for about 3 years (from 1939 to 1941) and stopped flying because of his injuries.
10. He was sent to Washington DC as assistant air attache.
11. C.S. Forester, a famous British writer (did). He wanted Dahl to tell him about Dahl’s war adventures.
12. He was too much concentrated on the duck he was eating and he thought he was not good at telling stories aloud.
13. He called it “A Piece of Cake”.
14. It was “The Saturday Evening Post”.
15. С.S. Forester wrote that the story was marvellous and that R. Dahl was a gifted writer.
1) – f); 2) – i); 3) – d); 4) – j); 5) – a); 6) – g); 7) – b); 8) – h); 9) – c); 10) – e)
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