THE BIKE

INTRODUCTION The bicycle nowadays is one of the most economic and polluting transports of the world. More and more people join in cycling. POSITIVE EFFECTS: Does not pollute anything -You do a lot of exercise Your health better NEGATIVE EFFECTS:

-can be in several cases dangerous

1.Read the story outline . Then look at the sentences below. Write T (true) or F (false).
  
  1)Malcom Malcomsom was a student. T.
  2)He had been a student for twenty-one years. F.
  3)He was near the end of his college studies. T.
  4)He needed a quite place to study. T.
  5)He wanted to live in a hause with quiet people. F.
  6)No one had lived in the Judge´s house for a long time. T.
  7)Malcom paid money to live in the house. T.
  8)He used all the rooms in the house. F.
  9)There was a painting on the wall of the dining room. T.
10)The painting hung from a rope. F.
11)Malcom was afraid of rats. F.
12)The big rat sometimes slept on the chair by the fair. T.

 2.Write sentences for the answers.

 1)Why did malcom rent the old house?
 2)Who was the man in the picture?
 3)What sound did Malcom hear at night?
 4)Where did he study?
 5)How did he read at night?
 6)What did the hotel owner say about the old judge?
 7)How many rats were in the house?
 8)Did the rats eat Malcom?
 9)When appeared the judge?
10)Where did the people find the Malcom´s body?

3.Read the sentences. Then write each word in bold next to the correct meaning below.
 
  1)Large hard stones in the ground or on the coast: rocks.
  2)A small house in the country: cottage.
  3)Killed in water - unable to breath air: drowned.
  4)Very badly damaged; beyond repair; destroyed; sunk: washed up.
  5)The hight steep sides  of hills by the sea: cliffs.
  6)Brought the land by wind or tide: wrecked.
  7)Stopped holding something (phrasal verb) : let go of.
  8)The land on th edge of a sea, lake or river: shore.
  9)Threw something lightly or casually into the air: tossed.
10)A place where boats and ships can stay safely: harbour.

4.Rewrite the sentences using ago with the correct time expression.

  1)It´s 9:30. The train left at 9:25.
     -The train left 5 minutes ago.
  2)It´s friday today. I possed the letter on monday.
    -I possed the letter 4 days ago.
  3)She left the school in the year 2000.
   -She left the school 17 years ago.
  4)I haven´t seen him for 4 months.
   -I last saw him 4 months ago.
  5)Miss Corder has worked here for a year.
   -Miss Corder started to work here 1 year ago.
  6)We moved to a new apartment in January this year.
   -We moved to a new apartment 11 months ago.
  7)This book is more than fifty years old.
   -This book was written more than fifty years ago.
  8)This year my parents´ twentieth wedding anniversary.
   -My parents got maried 20 years ago.
  9)The first European settlers went to North America in the early seventeenth century.
   -The first Europen settlers went to North America 300 years ago.

3 INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD:


1.The condom: was invented in 1640 the first that recommended its use to prevent the spread of diseases.



2. The pacemaker: inventing in 1958. Not long ago having an irreversible heart defect involved certain death.



3. The toothbrush: inventing in 1498. An unknown Chinese was the first to mount bristles on a piece of wood. These bristles came from pigs and were mounted on bamboo or a fragment of bone.