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What had you done by the time you started to watch TV yesterday?

5. Answer the questions.

1. What do people in different countries call the holiday of Easter? 2. When does this holiday begin in the countries you have learnt about? 3. What do people usually do on Easter Sunday? 4. What special does this holiday have for children? 5. What traditional food do people eat at Easter in different countries? 6. What kind of popularity does this holiday have in different countries? 7. Had you gone to school before your parents left for work? 8. What had you done by 10 a.m. yesterday? 9. What had you done by the time you started to watch TV yesterday? 10. When did you wake up yesterday?

6. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Perfect or the

Past Perfect tense form. Say what the difference is between these two tense forms.

1. You can have this newspaper. I ______ (finish) reading it. 2. It wasn’t raining when I left for school. It _____ (stop) by that time. 3. I am not hungry. I already _____ (eat). 4. It was ten p. m. I already ______ (finish) my homework and I was ready to go to bed. 5. Carol missed her English lesson yesterday because of a traffic jam. By the time she got to school, her lesson already _______ (begin). 6. Our family had no car at that time. We ______ (sell) our old car. 7. Do you want to watch that program? It just _______ (start). 8. We are late. The party already ______ (start).

7. Read the dialogue and make up a similar film riddle for your classmates to guess. Include the film’s genre, setting, actors, plot, and climax.

A: It’s a fantasy movie. It takes place in the world of elves, dwarfs, and orcs. Elijah Wood acts in it. It’s about a hobbit who has to destroy a magic ring before an evil wizard can get it. In the end, he decides to keep the ring, but it gets destroyed anyway. B: It’s “The Lord of the Rings”, isn’t it? A: Yes, it is. You have guessed it.

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