Grammar Expansion: Functional usage of the tenses revised in communication

C. Translate the sentences from the text into Russian paying attention to the grammar tenses:

1. The content of Queen’s speech was prosaic. 2. At the heart of it were 29 bills. 3. Mr. Brown did not take earlier and better opportunities to set out a vision: his party-conference speech in September was solid but unspectacular, and the high-lights of the pre-budget report were policies hurriedly borrowed from the Tories. 4. Yet many on his own side wanted him to eschew political dog-fighting and build the "progressive consensus" he had spent years talking about. 5. A pamphlet released on November 1st by the Fabian Society, a think-tank loyal to Mr. Brown, urged him to do more of the "vision thing". 6. If it makes mistakes and these come to light (as one did last month, when ministers admitted they had underestimated the number of new foreign workers), voters begin to ask, what the point of it is. 7. The party opposed his proposal to extend the maximum period that a terrorist suspect can be detained without charge. 8. His recent attempts to outfox the Conservatives, by prolonging speculation over an early election and making policy pronouncements from Iraq during their party conference, backfired.

D. Fill in the gaps by the correct tense form of the verb in brackets:

Since 802 AD the life of the people on the British Isles _____ (be) ruled by kings and queens. All in all in the history of British monarchy there ____ (be) 8 Edwards, 3 Richards, 8 Henrys, 4 Williams, 2 Charleses, 2 Jameses, 6 Georges among kings and 2 Marys, 1 Anne and 1 Victoria, and 2 Elizabeths as queens. Each king or queen ____________ (belong) to a certain Royal Family Line or House. The Lancastrian Line, the Yorkist Line, the House of Tudor and the House of Stuart _____ (rule) at different times. Elizabeth II _____ (be) the representative of the House of Windsor. She _____ (be born) on April 21, 1926. Being the eldest daughter of George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon she _______ (inherit) the throne. She ______ (marry ) Philip Mountbatten, a distant cousin, in 1947; the pair have four children: Charles, Prince of Wales, Anne, Andrew and Edward. Her coronation __________ (take place) in Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953. She _______ (reign) already for more than half a century now, and appears capable of raising the character of the monarchy through her actions.

Use your background knowledge and the information from this lesson for preparing a Queen’s profile which will contain the following aspects:

- birth date and place of birth;

- childhood and youth;

- marriage;

- coronation;

- her children and grandchildren;

- hobbies and interests;

- monarch’s duties.

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