Student A Student B

 

 

1. I didn’t laugh at this joke. a) Why? Had you left your passport

at home?

2. Were you surprised by the ending of the film? b) Why? Had you heard it before?

 

3. I went to the airport, but I couldn’t get on c) That’s a pity. Hadn’t you stayed

the plane. there before?

4. I was homesick the whole time I was living d) Really? I didn’t know he’d been

in France. married before.

5. The hotel where we stayed on holiday was e) Really? I thought you’d met

awful! before.

6. I met my girlfriend’s parents for the first time f) No, I’d read the book, so I already

last Sunday. knew the story.

7. My grandfather had two sons from his first g) That’s really sad! Had you never

marriage. lived abroad before?

 

 

GRAMMAR

 

 

КОСВЕННАЯРЕЧЬИСОГЛАСОВАНИЕВРЕМЁН

(REPORTED SPEECH WITH BACKSHIFT)

 

I. Если глагол в главном предложении стоит в прошедшем времени, то в косвенной речи время глагола изменяется в соответствии с правилом согласования времён:

 

 

Present Simple => Past Simple

Present Continuous => Past Continuous

Present Perfect => Past Perfect

Present Perfect Continuous => Past Perfect Continuous

Past Simple => Past Perfect

Past Continuous => Past Perfect Continuous

 

Вспомогательный глагол будущего времени will заменяется на would.