Чтобы не умереть со скуки от грамматики (но меня, лично, она всегда веселила), задание для подростков и студентов. Два времени в жизни Дженнифер Лопец – расставьте все по полкам, предварительно изучив теорию (куда деваться, надо)).

Grammar
Open the brackets using the verbs in Past Simple or Present Perfect.
Past Simple or Present Perfect

Past Simple

Last year
Yesterday
In 1996
In June
_____________
The events in past

I worked, I didn’t work
We left, we didn’t leave
Did they really leave?

Present Perfect

Lately – на днях
Recently - недавно
Ever, never – всегда, никогда
______________
1)Сделано в недалеком прошлом - результат в настоящем
2) так всегда было и есть (напр.: работала и работает)

We haven’t done it yet.
He has built a house and planted a tree! Have a look!
Have you enjoyed your meal?

Jennifer _________ (be) born on July 24, 1969, in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx. Her father, David, ________ (be) a computer technician. Her mother, Guadalupe, _______ (teach) kindergarten. Jennifer is the middle of three daughters. Her elder sister, Leslie, is a housewife who _________ (sing) opera. Her younger sister, Lynda, is a DJ on New York’s TV programme, and a morning news show correspondent on New York’s Channel 11. Jennifer’s parents ________ (be) born in Puerto Rico, but __________ ( meet) when both came to America. Her mother’s parents ________ (be) Europeans who _________ (settle) in Puerto Rico. She says that it was her parents’ work ethic that _______ (make) a difference in her life. Jennifer ______ (take) singing and dancing lessons from age 5. She _________ (attend) 12 years of Catholic school, including an all-girl high school. She _______ (play) softball and tennis in high school and was a gymnast.
After high school, she briefly ________ (work) in a law office. During this time, she ________ (continue) dance classes at night. At 18, she _______ (leave) home because her mother was scared by her decision to pursue show business. With casting on “In Living Colour” in 1990, she ________(move) to L.A., but initially ________ (hate) it. Finally her boy friend, David Cruz, ________ (move) to be with her there and she _________ (learn) to accept her new environment.

Jennifer Lopez’s professional life ________ always ________ (be) spectacular but she _______ _______ (not,have) the same luck in the love department. Lopez ________ _________ (be) in and out of failed relationships before finding love with Marc Anthony. Lopez and Anthony ________ (marry) on June 5, 2004, less than a week after his divorce from Dayanara Torres.
Jennifer Lopez ________ (give) birth to twins in 2008. She had one boy and one girl on Feb. 22, 2008 in Long Island, N.Y, whom she _________ (name) Emme and Max..

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Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez has married her current boyfriend, salsa singer Marc Anthony, Us Weekly reported on June 5, 2004. The magazine said Lopez, 33, married Latin music star Anthony, 34, at her home in Los Angeles on Saturday in front of about 40 guests.
For Lopez, 33, the marriage would mark her third - the first was to waiter Ojani Noa in 1997, the second to dancer Cris Judd in 2001. Noa lasted a little more than a year; Judd for nine months.
Anthony, the Latin singing sensation, just divorced former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres last week in the Dominican Republic. The pair, wed in 2000, have two young sons, and he has a daughter from a previous relationship.
Ответьте на вопросы (правда-неправда):

1. Jennifer had been waiting for her first husband Ojani Noa since 1997.

2. Marc Anthony, J’s husband, is a salsa dancer.
3. The couple married in at J’s home in Las Vegas.
4. All J’s previous marriages lasted not more than 2 years.
5. Marc Anthony, Jennifer’s husband, has two sons and a daughter from his former marriages.

What do these numbers stand for?
40 ________________________
33 ________________________
2004 ______________________

Больше5 или 5 (но скрипя зубами) правильных ответов (сверьтесь с текстом, там все написано) – хорошо, гуляйте.
Половина и меньше – читайте текст еще раз и добейте его без ошибок.

П-с. Если опять скажите, что гдей-то видели все это слово в слово, не долбитесь больше в экран, идите спать) Всем остальным – респект за упорство и труд, которые всех и вся)

SAMARA COAT-OF ARMS
Самарские гербы
Данное задание вы можете использовать как тест по аудированию, подготовке к ЕГЭ, факультативное задание по изучению родного края, командные интеллектуальные соревнования. В журнале “YOUngster!” (стр. 10-11, № 1, 2008) публикуются изображения гербов областных городов и задания к ним.

Read the text about the coats-of-arms that Samara’s regionall towns have. Fill in the gaps choosing their names in the column.

Pokhvistnevo
Otradny
Kinel
Samara
Syzran
Sergievsk
Zhigulyovsk
Toglyatti
Chapayevsk
Novokuibyshevsk

___________________________

This coat-of-arms was estimated in 1780. In the blue field there is a white goat standing on the grass, but earlier, in 1730 you could see a wild goat instead. Nowadays for this big regional city a new coat-of –arms is being developed, so soon we’ll probably see some different kind of it.

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This town was founded because of the oil field found near the two villages – Otvazhnoye and Morkvashi.
This town is situated on the picturesque bank of the river Volga, in the very heart of Samarskaya Luka with the Zhiguli Mountains around. Of course, it’s reflected in the field of the coat-of-arms. The Firebird symbolyses the Volga’s beauty, its fables and fairy-tales,
its tail curls around the slop of the mountain marking the “main street” of the town - the river’s bend near Toglyatti, Samara and Syzran.

___________________________

In this coat-of-arms the union of the two rivers is depicted: The Bolshoy Kinel River meets The Samara River.

____________________________

The top part of the coat-of-arm is deducated to Samara, the main city of the region, the second part depicts the lilies making the triangle – the symbol of the three settlements that used to be instead of this modern town.

____________________________

The bull means the richness of the city and its success in cattle breeding. This coat-of-arms was approved by Ekaterina II.

____________________________

The top part of the coat-of-arms is taken from the one of the Ufa city. The bottom part draws our attention to the fox in the golden field – the animal inhabits this area.

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There are three emblems in this coat-of-arms: the 2 squares devided by the lines meaning the city structure (4 parts) and the 2 squares with crosses. The former name of the city is Stavropol that is translated as the “the city of the sacre cross”.

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The round ball symbolizes the ammunition during the World War II, the wreath of green leaves means the ecology that leaves much to be desired.

__________________________

The blue field shows the Samara Region, the black and silver sharp points depict the oil and railway industry, the town’s basicly developped spheres.

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The town’s life is closely connected with the oil extraction. The ladder shows the progress in the town’s development.

WORD LIST
coat-of-arms - герб
estimate - утверждать
goat - козел
wild goat - горный (дикий) козел
oil field - нефтяное месторождение
Firebird - Жарптица
curl around - огибать
slop - склон
bend - излучина
deducate to - посвященный
triangle - треугольник
settlement - поселение
draw attention to - привлекать внимание к
sacre - священный
ammunition - боеприпасы
wreath - венок
leaves much to be desired - оставляет желать лучшего
sharp points - острые концы
oil extraction - добыча нефти
ladder - лестница