humour
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A Forgetful Man
Find and underline ten mistakes (lexical and grammar) and write the wrong variant in the left and the correct variant in the right column of the table below the text.
Текст с ошибками
When he saw his wife off at the station, he returned home as he hadn't to be at the airport till 9.30. He hadn't to pack, for his wife already did that for him and his case was ready in the hall. He didn't have to check the door and windows neither for his wife always did that before she had left the house. All he had to be done was to decide whether or not to take his overcoat with him.
At the end he decided not t…
A Picky Poet
Write the appropriate ending to the story given below (use 60-90 words).
A certain poet had written a play, and arrangements were being made to perform it. Of course, the poet was asked to give his advice on the scenery, the lighting, and all the other things that help to make a play successful, and he proved to be a very difficult man to please, as he had his own very definite ideas of how each scene should look.
In one of the scenes in the play, it was necessary to produce the effect of a wonderful sunset, which the young lovers watched together before singing one of their great love songs. Th…
A Quarrel
family, picture-based, СПбГУ, СПбГУ финал 10–11, freestyle, olympic writing 2019/20, psychology, humour
Comment on the story in pictures.
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