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Time expression
Language Study
Ex. 19. Read the sentences paying attention to the underlined time expressions.
1. Last year, Russia made just four civilian aircraft. 2. Heathrow has been operating as an international airport since 1 January 1946. 3. Like all the great airports, it dates back only to the last days of the second Word War. 4. There will be a fifteen-minute rest stop at that time. 5. You can wine and dine throughout the early hours. 6. We are scheduled to arrive in Dallas at 1:45 this afternoon. 7. For your comfort as well as safety, seat belts must be fastened during take-off and landing. 8. Then again, for better or for worse, cruising today isn't what it used to be – not even five years ago. 9. Itthen becomes more difficult to target yourself to a segment, at a time when you’re growing rapidly and need to fill capacity. 10. A plan to rescue the sector, which was once the largest aircraft producers in the world, will be submitted in eight weeks. 11. Nowadays they can include activities as trucking in the Malaysian jungle, catching fish in the fjords, landing on a mighty glacier (= ледник) or clambering over the Greek mountains.
Ex. 20. Replace the underlined time expressions with more “approximate” time expression. Pay attention to Grammar. Listen and check.
e.g. This dictionary will be OK for the time being.
1. I went to the library a few days ago. 2. I haven’t been to a concert for a very long time. 3. I haven’t been to the country in the last few weeks. 4. I went to Egypt with my parents but that was a decade ago. 5. The pilot will have flown the plane not later than 9 in the morning. 6. After the time we get home this pizza will be cold. 7. The tradition of sea cruising began 100 years ago. 8. This dictionary will be OK for now.
Ex. 21. Complete the text with the prepositions of time. Listen and check.
There’s one bus from London which gets here ________ ten o’clock _______ the morning and then another which gets in ________ four o’clock _______ the afternoon. That’s ________ weekdays, but ________ the weekend the timetable is a bit different. _______ Saturday there are still two buses but the second one arrives _______ five thirty; ________ Sunday there is just the one bus _______ two o’clock. And ______ the winter, the service doesn’t run at all _______ Sundays.
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