18. He had a son ... former marriage.
19. The girls looked ... so much alike.
20. At fifty six she looked ... forty.
21. I made a date ... her... 7 o’clock.
Ex. 9. Make up questions to which the following sentences could be the answers.
1. They all call me Mr Know-all. (2 quest.)
2. Sure, you can call me Mary.
3. No, he is a bachelor. He is not the marrying sort.
4. Yes, the wedding was splendid.
5. No, he is not. He is my step-brother.
6. No, I don’t. My English is very poor.
7. Yes, they are. I can’t tell one brother from the other.
8. Yes, he is 6 years myjunior.
9. No, she is my stepmother, that’s why she looks so young.
10. No, they don’t. They have adopted the child.
11.1 was born on the 15-th of May, 1954 in London.
12. No, she is my grandmother.
13. No, I am not from Georgia. I come from Bulgaria, I am Bulgarian.
14. No, he died of an illness.
Text В
The Wedding
(abridged from “Penmarric” by Susan Howatch)
So Jeane>1 too began to wear an engagement ring. She was constantly talking about Helena’s>2 wedding in July and her own wedding in October.
Helena was busy enough as it was: wedding invitations were sent out, the reception at Polzillan>3 House was organized, the trousseati>4 was bought in London and the design for the bridesmaids’ dresses were chosen.
Since I [Philip] had no close friends of my own class I eventually had to ask Jan-Ives>5 to be the best man.
The night before the wedding Jan-Ives, William and all my friends from the mine joined me at the pub to cheer me up on my last evening as a bachelor, and the beer and cider flowed until there wasn’t a sober man in the house.
The wedding was set for two o’clock at Zillan. When Jan-Ives and I were ready the chauffeur drove us there in Penmarric car. The rector>6 appeared for a word with me; Peter Waymark, who was an usher>7 arrived with his wife. Other guests began to appear.
Jonas’s>8 sister Deborah>9, who was the youngest bridesmaid, was by that time at Polzillan House with Esmond, the page, and the two adult bridesmaids, Jeane and Charlotte>10.
My mother arrived, looking beautiful as usual, and set between Marianna and Elizabeth>11 [sisters] in the row behind me.
Two o’clock struck and the organ went on playing but at last there was a murmur of excitement by the porch and I knew that Helena had arrived.
The organ changed the key. We all stood up. All I can remember that she looked even more striking than usual, Jeane, Deborah and Helena’s friend Charlotte in long pale blue dresses, Esmond, proud and dignified in his page’s costume.
