В предложениях There were two bulls… It was that time of year… мы имеем дело с конструкциями, в которых в качестве формального подлежащего используются местоимения there и it, сочетающиеся как со сказуемым с глаголом to be.

Проверьте, правильно ли вы используете эти конструкции в утвердительных и отрицательных предложениях (при необходимости см. грамматический комментарий; раздел 6).

6. Fill in the blanks:

1. How many bulls (was, were) _______ there on the farm?

2. (It, There) _______ was that time of year when bulls were pretty excited.

3. (It, There) _______ was the heifers that were lined up at the feed trough.

4. There (was, were) _______ a bull and some heifers there.

5. (There, It) _______ is one more important thing to remember.

6. (There, It) _______ was spring and the bulls were pretty excited.

7. (There, It) _______ was George who well remembered Sam's instructions about being polite.

7. Put the verbs in brackets into appropriate forms:

1. Two bulls (to want) _______ to satisfy all the local female population last year.

2. Sam (to go) _______ down to those heifers over there yesterday.

3. We (to wait) _______ until they're lined up at the feed trough.

4. We (to have) _______ our way with the ladies in a nice orderly fashion in five minutes.

5. Feeding time (just to come) _______. Line up!

6. Sam (to start) _______ at one end, and George started at the other.

7. We (to meet) _______ very soon. You'll have to wait a little.

8. Are you (to show) _______ respect to these ladies?

8. Find English equivalents to the Russian words in the scanword:

1. (p…) население, 2. (t…) кормушка, 3. (s…) удовлетворять, 4. (r…) расслабляться, 5. (f…) кормление, 6. (r..) уважение, 7. (f…) особь женского пола, 8. (е…) восклицать, 9. (а…) позволять, 10. (р…) молиться.

9. Render the joke.

A farmer got a good deal on a dozen pigs at an auction. When he got them home he realized they were all females so he talked to his neighbor to see if he could bring his girl pigs over to meet with his boy pigs so this man could get some babies. The neighbor agreed and so the farmer loaded the girl pigs in his truck to visit the neighbor's pigs.

That night he went back to pick them up and he asked his neighbor, «How will I know if they are going to have little pigs?» The neighbor said that they would start acting real different and that he could just tell. So next morning he went and checked his pigs and they were just acting normal so he took them back to the neighbor's again. Next morning same thing no change so he took them back.

Next morning he was sitting at the table and he said to his wife, «Honey, look out the window and see if the pigs are acting different.» She looked out the window and said, «Well, I don't know how different you mean but eleven of them are in the back of the truck and one is behind the wheel honking the horn!!!»

Study the words and expressions given below:

auction аукцион

to realize осознавать

to load грузить

truck грузовик

to check проверять

honey мед; зд. дорогая

wheel колесо; зд. рулевое колесо, баранка

to honk сигналить, гудеть

horn рог; зд. клаксон

to get a good deal on sth разг. совершить удачную покупку чего-л.

to get sth homeразг. привезти, доставить что-л. домой

to start acting real differentразг. начать вести себя действительно не так

next morningразг.the next morning

to be just acting normalразг. просто вести себя обычно

same thing no changeразг. то же самое и никаких изменений

neighbor's соседский (дом, ферма)

to look out the window