Ex. 11. Answer the following questions using the corresponding mood forms in adverbial clauses of comparison.
1. What did you feel coming to Moscow after two years' absence? 2. In what manner was Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence when he saw his friends watching him? 3. What did you feel when you learnt that you had passed your entrance examinations successfully? 4. How did you enter the classroom for the first time as a teacher? 5. What did you feel when you read your first English book in the original? 6. What does a student feel before an examination? 7. In what manner does one behave when one comes to the skating-rink for the first time?

The New Year is the best day of the year for everyone. Since 1700 year by the Petr's 1st law, Russian people got a holiday as a national. This day people usually make a big family dinner. With lots of delicious food and friendly conversations. The New Year traditions may be different in different countries. It depends. But the very important part wating for the midnight is In common. In Russia million people start shouting and wishing a happy New Year to everyone right after the last chimes bell blows. We have an old tradition for that special moment. People believe that u have to write your best sincere dream on a small piece of paper and burn it. While the chimes bell blows u have to put a paper into a wine glass with any liquid and drink it fast. If you were able to do it before last blow your dream will come true next year. Happy New Year and Happy Christmas to everyone.

Christmas in modern Britain - is the most commercial holiday, which "feeds" sellers for the next year . Large stores , supermarkets and brands are starting to "bomb" consumer catalogs with lucrative offers and " superskidkami " since the end of September. And at the very beginning of the first autumn month on supermarket shelves can be found ready-made Christmas puddings ...
TV screens are full of bargains to buy this or that product or service for the holiday. With almost come more and more new suggestions and ideas to organize a celebration on the highest level , relax on the fashionable resort and so on. For all this fuss and excitement , many simply forget about the real "culprit" celebration - the baby Jesus and the appointment of the holiday : to celebrate and praise the birth of the Holy Child , who took care of all their sins and show the way to the immortality of the soul .
On Christmas Eve, crowds gather in Trafalgar Square , the main tree in England, where numerous local charities for children and adults with the singing of hymns . Roughly the same thing happens at Leicester Square , where the fun fair .
Residents and tourists can enjoy themselves in the carnivals and festivities in Coven Garden, exercise at the traditional Christmas swimming competition for the prize of Peter Pan , and then relax in the Hyde Park and the Serpentine pond .