4 ACTIVATE Follow the steps in the writing guide. O WRITING
GUIDE
A TASK
Do a class survey about the future. Write a
report with the results.
B THINK AND PLAN
Look again at the Future survey on page 64.
Answer the questions as a class. Complete the
table and use the information in your report.
Results of the Future survey
Yes
No
Question 1...
Question 2 ...
C WRITE
Paragraph 1: Introduction
Topic and general opinion: question 1
Paragraph 2:
People in the future: questions 2–3
Paragraph 3:
Travel in the future: questions 4-6
D CHECK
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• singular and plural verbs
quantity expressions
nobody and everybody

The Russian people's attitude to life is largely governed by the climate. The Russian winter is known to (1) historians... as "General Winter" because of the (2) decisive ... part that low temperatures played in various attempt of (3) Western Europe to occupy Russia. The Russian climate can be summed up (4) briefly as : spring - wet: roads (5) impassable... from mud; summer - (6) unbearably ... hot: roads turned into dust tracks; autumn - wet: roads (7) impassable... from mud; winter (8) awfully ... cold: roads (9) impassable... from snow.

1.I played computer games yesterday. 2. I was playing computer games at five o'clock yesterday. ; 3. He was playing computer games from two till three yesterday. 4. We were playing computer games the whole evening yesterday. 5. What was Nick doing when you came to his place? 6. What were you doing when I rang you up? 7. I was not sleeping at nine o'clock yesterday. 8. What did he do yesterday? - He read a book. 9. What was he doing the whole evening yesterday?--He was reading a book. 10. Was she sleeping when you came home? 11. My brother did not play tennis yesterday. He played tennis the day be­fore yesterday. 12. My sister was not playing the pi­ano at four o'clock yesterday. She was playing the piano the whole evening. 13. When I came into the kitchen, mother was cooking. 14. She was cooking the whole day yesterday. 15. We washed the floor in our flat yesterday. 16. We were washing the floor in our flat from three till four yesterday. 17. Did you do your homework yesterday? 18. Were you doing your homework from eight till ten yesterday? 19. Why was she sleeping at seven o'clock yesterday? 20. He was sitting at the table the whole evening yesterday.