THE FUNNY NOISE from: Dear Oséias up at the usual time - about 10 am a shower and it out of the way. The noise 1. Complete the gaps with an irregular verb in the past simple tense. Choose Irregular Verbs in the Past Simple Tense (gap-fill) be, break, buy, come, drive, eat, feel, find, get, give, go, have, hear, hold, know, let, lose, make, put, read, ring, run, say, sleep, take, think, tell, write Note: you will need to use some verbs more than once: I'm writing to tell you about something that happened yesterday. I breakfast. I a big bowl of cereal and some toast and watched TV for a while. Then I into the kitchen where I from behind the cooker. I, a funny noise. I my tool box and moved the cooker louder but I couldn't see anything. I my uncle to it that he ask his advice. He could be a gas leak. When I this I just panicked! I the phone down, outside, in my car and to the local police station. I them about my gas leak but the constable his patience with me. He that I should have phoned the gas company. He his report, then the gas company for me.

The most popular hobby of the Kazakh is gardening.

Most Kazakhstan people love gardens above all, and this is probably one reason why so many people prefer to live in houses rather than in flats.

In the suburbs you can see row after row of ordinary small houses. And each house is surrounded by lots of flowers.

Many people who have no gardens of their own have patches of land. They spend much leisure time working among their flowers, trees and vegetables.

The Kazakh take part in numerous flower-shows and vegetable shows with very good prizes. Such shows are very popular in Kazakhstan. To many gardeners the process of growing the plants and taking care of them seems more important than the pleasure of looking at the flowers or the prospect of eating vegetables. In many places a competitive gardener’s desire is to grow the biggest cabbages or leeks or carrots.

So this is the most favourite hobby of the Kazakh people.

Правило: артикль the не употребляется с: названиями штатов, городов, улиц, парков, площадей, большинства стран (за исключением The USA, The UK и ряда других), горных вершин (это важно, т.к. когда речь идет о горных цепях, например, об Альпах, the употребляется), островов, озер, континентов.
Артикль the употребляется: c названиями сторон света, морей, океанов, каналов, рек, (НО НЕ ОЗЕР!), названиями планет, пустынь.

1) California
2) Hyde Park
3) The Urals
4) the Adriatic Sea
5) Oxford Street
6) Rome
7) the Caucasus  
8) Wall Street
9) the Hague
10) Elbrus
11) the Netherlands
12) Madagascar
13) Lake Ontario
14) the English Channel
15) the Arctic Ocean
16) Old England
17) the Black Sea  
18) the USA
19) Niagara Falls
20) Everest
21) East Asia
22) the Sahara
23) the Panama Canal
24) the Kara-Kum
25) the Volga
26) the Crimea
27) the Mississippi
28) the Lake District
29) the Alps
30) Central America