Use prepositions or adverbs.

My girlfriend and I are fond … comedies. There was an interesting film …, so we decided to go … the movies … Saturday. We agreed to meet … the entrance … the cinema … a quarter … 6.

It was very cold and windy, as it often happens … winter. I was waiting … my girlfriend … a long time. … last I went inside and looked … the pictures … the famous actors … the walls. … 6 o’clock the film began but my girlfriend had not come. I remember that the film was … a bull-fighter. I was not interested … the plot… the film and soon got tired … it. Besides I was thinking … my girlfriend. “Why didn’t she come … time? Was she late … the show? Or has anything happened … her?” … these thoughts … my head I left the cinema.

The next day I stayed … bed because I was ill. … the evening I found … that my

girlfriend was ill too, for she had been waiting … me … the entrance … another cinema, which is … the street.

17. Read and retell the story:

There were two cinemas in the town. In one there was a film which had cost millions of dollars. The actors were handsome, the actresses beautiful. The film had won a prize for its use of colour. The songs were sung by some of the best known singers in the world. The cinema was nearly empty.

A few streets away in the other cinema there was a very different film. It was over fifty years old. It was black and white and there was no sound. The hero of the film was a tramp, whose hat and coat were too small. His trousers and shoes were too big. He was a little man with a funny walk. In his hand he carried a walking stick. The cinema was full. There were roars of laughter each time the little tramp escaped from a different situation. And when things went badly many cried.

I’m sure you have already recognized the “little tramp” - Charlie Chaplin. He has been making us laugh ever since his first film in 1914. The tramp is kind, always ready to help, dreaming of the girl that he secretly loves. All the time he has to struggle against those who are stronger and nastier – against a society which does not accept him. But nothing and nobody can keep him down – he always wins in the end.

Charlie Chaplin learned what it was to be small and poor in his early life. He was born in 1889 in a poor area of London. His parents were both stage actors. They separated and Charlie’s mother had to struggle hard to support him and his brother. Once her voice broke when she was singing and Charlie, who was five years old, had to take her place. He copied her songs so well that the audience threw money on the stage. This was the beginning. The real success only came when Charlie went to America to make films.

Today “the little fellow” is known all over the world. His old silent films are shown again and again in cinemas and on television.

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