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One day in early summer the weather for the garden party is ideal. The gardener is preparing the large garden for this event in the afternoon. Even the bushes shine in full green and hundreds of roses have come out overnight, the only flowers that everybody knows.

Questions on the text. Tick the correct answer.

1. When is the weather ideal for a garden party?

a. in spring

b. in summer

c. in autumn

d. in June or July

2. The only flowers everybody seems to know are _____________.

a. lawns

b. roses

c. green leaves

d. bushes

3. “They” (l.5) are ______ .

a. the workmen

b. mother and the gardener

c. Laura and the gardener

d. mother and her daughters

4. Laura tells the workmen ______ .

a. to cut the lawn

b. to finish breakfast

c. to put up the tent for the garden party

d. to carry the staves

5. Laura likes one of the workmen and so she ______ .

a. starts talking to him and is no longer afraid

b. begins to laugh

c. gives him her bread and butter

d. loses courage

Give the past tense forms of these irregular words.

infinitive	past tense form
6. to be
7. to shine
8. to come
9. to know
10. to have breakfast
11. to tell
12. to leave
13. to put up
14. to do
15. to eat
16. to feel
17. to lose