Роберта, Питер и Филис были самыми обычными детьми. Однажды в их дверь постучали двое мужчин, и жизнь детей изменилась навсегда…
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Количество лексических единиц |
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Past simple tense |
They weren’t railway children at first. |
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Future tense with will |
‘Father will mend it,’ said Peter. |
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Present perfect tense |
‘Father has gone away, on business.’ |
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wish |
‘I wish we could move house every day.’ |
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Reported speech |
At that moment they didn’t know how important the station and the trains would become to them. |
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Future tense with going to |
‘I’m tired. I’m going to lie down for a while.’ |
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may for permission |
‘We’re so cold. May I light a fire, Mummy?’ |
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Past continuous tense |
But peter wasn’t listening. He was thinking. |
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may for possibility |
‘I think someone may be stealing my coal.’ |
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Past perfect tense |
The next morning, after they had waved to the old gentleman on the train and he had waved back, the children set off to the station. |
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Reported commands |
‘Tell Mrs Viney to make us all some soup.’ |
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Mixed conditionals |
If he has lost all our money, we promise that we will pay you when we grow up. ‘If we are going to save people on the train, we will have to think of something fast.’ If a signalman fell asleep there was no one to work the signals. |
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shall |
‘And now, I shall write a letter to the old gentleman to thank him.’ |
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Reported speech |
She knew that Father wasn’t dead and he wasn’t ill. |
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could for possibility |
There could be a train crash. |
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Present perfect continuous |
I’ve been trying to help him. |
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Vocabulary |
railways and trains, broken bones and doctors, spies and trials, the history of trains |
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