Exercise 2. Complete the sentences using a gerund. Model: Don’t discuss it. It’s not worth discussing.

1. I advise you to read this book. The book is worth... 2. Go and
see this film. The film is worth... 3. It doesn’t make any sense to wait
for him. It isn’t worth ... 4. The food isn’t fresh. The food isn’t worth...
5. Don’t wait for him. He won’t come. It isn’t worth ... . 6. «How did
you like his singing?» — «I enjoyed..!». 7. «Would you like to walk a
bit» — «No, it’s raining. I hate...». 8. «Did you laugh at it?» — «We
couldn’t help...». 9. «The salad is delicious, who made it? Jane?» —
«Yes, she is good at...». 10. «What did Howard say to joining them?»
— «He didn’t like the idea of...». 11. «Did he say anything before
leaving?» — «He left without...».

It is almost impossible to imagine our life without TV. It plays a great and a very important role in the life of modern man. There is practically no family that doesn't have a TV set. TV is one of the mass media kinds. Radio and newspapers tell us about different events but TV not only tells but also shows. TV has a lot of channels and everybody can watch the programs he likes. Our television suggests various programs: talk show and game show, news and sporting events, about animals and about foreign countries and so on. Soaps-lovers can watch their favorite films almost every day. TV shows us a lot of films of different countries: detective and melodrama, comedy and triller. As former I like to see adventure films, fantasy, comedies. My favorite sporting events programs are about volleyball, swimming, track-and-field athletics and gymnastic. I watch many programs with great interest. These programs are: a wild nature program, "Anshlag", some game shows and so on. There are a lot of films (most of them of foreign TV-companies) with a great number of corpses, with seas of blood now. It's not very good to my mind. I think that one of the aims of TV is to bring up TV-viewers, to cultivate love to our country, kindness and other positive features of character.

This new year we decided to celebrate at a party, in the country with friends. december 31 evening to collect gifts, loaded our firm salad "under a fur coat" and a cake "napoleon", dressed, sat in her old eight and drove off. they came in advance to help the hosts still have time to set the table. let's go, listen to christmas songs on the radio, the mood is festive. we left the city before giving another 70 kilometers, suddenly the machine makes some sounds "trrr-ni-ni" and stalls my husband is busy for a long time under the hood and in the end happily reports that the belt broke and the new year, we will meet on track .. but i do not know the first year of our eight, telephone tow truck is always at hand. tow truck arrives quickly, in just 40 minutes, the driver has not stopped, but the window screaming that he had a change of today is short, so it will carry us to where let's say, and much closer. lowly, go, repair shop, a man standing at the gate - closed, i shout something like "save-help, repair the car," the man doomed opens the gate. in the 15th minute of communication it turns out that the man - a classmate of her husband and lives on the street adjacent to the service. in the end, throw a repair machine and we go to visit. so in the new year miracles happen. we planned to celebrate the holiday with friends out of town, so did.  and in this vacation i studied chinese calligraphy. however, i do not have a calligrapher, as a lefty, and professional writing characters only his right hand, holding the brush is strictly perpindikulyarno paper and hand exactly parallel. happiness in chinese sounds like "fu". i wish everyone in the new year fu.