Task 2.Write present perfect sentences. Use for or since. 0. My grandparents/ live/ in their flat/ forty years.

My grandparents have lived in their flat for forty years.

1. We/not visit /an art gallery / four months.

2. She / do/ her homework/ 10 o’clock.

3. I/ know Alice/ we started going to the same school.

4. David/ play /the piano/ five years.

Evening came. It seems that the day's worries have ended, and now I allow myself a few minutes to spend by the TV. "Visit the new Eurospar store, all goods are two to three times cheaper than in regular stores ..." The exact words of advertising do not crash into the memory that is already tired for the day, but the meaning is the same as I wrote. And then the words of the announcer are reported on a loan, which can be issued in fifteen minutes, on the reduction of prices for ten, twenty, thirty percent for different goods in different stores. Advertising, colorful, bright, convincing, goes its own way, and I think: after all, the price in the store, and the promised loans, and the percentage reduction in prices - it's all money. Money money money…How often do we hear these words. And what is money? Do they rule everyone in the present world? I think about this issue and take in hand the only one, available in our home, the Explanatory Dictionary of S.I. Ozhegova. I find the right page, I read: "Money. 1.Metal and paper marks, which are a measure of value in the sale and purchase. 2. Capital, a means. "These definitions brought some clarity into my mind. People bought and sold from time immemorial, and therefore, money was used from time immemorial.Therefore, the relationship to money is ambiguous. I agree, without money, not to live with dignity, beautifully. We must be able to earn them, earn honestly and gradually translate into their dreams. After all, you can also be a wealthy, but an honest person. But in everything, it seems to me, it is necessary to know the measure, to be able to stop in time, remembering the very clever words of Jean Jacques Rousseau: "The money you have is an instrument of freedom; those behind whom you are chasing, is the master of slavery. "    And I want to finish my composition with the words of Detof: "Money does everything except people."

In fact, big ben is the largest of the six bells of westminster palace in london. but it has long been associated with the name of the clock tower, which in september 2012 was officially called “elizabeth tower”. the decision to rename the tower was made by the british parliament to mark the 60th anniversary of the reign of queen elizabeth ii. the tower was built in 1858. the project architect was augustus pugin. the height of the tower and spire is 96.3 m. the palace of westminster, and therefore the tower, is on the parliament square next to westminster abbey. on the opposite side of the palace there is the thames embankment. the clock tower is the largest four-sided clock mechanism in the world, and in addition, with the most accurate clocks. at the base of each of the four clock dials there is a latin inscription “domine salvam fac reginam nostram victoriam primam” (“god save our queen victoria i”). around the perimeter of the tower, on the left and on the right of the clock, there is another phrase in latin – “laus deo” (“glory to god” or “praise the lord”). there used to be a prison in big ben. the last prisoner of big ben was a fighter for women’s rights emmeline pankhurst. now, next to the parliament there is a monument to her.