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When Mr Holland was a young man, he played a lot of football, and he had always been thin and very strong.
But then he worked in an office for many years, and he drove to work in a car, so when he was forty, he was fat and very soft, and he did not wish to get fatter and softer every year.
One day one of his friends said to him, "Would you like to be thinner, Fred?"
"Of course I would!" Mr Holland answered.
"Well," his friend said, "stop going to your office by car, and get a bicycle."
Mr Holland had not ridden a bicycle for many years.
"It's very hard to learn to ride a bicycle again at your age," his wife said.
But it was not too hard for Mr Holland to do.
He usually sat in his living room and read the newspaper in the evening, but he bought a bicycle for his birthday and practised riding that every evening instead.
He hoped that it would help him to get thinner, and he got a lot of pleasure from it.
He found little roads which were not really very narrow, but were too narrow for cars, and there he got away from the nasty noises of the city, which were becoming too much for him.
They were not really very loud, but they were too loud for Mr Holland.
Then he began to go to his office on his bicycle.
Sometimes all the cars stopped at a red light, and he went past them to the front, because his bicycle was narrow.
Then he was very happy.
Yesterday he stopped at a red light, and a man came up behind him on another bicycle.
He stopped too and said to Mr Holland, "Have the police taken your driving licence away too?"
=== Tenses
1. When Mr Holland was a young man, he played a lot of football, and he had always been thin and very strong. But then he worked in an office for many years, and he drove to work in a car, so when he was forty, he was fat and very soft, and he did not wish to get fatter and softer every year.
2. Mr Holland had not ridden a bicycle for many years.
3. He hoped that it would help him to get thinner, and he got a lot of pleasure from it.
Future in the Past
4. Have the police taken your driving licence away too?
Конфликтность: Правила общежития/конформизм - желания отдельного человека, проект похудания vs. вынужденный фитнес
Фактуальность: Состояние владения правами на управление здесь и сейчас
Императивность/коннотация: Расскажите, как вы лишились прав, признайте, что вы тоже нарушитель (и подтвердите т.о. мою внутреннюю правоту).
Модальность: Я жутко не доволен текущей ситуацией, полиция обнаглела совсем
Смехоточка: Каждый понимает ситуацию согласно своей шкале жизненных ценностей, своему целеопределению. Два человека = два мира.
=== Verbals
"Well," his friend said, "stop going to your office by car, and get a bicycle."
stop to go vs. stop going - разный смысл у глагола to stop с инфинитивом и герундием.
=== Modal verbs
Would you like to be thinner, Fred?
Of course I would!
Хотел бы ты? - Конечно хотел бы
=== Articles
But then he worked in an office for many years, and he drove to work in a car, so when he was forty, he was fat and very soft, and he did not wish to get fatter and softer every year.
vs. Then he began to go to his office on his bicycle.
He usually sat in his living room and read the newspaper in the evening, but he bought a bicycle for his birthday and practised riding that every evening instead.
? the newspapers - читал свою обычную газету
Sometimes all the cars stopped at a red light
? a red light - на любом светофоре?
=== Prepositions
"It's very hard to learn to ride a bicycle again at your age," his wife said.
Then he began to go to his office on his bicycle.
- in his car, in the taxi vs. + on the train, on the bus, on the plane, on a boat, on a ship, on my motorcycle, on my bike
see in vs. on (коллектор) and Русские предлоги направления/места в/на/к/у
Sometimes all the cars stopped at a red light
причинность
=== Phrasal verbs
Yesterday he stopped at a red light, and a man came up behind him on another bicycle.
see up vs. over
Have the police taken your driving licence away too?
=== Векторы
<- stop going to your office by car, and get a bicycle
<- Then he began to go to his office on his bicycle.
-> Yesterday he stopped at a red light, and a man came up behind him on another bicycle.
=== Speech patterns
He found little roads which were not really very narrow, but were too narrow for cars, and there he got away from the nasty noises of the city, which were becoming too much for him.
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