II. Do this exercise together with your partner.
(a) Ask your partner to translate the following sentences. (Revise grammar on the "Complex Object" first.)
1. I want them to come here. 2. She wants us to work till 5. 3. He wishes her to help the boy. 4. We thought him to be working here. 5. She wanted you to ring her up. 6. The captain wanted the ship to be loaded here. 7. We expect the ship to be painted white.
(b) Ask your partner to put questions to the following statements using the model.
Model: They want (wanted) us to do it tomorrow.
When do (did) they want us to do it?
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1. She expects him to come here at 5. 2. He thought them to be at work on Saturday. 3. They wanted the ship to be loaded that night. 4. We want the rails to be stowed tomorrow. 5. The captain wished all the cargo to be discharged by 5 o'clock.
III. Listen to the short dialogues, repeat each sentence during the pauses and team the dialogues by heart:
"Do you want the rails to be stowed in Hold 1?"
"Well, it's up to you. You decide it. I've only suggested that." "All right. I'll see to that later on."
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"Have you received the instructions from your owners yet?" "No, not yet. We expect them to come any moment."
IV. Listen to each of the long dialogues again and retell briefly their contents from the point of view of: (a) one speaker, (b) the other speaker, (c) an onlooker.
Make your partner ask you about some details which you missed.
V. Write the dictation:
When we arrived at that port our agent was there to meet us. He said he had made arrangements for discharging at two berths. At the first berth we were to unload extraweights because there was a 50-ton crane there. Then we were to shift to the other berth to discharge general cargo. The agent had advised the port authorities and the receivers of the ship's arrival. He came aboard to fix up some details of discharging the cargo. He arranged a separate stevedore gang to work at each hold. He said they would work in two shifts, from 6 a.m. to midnight. A 10-ton crane would operate for each hold. He asked the captain if he had enough gear and appliances aboard for discharging. It was then agreed that he would provide
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the ship with some more wire nets and chain slings. The captain wanted a surveyor to be invited as he feared that some damage to the goods might have happened during the voyage. The agent said he would attend to that business at once. There was some freight to be collected on the Bills of Lading and he informed the captain that he had collected nearly all the money due to the ship. Finally the agent took all the notices of readiness which had been prepared and signed by the captain. He said he wanted them to be handed over by 3 p.m.