Writing. Part 2. Домбровская И.В - 51 стр.

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        and, with a start, Matthew                  remembered that his plane was
        leaving in an hour and a half and that he hadn’t even packed.
  4.    As day dawned, the sea sparkled in the early morning sun. All along the
        coast, fishermen were returning from a hard night's fishing, while early
        swimmers were heading for the beach. It was going to be another
        beautiful day.
                                       Endings
  A.   After sixteen hours the doctors and nurses were still working frantically to
       care for the injured in the temporary hospital. Kathy had never felt so
       tired in her whole life. She paused from her work for a second to wonder
       if the plane crash was something her little village would ever recover
       from.
  B.   People everywhere stood stunned, looking at the wreckage. Beachfront
       houses had been completely destroyed by the tidal wave and cars
       overturned. It had truly been one of the worst days in the beach resort's
       history.
  C.   She sat there tired and depressed, quite beyond caring. How could so
       many things have gone wrong in one day? Suddenly she started to laugh
       Things were so bad that they were actually funny. She might not have got
       the job but at least she'd kept her sense of humour.
  D.   Matthew realised that he was the luckiest person alive. If he hadn't
       overslept, if he had been able to find a taxi, if he had arrived at the airport
       on time, he would have been on that tragic flight. As he watched reports
       of the crash on television, Matthew vowed never to travel anywhere by
       aeroplane again.

Exercise 2
Read the news report below and write a story based on it. Your story must
end with the words: “I was just so glad to be on dry land again.”

                           "Queen Katharine" Found
        The mystery of the missing ferry "Queen Katharine" was cleared up
yesterday as the boat was found adrift in the North Sea. The "Queen Katharine"
was reported missing 3 days ago after failing to arrive at the Norwegian port of
Stavanger. The ferry left Hull on Tuesday morning carrying over 1,000
passengers.
        By the time officials at the Norwegian port had reported the "Queen
Katharine" as missing, it was more than 4 hours late. Coastguards from both
England and Norway immediately started a search. By Wednesday morning
there were fears that the boat may have sunk in the high winds that hit the North
Sea on Tuesday evening.
        The search continued throughout Thursday until a French tanker radioed
that they had sighted a large boat adrift off the coast of Holland.
        As soon as they received the message the coastguard sped to the area and
the "Queen Katharine" was finally towed into a Dutch port at 3 am on Friday