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[kittydesade]

Pick the best Russian equivalent for the verbs in the sentences below.

1. Some students were watching videotapes all night. (смотрели) Others read their assignments for the next day. (читали)
2. Some students spent the hour eating lunch. (обедали)
3. "Did your parents manage to order the plane tickets yesterday?" (заказывали)
"Yes, they spent all morning ordering those tickets." (заказали)
4. "Did you manage to write your term paper?" (написали)
"Yes, but I wrote all night." (писала)
5. We spent four hours fixing dinner. (готовили)
6. We made a pizza for our guests. (приготовили)
7. I wrote emails all evening. (писала)
8. I wrote an email to my parents and sent it this morning. (написала)
9. Have you ever read War and Peace? (читала)
10. We read the assignment and feel prepared for class tomorrow. (прочитали)
11. My teacher advised me to take Russian history. (посоветовала)
12. My teacher advised me what courses to take. (советовал)

For each sentence, indicate whether the events occurred at the same time or one after the other.(Or we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive! Ahem.)

1. Мы поужинали, пошли в кино и посмотрели фильм. Consecutive.
2. Когда мы поужинали, мы пошли в кино. Consecutive.
3. Мы ужинали и смотрели фильм. Concurrent.
4. Когда мы ужинали, мы смотрели фильм. Concurrent
5. Гогда мы поужинали, мы посмотрели фильм. Consecutive.
6. Мы купили продукты, пошли домой и приготовили обед. Consecutive.
7. Когда мы купили продукты, мы пошли домой. Consecutive?
8. Когда мы покупали продукты, мы говорили о фильме. Concurrent.
9. Мы пили чай и слушали радио. Concurrent.
10. Мы сделали домашние задания и пошли на урок. Consecutive.


Aargh. I need to find some way to make that intuitive because I still feel like I'm switching around the aspects, and I can't tell whether or not I actually did or not. And after a while of going back and forth my brain just hurts. Practice, I suppose. slow, laborious practice.

Might not be around as much today, on account of I need to go over setting up and taking down for Maryland with people. I don't know how long that will take but I know I'll be away from the desk for a while. Oogh, the more I think about this the more I just want to hermit in my house. Stupid damn conventions. I mean, I should be fine as long as I remember my con-kit and don't freak out too much, and I've got hanging out with Mom a day or so before and a couple days after, but still ugh. This is not what I wanted to be doing for Beltane.

On the plus side? The writing groove is sort of back. And not the ridiculous shitton of words I've been racking up from playing with the new pup, just, writing in general. Managing a few different projects in my head even if I've developed much less enthusiasm for The Miracle and way more for Don't Dress Your Cat In An Apron. Yes, I really did call a fic that and yes, it refers to what you think it does. Probably. If you listened to the same records I did.

Need to finish getting Dragon*Con crap together. And figure out what day The Losers is going to happen, because apparently we have game on Saturday? I can't tell if we do or not, people have been ridiculous about letting us know whether or not they can make a regular damn game. Need to get organized, argh. So much crap to do, so little time. And half of that is probably writing and reading crap. I really, really need to get started on re-reading stuff for big bangs. The original shit I can do, no problem, especially now that I've gotten done with outlines. The fandom based stuff... bigger problem. Oogh. I guess, though, for now it's stick to the schedule and do it that way. And get to bed goddamn earlier!