Ex. 9. Insert the appropriate articles where necessary

1. … cover of … book attracts … attention of … children at once. 2. … head of the expedition was … man who had travelled a lot. 3. Every morning he would come to … top of … hill to drink in the beauty of … pastures of which he felt himself … owner. 4. He could not forget … face of … girl with … fine profile of … Greek statue. 5. Mr. Drum was … large man with … head full of grey hair, rather unkempt. 6. The earth shook with roar of … guns.

Ex. 10. Rewrite these sentences using nationality nouns to refer to “the people in general”.

1. The people from Portugal are very different from the people from Spain. 2. The people from America and the people from Russia understand each other better now. 3. The people from Germany and the people from Japan work very hard. 4. The people from Britain and the people from Sweden do a lot of foreign trade. 5. The people from Brazil speak Portuguese, bet the people from Mexico speak Spanish.

Ex. 11. Complete the sentences and the extract from a history book using the definite article with the following adjectives: blind, dead, disabled, homeless, injured, old, poor, rich, sick, strong, unemployed, weak, wealthy, young. The first sentence has been done for you.

A. Society, in those days, was divided into the rich and …. Life for … was easy. They could send their children to school and they could afford the best doctors. However, life for the vast majority was very different. There was little education for …, no free hospital treatment for … and no state pensions for …. …, who could not find jobs, were frequently regarded as lazy, and …, who had nowhere else to go, simply slept in the streets. It was not surprising, then, that only … survived. … rarely lived more than a few years.

B. 1. Braille is a system of reading and writing by touch for …. 2. In Britain there are a lot of devices to help … to lead normal life. 3. Many people were killed in the plane crash. The bodies of … were taken away. … were taken to hospital.