Exercise 8. Put in the correct form of the verb

1. What languages..... you.....? (speak)

2. They............... my address. (not know)

3. Where..... your mother.....? (live)

4. What time..... you..... work? (start)

5. Lucy.............. on Friday afternoons. (not work)

6...... Cathy..... reading? (like)

7...... they..... German in Switzerland? (speak)

8. I watch football, I............. it. (not play)

9. Robert..... dancing and tennis. (like)

10. Alexandra..... the violin very well. (play)

Exercise 9. Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.

1. always – France – to go – we – spring – in.

2. stay – hotel – a – usually – we – in.

3. plane – sometimes – by – go – we.

4. sometimes – train – go – we – by.

5. children – with – never – our – us – come.

6. we – restaurant – go – a – often – evenings – Friday – to – on.

Exercise 10. Make the nouns plural.

1. woman 2. sheep

3. child 4. tooth

5. fish 6. deer

7. leaf 8. mouse

9. roof 10. wife

Exercise 11. Put into the plural:

1. A dog is an animal. 2. A potato is a vegetable. 3. A student is not always good. 4. A pencil is like a pen. 5. A fish can swim. 6. A cow gives milk. 7. An airport is a busy place.

8. A garden has a tree. 9. A mother is kind to a little child. 10. A girl likes a sweet. 11. A teacher is a man or a woman. 12. A dog hates a cat. 13. A cat eats meat. 14. A writer writes a book.

Exercise 12. Fill in the blanks with the plural form of the nouns from the list:

child deer

goose leaf

life mouth

sheep shelf

thief tooth

wife woman

1. The baby has got several new......

2. I need more..... for my books.

3. The Burtons have two..... – a boy and a girl.

4. The police are looking for three......

5. Some people say that cats have nine......

6. The Burtons have 50..... and 200..... on their farm.

7...... often eat..... off those trees.

8. The boys put candy in their......

Exercise 13. Translate from Russian into English.

1. Ты играешь в шахматы? – Нет.

2. Мы обычно работаем утром.

3. Твой брат проводит свой отпуск за границей хотя бы время от времени? – Да, часто.

4. Ты пропускаешь лекции по механике? – Иногда.

5. Вегетарианцы не едят мясо.

6. Королева читает «Таймс». А ты? – Я тоже читаю «Таймс».

7. Нэнси не смотрит телевизор утром.

8. Когда ты уходишь из дома? – Как правило, в 5.

9. Голландцы много путешествуют.

10. Пожарные гасят огонь и спасают людей.

11. Он зарабатывает собственные деньги и работает каждый день, кроме воскресенья.

SOME MORE PRACTICE

Task 1. Speech practice. Find someone in the group who:

1. reads a newspaper every day 2. can ride a bicycle 3. smokes 4. comes to the University by bus 5. watches TV every night 6. doesn’t have supper 7. prefers winter to summer 8. likes going to the disco

9. likes the same colour that you like 10. likes the same kind of drink that you like 11. likes the same kind of animal that you like 12. likes the same sport that you like 13. likes the same famous person that you like 14. likes the same kind of music that you like

Task 2. Finish the story

“A Story for Halloween”

October 31^st is Halloween the season for ghosts and witches. Some people in England have Halloween parties, and a popular activity is telling ghost stories, while eating hot chestnuts roasted in the fire. It’s a good idea to tell a chain-story. One person starts a story (he makes it up as he goes along). At a dramatic moment he (or she) stops and another person goes on. Again, when everything is getting very exciting, the story-teller stops and another person continues. You could be sitting round the fire all night!

Here is the beginning of a story, to start you off.

James Garrison lived alone in the country. Four times every year he came into town to do his shopping. One summer, he made a special visit to town. He needed money and he had some old pictures to sell. So, on August 5^th 1906, he came into town with his pictures and visited an art dealer. While the art dealer was looking at his pictures, Mr Garrison walked about the shop and looked at the pictures for sale. There were pictures everywhere – on the walls and in big piles on the floor. Mr Garrison started to look at a pile of pictures on the floor. There were pictures of people on the beach, of ships at sea, of mountains in Scotland and of families in their houses. At the bottom of the pile, there was a picture of a market place. In the market place there was a gallows. Under the gallows stood a thin, sad man and a hangman with a black mask. Several other people were around. One woman was crying.

When Mr Garrison saw this picture, he stopped and stared at it. “I know that picture”, he thought. ‘I know the man standing under the gallows. I know the market place and the other people. But how can I know them?’

The art dealer gave him £20 for his pictures. Mr Garrison showed him the picture of the man at the gallows.

“How much is this painting?” he asked.

“Oh, that’s £12,” said the art dealer. “It’s a good painting. But I don’t like it.”

Mr Garrison thought for a minute. He did not like the picture, either. He needed the £12, too. But he had to have the picture. He did not why.

“I’ll have it, please. It’s interesting,” he said.

Mr Garrison had lunch at a restaurant. After lunch, he did some more shopping. It was a warm day, and he did not want to go home yet. He decided to walk about the town for a while. He looked at his watch. It was 4 o’clock.

He left his shopping and the picture in a shop, and asked the shopkeeper to look after them for him.

“I’ll be back soon,” he said.

He walked into the centre of the town. It was not a big town. Soon, he was on the other side. The road led out into the countryside. Mr Garrison decided he would go on. After about an hour, he came to a little church. The churchyard was cool and green. There were trees growing inside the gates, and he wanted to go inside and rest. As he went in, he saw someone in the churchyard. It was a man sitting on the ground. He was working hard, with some tools. Mr Garrison walked up to him, and stood behind him. He was carving a name on a tombstone.

“Good evening,” said Mr Garrison.

The man looked up. His friend was friendly, but thin and sad. “Good evening,” said the thin man. “It’s been a lovely day!” Mr Garrison looked at the man’s face. It was the face of the man in the picture he had bought that morning – the man under the gallows.

“Can I look at your work?” asked Mr Garrison. “I see you are carving a tombstone. Who is it for?”

“I don’t know him,” said the thin man. “But here is his name.”

He pointed to the name on the tombstone. Mr Garrison looked at it closely.

He read:

IN MEMORY OF JAMES WHYTE GARRISON who died suddenly, August 1906.

James stared at the tombstone.

“But that’s my name,” he said.

Now, you finish the story!

Task 3. When do we use the Present Simple?

Eleanor Rigby

John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Ah, look at all the lonely people.

Ah, look at all the lonely people.

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church

Where a wedding has been,

Lives in a dream.

Waits at the window, wearing the face

That she keeps in a jar by the door,

Who is it for?

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

All the lonely people, where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie, writing the words of a sermon

That no-one will hear,

No-one comes near.

Look at him working, darning his socks in the night

When there’s nobody there,

What does he care?

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

All the lonely people, where do they all belong?

Ah, look at all the lonely people.

Ah, look at all the lonely people.

UNIT 3