Self-Study

13. Cumulative review exercises

Directions: Some of the sentences in this test are correct. Some are incorrect. First, find the correct sentences, and mark them with a check (√). Then find the incorrect sentences, and correct them.

13.1. Nouns. Revise all the material concerning nouns.

1. The mathematics were her favourite subject at school.

2. She is a good economist.

3. She is such the clever girl!

4. A director wants to see you immediately.

5. The Washington is the capital of the USA.

6. Tuition at state universities has risen by hundreds of dollar.

7. The peace in the world is the goal of the United Nations.

8. Dam is a wall constructed across a valley to enclose an area in which water is

stored.

9. Light travels very quickly.

10. Even children in elementary school are assigned homeworks.

11. To staring at a computer screen for long periods of time can cause severe

eyestrain.

12. Art of colonial America was very functional, consisting mainly of useful

objects such as furniture and household utensils.

13. Toni’s family speaks the Japanese at home.

14. I would like to have my coffee with the milk.

15. Happiness means different things to different people.

16. The ptarmigan, like a large amount of Arctic animal, is white in winter and brown in summer.

13.2. PRONOUNS. Revise all the material concerning pronouns.

1. His dances well to who fortune pipes.

2. The bus leaves their at the corner.

3. Our fully rely on your helping us.

4. I never saw she in such a terrible state.

5. If his has any possibility to help you, he will do it.

6. Betty studied business, and after she graduated, her and her best friend Joy

opened a bookstore.

7. When Franklin Roosevelt became very ill, him wife began to take a more

active role in politics, and many people believed that her and the president

shared the responsibilities.

8. We know that in 1000 A.D. Leif Erickson landed on the North American

coast, and that he and his Norwegian companions were the first white men to

see the New World.

14. Read the text What is home?

(after Ernestine Schumann-Heink)

A roof to keep out the rain? Four walls to keep out the wind? Floors to keep out the cold?

Yes, but home is more than that. It’s the laugh of a baby, the song of a mother, the strength of a father. Warmth of living hearts, light from happy eyes, kindness, loyalty, comradeship.

Home is first school and first church for young ones, where they learn what is right, what is good and what is kind. Where they go for comfort when they are hurt or sick.

Where joy is shared and sorrow eased. Where fathers and mothers are respected and loved. Where children are wanted. Where the simplest food is good enough for kings because it is earned. Where money is not so important as loving kindness. Where even the teakettle sings from happiness.

That is home. Sweet home.

God bless it.

15. Tell the group what is a home for you?

16. Read and memorize the following proverbs and sayings

– East or West – home is best.

– There is no other place like home.

– Home, sweet home.

______________________________________________________LESSON 2

1. PHONETIC DRILL.

1.1. Mind the pronunciation of the following words with the italicized letters

	[:]	task, mask, pass, past, mast, fasten, vastly, forecast
a	[o:]	waltz, wall, walrus, walk warble, wardrobe, warrant, warm
	[o]	want, wander, waddle, wallaby, quality, quad, quantity
	[:]	marble, march, margin, market, far, cartridge

au

[o:]

Australia, authority, launch, laurel, autumn, August, automobile

but

gauge [geiʤ] laugh [lf] aunt [nt] mauve [mouv]