Exercises

1. Fill in the pronouns.

______ life in Brobdingnag was happy enough, but as ____ was so very small, _____ sometimes had funny adventures. Glumdalclitch often carried _____ to the palace garden for a walk. One day _____ put _____ on the grass, as _____ asked ____ , and went to another part of the garden with _____ other friends. While ____ was absent, a small white dog which belonged to the gardener, approached ____. ____ picked _____ up in ____ mouth and ran straight to ____ mas­ter.

2. Complete the sentences.

Luckily, the dog _____ me between his _____ so gently, that I was not _____ at all. My clothes were not _____ torn. The poor ________, who knew me ______, was in a _______ fright. He took me in both his ______ and asked me how I _______, but I was so ____________ that I could not say a word. In a few __________ I came to myself, and he _________ me safe to my little ______.

3. Start the sentences.

______________________________ or not that the smaller birds were not afraid of me. ______________________________ birds, it bravely turned against me, ready to fight. _____________________________________ miles long and from three to five thousand miles wide.

4. Match parts of the sentences.

They hopped about	them correct their maps.
Now I shall describe the country	America by mountains thirty miles high.
It is joined to the north­western parts of	of the giants as far as I travelled in it.
I shall be ready to help	looked for food and paid no attention to me.

5. Say true or false.

Once a sparrow seized a piece of cake out of my hand and ate it.
The next day I had a bird for dinner by the queen’s command.
The whole country has a single seaport.
The fish in the sea are of the same size as the fish in Europe, so people catch them.

6. Open the brackets.

But one day I (to take) ____________ a thick stick and (to through) ________ it with all my strength at a little bird so luckily, that I (to knock) __________ it down. I (to seize) _______________ the bird by the neck with both my hands and (to run) ___________ with it to my nurse. There (to be) __________ many volcanoes on the top of these mountains, so nobody can pass, over them, and nobody (to know) _________ what kind of people (to live) ____________ on the other side of the mountains. On the other three sides the peninsula (to surround) _________________ by the ocean.

7. Correct the sentences.

I think our geographers in Europe make a great mistake when they thing that there is nothing but see between Japan and California.
There are very much sharp rocks all along the coast, and the sea are always so rough, that it is impossible to leave the shore.
But there are many sheeps on the large rivers, which is full of good fish.