Практическое занятие 7. Тема «Mood adjectives, weather, derivatives. Passive. Adjectives ending in –ing/ed.

1. Choose the best answer a, b, c or d, to each gap and complete the text below.

Helpful friends. Perhaps I shouldn’t laugh at other people’s luck, but I always find it (1)………funny when my friends of mine try to escape from gale force winds at home and (2)……….. at a freight airflow in (3)………… rain. As soon as they get back, they try very hard to show that they are in a grow (4)………. . They told me that although the place they went to had the wood (5) ………..for a century because of the rain, they enjoyed themselves. I listen to them carefully, trying not to laugh as they tell me that there were only cloudy skies instead of the (6)………… sunshine that they were expecting. Now don’t get me wrong. I am not jealous of my friends. In fact I am pleased that they go abroad. Their stories help me not to feel so (7)…………by the weather (8)……….for my area because I know that the wheatear is terrible in other places, too!

1 a too	b enough	c very	d such
2 a drop	b land	c stay	d down
3 a torrential	b a lot of	c wet	d strong
4 a character	b experience	c mood	d state
5 a floods	b thunder	c lightning	d rainfall
6 a sunny	b light	c bright	d clean
7 a cheerful	b nervous	c excited	d depressed
8 a predictions	b forecasts	c information	d details

B. Choose the correct form of the verb in each sentence.

1. Those satellite photographs showed/ were shown on television last night.

2. Did/ Were all the charts taken to the meteorological office?

3. The anemometer has been repairing / has been repaired so it is working properly now.

4. Our plane took of / was taken off just before midnight.

5. Areas of low pressure known/ are known to bring bad weather.

6. The telephone was rung/ rang just as she was leaving the office.

3. Complete the following sentences with the words below. There are TWO extra words which you do not need to use.

damp people public reflect repair rise strike sunshine

1. Members of the ……..often ring up to tell us that we’ve make a mistake.

2. Wear white clothes when it’s hot because they …….. sunlight.

3. They saw that lightning will never ……….twice in the same place.

4. Who will…….. the equipment that was damaged in last night’s storm.

5. Don’t still in the grass; it’s ………after the rain we had last night.

6. It will be warmer tomorrow because the temperature will……… .

Практическое занятие 8. Тема «Noun phrases, enough, too, very. Comparatives and superlatives. Adjective order».

1. Match the words of their meanings and than use some of the words to complete sentences which follow.

1. snack a. something burnt for heat or power

2. lead b. earth; material in which plants grow

3. fuel c. something eaten between meals

4. rubbish d. something which is made

5. soil e. a heavy silver-grey metal

6.product f. things that have been thrown away

7. The……….used in rockets is quite different from that used in cars.

8. I’ll be very surprised if these flowers grow in the……….. in your garden.

9. She’s not very hungry because she had a ……….. about an hour ago.

10. Dustmen collect the………. from outside our home every morning.

2. Circle the words that complete sentence b correctly so that it means the same as sentence a.

1. a. This river is less polluted than it was a decade ago.

b. A decade ago this river was cleaner/ dirtier than it is now.

2. a. Sometimes there are poisonous gases in the air and we put on our gas masks.

b. Sometimes the air is very/ too poisonous for us to breathe/ breathing without our gas masks.

3. a. We can make the environment more pleasant if we take positive action.

b. Our environment will be more good/ better if we take positive action.

4. a. I’ve never visited such a clean city before.

b. It’s the cleanest/ a cleaner city than all the others I’ve ever visited.

5. a. There’s nothing more annoying than seeing drivers throwing litter out of their cars.

b. The more/ most annoying thing is seeing drivers throwing litter out of their cars.

6. a. We need more laws to deal with the problems.

b. There aren’t too many/ enough laws to deal with the problem.

C. There is one extra word that is not needed in each of the following sentences. Cross out the extra word.

1. Luckily it wasn’t too much difficult to clean the beach.

2. These lakes are much more deeper than people think.

3. It’s the largest oil tanker than they have ever built in this country.

4. My cousin Peter knows the more about biology than anyone else in our family.

5. There is enough of radioactive material here to kill all the wildlife for miles.

6. This beach is very more polluted than it was last year.

7. The water was too dirty enough to swim in.