Singular and Plural of the Noun

Exercise 35

Find excessive word in each line

1) children, men, women, feet, cheese, geese;

2) classes, boxes, buses, puppies, princesses, dishes;

3) babies, ladies, families, tomatoes, stories;

4) fish, salmon, deer, ships, sheep;

5) balls, dolls, elephants, glasses, pencils, pens.

Exercise 36

Make the plural form of the following nouns:

a child, the library, a tree, the ox, the costume, a bone, the dessert, a factory, the science, a dictionary, the wolf, the station, a pilot, a map, the city, a dolphin, the helicopter, the lorry, a sheep, the ship, the scissors, a bank, the calendar, a church, a leaf, a country, the potato, a goose, a woman, a dress.

Exercise 37

Make the plural form of the following nouns: a knife, a man, an address, a mouse, a watch, a child, the language, a sheep, a tooth, a sandwich, a foot, a box, a boat, an umbrella, a person, a country, the city, a fish, money, datum, a swine, a photo, a hero, a tomato, a cherry, a sea, a hand, a bench.

Exercise 38

Transform the sentences, using the plural forms of the nouns:

1. This boy has a ball. 2. This animal is wild. 3. Does this girl study well? 4. My brother has a map. 5. This map is on the wall. 6. That goose is fat. 7. Does your friend work at school? 8. There is a chair in my room. 9. Is this village very large? 10. His boot is large. 11. This pencil is in the box. 12. This woman is this man’s wife. 13. Is this a good disco? 14. That lady is our teacher. 15. This boy isn’t my son.

Exercise 39

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets

1. Many small ________(house) were destroyed. 2. It is autumn, and the ______ (leaf) are falling. 3. There were two important ________(news). 4. Why are there three ______(pyjamas)? 5. Several ______(child) got lost in the forest. 6. I’ve got only two ______ (luggage). 7. There four serious car _____ (crash) this weekend. 8. He can give you lots of important ______ (information). 9. Lots of _____(person) were unhappy about it. 10. How many _____(toast) do you want? 11. Let me give you a few ______(advice).12. He’s only five _____(month) old and he’ already got two ______(tooth).

Exercise 40

Complete the following sentences using these words:

scissors news suburbs trousers manners glasses

1. The _______ from Afghanistan is not very good. 2. If you want to cut your nails, you’ll find the ________ in that drawer. 3. John’s ________are not very good. He talks while his mouth is full of food. 4. In this school boys wear brown _______ .5. I should buy contact lenses. I keep breaking my ________. 6. If I had to work in London, I’d live out in the suburbs.

The Present Indefinite Tense

Exercise 41

Put the verbs in the third person singular

To box, to cry, to guess, to look, to play, to think, to seem, to wait, to work, to watch, to laugh, to kiss, to sleep, to miss, to live, to study, to go, to stop, to show, to give, to wash, to have, to dry, to fly, to dress, to drive.

Exercise 42

Open brackets, using Present Indefinite

1) He (to find out) many interesting facts. 2) We (to like) to solve ordinary crossword puzzles. 3)Tastes (to differ). 4) I (to graduate) from the University. 5) Oleg (to be) married. 6) My mother often (to work) overtime. 7) You (to have) a habit of helping your parents. 8) He (to introduce) himself. 9) I (to collect) CDs. 10) She (to study) at the industrial-economic college. She (to be) a student.

Exercise 43

Fill in do or does

1. I …not strong tea. 2. My brother … not clean his room every day. 3. These boys … not play basketball after classes. 4. We … not to go to the circus on Sunday. 5. Rita … not quarrel with her sister. 6. I know you … not like loud music. 7. She …not work at weekends. 8. Kate and Ben … not go to school by bus. 9. You … not write to your penfriend every week. 10. Helen … not study German at school.

Exercise 44

Make the following sentences negative and interrogative

1. My friend lives in London. 2. Her uncle speaks French badly. 3. It often snows in winter. 4. He is my best friend. 5. His parents get up early .6. They listen to the news every morning. 7. We usually spend our holidays in the country. 8. They are our relatives. 9. My sister wants to become a teacher. 10. Her child likes to read the fairy-tales.

Exercise 45

Make the following sentences negative and interrogative

1. Some hobbyists write music or play musical instruments. 2. People with a good deal of money collect paintings, rare books and other art objects. 3. My mother works as teacher at school. 4. He is a bread-maker in our family. 5. I have many friends. 6. Close friends usually have similar ideas and beliefs. 7. My friend does well at college. 8. She graduates from the University. 9. Some collections have no real value. 10. Some children run away from their homes.

Exercise 46

Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences

1. My kitten like to sleep on the sofa. 2. They goes to bed early on Sunday. 3. My elder brother plays computer games after classes. 4. Tigers likes meat. 5.My classmates often play football in summer. 6. My grandparents has a nice house in the village. 7. His uncle drive a taxi. 8. My friend has a clever big black dog. 9. He have two sisters and three brothers. 10. I not go to school on Sunday. 11. My brother doesn’t studies French. 12. His Granny don’t like computer games. 13. Their dogs doesn’t like cats. 14. My cat do not like fish. 15. They not understand me. 16. We don’t know this girl. 17. Denys doesn’t plays tennis every day. 18. My mother don’t like shopping. 19. Rabbits eats grass. 20. Rita not likes her new dress.

Exercise 47

Do the test

1. Almost everyone … something at some period in his life.

a. to collect b. collect c. collects

2. I … study at the industrial-economic college in Kovel.

a. study b. studies c. ctudyes

3. My best friend … here too.

a. studyes b. studies c. study

4. Teenagers … interests and values different from those of their parents.

a. develop b. to develop c. develops

5. Sometimes parents … … about their children.

a. doesn’t care b. don’t cares c. don’t care

6. … many world-famous collections … in a small way?

a. do start b. does start c. do starts

7. Very often my father … overtime.

a. work b. works c. works

8. … he … to play different computer games?

a. does like b. do like c. does likes

9. Many young people … a lot of problems.

a. faces b. face c. to face

10. We … to learn to talk our problems over in our family.

a. need b. needs c. to need

Exercise 48

Do the test

1. His elder brother … a taxi.

a. drive b. drives c. to drive

2. I … to college five times a week.

a. goes b. go c to go

3. Those girls always … so many questions.

a. ask b. to ask. C. asks

4. We … our teacher.

a to understands b. to understand c. understand

5. That puppy … a lot.

a. sleeps b. sleep c. to sleep

6. It often … in autumn.

a. rain b. rains c. to rain

7. Sometimes Grandpa …. computer games with me.

a. to play b. play c. plays

8. We … in Ukraine.

a. lives b. live c. to live

9. … she … English well?

a. do speak b. does speaks c. does speak

10. … they often … computer games?

a. do play b. do plays c. does play

11. … your parents … pop music?

a. does like b. do likes c. do like

12. … you … many books in your room?

a. do has b. do have c. does have

13. I … … that girl.

a. don’t know b. doesn’t know c. don’t knows

14. They … … chess in the evening.

a. don’t plays b. doesn’t play c. don’t play

15. He … play tennis.

a. isn’t b. don’t c. doesn’t

16. It … often snow in autumn.

a. isn’t b. don’t c. doesn’t

17. When … your mother usually …up?

a. does get b. does gets c. do get

18. What … his brother … in the evenings?

a. do do b. does do c. does does

19. How often … Rita go to the zoo?

a. is b. do c. does

20. What Ukrainian writer … you like?

Exercise 49

Translate sentences into English

1) Він отримує насолоду від навчання. 2) Мої дідусь та бабуся на пенсії. 3) Ці діти часто грають комп’ютерні ігри. 4) Олег має багато захоплень. Він полюбляє грати у теніс та читати детективи. 5) Його тато розмістив свою колекцію у нашому музеї. 6) Олена закінчує університет. Вона бухгалтер за фахом. 7) Розв’язуючи кросворди ти тренуєш свій розум. 8) Ці жінки працюють у коледжі. 9) Я дізнаюся захоплюючі факти про наукові досягнення. 10) Він не годувальник своєї родини.

Exercise 50

Translate sentences into English

1. Мій старший брат часто грає у футбол. 2. Моя молодша сестра ніколи не грає у футбол. 3. Мама ніколи не грає зі мною у комп’ютерні ігри. 4. Її дядько живе в Україні. 5. У мого одногрупника є розумний великий пес. 6. Зазвичай мої батьки дивляться телевізор увечері. 7. Мої друзі часто слухають сучасну музику. 8. Моя бабуся не любить гучну музику. 9. Віктор не прибирає свою кімнату вранці. 10. Я не розумію вас. 11. Наш учитель не любить ледачих студентів.12. Тобі подобається читати книги? 13 . Аліса допомагає мамі по господарству? 14. Віктор учить нові слова щодня? 15. У нас не має цікавих захоплень.