
- •Contents
- •Vocabulary 23
- •Vocabulary 42
- •Internet Activity 47
- •Vocabulary 82
- •Vocabulary 108
- •Internet Activity 119
- •Vocabulary 151
- •Vocabulary 182
- •Internet Activity 193
- •Unit 1 Great Britain: history and modern times
- •Part a Reading and Comprehension
- •TexT Great Britain
- •Structural patterns Articles with geographic names
- •Articles with proper nouns
- •Prepositions
- •There is/ there are
- •There is/ It is compared
- •Syntaxis of a simple sentence in English language
- •Revision
- •Vocabulary
- •Speaking
- •Listening
- •Text The Role of the uk in the Modern World
- •Vocabulary
- •Добро пожаловать в Великобританию
- •Speaking
- •Internet Activity
- •History and Religion
- •Unit 2 The climate in the British Isles. The weather in the uk Part a Reading and Comprehension Text 1 Climate
- •Text 2 The Environment
- •Structural patterns Articles with names of seasons.
- •Articles with names of the day and night.
- •Articles with uncountable nouns.
- •SImple sentences with a compound predicate
- •Verbs and expressions followed by the Gerund
- •Pronoun or determiner ‘other’
- •Paired conjunctions
- •Prepositions (time)
- •Revision
- •Vocabulary
- •Speaking
- •Listening
- •Part b Reading and Comprehension Text 3 Advancements in Forecasting
- •Vocabulary
- •The climate and the weather of the British Isles
- •Structural patterns Articles with geographic names
- •Articles with a special group of nouns
- •Names of nationalities
- •Degrees of comparison of adjectives
- •The Article with adjectives in the superlative degree
- •The Article with numerals
- •Simple impersonal sentences
- •Revision
- •Vocabulary
- •Speaking
- •In order to be well understood, follow the guidelines below:
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- •Listening
- •Part b Reading and Comprehension Text London – The city of Contrasts.
- •Vocabulary
- •Speaking
- •Internet Activity
- •History
Articles with proper nouns
No Article |
The definite article |
The indefinite article |
- personal names are used without any article the whole family the family, one
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- in the plural to indicate a family The Browns |
- to indicate a member of the family, one resembling somebody The boy is a Smith! |
- old, young, poor, little, tiny, honest Old Mr Jones |
- modified by adjectives the late Mr Jones |
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- modified by limiting attributes |
- modified by the adjective “certain” a certain George Reed |
- a personal name preceded by the title (MR, MRS, COLONEL, SIR) |
- foreign titles The Tsar Peter |
- indefinite He was married to a Miss Smith. |
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Nicknames William The Conqueror |
- personal names turn into common nouns when they denote things associated with the names of certain persons Every morning he drove out in an old Ford. |
Exercise 9. Read the sentences explain the use of articles. Translate the sentences from English into Russian
Little Jane was a lovely girl.
Doctor Watson was a friend of Sherlock Holms.
The Browns live in New York now.
Last year this film won an Oscar.
As far as I know John Black is a writer.
At that moment they were interrupted by the gentle Mrs. Harris.
Have you seen professor Nikolsky today?
What a Don Juan you are!!
A Barnett called you 2 hours ago.
Mr. Green is my boss now.
I'm going to have supper with the Harissons.
I bought a Macmillan 10 years ago.
Poor Sam lost his toy car.
Mr. March has been compelled to speak loudly.
The painter Turner is a very kind man.
The Smiths are our best friends.
I really don't know Jennifer Garner.
Yesterday I met Jilian Zero as I was going down the street.
Detective Miller said that he saw you yesterday there.
We expect the Morgans for dinner today.
Exercise 10. Complete the gaps with the definite article if needed.
When will _________ miss Marple come?
_________ Surgeon Barnand was the first in this sphere.
Are you talking about _________ writer Anton Chekhov?
_________ Bradleys are one of the oldest families in this state.
Music of _________ German composer Bach.
_________ dear Charlotte, how are you?
_________ Brown called you yesterday.
Museum in London has _________ Goya.
My brother drives only _________ Mercedes.
_________ Malikovs are good musicians.
My sister likes to read ___________ Dostoevsky.
Have you ever seen picture ___________ Mona Liza?
"Doctor Nilson?", she said," I don't know _________ doctor Nilson".
_________ Major Elephant and _________ lovely Betty arrived.
" It sounds good", remarked _________ polite Alice.
By the way, _________ Uncle asked me to call him immediately.
_________ Forrester wants to see you.
The fact is they disliked all _________ Demidovs.
You are not _________ Andrew Maccintoch I married.
There was also _________ Mr. Rafik, of whom I could say nothing.
His sister was married to _________ Mr. Brown.
He looked over the picture of _________ Rembrandt.
Exercise 11. Translate the sentences from Russian into English
Это уже был совсем не тот Стэнли, которого все знали.
О каком писателе Толстом ты говоришь?
Тебя просит к телефону некий Иванов.
Что это за картина? - мне кажется это Рубенс.
Сидоровы сейчас живут в Париже, но скоро собираются приехать обратно в Россию.
Полковник Эллиот был неподражаем в тот вечер.
Мне рассказывала бабушка, что старый Том, был в молодости моряком.
Ты слышала когда нибудь о докторе Харрисе? Говорят, он творит чудеса.
Мы отправляемся в путешествие на борту лайнера Queen Mary.
Из композиторов мне больше всего по душе конечно же Бетховен.
Если ты рожден Джонсоном, значит ты джентельмен, так говорили Джонсоны.
Академик Павлов - один из величайших ученых нашего времени.
Прекрасная Елена прибыла сегодня в отель Бристоль.
Бедный малыш уронил свой шарик и он лопнул.
Лорд Байрон писал замечательные стихи.
Мы смотрели фильм , который 5 лет назад завоевал Оскар.
Сегодня мы ужинаем с семейством Пэк.
Этот замок принадлежал семье герцогов Эдинбургских.
Когда мистер Хэй сказал , что болен, я очень удивился.
Сейчас здесь живет только Мэри.
У Берта сейчас БМВ, но он собирается покупать Лексус.
Император Соломон был очень мудрым правителем.
Великий пианист Лист, был и композитором и исполнителем своей музыки.
Вы читали "Фауста" Гете?
Дорогой Чарли, как ты там живешь без меня?
Моне отличался своей манерой письма.
Ты выглядишь как Цицерон.
Клеопатра была очень привлекательной женщиной в свое время.
Мне вчера звонила семья Блэков и просила приехать к ним в гости.
Робинзон Крузо провел длительное время на необитаемом острове.