Grammar revision
Exercise 57 Open the brackets, using verbs in the Simple or Continuous Tense.
1. Where your brother (work)? – He (work) at an institute. 2. Your grandmother (sleep) when you (come) home yesterday? 3. What your brother (do) tomorrow? 4. Where Kate (go) when you (meet) her yesterday. 5. Look at these children: they (skate) very well. 6. You (skate) last Sunday? – Yes, we (skate) the whole day. 7. What you (do) at three o’clock yesterday? – I (have) dinner. 8. When the boss (come) tomorrow? 9. Kate (not write) letters every day. 10. A disco, which (take) place at the club last weekend, (keep) people awake half the night.
Exercise 58 Fill in the gaps with necessary pronouns.
1. … lives in Kharkiv. 2. ‘Does … sometimes meet his friends at the office?’ – ‘Yes, …does.’ 3. … always speaks English at her English lessons. 4. Take this book and read … at home. 5. These are very good exercises. Do … at home, please. 6. My sister knows English very well. I often do my homework with …. 7. Read these words and learn … by heart. 8. We know this girl. She works with … 9. I don’t see … Where is he? 10. I like this book very much. … is … favourite one.
Exercise 59 Complete the sentences using myself / yourself etc. and the verbs:
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Model: Tom cut himself while he was shaving this morning.
1. Be careful! That pan is very hot. Don’t ... 2. They couldn’t get back into the house. They had ... out. 3. It isn’t her fault. She really couldn’t ... 4. The boy was lucky when he fell down the stairs. He didn’t ... 5. I’m trying to ... Spanish but I’m not making much progress. 6. He spends most of his time alone, so it’s not surprising that he ... 7. Don’t worry about us. We can ... .
Exercise 60 Complete the sentences with modal verbs (more than one answer may be possible).
1. … I use your phone? 2. … you lend me a pen? 3. She has very good clothes. She … have a lot of money. 4. She doesn’t answer the phone. She … be at home. 5. People … smile more often. 6. One day, people … go to the moon on holiday. 7. Cara wants to be a doctor. She … study hard. 8. ‘Do I look all right?’ ‘You … get a haircut.’ 9. What … I do to get a visa? 10. The sign says we … smoke here.
Exercise 61 Choose a comparative or a superlative.
1. ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ is (beautiful) of all Mozart’s operas. 2. My new car is (fast) than my old one. 3. My mother and her sisters are all (short) than their children. 4. I think Annie is (intelligent) person in our class. 5. Let’s meet in the library – it’s (quiet) than all the other rooms. 6. My bedroom is (cold) room in the house. 7. A 3-year-old’s voice is (loud) that 200 people in a busy restaurant. 8. Brazil is (big) South American country.
Enjoy yourself
Which is the correct word in these sentences?
I have to do /make an exam tomorrow.
I’m sorry. I’ve done / made a mistake.
We should say do an exam and make a mistake and not vice versa. Words which often go together (like do+an exam, and make+mistake) are called collocations.
a) Match the verbs (A) and nouns (B) that usually go together.
A: do, draw, fall, go, have, lose, save, tell, watch
B: weight, on holiday, money, a story, your homework, TV, pictures, in love, a good time
b) Use your expressions in the appropriate form in the following sentences:
1. Why haven’t you … homework? 2. She … in love with him the moment she saw him. 3. If you hadn’t … so much TV, your eyes wouldn’t be hurting now. 4. You look fabulous! Have you … weight? 5. ‘Where is Eva?’ ‘She has … on holiday.’ 6. The children love … pictures. 7. I wish he wouldn’t … the same stories over and over again. 8. Did you … a good time at the party? 9. We need to keep more money if we want to buy a car.
U N I T 5
Grammar: Sequence of Tenses. Indirect Speech
Pronouns Some, Any, No and their Derivatives
Expressions of Quantity
Text: Railway Construction: Tunnels and Bridges
Supplementary text A: Various Types of Passenger Stock
Supplementary text B: Freight Cars and Containers
Word Building: trans-, inter-, re-, under-, sub-; -ary, -ar, -ish; -dom, -hood