C. Exercises

Exercise 1. Образуйте множественное число от следующих существительных.

bed, classroom, friend, name, pencil, table, book, cat, desk, diplomat, hat, map,

student, day, pie, tie, factory, picture, teacher, shelf, child, woman, man, spoon

Exercise 2. Прочитайте следующие предложения и переведите их.

1. These are notebooks. These are thin notebooks. They’re thin. 2. Those are cups. Those are blue cups. They’re blue. 3. These are apples. These are green apples. They are green. 4. Those are pictures. Those are good pictures. They’re good. 5. These are shelves. These are brown shelves. They’re brown. 6. Those are coats. Those are grey coats. They’re grey.

Exercise 3. Измените предложения по следующему образцу.

This is a (thick) notebook.

These are (thick) notebooks.

l. This is a blue plate. 2. That’s match. 3. This is a brown shelf. 4. That’s glass. 5. This is a large factory. 6. That’s an easy text. 7. That’s a good textbook. 8. This is a grey hat. 9. That’s a blackboard. 10. That’s a spoon.

Exercise 4. Составьте общевопросительные предложения и ответьте на них по следующему образцу. Употребите слова, данные ниже.

Are those (blue) cups?

Yes, they are.

No, they aren’t.

a fork, a glass, a large classroom, a lamp, a brown hat,

a green wall, a white shelf, a large factory

Exercise 5. Скажите, что говорящий ошибается.

These coats are blue. (dark blue)

Oh no. They aren’t blue. They are dark blue.

1. These hats are grey. (black) 2. Those textbooks are new. (old) 3. These notebooks are thick. (thin) 4. Those matches are bad. (good) 5. Those shelves are yellow. (brown) 6. These maps are old. (new) 7. Those children are bad. (nice) 8. Those plates are green. (grey). 9. Those blackboards are yellow. (brown)

Exercise 6. Сделайте следующие предложения общевопросительными и дайте полные и краткие ответы на них.

His friends are students. (No)

Are his friends students? No, they aren’t. They aren’t students.

l. His friends are teachers. (Yes) 2. They are students. (No) 3. He is a teacher. (Yes) 4. She is a teacher. (No) 5. They are teachers. (No) 6. These men are teachers. (Yes) 7. Those women are teachers. (No)

Exercise 7. Сделайте следующие предложения общевопросительными и дайте полные и краткие ответы на них.

1. These pictures are nice. 2. Those books are old. 3. These maps are new. 4. These walls are dark green. 5. Those factories are large. 6. These cups are red. 7. Those hats are dark blue. 8. His children are nice.

Exercise 8. Составьте вопросы по следующему образцу, используя данные ниже слова.

What are these? These (they) are pencils.

What are those? Those (they) are pencils too.

cups, plates, knives, forks, pictures, desks, spoons, Shelves, matches

Exercise 9. Дайте полные и краткие ответы на следующие специальные вопросы. Употребите в ответах слова, данные в скобках.

1. What’s this? (a hat, a fork, a knife, a picture, a tie, a cat) 2. What are those? (knives, glasses, matches, coats, factories, ties, shelves) 3. Who’s he? (a student, a teacher) 4. Who are they? (students, teachers) 5. What’s his name? (Jim, Bill, Ben) 6. What colour’s the cup? (blue, dark blue, red, yellow, dark brown) 7. What colour’s his coat? (green, dark green, dark blue, grey, black, brown, dark brown) 8. What colour are the shelves? (white, brown, dark blue, green, grey, red). 9. How old is his son? (two, four, six, seven, nine, eleven, twelve) 10. How old are his sons? (2 and 5, 3 and 6, 4 and 8, 7 and 12) 11. What time is it? (2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12 o’clock)

Exercise 10. Задайте 12 специальных вопросов, начинающихся со слов what, who, what colour, what time, how old, и ответьте на них.