Exercises after the text

1. Answer the following questions

1. What are the English famous for?

2. Why are the English always talking about the weather?

3. What is the best tune of the year in England? Why?

4. Why is England such a green country?

5. What is the autumn like in England?

6. How do the English spend their short English summer?

7. What is the winter like in England?

2. Find in the text English equivalents for the following Russian words and phrases. Group them according to subject matter; пора хорошей погоды; славиться чем-либо; ехать на взморье; дрожать от холода; красивые газоны; ясное голубое небо; два дня подряд; идет дождь круглый год; короткое английское лето; плотный белый туман; в середине дня; какой ужасный день; в Уэльсе теплее, чем где-либо в Англии; с зажженными фарами.

3. Arrange the points in logical order to be able to reproduce the original text using the given words and phrases as key words.

1. To work out of doors, one day it rains, the next day it may be sunny;

2. The short English summer, to bathe in the sea, to dig in the sand, to go to the seaside;

3. The English are always talking about their weather, two days running;

4. To wake up in the morning, to see something through the window, to get up, to put shy. On, to go to work;

5. Sometimes England has no snow at all even in the winter, along frost, to skate on the rivers and pools, the east wind blows in from the North Sea, to shiver, to be lucky,

6. The best time of the year, the cold winds and the heavy rains have all gone, long rich grass, beautiful lawns, clear blue skies;

7. Foggy weather, to roll in from the sea, a mixture between smoke and fog, to crawl along slowly, to blow a horn.

4. Find in the text the adjectives in different degrees of comparison, write them down and translate them in Russian.

5. Indicate from the text all the nouns in plural form, translate them in Russian and make the singular form of these nouns.

The 2nd variant

1. Arrange the words into four groups according to the rules of reading.

save bones fly

drum game joke

job corn desire

horse pare form

gift sort hare

2. Indicate how the letter g is pronounced in the words:

a) [g] b) [dg]

religion engineer

geography giant

bridge oxygen

beggar guard

gear bargain

figure gypsy

hamburger regulator

3. Arrange the words into two groups:

a) the words that begin with prefix;

b) the words that end with suffix

remove government

midnight slowly

porter duckling

lioness wildly

honourable nonsense

4. Plural forms. Which 10 words in the list below have mistakes (including spelling mistakes):

knives shelfs roofs hives

tomatos pianos carrots potatoes

videos loafs thiefs handkerchieves

leafs deers postmans woman-doctors

heroes safe oxes mothers-in-law

5. Translate into Russian, pay attention to the construction there + be.

1. There is no smoke without fire.

2. There is some coffee in the coffee-pot.

3. There wasn’t any cheese on the plate.

4. Are there any pupils in the yard?

5. There will be many exams next term.

6. Is there any sugar in the cup?