1. Прочитайте и переведите текст «Anybody» на русский язык.

Anybody

A young man wanted to propose to a girl, but each time he failed at the last moment. After thinking the matter over, he finally decided to telephone, which he did.

“Is that you, Mary?” he asked.

“Yes, it’s me” said the girl.

“Will you marry me, Mary, and marry me quick?”

“Yes, I will,” was the reply: “Who’s speaking?”

2. Поставьте следующие существительные во множественное число (обратите внимание на артикли: неопределенный артикль во множественном числе опускается, определенный артикль сохраняется).

A man, a pen, a desk, a boy, a woman, a glass, a tooth, a dog, a hat, a class, a hero, a box, a wife, a factory, a foot.

3. Определите степени сравнения прилагательных:

The highest degree, the oldest university, the most interesting innovation, the poorer boys, a more difficult subject, a more philosophical college, the largest university.

4. По суффиксу определите и отберите: 1) существительные, 2) прилагательные, 3) глаголы, 4) наречия:

Education, difference, collection, specialize, different, American, nearly, roughly, institution, expensive, addition, physical, intensive, special, conclusion, additional, academic, immediately, easy, employment, criticize

5. Составьте предложения по модели, употребив оборот there is / are.

Model: a tendency; to expand old universities; in Britain

There is a tendency to expand old universities in Britain.

1. nearly 1900 institutes of higher learning; in America

2. more than 40 universities; in Britain

3. numerous societies; in British universities

4. more than 150,000 students; at the Open University

При выполнении контрольной необходимо повторить следующие темы:

1.Множественное число существительных.

2. Степени сравнения прилагательных.

3. Сравнительные конструкции.

4. Обороты there is, there are

№17

1. Прочитайте и переведите текст на русский язык.

At a school examination the teacher handed out the question papers to all the children, looked at her watch and said that they were to finish their work in an hour. The children read the question papers and started writing the answers. At ten o’clock the teacher collected the papers and saw that one of the children hadn’t written anything and was still reading his question paper. “Is any question troubling you?” the teacher asked. “Not at all,” he answered, “it’s the answers that are troubling me.”

2. Поставьте следующие существительные во множественное число (обратите внимание на артикли: неопределенный артикль во множественном числе опускается, определенный артикль сохраняется).

A man, a pen, a desk, a boy, a woman, a glass, a tooth, a dog, a hat, a class, a hero, a box, a wife, a factory, a foot.

3. Определите степени сравнения прилагательных:

The highest degree, the oldest university, the most interesting innovation, the poorer boys, a more difficult subject, a more philosophical college, the largest university.