2. The Use of the Articles with the Names of the places and organizations

   		Определенный артикль the	Нет артикля
   исторические события		the French Revolution,
   названия политических и общественных организаций	the Senate, the Houses of parliament, the United Nations, the police, the Government			NATO, Parliament, Congress
   общественные и исторические здания, церкви	The Bank of England, The Winter Palace, The Tower of London			Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Buckingham Palace
   документы	the Constitution
   политические партии	the Labor Party, the Tory
   газеты и журналы	the Times, the Washington Post			Pravda, Der Spiegel
   сеть магазинов, компании				General Motors, Sony, Shell
   корабли, поезда, космические корабли	the Titanic, the Orient Express			Apollo, Challenger
   театры, кинотеатры	The Globe, the Bolshoy, the Odeon, the Arbat			Her Majesty’s
   музеи	The British Meseum, the Hermitage, the Tate Gallery
   парки				Hyde Park, St. James’s Park
   школы, колледжи, университеты	The University of London			Carnegy College, London University, Manchester Grammar School
   гостиницы, рестораны	The Hilton, the Cage Royal			Leoni’s, Brown’s
   станции, аэропорты				Heathrow, Sheremetyevo
   названия стран, штатов, улиц				Yorkshire, Texas, Oxford, High Street

3. Some Peculiarities of the Article Usage

	No article	The	a	Set expressions
Months, days	May is a spring month.	We’ll always remember the May of 1945.	A cold May is a usual thing in St.Petersburg.
Seasons	I like winter. It was early spring.	It happened in the spring of 1930.	It was a beautiful spring.
Day, night, morning, evening, afternoon	Day is meant for work, night for sleep.	The night was warm and beautiful.	I spent a sleepless night.	By day/ by night; At night/ at dawn/ daybreak/ sunrise/ sunset/ noon/ night; From morning till night; In the morning/ evening/afternoon;
Languages	She knows English well.	The English of America differs from the English of Great Britain.		What is the English for …?
Meals (lunch/dinner/ tea)	Did you have dinner?	The dinner we had today was very tasty.	After a heavy breakfast we started for …	To have breakfast/dinner/ supper

	No article	According to the rule
School/ college/ university	To be at school/college/university To go to school/college/university To leave school/college	To go to the school To leave the school (the building is meant )
Church	In church/ at church	The church was built in … There is a church in the city.
Prison/ jail	To be in prison To be sent to prison To be put in prison	Ken went to the prison to visit his brother.
Bed	To go to bed/ to be in bed/ to stay in bed/	Her portrait was on the wall beside the bed. There is a bed…
Work	To go to work/ to be at work/ to start work	I like the work I’m doing.
Home	To go home/ to come home/ to be at home/ to stay at home/ to feel at home	An orphans home/ a nursing home/ a maternity home
Town	To town/ in town	I was to go to the town I was born in.
Hospital	To go to hospital/ to be in hospital	When Ann was ill we went to the hospital to visit her.

R ead a picture story. Explain the usage of the articles.

1. It happened in a small town in Siberia. .

2. I watched a car as it came up our road. The car stopped outside our house and a man got out. The man …

3. He was a doctor.

4. A child can understand it.

5. He had hardly spoken a word as we left the house.

6. He said: ‘I’ll be back in a minute. My car makes 120 km an hour. I need some books. I go to the library twice a week.

7. W hat a clever man!

8. My friend, a history teacher, knows a lot but he doesn’t visit the library so often.

9. He is such a clever man.

10. He knows everything about measles, mumps, shingles, blood pressure, flu, gout, hepatitis.

1. H ow did you like the play?