- •Table of contents
- •Part 1. Grammar
- •1.1. Infinitive
- •1.1.1. Infinitive as Subject
- •1.1.2. Infinitive as Predicate
- •1.1.3. Infinitive as Predicative
- •1.1.4. Infinitive as Part of Compound Verbal Modal Predicate
- •1.1.5. Infinitive as Part of Compound Verbal Aspect Predicate
- •1.1.6. Infinitive as Object
- •Part of Modal/Verbal Aspect Predicate and Object
- •1.1.8. Infinitive as Attribute
- •1.1.9. Infinitive as Adverbial Modifier
- •1.1.10. Infinitive as Parenthesis
- •1.1.11. Complex Object
- •1.1.14. Complex Subject
- •Complex Subject, Parenthesis; For-to-Infinitive and Revision
- •Excuses! excuses!
- •Lies, damn lies?
- •What does it come under?
- •Mind your skin!
- •1.3.The Adjective and the Adverb
- •The champ
- •Eager driver
- •Not a fast life!
- •Not a dog's dinner!!
- •A splash of colour
- •I'm quite certain about this.
- •I expected the book to be boring, but it was rather interesting.
- •I looked at the frightened child encouragingly. Alike – similar
- •Part 2. Analytical reading
- •2.1. Unit One. “Three Men in a Boat”
- •Jerome k. Jerome
- •Active Vocabulary from the text
- •Vocabulary Activities
- •Task 8. Fill in the gaps with one of the active words and expressions.
- •2.2. Unit Two. “Encountering directors”
- •Ingmar Bergman
- •Active vocabulary from the text
- •2.3. Unit Three. “To Sir, with Love”
- •Part 1.
- •Part 2.
Not a dog's dinner!!
________________________________________ (shoes leather Italian expensive handmade); these are my pride and joy. I own _______________ _____________ (old beautiful pair) – or I did until yesterday, when I discovered that one of the shoes was missing. I had left the shoes on my __________ (doorstep back) to do some gardening. My neighbour has ___________________ (dog friendly large) called Sam. When I saw that one of my shoes had disappeared, I knew that Sam had taken it. I can't say he behaved _________ (bad/badly). He just behaved like a dog. Leather looks _________ (good/well) and tastes (good/ well) too. I unwillingly gave Sam the __________________________ (remaining shoe Italian) and then followed him. I not only found ____________________ (Italian unchewed my shoe) but also a pile of things Sam had been borrowing, including my ____________________ (slippers wife's fur-lined red) which Sam had tried to have for dinner!
**TASK 9. Choose the right adverb in each sentence.
Farm workers have to work very hard/ hardly during the harvest. But they hard/ hardly earn enough money to pay their bills.
I got off first in the race but managed to come last/ latest/ lastly.
Last/lastly I'd like to thank all those who made my success possible.
We've been receiving a lot of junk mail later/ lately.
The postman brings my mail so late/lately I rarely see it before I go to work.
I'm sure the boss thinks very high/highly of you.
If you want to succeed, you should aim high/highly.
I don't think you were treated very just/justly.
I asked him not to go too near/nearly the edge of the platform, but he didn’t listen to me and fell oft the edge.
The boss was angry because the secretary arrived late/ lately.
I haven’t seen much of my best friend late/ lately.
Are we flying direct/ directly or via Vienna?
Mr. Stuart is direct/ directly responsible to the Managing Director.
As soon as I find out all the details, I’ll tell you direct/ directly.
The dancer leapt so high/ highly that the audience cried out with admiration.
I am surprised that he is so high/ highly thought of.
I like diving deep/ deeply.
You’ve got it all wrong/ wrongly!
The letter was wrong/ wrongly addressed.
Let’s meet at twelve sharp/ sharply.
The boy was sharp/ sharply reprimanded for being late for the class.
Mr. Grant got a dead/ deadly disease in Africa.
The little man hit the big man as hard/ hardly as he could.
Lady Charlotte travelled wide/ widely.
Don’t worry, we’ll be home short/ shortly.
These animals live deep/ deeply in the Amazon forest.
**TASK 10. Change the adjectives into adverbs or adverbial phrases. Follow the rule and the example.
Rule: In Modern English some adjectives like friendly, lovely, lonely, likely, ugly, deadly, lively, cowardly, silly, etc cannot be used as adverbs. Instead adverbial phrases are used.
Example: Meg is friendly girl. – She always acts in a friendly way.
That was a quick response. She responded quickly.
That was a cowardly thing to do You acted …
The music was very loud. The band played far too …
That was a silly thing to do You acted …
The orchestra gave a lively performance. They performed …
She's a stow runner. She runs …
The singers gave a bad performance. They performed …
She can't control her motherly feelings. Even though he's 40, she looks after him …
She's a lovely teacher. She handles young children …
She delivered a careful speech. She spoke …
He looks pale and sickly. He always greets me …
You don't have to be so unfriendly! You needn't look at me …
**TASK 11. Fill in the gaps with adjectives and adverbs from the box. Add the suffix -ly or make other changes where you need to.
beautiful best (2) careful cheap early far last
full hurried important last new past silly
quick rapid soon