- •Spoken english
- •My biography
- •My family
- •The family album
- •Grammar
- •Grammar
- •Present Simple Tense
- •In questions:
- •Plural of Nouns
- •Grammar
- •1. Prepositions
- •The House of an Englishman
- •My working day
- •Anne's working day
- •Grammar
- •My studying at Izhevsk State Technical University
- •Grammar Past Simple/Present Perfect
- •Oxbridge life at college and university
- •Travelling / Holidays
- •2)Anna is asking a London passer-by how to get to the nearest police station
- •4) The tourist needs directions
- •1 Dialog
- •2 Dialog
- •3 Dialog
- •2. Listening exercises
- •3. Vocabulary activities
- •Idioms!
- •3. Vocabulary activities
- •4. Post-listening exercises
- •Grammar
- •"What is your favourite place on earth?"
- •Writing resume
- •Interview
- •3. Vocabulary activities
- •4. Post-listening exercises
- •Telephone talk
- •2. Listening exercises
- •3. Vocabulary activities
- •4. Post-listening exercises
- •2. Listening exercises
- •3. Vocabulary activities
- •4. Post-listening exercises
- •Grammar
- •Степени сравнения прилагательных
- •Страдательный залог
- •Present Simple (Indefinite)
- •Future Simple (Indefinite)
- •Present Continuous
- •Past Continuous
- •Future Continuous
- •Present Perfect
- •Past Perfect
- •Future Perfect
- •Причастие I
- •Формы причастия
- •Причастие II
- •Герундий. The Gerund
- •Инфинитив
- •Модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты
- •Can / could
- •To be able to
- •May / might
- •To be allowed to to be permitted to
- •To have (to)
- •Should, ought to, need
- •Согласование времен в главном и придаточном предложениях
- •Contents
Grammar
1. Prepositions
Ex.5 Use the suitable preposition where it is necessary:
in (6), with (5), from (2), on (6), of (4), at, by, under |
My sister got a very comfortable flat … last year. It is … the third floor … a new block … flats. I got a letter … my sister … several pictures … her flat. … one of the pictures you can see her family sitting … the table … the living-room. My sister is sitting … her husband and two sons. They are watching TV. It is … the corner … the window. There is a pian … the left … the table and a small table … a telephone … it … the right.
My sister is going to speak … me … the telephone tonight. You can see a lovely carpet … the middle … the room and some pictures … the wall … the piano. My sister's sons learn to play … the piano. Beside they are fond … reading books and have plenty … them … the bookcase and … the shelves.
Ex.6 Put prepositions or adverbs in the sentences:
Mr. Foster is a young man. He is married and has two children. He plays cricket and football … his local club and works … an office. He usually walks … his office. He has lunch … a small restaurant … his office.
Mr. Foster's office is not very large. There is a desk … it and some chairs. … the desk there is a shelf… books and … the center… the room there is a table. There is a vase … flowers on it. … the walls … his room there are some pictures and a map.
… his desk there is a box … which there are some old Roman coins; nobody uses them for money now. Mr. Foster collects them
Note!
Any – in negative and interrogative sentences;
No – deny all the statements.
Ex.7 Put some, any, no in the sentences:
1) I want to show you … pictures of houses. 2) There is … coffee at home. 3) Are there … bookshelves in your study-room? 4) There are … English students in our University. 5) Are there … newspapers on his desk? 6) Have you got … children? 7) Jane has … brothers or sisters. 8) Has he … French magazines at home? – Yes, he has …. 9) I have … friends in Britain. 10) We have … pets at home.
Ex.8 Choose the right variant:
1. I have |
some something somebody |
relatives in London. |
2. There is |
some something somebody |
at home. |
3. There is |
some something somebody |
interesting on TV tonight |
4. Is there |
any anything anybody |
on this desk? |
5. Have they |
any anything anybody |
chairs in the kitchen? |
6. Is there
|
any anything anybody |
in the bathroom? |
7. We have |
no nothing nobody |
friends in Paris. |
8. There is |
no nothing nobody |
in the fridge. |
9. There is |
no nothing nobody |
in the house. |
Ex.9 Use "much, many, little, few":
1. I am busy now. I have … time. 2. We know … English and American songs. 3. There is not … milk in the fridge. 4. There are … rooms in the house. 5. Does she read … ? 6. Are there … bedrooms in your house? 7. … people know Chinese. 8. … people learn English. 9. Nick has … English books but very … Russian books. 10. There is … light in that room, because there are … small windows in it. 11. She talks … , but does … . 12. Is there … or… furniture in your new flat?
Ex.10A. Match two parts of the sentences, describing the place where you study:
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in the vicinity* of Przhevalsky, Rizhskaya and Energetikov streets…
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* vicinity– соседство, окрестности, округа;
inclosevicinity– близко, по соседству;
in the vicinity of – поблизости.
Ex.11 Open the brackets and put the verb in the right tense. Reproduce the dialogues:
1. Ann: I say, Alice, … you (live) in a flat?
Alice: Yes, I do, but it … (be) my parents’ flat; I only have a room which is my own.
Ann: … (be) the flat large?
Alice: Rather. We … (have) three bedrooms, a sitting-room, a kitchen, a hall and a bathroom. My room is not very large, but very comfortable. There … (be) not much furniture in it. On the left there … (be) a sofa and a small table near it. At the window there is a desk. On the right there … (not, be) a dressing-table. Near it there is a wardrobe for my clothes.
2. Jack: Hello, Pete!
Pete: Nice to see you. Come in, please.
Jack: Oh, this … (be) a wonderful new flat!
Pete; Yes, it is, and so close to the center.
Jack: How many rooms … (be) there in your flat?
Pete: Come and see. This is the kitchen, the bathroom is on the right.
Jack: Oh, the kitchen … (be) so large! I like big kitchens.
Pete: And here is the dining-room. We … (have) little furniture here last month. But now we want … (buy) some armchairs, a sofa and some more things.
Jack: …(be) you on the phone? *
Pete: It's a pity, we … (be) yet… Let me introduce you to my wife.
Pete's wife: How do you do. I hope you … (enjoy) our house-warming party.
3.– Hello!
– Hello!
– I (look) for a room. … (be) you the landlady? **
– Yes, I … (be). Come in, please.
– I want a room for the summer.
– Yes, I have one vacant room at the end of the hall. Come with me if you want … (see) it.
– … (be) there any furniture?
– Yes, there … (be) everything you want: a sofa, two armchairs, a table, there is a carpet on the floor. … (want) you anything else?
– No, thank you. Where … (be) the bathroom?
– It … (be) on the second floor, upstairs, and the kitchen … (be) across the hall.
– Thank you. How much … (be) it? ***
– Five hundred dollars a month.
* У вас есть телефон?
** landlady– хозяйка дома
*** Сколько это стоит?
4. Students: Good evening, Mrs. Parker. We should like to see the room you lent.
Mrs. Parker: … (be) you the students of the University?
Students: Yes, we … (be). We … (look) for a flat with all modern conveniences.
Mrs. Parker: But where you (live) before?
Students: We (rent) a room in an old house which … (be pulled down). Now we temporarily live at our friends.
Mrs. Parker: Then go and see my room. There … (be) all necessary pieces of furniture in it. The room … (overlook) the city park and … (not be) far from the University.
Students: Your room … (be) really nice and comfortable. But what about bed linen and would you also allow to use the refrigerator and the TV set?
Mrs. Parker: Yes. That … (be included) in the rent which is quite reasonable. You … (be) to pay 1000 roubles each.
Students: It … (not, be) bad indeed. When can we move in?
Mrs. Parker: Any time you like. The room … (be) ready.
Ex.12 Learn the poem by heart:
"Little grey mouse,
Where is your house?"
"I can show you my flat
If you don't tell the cat.
My flat has no door,
I live under the floor.
I come out in the night
And go back when it's light."
Ex.13 Write a letter to your relatives or friends, using the model:
Dear Uncle,
I am glad to inform you that I live now in quite comfortable lodgings. My room is a bit small, rather dark and terribly cold, for my landlady requires extra pay for heating it. But I have to put up with it as I can't afford a better one. I even find my room nice and cozy. Though, to tell the truth, I can't call it quiet. Some good-for-nothing young people make an awful noise upstairs. Almost every evening they dance and sing and laugh at silly things. All of it greatly interferes with my studies. I spend my days in reading for the examinations. I need lots of money to buy books. I hate to ask you to send me an extra sum of money. I think it's a shame. I hate to trouble you. I hope the postman will lose my letter.
Sincerely, your nephew Mike.
Ex.14 Read the text and choose the best answer A, B or C for Sentences 1-10 given below. What are the differences between the flat of Russian and Englishman: