II. Fill in the blanks with the articles “a/an”, “the” or “-”.

ON A DIET

First she gave up (1) ___ smoking,

Then she gave up (2) ___ gin,

Then she gave up (3) ___ chocolate cake,

She wanted to be thin.

Then she gave up (4) ___ breakfast,

Then she gave up (5) ___ lunch.

On (6) ___ lazy Sunday mornings

She even gave up (7) ___ brunch.

No matter what she gave up

Her skirts were very tight.

Cause she ate twelve cans of (8) ___ tuna fish

For (9) ___ dinner (10) ___ every night.

(0.1 point each = 1 point)

III. Do the morphological analysis of the verb-predicate (terminative/durative, stative/dynamic, transitive/intransitive, regular/irregular, synthetic/analytical, finite/non-finite, person, number, tense, aspect, voice, mood):

My aunt often talks to herself.

(0.1 point each = 1.2 point)

IV. Make sentences with the following adverb using the Present or the Past Indefinite:

1) usually, 2) yesterday, 3) when I was a child, 4) from time to time

(0.1 point each = 0.4 point)

V. Give 5 basic forms of the following verbs:

1) to become, 2) to open, 3) to do, 4) to decide, 5) to forget

(0.1 point each = 0.5 point)

VI. Make these sentences a) negative, b) interrogative ( put a general and a disjunctive question), c) emphatic:

1) I watch evening news every day.

2) Time heals all wounds.

(0.1 point each = 0.8 point)

VII. Use the Present Indefinite Tense.

AT A BARBER’S SHOP.

A man (1)(to enter) a barber’s shop with a boy of five or six years holding his hand. He (2)(to be) in a great hurry and he (3)(to ask) the barber to cut his hair first and later to cut the boy’s hair. “He can wait. I want you to cut my hair first,” he says.

The barber (4)(to do) as he is told and when he (5)(to finish) the man (6)(to get out) of the chair and the boy (7)(to take) his place. The man (8)(to excuse) himself and (9)(to say) that he is in a great hurry and that he will be back in a few minutes and will pay for them both. Then he (10)(to leave) and the barber (11)(to begin) to cut the boy’s hair. When he (12)(to finish) he (13)(to pick) the boy up and (14)(to place) him in a chair to wait. He (15)(to give) him a magazine to look at.

Half an hour (16)(to pass). An hour passes. At last the barber (17)(to tell) the child, “Don’t worry, your father will be back soon.” – “My father?” says the boy, “He (18)(not to be) my father. I was playing in the street and he was coming along and said ‘Come on with me, little boy. Let’s go into this barber’s shop together and have our hair cut.”

(0.1 point each = 1.8 point)

VIII. Use the Past Indefinite Tense.

BAD LUCK

I (1)(to oversleep) and (2)(to miss) my train,

(3)(to slip) on the pavement in a heavy rain,

(4)(to sprain) my leg, (5)(to skin) my knees,

(6)(to break) my glasses, (7)(to lose) my keys,

(8)(to get) stuck in the elevator,

It (9)(not to go),

(10)(to kick) it twice and (11)(to hurt) my toe.

(12)(to buy) a pen that (13)(not to write),

(14)(to take) it back and (15)(to have) a fight,

(16)(to crawl) into bed, (17)(cannot) take any more.

(0.1 point each = 1.7 point)

Year I

Semester II

Practical Grammar

Module Test 1 (4)

Variant 2

I. Fill in the blanks with the articles “a/an”, “the” or “-”.

A FORGETFUL TOURIST

(1)___ English tourist came to (2) ____ Paris. It was his first visit there. On (3) ___ same day he sent (4) ___ telegram to his wife who was in (5) ___ London. In (6) ___ telegram he told her (7) ___ address of (8) ___ hotel where he was going to stay. He also told her that he was quite well. As he was in (9) ___ Paris for (10) ___ first time he wanted to see (11) ___ places of interest. After (12) ___ dinner he went for (13) ___ walk and then decided to go to (14) ___ theatre to see (15) ___ new play. It was very late when (16) ___ play was over. It was (17) ___ time to go (18) ___ home. But at that moment he realized that he didn’t know how to get to (19) ___ hotel as he had forgotten (20) ___ address. (21) ___ Englishman was at (22) ___ loss and didn’t know what to do. Suddenly he remembered sending (23) ___ telegram to his wife in (24) ___ morning. So, late at (25) ___ night his wife got (26) ___ very strange telegram, “Please send me my address at once.”

(0.1 point each = 2.6 points)