Ex. XXIV, p. 138

1. I can’t do anything (I can do nothing) for the present.

2. Nobody wants to eat anything.

3. Can I do anything for you?

4. May I come to see you (come to your place) on Sunday?

5. Thursday is the fifth day of the week.

6. My younger sister is ten (years olds, years of age) now.

7. I can’t speak English for the present. – Can’t you (Indeed, really)?

8. Good afternoon, Mr. White. What is it? – May I have a word with you (a talk with you), Mr. Sandford? – Yes, please.

9. What does this word mean (What is the meaning of this word)?

10. Must I sign anything? – Here you are. – Where do I sign? – Here, please.

11. Do many of our students work on the farm in autumn?

12. Can you play the grand piano?

13. Can (could) you give me something to read?

14. Who works (is working) in Room Four?

15. Find Page Five and read the text.

16. There is not any picture on Page Nine.

17. Is there anybody in your parent’s room?

18. My son knows many English poems by heart. – Does he?

19. Her daughter is already a schoolgirl. – Is she?

20. I can give you this book. – Can you?

21. Ann must come on Monday. – Must she?

22. Our studies are over in June.

23. Nobody in our family works on Saturday.

Lesson Eleven

Ex. VI, p. 147

slowly – more slowly – most slowly

fast – faster – fastest

hard – harder – hardest

badly – worse – worst

much – more – most

well – better – best

early – earlier – earliest

far – farther – farthest

near – nearer – nearest

often – more often – most often

late – later – latest

quietly – quieter – quietest

easily – easier – easiest

little – less – least

warmly – warmer – warmest

seriously – more seriously – most seriously

comfortably – more comfortably – most comfortably

quickly – quicker – quickest

Ex. VII a), p. 147

1. Alex is never late for his classes.

2. He usually has dinner at two o’clock.

3. I seldom go to bed before twelve o’clock.

4. I often speak Spanish to my mother.

5. He always works in the lab after his lessons.

6. Do you think that she is still ill?

7. I think she is already at home.

8. I sometimes see him in the library.

Ex. VIII, p. 148

1. I know the following traditional holidays in our country: the New Year, Mother’s Day, May Day, Easter, Day of Freedom of Russia, Victiry Day, Christmas, Teachers’ Day and some others.

2. We usually see in the New Year at home.

3. Yes, there is. There is a New Year tree at our place at that time.

4. The biggest and the most beautiful New-Year tree in Moscow can be seen in the Kremlin.

5. We celebrate Mother’s day on the eighth of March.

6. I usually give my mother a bunch of flowers and some present.

7. Victory Day is not only a traditional holiday in our country, it is also an international holiday.

8. On Victory Day we usually go to the war memorials and take flowers there or lay wreathes on the graves of soldiers.

9. In fact people in other countries celebrate Victory Day in the same way.

10. The traditional holiday of teachers in our country is Teachers’ Day.

11. My birthday is on the 21^st of July.

12. No, I don’t. I don’t always invite guests to my birthday party.

13. I don’t like this tradition.

14. No, I don’t. |I don’t put candles on my birhday cake because I think it superfluous.

Ex. IX, p. 148

1. larger 2. shorter 3. better 4. fewer 5. most beautiful 6. colder 7. more difficult 8. easier 9. farthest, quietest