- •The verb - to be -
- •Write short answer for these questions:
- •Now ask and answer the questions:
- •Ask the alternative questions and answer them:
- •Write questions with What/Who/How/Where/Why? Use am/is/are.
- •Complete the questions:
- •Translate the sentences.
- •Pronouns (Местоимения)
- •Fill in the correct personal pronouns.
- •II Put in the right (appropriate) possessive pronouns.
- •III Choose the right word.
- •IV Fill in the blanks with appropriate possessive pronouns.
- •V Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- •VI Fill in this/that/these/those.
- •VII Translate into English.
- •Countable and Uncountable Nouns
- •Exercises
- •Cross out the incorrect alternative in the following sentences:
- •Complete the sentences using one of the following words. Sometimes the word needs to be plural (-s).
- •Translate the sentences.
- •Nouns (Singular and Plural)
- •Give the plural of the following nouns.
- •Translate the sentences:
- •Articles
- •Неопределённый артикль (The Indefinite Article)
- •Определённый артикль (The Definite Article)
- •Отсутствие артикля (Zero Article)
- •Exercises:
- •III Complete these sentences. Use the words in the list. Use the if necessary.
- •IV Look at the underlined words in these sentences. Which is right (the or the)?
- •V Put in the where necessary. If the sentence is correct, write ‘okay’.
- •VI Translate the sentences.
- •There is/are
- •A) Complete the text with an appropriate forms of the verb to be (is, isn’t, are, aren’t).
- •A) Circle the best answer.
- •Describe your bedroom (room) using there is/are and words from the books.
- •Complete the sentences with there is/there are (not).
- •Underline the correct form of there is/there are. Make up 10 questions on the text. Describe your (or smb’s neighbourhood).
- •Translation into English.
- •Some/ any/ no
- •IV Translate the sentences into English.
- •Exercises:
- •Make the sentences negative and interrogative.
- •Put in a lot/ a lot of/ much/ many.
- •In some of the sentences -much- is incorrect or unnatural. Change -much- to -many- or -a lot (of)- where necessary. Write “ok” if the sentence is correct.
- •Choose the correct item.
- •Complete the sentences with little/ a little/ few/ a few.
- •Translate into English.
- •Prepositions of Time
- •I Fill in the gaps with one of the following prepositions at, on, in (where necessary).
- •Put in for, during or while.
- •Put in by or until.
- •Complete the following description with for, during, by, until, at, in or on. Summarize the text. Eleanor is a nurse who works the night shift. How does she manage?
- •Present Simple Tense (Настоящее простое время)
- •Exercises
- •Complete the sentences. Use the correct form of these verbs:
- •Eg.She’s very clever. She speaks four languages.
- •Eg.‘Have a cigarette.’ ‘No, thank you. I don’t smoke.
- •Write questions with Do/Does …?
- •Read the sentences and correct them (the information is wrong). Write two correct sentences each time.
- •Complete the information about the business activities of the Thai company Berli Jucker, using the verbs in the box. Translate the sentences.
- •Translate the sentences:
- •Present Continuous Tense (Настоящее продолженное время)
- •Exercises:
- •Make the following sentences negative and interrogative.
- •Ask questions to the following sentences with the words in brackets.
- •Complete the sentences with one of the following verbs in the Present Continuous.
- •Eg.‘You ‘re working hard today.’ ‘Yes, I have a lot to do.’
- •A) Complete the texts with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets. Put 5 questions to each text.
- •In the Park
- •Make up the similar texts about the families as if they were:
- •A) Complete the sentences, opening the brackets.
- •Read the following passages about changes that are taking place in the software industry. Fill in the blanks with the verbs from the box, using the present continuous.
- •Translate into English.
- •Present Simple vs Present Continuous Exercises
- •Rewrite these sentences in the Present Continuous.
- •Put the verb in the correct form, present continuous or present simple.
- •A) Read and translate the text. Do some tasks. A Student
- •Choose the correct form of the verbs.
- •Make up sentences using the following prompts. The first verb should be in the present simple, and the second verb in the present continuous.
- •Translate into English.
- •Past Simple Tense (Прошедшее простое время)
- •Exercises
- •Put in was/wasn’t/were/weren’t.
- •Complete these sentences with the verbs from the list in the past simple.
- •Use the correct forms of the verbs, positive or negative.
- •Ask questions to receive the following answers:
- •Write in the missing forms of the irregular verbs below. Each verb can be used with the expressions on the right. Translate them and use in the sentences.
- •VI Translate the sentences:
- •Past Continuous Tense (Прошедшее длительное время)
- •Exercises:
- •Use your own ideas to complete the sentences. Use the Past Continuous Tense.
- •Choose the correct tense, Past Simple or Past Continuous.
- •In the following sentences put one of the verbs in brackets into the Past Continuous and the other verb into the Simple Past.
- •Translate the sentences.
- •Compare what Carol said five years ago and what she says today.
- •In some of the sentences you can use used to instead of the Past Simple. Where possible rewrite the sentences using used to.
- •Write true sentences about yourself, using used to or didn’t use to and one of the words in the box.
- •Revision
- •Choose the correct form of the verbs.
- •Present Perfect
- •1.Образование
- •2.Употребление
- •Exercises:
- •1. Choose 5 expressing from the list to make short dialogues.
- •2.Read the situations and write the sentences. Choose the verbs from the list.
- •3.Complete the text with the Present Perfect or Past Simple.
- •4.Make up questions.
- •6. Translate into English.
- •The Degrees of Comparison of the Adjectives
- •Exercises:
- •2. Use a superlative form (-est or most).
- •3. Use a superlative form or a comparative form.
- •4. Use the comparative or the superlative form of the adjectives in brackets.
- •5. Open the brackets, using correct degrees of comparisons. Translate into Russian.
- •6. Translate into English.
Translate the sentences.
Сколько человек в вашей компании?
Разрешите дать Вам совет.
Извините, мне нужна информация о поездах в Париж.
Фильм имел большой успех.
Из чего сделана эта мебель? – Из дерева.
Сегодня чудесная погода.
Какая нудная работа!
Что нового? – Нет новостей - уже хорошая новость.
Англичане тратят много денег на путешествия.
У тебя много работы сегодня? – Нет, я свободен.
Вы купили сахару? – Да, немного.
Наши летние каникулы продолжаются 2 месяца.
Официант, извините! У меня волос в супе.
Давай сделаем яблочный пирог! – Извини, мы не можем, у нас очень мало муки.
Nouns (Singular and Plural)
Множественное число существительных образуется путём добавления окончания -s, -es
Forms of Plural |
Patterns |
-es |
box – boxes, class – classes, dish – dishes; but: epoch – epochs, monarch – monarchs, stomach – stomachs |
-es -s |
family – families, factory – factories, city – cities; but: day – days, key – keys, play – plays, toy – toys; |
es -s -s or -es |
hero – heroes, negro – negroes, potato – potatoes; piano – pianos, radio – radios, photo – photos; cargo – cargos or cargoes volcano – volcanos or volcanoes |
-s |
knife – knives, life – lives, shelf – shelves; but: gulf – gulfs, belief – beliefs, chief – chiefs, roof – roofs, safe - safes |
Исключения составляют:
Forms of Plural |
Patterns |
change of the root vowel
no changes
-en |
man – men, goose – geese, foot – feet, woman – women, mouse – mice, tooth – teeth
deer – deer, fish – fish, sheep – sheep, series – series, swine – swine
child – children, ox – oxen, brother - brethren |
Сложные существительные образуют множественное число следующим образом:
Patterns |
|
onlooker - onlookers postman – postmen
hotel-manager – hotel-managers passer-by – passers-by milk-tooth – milk-teeth
woman-doctor – women-doctors |
Некоторые существительные из латинского и греческого языков сохраняют свои оригинальные формы множественного числа:
analysis - analyses phenomenon - phenomena
crisis - crises radius - radii
criterion - criteria stimulus - stimuli
datum - data medium - media, etc.
Ряд существительных имеют одну и ту же форму для единственного и множественного числа:
deer sheep
pike dozen
swine pair
trout score
salmon species
cod series
Ряд существительных употребляется только во множественном числе:
scissors, pliers, tongs, scales, clothes, tights, shorts, jeans, pants, trousers, spectacles, sunglasses
thanks, riches, wages, means, contents, premises, stairs, sights, resources, goods, supplies, outskirts, activities, feelings, headquarters, movements, terms, expenses
army, community, crew, family, gang, staff, audience, class, data, government, jury, press, team, committee, police
Неисчисляемые существительные в английском языке часто являются исчисляемыми в других языках. В английском языке они согласуются с глаголом в единственном числе и не имеют формы множественного числа.
- food: cheese, coffee, ham, meat, chocolate;
- evidence, information, news, nonsense, permission, progress
absence advice age
agriculture anger atmosphere
baggage beauty behaviour
bread childhood comfort
company concern confidence
countryside courage damage
death democracy depression
design work earth
education electricity energy
environment equipment evil
evidence existence experience
failure faith fear
flesh food freedom
fun furniture ground
growth hair happiness
health help homework
ice industry information
intelligence justice knowledge
love luck luggage
machinery means money
music nature news
nonsense paper peace
permission poverty pride
progress reality research
rubbish seaside spaghetti
traffic training transport
travel weather