Stage b

Vocabulary Practice

I.

Choose the right word: elder – eldest – older – oldest:

1. Mr Black is … than his wife.

2. My … brother is in Brazil.

3. Which is the … of the two sisters?

4. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have five sons. The … son has just married.

5. The Hills have three sons. William is the … son and Henry is the youngest.

6. Who is the … in your class?

7. The Smiths have two daughters, Mary and Ann. Mary is the … daughter and Ann is the younger daughter. Mary is three years … than Ann.

8. Mr. Green is 95. He is the … friend I have.

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master – owner – landlord –landlady – host – hostess:

1. The slave-owners were known to be cruel … .

2. Yesterday I went to the Browns’ party. I was their guest and they were my … and … .

3. Maria Silva was not the … of her house, at the same time she was Martin’s … .

4. He asked the … if he had any rooms to let.

5. Who is the … of the house?

II.

Fill in prepositions or adverbs if necessary:

1. We shall tell you … a little English schoolboy, John Dale … name. He lives … his mother, father, two sisters and brother. Mrs. Dale, John’s mother, has much to do … home. She keeps house. She looks … her children. She brings them … very well. Mary is the eldest … all the children. John and his brother Henry are … the same age, they are twins. John looks … his grandfather and is named … him. He and his brother attend school, they go … school every morning. Does John go … … sports? Yes, he does. He likes to play football most … all.

2. The last day … March was quite a usual day. Some people went … work, others went … a walk. Children ran … school or played their games, and … Dublin, the capital … Ireland, a child was born … a large family. It was a boy, and his parents called him John. When the child was three, his mother was forty years old. Many years ago she met Michael Casside … Dublin where he was looking … a job. Soon they fell … love … one another and married. Michael was a very clever man. He had not any regular education but he was fond … books and spent all his free time reading one book … another, and even managed to learn Latin. The neighbours … Michael Casside thought that he was a great scholar, though he worked … a clerk … a little office.

c) … the letter Jean wrote that Harold and she would be married … the 5^th … July and they intended to go … Scotland … their wedding-trip. The wedding took place this morning; the bride looked very nice … her wedding-dress, trimmed … lace. She wore a small bunch … orange blossoms … her hair. The bridegroom walked … his mother and one … his friends acted … best man while the four bridesmaids accompanied the bride. … the ceremony the newly-married couple received the congratulations … their friends.

d) The old man’s will ran the following: “Being aware that my end is approaching I feel my dear little daughter Mary will be left unprotected … any natural guardian. Now I will and desire that my wife Olivia shall act … guardian adviser and mother to my little daughter. And as she will be an heiress … a very large property I would wish her to be guided … the advice … my wife … the management … her property and particularly … the choice … a husband. (M.E. Braddon)

III.

Insert articles where necessary and write questions about Linda’s family to ask your partner. Reproduce the contents of the text in class.