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Read, translate and retell the text:

My day off

I will not go to my University tomorrow. I’ll have a day off. I hope I’ll have a good time. I’ll wake up later than usual and do morning exercises. Then I’ll have breakfast. If the weather is good, I’ll go for a walk after breakfast. If the weather is bad, I’ll stay at home. I’ll read some books, newspapers and magazines. If the program is good, I’ll watch TV. In the evening some friends will come to see me. I’ll be very glad.

Ex. 1. Translate the text. Pay attention to the Future Simple Tense.

Ex. 2 Put the sentences of the text “My day off” into Interrogative and Negative or Positive forms.

Grammar exercises

Ex. 1. Write sentences with comparative adjectives using words from each part of the table:

English	heavy	her twelve year old son
Karen	old	buses
My suitcase	long	the Mediterranean
My father	short	planes
Boats	easy	the Statue of Liberty
The Mississippi	fast	Japanese
The Atlantic	cold	cotton
Wool	warm	the Nile
Trains	tall	your suitcase
The Empire State building	slow	my mother

1. English is easier than Japanese.

2. Karen…………………………………… .

3. My suitcase…………………………………… .

4. My father…………………………………… .

5. Boats…………………………………… .

6. The Mississippi…………………………………… .

7. The Atlantic…………………………………… .

8. Wool…………………………………… .

9. Trains…………………………………… .

10. The Empire State building…………………………………… .

Ex. 2. Complete the sentences using a comparative and than:

1. She’s much ……… her husband. (young)

2. It’s a ……… day ……… yesterday. (warm)

3. The vegetables in this shop are ……… the ones in the supermarket. (fresh)

4. The train is ……… the bus. (expensive)

5. This new TV show is much ……… the old one. (funny)

6. My office is ……… Helen’s. (near)

7. The traffic is ……… it was last year. (noisy)

8. You have a ……… life ……… I have. (busy)

9. Drivers in this country are ……… drivers in my country. (careless)

10. The exam today was ……… last year’s exam. (difficult)

11. She’s much ……… her sister. (kind)

12. The North is ……… the South. (rich)

13. The students ask ……… questions ……… they did before. (intelligent)

14. Her second book is ……… her first. (interesting)

Ex. 3. Write sentences comparing the Grand Hotel and the Sea View Hotel. Use the adjectives in the box:

peaceful big small lovely central

comfortable beautiful cold cheap

expensive clean friendly warm noisy

Grand Hotel The Grand Hotel is a beautiful hotel in the centre of the town. It is a big hotel with 120 rooms. The rooms are all very clean, comfortable and warm but they are quite noisy because the hotel is on a main road. I found the hotel staff polite but not very friendly. This is not the hotel for a cheap holiday. The rooms are quite expensive at around £100 per person per night for bed and breakfast.

Sea View Hotel The Sea View Hotel is a 30-room hotel about three kilometers from the centre of town. The building is not very beautiful but the rooms have lovely views of the sea and the hotel is nice and peaceful. The rooms are not always very clean and sometimes they are a bit cold at night. But the hotel staff is always very friendly and the hotel is very cheap. It only costs £ 30 per person per night for bed and breakfast.

Ex.4. Complete the sentences using there’s, there are, is there or are there:

1. There’s a beach down here.

2. ………….. four girls and two boys in her family.

3. ………….. a train to Manchester?

4. ………….. a new disco near the college.

5. ………….. a good restaurant in this street?

6. ………….. two hospitals in town.

7. ………….. a lot of children in the pool.

8. ………….. three families in that house.

9. ………….. a television in the flat?

10. ………….. a big grey cloud over there.