14 Отнесите факты, о которых идет речь, сначала к будущему, затем к прошло­му, используя соответствующие формы глагола to be.

1 There are twelve students in our group.

2 There is a beautiful garden near the house.

3 There is a big blackboard in the classroom.

4 There is a letter for him on the table.

5 There are two lifts in the house.

6 There are 300 pages in the book.

7 There is a new stadium in the town.

8 There is a table in the middle of the room.

9 There is a hospital in the village.

10 Are there many sentences in this exercise?

11 Is there much work to do at home?

12 There are no pictures in the book.

13 There is no theatre in the town.

14 There are no maps on the walls of the classroom.

15 There isn't a University in that town.

16 There aren't any plants in our town.

15 Перефразируйте, используя соответствующие формы гла-гола to have.

Образец: There are no books in his bag. – He has no books in his bag:

1 There is no TV-set in his room.

2 There are nо mistakes in his dictation.

3 There is no garden near his house.

4 There are no pictures in her room.

5 There are no French books in her library.

6 There is no English newspaper on her table.

7 There is no coffee in my cup.

8 There is no telephone in my flat.

9 There are no maps on the walls of our classroom.

10 There is no sugar in Peter's tea.

16 Поставьте следующие предложения в вопросительную фор-му.

1 There is a blackboard in our classroom.

2 There are some English books on the table.

3 There were very many mistakes in your dictation.

4 There is a new grammar rule in lesson 5.

5 There was a telegram on the table.

6 There was little ink in my pen.

17 Раскройте скобки, выбрав нужную форму глагола.

1 There (Is, are) a large table in my room.

2 There (is, are) three windows in my flat.

3 There (Is, are) a table and four chairs in my sister's room.

4 There (is, are) a text-book and two exercise-books on my table.

5 There (wasn't, weren't) a school here in 1990.

6 There (was, were) very many children in the park yesterday.

18 Поставьте вопросы к выделенным словам.

1 There's a nice park in our city.

2 There are five chairs in the room.

3 There are some English textbooks on my table.

4 There are a lot of mistakes in your exercise book.

5 There were three mistakes in my dictation.

6 There's a new cinema near my house.

19 Проанализируйте степени сравнения прилагательных, приведенные в таб­лице, затем прочтите и переведите тексты 1 и 2.

Степени сравнения прилагательных:

	Положительная	Сравнительная	Превосходная
1	long	longer	(the) longest
	easy	easier	(the) easiest
2	interesting	more interesting	(the) most Interesting
	good	better	(the) best
	bad	worse	(the) worst
	much, many	more	(the) most
	little	less	(the) least

1 Wise people said:

«We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less». (Diogenes).

«Few sons are like their father, many are worse, few, indeed, are better than the fa­ther». (Homer).

2 The Taylor family lived in Newport for many years, but last year they moved to Liverpool. They like their new city. It is much nicer and more interesting than Newport. In Liverpool the streets are cleaner. The parks are safer. The bus system is more reliable, at the schools are better. But the Taylors think that the people in Newport were nicer, more polite and more hospitable than the people in Liverpool.