9. Как мы называем этих людей или вещи?

Пример: This person drives a bus. a bus driver

1. This person manages an office. …

2. This machine makes coffee. …

3. This person drinks coffee. …

4. This person loves animals. …

5. This person plays tennis. …

6. This thing opens letters. …

7. This person smokes cigars. …

8. This person climbs mountains. …

10. Составьте пары словосочетаний.

Пример: story: Helen, the Civil War

Helen’s story; the story of the Civil War

policy: the firm, full employment

ideas: modern physics, my daughter

arm: the chair, John

file: your secretary, your documents

view: the scientist, the sea

rules: the company, hockey

11. Поставьте существительные в скобках в притяжательный падеж.

1. Does your library often organize … disputes? (readers) When will the next … dispute be held? (readers) – It’ll be held in … time. (a week)

2. What’s her occupation? – She works at the … theatre. (children)

3. … children went to the shore to wave good-bye to their fathers. (fishermen)

4. I’ll be through with your book in … time. (a month)

5. What are you looking at? … nest. (a swallow)

6. … parents were killed in a car accident. (the girl)

7. Why is the boy crying? – Ask … friend. (the boy)

8. They were frightened by a dog. They thought it was … dog. (a watchman)

9. Where is your brother? – He has gone to … swimming pool. (the children)

10. What are they going to do? – They are going to organize their … club. (students)

11. What do you see in the can? – I don’t know what it is. But it looks like … food. (a cat)

12. What is there under the table? – I think it’s … sock. (a child)

13. It isn’t … job. (a woman)

14. She is holding … mitten in her hand. ( a child)

15. … cloak-room is on the right and … cloak-room is on the left. (boys, girls)

16.They looked into the canteen and saw a man in … cap. (a cook)

17. We want to know where the … fitting-room is. (ladies)

18. I heard … voices in the distance. (men)

19. Where is the … hat? (doctor) He doesn’t remember where he put it.

20. He likes to sing and we always ask him to sing … songs. (students)

12. Закончите рассказ, используя (-’s) или (-s’).

The two girls disappeared from 1) their grandmother … garden in Ilkley yesterday evening.

Josie and Cara Sharp, aged 7 and 9, were staying at 2) their grandparents … house for a week. They were in Ilkley for a 3) children … theatre course. The police have asked the course teachers for 4) the other hildren … names and addresses, and they have also put 5) Josie and Cara photos on local television. 6) The two girls … mother, Mrs Jenna Sharp, has appeared on TV as well. A shopkeeper thinks she saw Josie and Cara getting into 7) a man … car; police officers have asked for 8) the shopkeeper … help with a photofit picture of the man. The police have also got 9) local people … help in looking for the girls near the town.

13. Укажите, являются ли эти предложения верными (right) или неверными (wrong). Найдите и исправьте ошибки.

1. The people of this village were going to celebrate an important festival in a few day’s time.

2. He put his opponent name on the card with the wine.

3. At nine o’clock every day the manager’s secretary drew a red line in the register book to show that those who put their names below the line were late.

4. Carol and Susan were in the same class at school and they often visited each other home at weekends.

5. In the US gifts by a company or a person to charity which is approved by the government can be used to reduce the company’s or the person’s tax.

6. The waiter seeing that the young man face got pale thought that he might be going to faint. So he emptied a cold water’s glass on the young man head. Then he included the cost of water in the bill.

7. The farmer had tied his table’s napkin round his neck.

8. It was one of those weighing –machines that gave cards on which one fortune is printed as well as one weight.

9. He was worried because he couldn’t pay his tailor’ bills.

10. I’m that men’s tailor.