Lexical exercises

Exercise 1. Match the following nouns and adjectives

- flat, sideboard, carpet, table, desk, house, sofa, set, bookcase, picture, curtain, furniture, armchair, block of flats; heating, party

- nine-storied, private, house-warming, central, lovely, new, cosy, modern, thick, round, dressing, night, built-in, radio.

Exercise 2. Make up sentences according to the example.

Example: 1. A kitchen - A kitchen is a room where we cook meals. 2. A dining-table - A dining-table is a table (a piece of furniture) at which we have meals.

A bedroom, a study, a wardrobe, a sideboard, a writing-desk, a bookcase, a bookshelf, a sofa

To sleep, to work, to keep clothes, to keep glassware and dishes, to write and read, to keep books

Exercise 3 Make adjectives from the nouns. Use your dictionary. Which of the nouns don’t have the corresponding adjectives?

Noun Adjective

-ful - less

wonder wonderful –

harm – harmless

colour – –

help – –

care – –

use – –

Exercise 4. Form tag-questions from the following sentences.

Example: There is a sofa at the wall, ...? There is a sofa at the wall, isn't there?

1. Your flat is on the second floor, ... ?

2. There is little furniture in your room, ... ?

3. The TV set is in the left-hand corner of the room, ... ?

4. The curtains in your bedroom are light blue, ... ?

5. There are all modern conveniences in your flat, ... ?

6. The telephone is in the hall, ... ?

7. There are many English and German books on the shelves, ...?

8. The living-room is the best room in your flat, ...?

9. There is much air in your flat, ...?

10. The wallpaper in your study is green, ...?

Exercise 5 Decide which of the words doesn’t fit the sequences below.

1. at, across, in, stand, down;

2. where, when, how, who, what, nowhere,

3. clean, small, comfortable, cosy, need, huge,

4. electricity, central heating, chute for refuse, hot and cold running water, table

Text 1

Exercise 1. Read and translate the text.

My flat

We have a nice flat in a new block of flats. Our flat is on the fifth floor of a nine-storied building. It has all modern conveniences: central heating, hot and cold running water, electricity, gas, a lift and a chute to carry rubbish down.

We have a three-room flat which consists of a living room, a bedroom, a study (which is also my room), a kitchen, a bathroom and a toilet. There are also two closets in our flat. Our flat has two balconies.

The living room is the largest and most comfortable one in the flat. In the middle of the room, we have a square dinner table with six chairs round it. To the left of the dinner table there is a wall-unit which has several sections: a sideboard, a wardrobe and some shelves. At the opposite wall, there is a piano and a piano stool before it. To the right there is a little table with a colour TV set on it. Opposite the TV set there are two cosy armchairs. A divan-bed and a standard lamp are in the left-hand corner. In front of the armchairs, there is a small round table for newspapers and magazines. There is a thick carpet on the floor. Two water-colours hang on the wall above the divan-bed. In the evening, we usually draw the curtains across the windows, and a red lampshade gives a warm colour to the room.

The bedroom is smaller than the living room and not so light as there is only one window in it. In this room, there are two beds, two dressing tables and a wardrobe. In the corner of the bedroom, there is a small colour TV set. On the dressing table, there is an alarm clock and a small lamp with a green lamp-shade.

Our study is the smallest room in the flat, but in spite of it, it is very cosy. There isn't much furniture in it, but there are a lot of shelves full of books. It has a writing table with a computer on it, an armchair and a bookcase too. A small round table with a cassette-recorder is standing in the right-hand corner of the study. Besides, there is a small sofa near the wall opposite the bookcase. This room was my father's study, but as I grew older, it has become my room. And in my opinion it is the best room in our flat. My friends come to my place to have a chat or to play chess in the evening, and they say my room is very comfortable. I share their opinion.

Exercise 2. In the text find synonyms for the words:

Fine, a building, an apartment, a tape-recorder, point of view, a storey, a lavatory, too

Exercise 3. In the text find antonyms for the words:

to the left, big, behind, dark, empty, that, up, little

Exercise 4. In the text “My flat’’ find expressions corresponding to the following Russian phrases:

состоит из; вокруг; в левом углу; две акварели; меньше; несмотря на это; повзрослел; по моему мнению; поболтать; разделять их точку зрения; много (мало) мебели; в правом углу; у противоположной стены; в прихожей; полки для посуды; шкаф для одежды; в середине комнаты; столик для телевизора; спальня; туалетный столик.

Text 2

Exercise 1. Read the text and do the exercises.