Exercise 7.Fill in the blanks using article, if it is necessary.

 

1. This is... pen. It is... good pen.... pen is black. It is on... table.

2. I have got... dog.... dog’s name is Spot. He is... big grey dog.... dog is very strong.

3. My friend has... sister. Her name is Ann.... girl is... pupil.

4. We have... picture in... living room.... picture is really very fine. It is on... wall.

5.... Irish Sea is between... Great Britain and... Ireland.

6. There is... map on... wall of... classroom. It is... map of... world. There are many seas and lakes on... map. This is... Mediterranean Sea and that is... Red Sea. These are... Himalayas. They are... highest mountains in... world.... Everest, which is 8848 metres high, is... highest mountain in... world.

7. We live in... St Petersburg.... St Petersburg is... very large city. It is one of... largest cities in... Russia.

8. My brother is... programmer. His flat is in... centre of... city. It is in... large building. There are three rooms in... flat.... living room is.. largest of all. It is... nice light room. There are... beautiful pictures on... walls. There is... large oval mirror over... fireplace. There is... round table in... middle of... room. There is... sofa at... wall with... large thick carpet in... front of it.... study and... bedroom are small, but very comfortable.

 

Exercise 8. Who wants to be a millionaire?

Activities

 

Simon Says “Listen carefully to the articles”

Procedure - the students only do the action if the instructions are grammatically and logically correct, and this can easily be adapted to practice articles with instructions they should copy like “Look at the teacher”, “Point at the tallest student” and “Wink at a student”, and ones they shouldn’t like “Touch the student” (because they don’t know which one).

1. Look at the teacher

2. Point at the tallest student

3. Touch the student

4. Point to the desk

5. Point to a desk

6. Look at an window

7. Sit on an chair

8. Open a books

9. Write the sentence

10. Close the eye

11. Go to the blackboard

12. Jump

13. Point to the teacher

14. Look at a student

 

Articles Run and touch.

Procedure - when the teacher says “Touch the” and stops speaking, students run and touch anything that article is suitable for, e.g. touching the whiteboard or the floor is okay, but touching a desk is not (because there are many in the class).

Revision Unit 1-3

Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives& Adverbs

 

	Adjective	Comparative	Superlative
One or two syllables adjectives	old long	old + er long + er	the old + est the long + est
Adjectives ending in -y	dirty noisy	dirty→ i + er noisy→ i + er	the dirty→ i + est the noisy→ i + est
Adjectives with three or more syllables	beautiful interesting	more beautiful more interesting	the most beautiful the most interesting

 

	Adverb	Comparative	Superlative
Some adverbs have the same form as an adjective. They add -er / -est	Fast High Late	Faster Higher Later	The fastest The highest The latest
Many adverbs are an adjective + ly. They form the comparative and superlative with more / most	Easily Slowly Carefully	More easily More slowly More carefully	The most Easily The most slowly The most carefully

 

EXCEPTIONS

adjective	comparative	superlative	example sentence
good	better	the best	Tara is the best athlete in the school.
well(healthy)	better	the best	He is still in hospital, but he is better than he was last week.
bad	worse	the worst	You are the worst driver I have ever known.
far	further	the furthest	Let’s talk further. (abstract)
farther	the farthest	My house is the farthest one. (physical distance)
much/many	more	the most	It is the most interesting book I have ever read.
little	less	the least	This text is the least difficult of all.
old (people in a family)	elder	the eldest	Ram is my elder brother.
old (general use)	older	the oldest	Your teacher is older than my teacher.

Definite article THE

PEOPLE
NAMES	TITLES	FAMILIES	NATIONALITIES
We DO NOT use the definite article the when referring to people by name: - Daniel Craig, also known as James Bond, is married to Rachel Weisz. - Romeo and Juliet was written by Shakespeare.	When we use somebody’s title with their name, we DO NOTuse ‘the’. When we use somebody’s title without their name, we DOuse ‘the’. -If there is an emergency, you need to call Doctor Johnson. - The doctor is always available, twenty four hours a day. - Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. - The Queen stood next to the Prince and waved to the crowd.	WeDO use ‘the’ when referring to families, or people in the plural: - The Obamas live in the White House. - The Browns moved to London last year. - Have you anything heard from the Smiths lately.	WeDO use the definite article the when referring to people from a particular country as a whole: the Spanish, the British, the French, the Irish, the Dutch. - The British are very good at queueing. We generally DO NOTuse ‘the’ with nationalities ending in ‘s: Americans, Russians, Australians, Danes, South Africans, Mexicans - Americans speak English differently to the British.
PLACES
NAMES	PLURAL NAMES	GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES	BUILDINGS
We DO NOT use the definite article the when referring to places by name: Warsaw is the capital of Poland. Ethiopia is in Africa. Lake Ontario forms the border between Canada and America.	We DO use the definite article the for countries whose names are in the plural, and for countries which include words like States, Kingdom, Islands or Republic. the Netherlands, the Philippines, the Bahamas, the Maldives, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Canary Islands, the Isle of Skye, the Isle of White, the Central African Republic, the Czech Republic	We DO use the definite article the with mountain ranges, rivers, seas, oceans and canals: the Himalayas, the Alps, the Canaries, the Atlantic, the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific, the Amazon, the Thames, the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal We DO NOT use the definite article the with single mountains or lakes: Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro, Lake Michigan, Lake Como	We DO use ‘the’ with well known buildings, including museums, memorials, galleries, hotels, restaurants and pubs: the Louvre, the Empire State Building, the British Museum, the White House, the Tate Gallery, the Hilton Hotel, We DOuse ‘the with buildings that have names ……of…….: the Houses of Parliament, the Bank of England, the Tower of London, We DO NOT use ‘the’ with streets, roads, squares, bridges and parks: Times Square, Piccadilly Circus, Central Park, Fifth Avenue, Main Road. We DO NOT usually use ‘the’ with places, when the first word is someone’s name: Edinburgh Castle, Westminster Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, Cambridge University.
ORGANISATIONS
COMPANIES	NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES	ORGANIZATIONS
We DO NOT use ‘the’ when talking about companies: Skoda, Volkswagen, British Airways, Chatham Financial, IBM, Canon, Nikon, CNN, Sky, Virgin, Walmart - On our last holiday we flew with British Airways. - Chatham Financial are an excellent company to work for	WeDOuse ‘the’ with newspapers: the New York Herald, the Telegraph, the Daily Post, the Sunday Times Have you seen that ridiculous article in the Sunday Times? I couldn’t buy the Telegraph today, they were all sold out. We DO NOT use ‘the’ when talking about magazines: Vogue, Time, Food Ideas, Traveller. - Timeis a weekly American magazine. - Have you seen this week’s copy of Traveller?	We DO use ‘the’ when talking about organizations: The United Nations, the Red Cross, the European Union, the European Economic Community - The Red Cross helps people in crisis. - The United Nations was founded in 1945.

 

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