Exercises to be done in writing. Ex. 1. Read the text “my dwelling” and answer the following questions on the text:

Ex. 1. Read the text “My Dwelling” and answer the following questions on the text:

How many rooms have you got in your flat? What conve­niences have you got there? Is your flat far from the centre of the city? How large is your living-room? What furniture have you got there? What is its floorspace? What's the rent? (What rent do you pay?) Will you come and see my flat? When will you give a house-warming party? Whom will you invite? Will you buy a new set of furniture? What furniture are you going to buy?

Ex. 2. Choose the correct form of the verb to be in the followi ng

sentences:

1.There (is, are) some tape-recorders on the desks. 2. There (is, are) three beds in the room. 3. There (is, are) a large table in the room. 4. There (is, are) a desk, two beds and two small tables there. 5. There (is, are) some pens, pencils and notebooks here. 6. There (is, are) five books on the desk. 7. There (is, are) a chair at the table.

Ex. 3. Rewrite the following sentences in the plural:

1. There is a tape-recorder on the table. 2. There is a book on the desk. 3.There is a bed and a chair here. 4. Is there a Russian book on your desk? 5. Isthere a bag on the chair? 6. There is not any picture on the wall. 7. Is there a clock in the room?

Ex. 4. Supply prepositions whenever needed in the senten­ces:

Where is the table... your flat? It is... the corner... the room. 2. Is there a tape-recorder... a small table? 3. The clock is... the wall. 4. The books are... the bookshelves. 5. Nick is... the room. He is sitting... the window.

Ex. 5. Write down all possible questions about the following sentences:

1.She is going to listen to her teacher. 2. They are sitting in the second row. 3. He is counting from 1 to 20. 4. My teacher is speaking English. 5. He is going to answer my questions.

Ex. 6. React to the following statements using the structure
to be going to do smth. as in the example:

Example: I shall buy this book. What about you?

— I'm going to buy this book too.

1. They will move into a new flat next week. What about you? 2. They will congratulate their friends on this occasion. What about your friends? 3. I shall send you a picture of out new flat tomorrow. What about Borys? 4. They will bring me a lot of presents and flowers on my birthday. What about Pete? 5. She will work at a large plant. What about you? 6. They will work in various fields of our economy. What about our students?

Ex. 7. Fill in the blanks with some, any or no: