Choose the Right Form of the Predicate

1. Two dollars are not enough to buy a ticket for the theatre.

2. The two dollars are exactly alike.

3. Mathematics and Physics are difficult subjects.

4. Phonetics is

taught at our university.

5. The girls as well as the teacher

wants to discuss that question.

6. The coach as well as the players want

to postpone the match because of

the heavy rain.

7. Either the headmaster or the staff is

always late for the meeting.

8. Either the staff or the headmaster is

always late for the meeting.

9. Neither the teacher nor the pupils hope

for better results.

EXERCISES «present simple and present CONTINUOUS

I am reading now. He is sleeping now. We are drinking tea now. They are going to school now. I am not  sleeping now.

She is not  drinking coffee now. I read every day. He sleeps every night. We drink tea every morning.

They go to school every morning. I do not  sleep in the day time. She does  not  drink coffee after lunch. We are not  watching TV now. They are not  eating now.

My mother is not working now. Are you working now? Are he playing now? Are they eating now? What are you doing now? What are you reading now? What are they eating now? What are your brother  drinking now? We do not  watch TV in the morning. They do not  eat at the lesson. My mother does not  work at an office. Do you  work every day? Does he  play in the afternoon?

Упр. 161. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в Present Continuous или

B Present Simple.

1. I am not drinking coffee now. I am writing an English exercise. 2. I do not drink coffee in the evening. I drink coffee in the morning. 3. Is your friend doing his homework now? 4. Does your friend go to school in the morning? 5. Look! The baby is sleeping. 6. The baby always sleeps after dinner. 7. My grandmother does not work. She is on pension. 8. My father is not sleeping now. He works in the garden. 9. I usually get up at seven o’clock in the morning. 10. What is your sister doing now? — — She is washing her face and hands. 11. When do you usually come home from school? — I come at three o’clock. 12. Where does your cousin work? — — He works at a hospital. 13. Does your sister study at an institute? — No, she studies school. 14. My cousin goes to school every day.

15. My mother is not playing the piano now. She plays the piano in the morning.

Упр. 162. Раскройте скобки, употребляя гла голы в Present Continuous

или B Present Simple.

1. I read books in the evening. 2. I don’t read books in the morning. 3. I am writing an exercise now. 4. I am not writing a letter now. 5. They are play in the yard now. 6. They are not playing in the street now. 7. Are they playing in the room now? 8. He helps his mother every day. 9. Does he help his mother every day?

10. He does not to help his mother every day. 11.Do you go to school on Sunday? 12.

My friend does not like to play football. 13.I am not reading now.

EXERCISES 5,6

Ex. 5 What’s the word for.

  1. Borrow- to take something promising to give back
  2. Lend — to give something for a certain time
  3. Ripe-ready for gathering
  4. Dream- the things we can see when we are sleeping
  5. To arrive in- to come to a place
  6. Look for- try to find
  7. To plant- to put trees flowers in the ground to grow

Ex. 6 Fill the missing words.

                         Three times a day

Once upon a Time, the Cock was the most handsome among birds. One day the peacock decided to get married as he wanted to be handsome, he asked the Cock to lend him his beautiful, suit.
Lend me your nice suit for only one day. I will marry and bring it back”. The cock was not only a handsome bird, but he was very kind and agreed to give him his suit.
The peacock said” If I don’t return in time, call me”.                                 
A day passed but the peacock didn’t bring back the suit that he had from the cock.                                         
   So next morning, the Cock searched the whole place, but didn’t find the peacock. He called the peacock in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening but the Peacock didn’t answer. That’s why the Cock  crows loudly three times a day.

Robin Hook and his merry men

1. Complete the statements correctly.

Robin Hood and his Merrie men lived in the forest as

b. The Sheriff wanted to arrest them 2.Robin Hood and his merry men attacked the rich as a.they wanted to give the money to the poor 3. Once Robin Hood met one of the Sheriff’s men b.who tried to catch him 4.When they came to the town C. Robin gave him so much drink that he fell asleep

6. What’s the word for

To rob- to steal from others or take things from them by force. To be dressed in — to have something on. To arrest — to seize by authority or law. To attack-to stop and hold something or somebody