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Complete these sentences with a, an, the or no article. 1 She plays .2°<2. piano beautifully. 2 We usually meet once week. 3. Lenjoy studying languages but I find Latin quite difficut. 4 Lalways listen to.......,..,radio when I get up. 5 Can your daughter play. violin? 6 Lean cycle 15 miles hour. 7 Do you enjoy learning Spanish? 8 I take the children swimming twice ...........week. 9 I think you watch television too often 10 Did you study. physics at school? 11 This flat costs £100. week. 12 1 love listening to, saxophone, 13 The potatoes are 80 pence. bag. 14 Can you speak, Russian? 15 1 really enjoy playing. football at the weekends. Practice 13a Complete the conversation with «, an, de or no article. A: Ws ‘a. beautiful day today. 'd like 0 go t9 the. beach. Be Yes, BUC. ........beach is always crowded. I'd like (0 stay a home and sit in S....garden. We can have, lunch in x garden, A: But we stayed at.......... home @)] day yesterday. I'd like to go out. m going back to”, work tomorrow and this is". ast day of my holiday 1: Well, we could go out tonight. There's" good film an at "cess eimema, of we could got", theatre. A: OK. but ss:theatre's too expensive. It's about £15" seat, B: That's true. We'll go to”. einema, then, Or we could stay here and watch "7. television. A: Ob no, that’s boring. I want to g0 10 '.........-einema BB: And this afternoon? A: You can stay here but I think I'll go to". town B: Can you do *Y. shopping when you're in town? A: Oh, all right 13b In your notebook, add, remove or ch: articles in these senu make them correct. Some sentences contain more than one mistake 1 Our first lesson after the lunch is the geography, 2 I first played a baseball in USA last summer. 3 The Rome is my favourite city in Healy. 4 When I leave au 5 What time does bank open on Fridays? 6 | often work at the home. iversity I want to be the journalist NO MORE FOREIGN HOLIDAYS? | professor at Exeter University in 2 ....... South of England said yesterday. Professor Kirkwell said that pollution is increasing all over 3 THE WRONG JOB Janice Miller left her job at 1 cinema near 2 ........ Bristol in 3 west of England yesterday after only one day because she didn't want to watch 4 horror film. “I didn't know I'd see any films,’ she explained. ‘I saw 5 horror film once, and | was very frightened. | thought my job was just selling tickets.’ Stanley Greenham, 6 ‘manager of 7 sans Cinema, said that he was sorry. ao o- World "Places like 4 ! Sahara desert will get warmer, and some small islands will disappear. { Andes mountains ‘Ididn't really explain 8 Janice at her intervie 9 horror films we show aren't very frightening. 10 ......... young people usually like them.’ io ‘Write in the correct verb form, using the verb in bold | Identifying tenses & walk Our baby Jack now. He’ just twelve months old 'b ‘How did you get here?” “We Itdida’t take long.” © After ten miles I had to stop fora rest. We ‘non-stop for four hours. wash 'm ‘Where are my jeans? ‘They ____at the ‘moment. Sorry.” 1h My favourite white T-shirt went pink i with my daughter's red sweater, © ‘Why are you all wet? ‘I —_— thecar’ sell Pp Twish Ti bought that antique chair I saw inthe shop window. It — __— bynow: 4 My sister earns a good salary. She —_ lie insurance policies. + Ino one offers to buy the house, it by auction next month, teach At the end of this term I for six years t The soldiers how to use grenades when unfortunately one blew up and injured them. 2 Complete the tense chart with the verb forms from Exercise 1 ‘There is one foreach gap. take 4. My dog looked guilty: He — e some food from the kitchen table. Iwasa hard match. At halftime, one of the footballers —— to hospital. £ “This shirt is £45, “That's fine. 1_—___ it” have I think we should buy a new car We this one forages. +h Don't phone at 8.00 ths evening. We ——___ dinner then. i We lovely picnie until my wife was stung by a bee. make 4j, This isa great sandwich shop. Everything 2 freshly — By the time I'm forty 1 ‘enough money to retire. 1 Have you heard about Lenny? He __— redundant, 2 Correcting mistakes ‘Three of the sentences inthis exercise are correct. Put tick (¥) next to them. All the other sentences contain, ‘mistakes Puta cross () next to them and correct them. Example [ Twork hard at the moment because I have exams next week. Tm working 4 [7 It’s been really cold lately, 80 I've bought some ‘ew thermal underwear. b [Manchester United play really well at the ‘moment. Their new player has real talent. © (1) Te heard you'll have a baby! Congratulations, 4 [~ Was Tim working in Barcelona while you were ‘working in Madrid? © () When I was alittle gil, 've always spent my pocket money on sweets £ (1) went out with Paul for two years now, and we're sill crazy about each other (Lean decide what to buy my brother fo his birthday. Perhaps Fm going to gt him a new shin hy [Shot trained so hard forthe Olympics that 1 felt sure she woul! get at last a bronze medal. i (7) A one-day strike has called by London ‘Underground staff for Friday this week. 4 [) The teacher said that Megan had been working hard and ws deserved to pass all her exams 3 Choosing the right tense SEA Read the telephone conversation between ‘Mr Lewis and June, the travel agent. Put the verbs into the correct tense. Sometimes there is more than one possibilty, A holiday in South Africa 4 Good morning. Fairweather Travel, June speaking. How can t help you? ‘MeL Good morning. | (a) look) at ‘your brochure on holidays in Cape Town and the Western Cape and | (b) (wonder) you could give me some mare information? J Conainly. Me ..2 MeL Its Lewis, Mr Lowi. ‘J Well 28 it happens, Mr Lewis, ___ (go) to (Cape Town mysolf last Christmas. (6) never (be) there before. | (e) do) some research for Fairweather Travel, 301) (get to know the city prety well. ‘MeL Really! Then you're ust the person to tak to. Tol ‘me, (@) you (foo) safe? There (h) (be) so much unvest in South Altice recently J Well, Mr Lewis) —_____ (isi) many countries on behalf of Fairweather Travel, and | have to say that @) {feel very sae the whole time 14) — (travel) round South Afric, [MeL That's reessuring. My three children () {leatn all about South Atica at Wook forward) school. They m) to seeing Table Mountain. My wife (n) {hope 1 sample some South Arican wine (o) that (be) possible? Oh, yes indeed. There are tours to many of the Vineyards and wine callars. Your wite(p) —_—_ —___ be able) to try some really good wines. ‘South Africa (q) (produce) some ofthe best wine and brandy in the world ‘Mc How interesting. Wel, you f) _______ (be) ‘most helpful. I(s) (get beck to you as s00n as possible, ater |) (discuss) ‘all with my wife. Thank you very much. Goodbye. 4 Goodbye. Passi 4 Active or passive? 1 These sentences sound unnatural in the ative Rewrite them using the passive. {4 They don't make Volvos in Norway. Volvos 'b They built our house in the 17uh century. ur house ‘© Has someone decorated your bedroom? ‘4. Someone's decorating my bedroom atthe moment. My bedroom © We moved out of our house while they were building the extension. While the extension {f We arrived home from holiday to find someone had burgled our house. 8 They won't recognize her in those dark glasses. She 2 2 Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tens, active or passive. 4 The robbers (atch) as they (eave) the bank. bo (arrive) home to find feathers (atch) a bird __ (empty) on a Monday.

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