Exercise 8. Look at this diagram. What are the places on the vessel? Complete the words.

Exercise 11. A visitor on the MV Olimpia. Look at Exercise 8 again. Answer these questions.

1. Excuse me, where is the hospital? ( The hospital is on the second deck next to the rating’s messroom)

2.  Excuse me, what deck is the bridge on?

3. Excuse me, where is the galley?

4. Excuse me, where is the store room?

5. Excuse me, what deck is ratings’ messroom on?

Exercise 12. Your ship. Ask your study partner questions about your vessel. Now ask more questions.

1. Where is the Pilot’s cabin?

2. Is the Master’s cabin next to the Chief Engineer’s cabin?

3. Where is the radio room?

4. Is the bridge on the fifth deck?

5. What deck is the Chief Officer’s cabin on?

Exercise 13. Supply the right form of the verb in brackets:

 Description of a ship

The «Polar Star» (be) 1. _____________ a ship (belong) 2. _____________ to a class called multi-purpose ships. She (be) 3. _____________ of 15, 000 dwt (9, 000 gross and 6, 000 net tons). Her overall length is 130 m, beam 16 m, draught 9 m. Her five cargo holds (arrange) 4. ______________ so that holds Nos. 1 to 4 (be) 5. _____________ forward of the bridge superstructure and No. 5 is abaft it. Each hold (serve) 6. _____________ by two 20 ton derricks, mounted in pairs. The hull (be) 7. _______________ of a single 'tween deck type with raised forecastle and a bridge superstructure of medium height. The ship (fit) 8. _______________ with a stern anchor and warping winch for (manoeuvre) 9. _______________ in confined waters. With a single diesel engine and a controllable pitch propeller the «Polar Star» (run) 10. ______________ at her economical service speed of 16 knots, her fuel consumption (be) 11. _____________ around 20 tons per day.

Grammar exercises:

Plural form of nouns (Множественное число существительных)

Общее правило.

Исчисляемые существительные (то есть те, которые можно посчитать) могут иметь форму единственного числа, если речь идёт об одном предмете, и множественного числа, если речь идёт о двух или более предметах.

Форма множественного числа у большинства исчисляемых существительных образуется с помощью суффикса -s (-es), например:

a book – books

книга – книги

a table – tables

стол – столы

Особенности написания.

Исключения.

В английском языке есть небольшое количество существительных, которые образуют форму множественного числа не по общему правилу:

Exercise 1. Write underlined nouns in the form of singular and make corresponding changes if necessary.

 1. Students know the town well and can show you the way to the theatre. 2. My friends live in Sevastopol, they study at the University. 3. Do these boys go to the Institute in the morning or in the afternoon? 4. Professors want to buy some books which they need for their work. 5. These girls sing well but they cannot play the piano. 6. Housewives work very much at home. 7. Two of my friends work at this plant, they are engineers. 8. These little girls like when their brothers play with them. 9. Children spend a lot of time out-of-doors. 10. My cousins have families of their own. 11. My sisters have breakfast at 8 o’clock and then they go to school. They return home only at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. 12. Navigators go to the library twice a month. 13. Their teachers tell them that they make many mistakes because they are not attentive at the classes. 14. Seamen go to work by bus and return home on foot. 15. Two of my sisters are married, their husbands are workers.

Exercise 2. Write the plural of each noun

depth, datum, ship, passenger, lady, bee, city, fly, inch, knife, wolf, match, bus, log, basis, house, glass, tray, seaman, axe, cliff, box, handkerchief, tooth, class, roof, potato, child, wish, woman, foot, sheep, path, voyage, shelf, family-name, key, barge, ox.