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11. Put the verb in the Present Simple or Past Simple.
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11. Put the verb in the Present Simple or Past Simple.
1. I (to study) English every day.
2. You (to come) to my place yesterday?
3. He (to live) in Dubai.
4. How long it (to take) you to get to the City Mall?
5. What you (to study) every Friday?
6. We (to have) dinner with my family yesterday.
7. His computer (to be) ready yesterday.
8. My friend (to like) running in the park every morning.
9. Their family (to invite) everybody to the party last week.
10. Jesse always (to come) to work early.
12. Put the verb in the Present Simple, Past Simple or Future Simple.
1. We … (go) roller-skating last Saturday.
2. Our granny … (bake) meat-pies every weekend.
3. We … (write) an essay tomorrow.
4. I really … (enjoy) the opera yesterday.
5. Where your husband … (work) five years ago?
6. British people … (prefer) tea to coffee.
7. Tom, you … (meet) me at the railway station next Sunday?
8. Where she usually … (celebrate) her birthdays?
9. … you (have) a big family?
10. Newton … (invent) the telescope in 1668.
11. When … this accident (happen)?
12. I always … (send) Christmas cards to my grandparents.
13. Nina and Nick … (get married) in two weeks.
14. How many books they … (bring) tomorrow?
15. Stanley … (have) two sons and a daughter.
| Uncountable (неисчисляемые) | Countable (исчисляемые) | ||
| much (много) | time | many (много) | people |
| little (мало) | money | few (мало) | rubles, dollars |
| a little (немного) | love | a few (несколько) | days, hours |
| a lot of, plenty of (много) | |||
13. Fill in many, much, a lot of, few, a few, little, a little.
1. How … sugar would you like?
2. How … peppers have we got?
3. I’ve got … new business ideas.
4. There aren’t … benches in the yard.
5. I saw … interesting films last week.
6. How … is this dress?
7. How … cheese should I buy?
8. Could I have … more ice in my drink?
9. Only … people know that he was a famous actor.
10. She doesn’t eat … chocolate because she’s on a diet.
11. How … sweets are there in the bowl?
14. Use the proper word in brackets.
1. There is too … (much/many/a few) salt in the soup.
2. There are … (much/a little/a few) sky-scrapers in our city.
3. I’ve got … (much/a few/a little) albums of this singer.
4. My job allows me to travel … (much/many/a few).
5. We’ve got … (little/many/few) free time.
6. I have never seen so … (much/little/many) stars in the sky.
7. Anna spent … (much/a few/a little) days in Rome.
8. I’d like just … (much/a few/a little) tea.
9. There was very … (little/few/many) rain last autumn.
10. Very … (few/little/much) Russian tourists are staying at our hotel.
15. Replace «some» for «a little» or «a few».
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1. Would you like some cheese?
2. Would you like some mineral water?
3. Would you like some strawberries?
4. Can I offer you some black coffee?
5. Can I offer you some bread?
6. Shall I bring you some biscuits?
7. Shall I bring you some plums?
8. Would you like some meat?
16. Answer the questions using a lot, many, much, a little, a few.
1) Have you got any envelopes? – Yes, …
2) How much money do you need for your holiday? – Not …
3) Would you like some coffee? – Just …
4) Were there any people at the meeting? – Yes, …
5) Is there any ham in the fridge? – Not …
6) How many cucumbers do we need for the salad? – Not …
17. Correct the mistakes.
1. There isn’t many milk in the fridge.
2. How much tomatoes do you need?
3. There’re a few people at the theatre. It’s almost empty.
4. There is many juice in the carton.
5. This dress doesn’t cost many money.
6. How much tigers are there in the zoo?
7. I would like a little biscuits to drink with tea.
8. We’ve got few ham. We can’t make any hamburgers.
READING AND TRANSLATION PRACTICE
SHOPPING
Shopping is an opportunity to buy everything what we need, from food to clothes. When we do the shopping we get to know a lot of information about different goods, their prices, quality. We learn to choose products, to spend money rationally. Someone will say that shopping is an original way of spending free time. Someone will say that it's a forced waste of money. Today, shopping is a means of our existence and living.
There are many kinds of shops in every town or city, but most of them have a food supermarket, a department store, men's and women's clothing stores, grocery, bakery and butchery.
Big department stores and supermarkets sell various goods under one roof and this is very convenient. A department store, for example, true to its name, is composed of many departments: readymade clothes, fabrics, footwear, sports goods, toys, china and glass, electric appliances, cosmetics, linen, curtains, cameras etc.
In the clothing department you can find dresses, costumes, blouses, skirts, coats, suits, trousers, overcoats, ties, underwear and many other things. In the knitwear department one can buy sweaters, cardigans, short-sleeved and long-sleeved pullovers, woolen jackets. In the perfumery they sell face cream and powder, lipstick, lotions and shampoos.
In a food supermarket we can find all sorts of foodstuffs: dairy, sausages, fish, sugar, macaroni, flour, cereals, tea. At the butcher's there is a wide choice of meat and poultry. At the bakery you buy brown and white bread, rolls, biscuits.
Another shop we frequently go to is the greengrocery which is stocked by cabbage, potatoes, onions, cucumbers, carrots, beetroots, green peas and what not. Everything is sold here ready-weighed and packed. If you call round at a dairy you can buy milk, cream, cheese, butter and many other products.
You can walk from one department to another looking about, finding out the price and if there is any discount and in the end you come to cashier's desk where you pay for all your purchases in cash or by a credit card. Modern technologies allow doing the shopping without need not only to get out of the house, but even get out of bed. It concerns not only the clothing, but also the food. The delivery service is a part of almost all modern shops and that is extremely convenient. You can spend half an hour on choosing and ordering the products and then do some other things and then just receive all that you need. Isn’t that convenient?
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Thanks to the development of the Internet, some people prefer to shop online. No doubt shopping online is more convenient and less time consuming but on the other hand buying clothes without trying them on or perfume without smelling it may not seem a good idea.
Different people do shopping in different ways. Do you prefer shopping in small corner shops which are usually located in your neighbourhood or in big supermarkets? Undoubtedly, there are certain advantages and disadvantages in both variants. Your choice usually depends on what you need to buy.
VOCABULARY
| bakery | булочная |
| beetroot | свекла |
| biscuits | печенье |
| blouse | блузка |
| butcher's / butchery | мясной магазин |
| cabbage | капуста |
| call round | зайти, заглянуть |
| carrot | морковь |
| cashier's desk | касса |
| cereal | злаки, крупа |
| china and glass | фарфоровая посуда и стекло |
| coat | пальто |
| convenient | удобный |
| cucumber | огурец |
| curtains | шторы |
| dairy | молочные продукты |
| delivery service | служба доставки |
| department store | универсальный магазин |
| discount | скидка |
| do the shopping | делать покупки |
| electric appliances | электрические приборы |
| fabrics | ткани |
| flour | мука |
| foodstuffs | продукты питания |
| footwear | обувь |
| get out of the house | выходить из дома |
| goods | товары |
| green peas | зеленый горошек |
| greengrocery | овощной магазин |
| grocery | гастрономия |
| it concerns | это касается |
| knitwear | трикотажные изделия |
| linen | белье |
| lipstick | губная помада |
| means | средство, способ |
| meat | мясо |
| onion | лук |
| pay by a credit card | платить банковской картой |
| pay in cash | платить наличными |
| poultry | домашняя птица |
| purchase | покупка |
| quality | качество |
| readymade clothes | готовая одежда |
| roll | булочка |
| sausages | колбаса |
| short-(long) sleeved | c коротким (длинным) рукавом |
| skirt | юбка |
| sugar | сахар |
| suit | костюм |
| sweater | свитер |
| tie | галстук |
| trousers | брюки |
| try on | мерить |
| underwear | нижнее белье |
| waste of money | бесполезная трата денег |
| wide choice of | широкий выбор |
| woolen jacket | шерстяной жакет |
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