Often, usually, seldom, sometimes, and always

1. She translates texts from Russian into English at home.

2. We are at home at 6 o’clock in the evening.

3. They go to see their friends on Sunday.

4. My daughter gets up at 7 o’clock in the morning.

6. My friend comes to see me on Saturday.

8. Insert gaps by prepositions and adverbs:

1. …Sunday my wife and I do not go …our offices. Sunday is our day off. … the morning we get … … 8 o’clock. … breakfast we often go to see our friends. We are usually … home … the evening. Tell me … your day off, please. 2. Ann, look … the watch. It is already 8 o’clock. Get …, wash, dress and eat. Your bag is … the shelf. Take it …the shelf and go … school. 3. My friend and I work … this Ministry. We are engineers. The engineers … our office learn English. We go … our lessons … Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Our lessons begin … 8 o’clock. … the lessons we answer the teacher’s questions and read English. We do not speak Russian … our teacher … the lessons. … home we translate exercises … Russian …English and learn words. 4. Do not take book … Pete. Take my book. It’s … my bag. 5. Children, come … the room, please, and sit … … the table.

 

Read the text

 

Bobbi’s weekends

Bobbi Brown lives in New Jersey. She is thirty-four and works for SKY TV in New York City. But she doesn’t work on weekdays, she only works at weekends. She always interviews famous people for an early morning news programme called The World This Weekend. On Saturdays and Sundays she gets up at 3.00 in the morning because she starts work at 6.30! She loves her job because it is exciting.

Her weekends are usually fast and exciting. Her weekdays are usually fast and domestic. She has two sons, Dylan, 7, and Dakota, 5. Every morning she gets up one hour before them, at 6.00, and she goes to the gym she comes home and she cooks breakfast, then she takes them to school. On Mondays she always goes shopping. She buys all the food for the week. Bobbi often cooks dinner in the evening, but not every day because she doesn’t like cooking. Fortunately, her husband, Don, loves cooking. Sometimes he cooks and helps her.

Every Tuesdays and Thursdays she visits her father. He lives on the next block. Every afternoon she picks up the kids from school. In the evening Don and Bobbi usually relax, but sometimes they visit their friends. They never go out on Friday evenings because she starts work so early on Saturday.

 

Answer the question:

1. Where does she live? 2. Where does she work? 3. Is she married? 4. Does she have children? 5. What time does she get up Saturday morning/ Monday morning? 6. Does she like her work? 7. Does she like cooking? 8. Does her husband like cooking? 9. Who does she usually visit on Tuesdays and Thursdays? 10. Where does her father live? 11. Does she have a busy life?

 

Retell the text

Construction there is /are

Positive	Negative	Question
There is a cat on the table There are two cats under the table.	There isn’t a cat on the table. There aren’t cats under the table.	Is there a cat on the table? Are there any cats under the table?

1. Complete the sentences using there’s, there are, is there or are there.

1. There is a beach down here.

2. There are four girls and two boys in her family.

3. … a train to Manchester? 4. …… a new disco near the college. 5. …… a good restaurant in this street? 6. ……two hospitals in town. 7. …… a lot of children in the pool? 8. …… three families in that house. 9. …… a television in the flat. 10. …… a big grey cloud over there. 11. … … a flower in the vase. 12. … … a lady, a gentleman, a boy and a girl in the room. 13. … … a match in the room.

 

2. Write the negative and interrogative:

1. There’s a blackboard in our classroom. 2. There are some English books on the table.3. There are very many mistakes in your dictation. 4. There’s a new grammar rule in Lesson Four. 5. There is a telegram on the table. 6. There is too little ink in my pen to write two letters. 7. There are some cats under the table. 8. There is a pen in my bag. 9. There are flowers on the bush. 10. There is a chair in the room.

3. Choose the proper verb:

1. There (is, are) a large table in my room. 2. There (is, are) three windows in my classroom. 3. There (is, are) a table and four chairs in my sister’s room. 4. There (is, are) a blackboard, four tables and five chairs in our classroom. 5. There (is, are) a text-book and two exercise-books on my table. 6. There (is, are) very many children in the park today. 7. There (is, are) a table near the wall. 8. There (is, are) trees along the street. 9. Here (is, are) clouds on the sky. 10. There (is, are) balls in the basket.

 

4. Answer the questions:

1. What is there on the table? 2. How many books are there on the table? 3. What kind of book is there in your classroom? 4. Is there a blackboard in your classroom? 5. Are there many tables in your classroom? 6. How many tables in your classroom? 7. Are there many chairs in the room? 8. What is there in your classroom? 9. How many Universities are there in your city? 10. How many theatres are there in Astana?

5. Ask questions to the italicized words:

1. There’s a nice park in our city. (1)

2. There are five chairs in the room. (1)

3. There are some English text-books on my table. (2)

4. There are a lot of mistakes in your exercise-book. (1)

5. There are three mistakes in my dictation. (2)

6. There’s a new cinema near my house. (1)

 

6. Put the following sentences into plural forms:

1. There is a brown desk in this room. 2. There is a fork and a knife on the table. 3. There is a blue sofa in his room. 4. There was a telex on Mr. Zotov’s desk. 5. There is a good exercise in this lesson. 6. There was an English book on the shelf. 7. There is a large kitchen in our flat. 8. There is a man and a woman in the room.

 

7. Put the following sentences into negative and interrogative:

1. There is a little girl in the room. 2. There was a telex on the table. 3. There are students there. 4. There were forks on the table. 5. There are telexes on the desk. 6. There were women in the room. 7. There are fifty children at the nursery – school.

8. Insert the verb to be in appropriate form:

1. There … only a Russian book on the table but there … no English book on it. 2. There … 15 lessons in our English book. 3. There … six hundred workers at this factory last year. Now there … seven hundred workers there. 4. … there a nursery-school in your house? – Yes, there …. I take my son there. 5. There …forks, spoons and knives on the table but there … no cups on it. 6. … there cheese and ham on the table now? –Yes, there …. 7. There … a letter on this table. Where is it now? 8. …there a bath-room in Ann’s flat? – Yes, there …. 9. There … no shelf in my room. Now I have a good shelf. 10. There … a tea-pot and three cups on the table.

9. Put questions to italicized words:

1. There are students in this room. (1)

2. There were English books on the shelf (2)

3. There is a woman in the kitchen. (1)

4. There was a watch on the table. (1)

5. There are good texts in this book (2)

Read the text:

Let’s visit the Smiths

The Smiths’ house is in Blueberry Street. It’s semi-detached, and it’s got a red roof, white windows and a brown door.

In front of the house there are some trees. At the back of the house there is a small garden with some pretty plants and flowers.

Downstairs in the house there is a hall, a living room, a kitchen, a study and a toilet. Upstairs there are three bedrooms and a bathroom. Paul and Sue’s bedroom is quite big. Mark’s bedroom is also big, but Mary’s bedroom is small.

The living room is not very big. There is a coffee table in the middle, and a sofa next to it. Next to the sofa there is a big plant. Near the coffee table there is an armchair and a TV. On the floor next to the armchair there is a lamp.

a. Read these sentences and define which of them are true or false:

True False

1. There are five bedrooms in the Smiths’ house ___ ___

2. There are some trees in the garden. ___ ___

3. There aren’t any trees in front of the house. ___ ___

4. In the living room there are some pictures on the walls. ___ ___

5. There is an armchair in front of the fireplace. ___ ___

6. There is a coffee table in front of the TV set. ___ ___

7. There isn’t a lamp next to the armchair. ___ ___

b. Insert missing information about Smiths’ house:

1. It’s a … – detached house. 2. There are three bedrooms and a … upstairs. 3. … there is a living room, a study, a kitchen, a hall and a toilet.4. There is a garden … of the house. 5. There are some trees … of the house. 6. There is a fireplace … the living room.

c. Insert in these sentences are or aren’t:

1. There … some plants behind the house. 2. There … any pictures in the kitchen.3. There … any plants in the bathroom. 4. There … some chairs in the dining room. 5. There …… any chairs in the toilet. 6. There … lots of plants in the garden.