Exercises after the text

1. Answer the following questions.

1. How many days a week do English people work?

2. Where do most English people generally spend their weekends?

3. Do you think people who stay at home at the weekend manage to relax?

4. When do the most important sporting events take place? How can one learn the sports results?

5. What is the favourite time for going out? Can you explain why?

6. How do many English people spend their Sunday morning?

7. How long does the weekend last?

2. Interpret the following sentences in English:

1. As they usually have a house, they more often have people to stay.

2. Those who stay at home at the weekend try both to relax and to catch up with all the jobs they are too busy to do during the week.

3. Having gone to bed late the night before, many people have a lie-in on Sunday morning.

4. While having breakfast people start reading the Sunday paper which they either fetch themselves or have delivered by the paper boy for a small extra charge.

5. Those people have little time for anything else on Sunday and spend the day submerged in a sea of newspapers.

6. The London-Birmingham train takes 1 1,2 hours.

3. Draw a general conclusion from the following facts o specify the idea.

Model: Saturday evening is the favourite time for parties dances, going to the pictures or theatre, in fact ...

... Saturday evening is the favourite time for going out.

1. Students, young people working away from home like to spend their weekends in a hotel, or a boarding house in the country or at the sea, in fact...

2. Saturday evening is the climax of the weekend since you don't have to worry about getting up early for work the next day, in fact...

3. Saturday is a very busy time for married people, especially for women who go out to work, as they have to catch up with the weekly washing, ironing, shopping, gardening, in fact

4. Professional sport was for many years forbidden on Sundays, and although the restrictions have been relaxed in recent years, it is still difficult to find any large sporting event taking place on Sundays, in fact...

4. Find in the text the adjectives in different degrees of comparison, write them down and translate them in Russian.

5. Indicate from the text all the nouns in plural form, translate them in Russian and make the singular form of these nouns.

The 3rd variant

1. Arrange the words into four groups according to the rules of reading:

late storm fire

sure fate nine

stop pen fork

skirt left bus

bare car rare

2. Indicate how the letter s is pronounced in the words:

a) [s] b) [z]

sad absent

nose anesthesia

spring question

snow desk

season poison

second rose

basil basket

3. Arrange the words into two groups:

a) the words that begin with prefix;

b) the words that end with suffix

uncomfortable worker

difference irregular

overwork dislike

impossible changeable

physicist development

4. Plural forms. Which 12 words in the list below have mistakes:

leafs wifes mens matches

armys photoes geese potatos

classes bases boys childs

womans lamps halfs postcards

deer mouses speechs postmans

5. Translate into Russian, pay attention to the construction there + be.

1. There will be a new shop in the centre of the town.

2. While there is a life, there is a hope.

3. There is no rose without a thorn.

4. Are the any knives on the table?

5. There are two famous actresses in this film.

6. There will be a new school in this village next year.