V. Insert (a) few, (a) little:

1. Wait, I’ll pick ___ roses for you from my garden. 2. ___ people could resist such a temptation. 3. The patient has made ___ progress in the last couple of weeks. 4. There is ___ progress in the business. We must take some measures to improve it. 5. – Could you give me ___ information on the trip? – There is ___ I can tell you, sir. It’s out of the list. 6. Paul put ___ coins in the slot, thought ___, and then dialed the number. 7. Let’s go to the market and buy ___ fruit and ___ carrots. 8. There is ___ furniture in our country house. We need to buy ___ more things. 9. I’m still hungry. I think I’ll have ___ more fish. 10. When I was a child, we kept ___ pigeons in our back yard. 11. If I accept that job, I’ll make ___ more money. 12. There are ___ cars on the road today. It’s Sunday. 13. Many questions were asked, but ___ were answered. 14. Wait ___, there are still ___ things to attend to. 15. Even now there is ___ we can do to improve the weather.

VI. Make the following sentences interrogative and negative:

1. There is a lot of fruit this year. 2. There are a lot of apple trees in our garden. 3. There are a lot of slang words in his vocabulary. 4. There is a lot of interesting news in today’s e-mail. 5. There are a lot of things which you still don’t understand. 6. There is a lot of snow in winter in Siberia. 7. There are a lot of sights in every capital. 8. There is a lot of pollution in big cities. 9. We had a lot of fun at the party. 10. There is a lot of sunny weather in Italy. 11. Helen has a lot of good ideas. 12. My elder brother helps me a lot. 13. One should have a lot of patience to catch fish. 14. English people send a lot of cards on Christmas. 15. This journalist wrote a lot of books about famous people.

VII. Open the brackets using the Indefinite Tenses. Translate the sentences:

1. What time Andrea usually ___ (to get) up? 2. I ___ (not to go) to the shop yesterday. 3. My friend ___ (to help) me with Maths tomorrow. 4. He ___ (not to play) any musical instrument. 5. In 1990 they ___ (to go) to Australia. 6. My elder brother ___ (to be) a student next year. 7. Andrew ___ (not to know) her. 8. Everybody ___ (to have) a good time last Saturday? 9. Where you ___ (to go) in a month? 10. They rarely ___ (to visit) their grandparents. 11. This man ___ (to know) from his experience what it ___ (to mean). 12. Nothing ___ (to happen) by accident. 13. My great-grandmother is very old, but she ___ (to hear, to see and to understand) everything quite well. 14. They ___ (to carry out) a huge survey last week. 15. It ___ (to happen) many centuries ago. 16. The conference ___ (to start) in a minute or two. 17. These first-year students ___ (to want) to know if there ___ (to be) any tests on Thursday.

Test your grammar:

1. Ben doesn’t work very hard; Bill works _____.

a) more harder

b) harder

c) more hard

d) the hardest

2. Can you tell me the shortest way to _____ bookstore?

a) near

b) nearer

c) nearest

d) the nearest

3. David wants to be strong and healthy that’s why he _____ every morning.  

a) jog

b) jogs

c) jogged

d) has jogged

4. Paul says he is 56 years old, but nobody _____ him. 

a) believe

b) believes

c) don’t believe

d) doesn’t believe

5. How many _____ of bread do you want me to buy?

a) loafs

b) loafes

c) loaves

d) loavs

6. A typical English scenery includes green slopes with _____ and a castle in the background.

a) sheep

b) sheeps

c) sheepes

d) sheepps

7. When I first _____ to England in 1938, I thought I knew English fairly well.

a) come

b) has come

c) had come

d) came

8. In 1912 the Titanic _____ an iceberg on its first trip across the Atlantic, and it sank four hours later.

a) hits

b) hit

c) will hit

d) hitted

9. I don't know when Professor Johnson _____ to his office, but when he comes, I'll speak to him about it.

a) will come

b) come

c) comes

d) came

10. It's too late to telephone Tom now. I think I _____ him in the morning. 

a) called

b) call

c) will call

d) calls