Grammar

  • Practice new words

    Exercise 1: Make a written translation of the following sentences. Use the words from chapter 4. to cope, to be reluctant, to dismount, a carton, naughty,  to clutch, to give […]

  • Functions of modal verbs

    Model verbs expressing ability: 2. Model verbs expressing possibility and probability: 3. Model verbs expressing requests, offers and suggestions: Learn the difference between a request, an offer, and a suggestion. […]

  • EA spelling words

    1. The combinations  of the vowels “ea” and “ee” typically result in a long [i:] sound. Like in these word families: -ea, -each, -ead, -eak, -eal, -eam, -ean, -eap, -ear, -east, […]

  • THESAURUS WITH THE VERBS “TO LOOK AND TO SEE” [exercise]

    Match the English words with their translation in Russian (1) Look, (2) peer, (3) glare, (4) stare, (5) gaze, (6) gape, (7) regard, (8) peek/peep, (9) have/take a look, (10) […]

  • Collocations expressing quantities

    Learn the following collocations to express quantities with uncountable nouns. 2. Translate the following sentences into English.  Это кола. Дай мне две банки / бутылки колы. Это рыба. Дай мне […]

  • Countable and uncountable nouns: a, an and some [answers]

    ex. 8 p. 6 in a book “Round up 3” Answers: Some meat A camera Some soap A carrot A ring Some rice Some cheese A kangaroo Some bread Some […]

  • That or what?

    Fill in the gaps with THAT or WHAT. It is not clear to _______ extent these views were shared. ‘You never cared about me.’ ‘___________’s not true.’ I wish you […]

  • Translation exercise

    Translate into Russian using the following words: to ransack a store cupboard, a tin of meat, good and evil spirits, to suppose (that), a grown-up, superstitious, perhaps, neighbourhood, to be […]

  • Present Perfect or Past Simple

  • List of “ie” words

    One of the best known spelling rules is ‘i before e except after c’, but does this rule really work? Is it true ALL the time? As with most spelling […]