3/ Exercises 3: Fill each blank with the correct form of the word given in capital letters
1. ACT a. We must take …………. before things get worse. b. Don’t worry about the volcano. It’s been ………… for years. c. She said she wanted to be a television ………………. . 2. BASE a. My grandfather only had a very …………….. education. b. The organization is run on a voluntary ……………….. 3. CONTINUE a. His latest book is a ………….. of his previous one. b. The train service was …………. because it wasn’t used by many people. c. Peter couldn’t get much work done as he was ………… being interrupted by people telephoning him. 4. Compare
I’m just a beginner in …….. with her.
What happened two years ago is not really ……. in the situation now.
4 /Exercises4 :Fill each of the numbered blank spaces with the most suitable preposition. 1. There has been a university in Oxford ..…… more than eight hundred years. 2. They have been married ………2001. 3. From 1992 …… last year we had a flat in the center of town. 4. Can you wait for a few minutes ….….. I’m ready ? 5. I haven’t spoken to Bill ….….. we were at school.
5 /Exercises5: Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only ONE word in each space. A good memory is a great (1) …… in learning a language. Everybody learns his own language by …….2……. what he hears when he is a small child, and some children like boys and girls who live ……3…… with their ……4……. seem to learn …….5……. languages almost as easily as ……..6…… . In school, it’s not so …….7…… to learn a second language because the pupils have so little ……8…… for it, and they are busy ……9….. other ……10…… as well. The best ……11…… for most of us to remember things is to join them in our mind with something ……12…… we know already, or which we easily remember because we have a picture of it in our ……13…… . That is why it is ……14…….. to learn words in sentences, not by ……15…… , or to see, or to do, or to feel what a word means when we first use it. 6 /Exercises 6: Put the verb in parentheses in the correct tense/ form. Dentists can do a lot(0)....to improve...(improve) your teeth. They can straighten your teeth by(1).....................................(put) wires on them. These wires(2)....................................(push) the roots of the teeth the right way. The best time for (3)..............................(do) this is while the teeth(4).............................(grow). A lot of dentists, however, prefer not(5).............................(start) doing this before a child(6)………………(be) at least eight. Sometimes a dentist even(7)……………...........….(use) elastic bands(8).........................(make) a tooth straight. Sometimes(9)...............................(pull) tooth out can prevent the other teeth from(10)............................(grow) too close to one another. 7/ Exercise 7: Pick out ONE word that has the underlined syllable pronounced differently from the others in each case
2/ EX2: 1. is 2. have not played / broke 3. will telephone / get 4. had just gone / rang 5. think / has improved / saw
3/ EX3:
1. a- action b. inactive c. actress 2. a. basic b. basis 3. a. continuation b. discontinued c. continually 4. a. comparison b. comparable 4/ EX 4: 1. for 2. since 3. until 4. until 5. since 5/ EX5: 1. help 6. one 11. way 2. remembering 7. easy 12. which 3. abroad 8. time 13. mind 4. parents 9. with 14. better 5. two 10. subjects 15. themselves 6/ EX 6: (1) putting , (2) push , (3)doing , (4) are growing , (5) to start, (6) is, (7) uses, (8) to make , (9) pulling , (10) growing 7/ Ex 7: 1- sugar, 2-dormitory, 3-champange, 4-closed, 5- stopped, 6-orange, 7-she, 8-books IV/ HOMEWORK: