XI. Look at the right-hand picture and make up a dialogue. Use the Topical Vocabulary, Conversational Phrases and Hesitation Devices

XII. a) Make the following sentences interrogative and negative:

1. It is as chilly today as it was yesterday. 2. The frost will be as hard tomorrow as it is today. 3. She is as fond of frosty weather as her brother is. 4. It has stopped raining. 5. She will be working when you come. 6. Pressure will remain high.

b) Ask one another questions on the following sentences and answer them in the negative. Add a sentence or two to develop a situation. Use conversational phrases:

1. It's coming on to pour. 2. There was a good fall of snow yesterday. 3. It's still freezing hard. 4. The rain fell heavily last night. 5. It was foggy yesterday morning. 6. It's clearing up. 7. The clouds are lifting. 8. I've got my folding umbrella with me. 9. A thunderstorm is coming. 10. I've just read the weather-forecast.

XIII. Put the adjectives and adverbs in brackets in the required degree of comparison:

1. Today the frost is (severe) than it was yesterday. 2. This book is (interesting) of all I have read this year. 3. It snows (hard) this winter than it did last winter. 4. January is (cold) month of the year. 5. My sister speaks English (bad) than I do. 6. Which is (hot) month of the year? 7. Which is (beautiful) place in this part of the country? 8. This nice-looking girl is (good) student in our group. 9. Does this sportsman run (fast) than you? - Oh, yes, he is (fast) in our group. 10. The students of our group'll have (little) spare time this term and I (little) of all as I've got (much) work at the scientific society.

XIV. a) Read the following dialogue and copy out all the adjectives and adverbs used in the comparative and the superlative degrees. b) Retell the dialogue in indirect speech:

"Good evening, Mrs. Martin. Let me take your things. Put your bag on this table."

"How is Mr. Jones?"

"Quite well, thank you. He is not in yet. And how is your husband?"

"He is coming in a moment. He is busier than ever."

"My husband usually comes home about six. Sometimes a little earlier. But he never comes later than half past six."

"It is only a quarter past."

"Let us go into the sitting-room. Please, sit down in this armchair. It is the most comfortable."

"I like your house very much. It is the quietest I know."

"There is very little traffic in our street."

"Your garden is so large. It is much larger than ours."

"But yours is more beautiful. Your trees are older and you have finer flowers."

XV. Fill in prepositions or adverbs:

A. 1. Be careful! Don't splash mud... passers-by. 2. A thick fog is spreading... the city and though cars and buses have put... their lights they can only crawl....3. It is pleasant to look... the trees when the frost sparkles... the branches. 4. There is a bridge... the river. 5. The rivers and lakes freeze......winter. 6. I don't like to be out-of-doors... such bad weather. I prefer to stay... home. 7. Let us have a tramp... the country lanes. 8. The new corn is just beginning to appear... the ground. 9. The ground is usually covered... snow... winter.

B. 1. The temperature is 25°... zero... the shade today. 2. Look... the sky. There is hardly a cloud... it. 3. A heat wave will spread... the south-west... Moscow. 4. It's beginning to rain. Put... your umbrella. 5. The rain is... and it's clearing.... 6. The weather is getting worse. The sun is going.... 7. Look... picture... page 25. What do you see... the picture? 8. It's pouring. We shall be wet.... 9. My aunt will stay... our place... two months.

XVI. Complete the following sentences using the words in brackets:

1. The sky will be clear if the wind... (to stop). 2. I shall go to the country if the weather... (to be fine). 3. We shall go to the skating-rink if the frost... (to be not severe). 4. The snow will melt if the sun... (to be hot). 5. You will feel warm if you (to put on) a warm coat. 6. He will ring you up when he (to come) home. 7. The days will be longer when summer (to come). 8. I shall go home if it (to rain). 9. We look forward to the time when spring (to come).

XVII. Choose the right word:

to stay - to remain

1. I have done three exercises and two.... 2. The place was so nice that we decided to... there all the summer. 3. Few leaves... on the trees and they are not green any longer. 4. He was so tired that he... in bed all day long. 5. The teacher tried to make the boy speak but he... silent. 6. It was raining so hard that I... at my friend's the whole night.

such - so

1. She was... tired that she couldn't go on working. 2. I never go for... long walks. 3. I didn't know that it was... an interesting book. 4. The student spoke English... badly that the teacher couldn't give him even a satisfactory mark. 5. The weather was... nasty yesterday that I stayed at home all day long. 6. It rained... hard yesterday that I got wet through.

XVIII. a) Respond to the following sentences. Develop them into dialogues. Use conversational phrases and hesitation devices:

1. It looks like rain. 2. It's pouring, what shall we do? 3. What nasty weather we are having today! 4. It's a lovely morning, isn't it? 5. Isn't it a hot day? 6. It's wonderful weather we are having. I hope it will keep fine. 7. What a tremendous clap of thunder! 8. Look! It's clearing up.

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