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GRAMMAR COMMENT : ARTICLES
| Use the definite articlethe when there is only one of something. The Earth goes round the sun, and the moon goes round the earth. Use the definite articlethewith the names of rivers and groups of Islands. Eg. Which is longer the Severn or the Danube? Use the indefinite article a/an to say what kind of thing is, or what kind of person somebody is. Eg. That is a nice table. Tom’s father is a doctor. We do not use thewith most names of countries, cities, states, streets or lakes. Eg. She is from Kazakhstan. She lives in Almaty. |
Exercise 1 Put the definite article the where necessary. If you don’t need the, leave the space empty.
a) Sarah spends most of her free time watching ______ TV.
b) Do you ever listen to ______ radio?
c) What do you want for ________ breakfast?
d) What’s ________ capital city of Canada?
e) Moon goes round ____ earth 27 days.
Exercise 2 Put articles the or a/an where necessary.
a) Excuse me, where is ______ bus station please?
b) There were no chairs, so we sat on _____ floor.
c) Would you like _____ apple?
d) Could you close ______ door please?
e) How often do you go to _____ cinema?
Exercise 5 Read the text and translate the first two paragraphs. “Television in our life”
Television brings the world in our life. It helps us to understand people from other countries, to know their customs and traditions. One can find TV-programmes for children, teenagers, for sport fans and for people of various professional interests.
There are many kinds of television programmes and television channels in our country. The number of them increase constantly to meet all the tastes and needs of the viewers.
Television is the great entertainment and propaganda machine. From one hand it makes a lot to entertain people. On the other hand television can do some harm for certain people by the propaganda.
With the increasing number of TV-progammes the number of TV-viewers is also regularly increases. And their tastes are also increase and change. That is why from time to time some programmes are changing to another programmes. TV-channels try to attract viewers with the help of different shows, conserts or interesting programmes. Apart from their entertainment value, they provide useful topics of conversation.
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