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Exercise 56 Express the following in one word denoting the doer of the action




Model: one who sells matches → a matchseller

One who drives an engine, one who owns a house, one who operates traffic, one who does wrong, one who rises early, smth that opens cans, smth that washes the floor, smth that kills noise, smth that locates sound, smth that kills pain, one who travells through time.

Exercise 57 Add one of the suffixes to the following words to name a persons profession. You will have to change some of the words a little.

Noun suffixes to name a person who does a job -er farmer -ian -ist -ant

 

Music, art, farm, manage, photograph, garden, science, politics, electric, drive, mend, academy, physics, mathematics, chemistry, magic, account.

b) Lets play a guessing game. Think of one of the jobs, but dont tell the rest of the group. They should ask you Yes/No questions to find out what the job is.

Model: Do you... (work inside, earn a lot of money, work regular hours, in shifts)? Do you have to... (wear a uniform, use your hands, answer the phone)?

ENJOY YOURSELF

Exercise 58 Comment on the following proverbs.

1. Better late than never, but better never late.

2. Say well is good, do well is better.

3. Those do least who speak most.

4. East or West, home is best.

Exercise 59 Fill in the crossword. The vertical line will finally open you the name, which you know very well.

1. Railway carriages for transporting people and freight.

2. The very first railways used them for drawing trains.

3. An Englishman who demonstrated his working model of a steam engine in London in 1808.

4. The fastest means of transport.

5. It makes modern engines work.

6. Very strong.

7. A person on a journey.

8. The inventor of the worlds first steam locomotive.

9. The place where students from different towns live.

10. A person who creates or designs something new.

11. The tractive power of early engines.

 

             
             
                       
                 
                     
                   
                   
                     
                 
                 
             
                             

Exercise 60 A simile is an expression in which someone or something is described as being similar to something else. An example would be to say that someone is as poor as a church mouse. Can you complete the following similes with blind, wet and cool? Find the Ukrainian equivalents.

1. Johnny was as... as a drowned rat after being caught in the rain. 2. Dads knocked his head against the bookshelf again. Hes as... as a bat. 3. Jane is as... as a cucumber shell stay absolutely calm even in the worst crisis.

 

Exercise 61 Join the adjectives on the left with the corresponding nouns on the right to get a popular English saying. Make sentences with the word combinations.

as busy as as white as as easy as as good as as safe as as heavy as as old as as mad as a bee Adam gold snow ABC the Bank of England a hatter lead




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