Unit 1
MEETING PEOPLE
COMMUNICATION
Exercise 1. Learn the conversation. Then act it out.
Susan: Hello!
Bob: Hi, Susan, Im glad to see you. How are you?
Susan: Im fine, thanks. And how are you?
Bob: Not bad, thank you. By the way, this is Thomas.
Susan: Hello Thomas. Nice to meet you.
Thomas: Hello Susan. Nice to meet you.
Susan: Wherere you from, Thomas?
Thomas: Im from Munich. And youre from London, arent you?
Susan: No, Im not. Actually, Im from Manchester. Anyway, have a nice evening!
Bob: Thank you. You too.
Susan: Bye. See you next week.
Bob: Good-bye.
Thomas: I was happy to meet you, Susan!
Susan: I was glad to meet you.
GRAMMAR
Plural forms of the nouns ( )
| -s | [z] | do g s [dogz] | ||
| -s | [s] | boo k s [buks] | ||
| -s | [z] | lin e s [lainz] | ||
| y | -s | [z] | da y s [deiz] | |
| y , y i | -es | [iz] | copies [kopiz] | |
| (ch, sh, ss, x) | -es | [iz] | bu sh es [bu∫iz] | |
| o | -es / -s | [z] | tomatoes [təma:touz] | |
| f, fe f v | -es | [z] | wol v es [wulvz] | |
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| man woman mouse tooth foot goose child fish sheep deer | men women mice teeth feet geese children fish sheep deer | , , | ||
Exercise 2. Make the plural form of the following nouns.
e.g.: a doctor doctors, an army armies.
a lady, a pencil, a tree, a banana, a brush, an easel, a tomato, a fox, a waiter, a puppy, a child, a girl, a student, a foot, a teacher, a man, a tooth, a book, a film, a mouse.
| this (, , ) this week, this year, this camera, this film | that (, , ) that week, that year, that camera, that film | |
| these () these weeks, these years, these cameras, these films | those () those weeks, those years, those cameras, those films | |
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Im sorry to trouble you. That s all right.
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Are you Mr. Smith? Yes, that s right.
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Hello, this is Jane. Is that Mary? ( )
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Exercise 3. Make plural forms of the following word-combinations.
e.g.: this fax these faxes, that cinema those cinemas
this newspaper, that professor, this movie, that artist, this article, that knife, that review, this landscape, that hotel, this letter, that director, this pen, that computer, that institute, that picture, this address, this phone, that dog, this child.
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| (the Nominative Case) | (the Objective Case) | |
| 1- | I | me , , |
| 2- | - | - |
| 3- | he | him , |
| she | her , | |
| it , , (.) | it , | |
| 1- | we | us , |
| 2- | you , | you , |
| 3- | they | them , |
. he (), she () , .
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| my - , , , | our - , , , | ||
| your - , , , | your - , , , | ||
| his - her - its - , | ( ) ( ) | their - | |
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- His camera is on the table. .
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- His new camera is on the table. .
Exercise 4. Translate into English.
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