Exercise 1.5. Use the articles a, an, the where it is necessary:

1. нужен ли здесь предлог?
__ unemployed can receive some benefits.

2 give your reaction (so or neither)

1 i love travelling
2 my friends are provided with social benefits
3 i didn't go shopping yesterday.

3. put the world all, both

1 we are ready to help you if you need our help
2 Ann's parents are doctors
3 they can speak English

4. use the articles (a/an,the,-) where necessary

1What __ big ears you have!
2how dangerous __ place looks!
3what __ funny clothes she wears!

1.___international organization involved in saving animals and 2.___environment they live in. It was founded in 1961, and deals 4____5___(every,any,many,few) aspects of nature,for example plants,fish and the other use of the worl's natural resources.The WWF has succeeded 6.___ rescuing 7___ least 30 species of birds and mammals from 8.___(extinct,extinction,extension,migration). If fashionable women today feel 9.___(happy,excited,embarrashed,guilty) to wear fur coats,it is 10___(because,due to, owing,thanks) the work of WWF which opposes 11___killing of animals 12.___their skin. 13.___education is the key,if more people were 14.(afraid,fond,aware,tired) of the danger 15.___16___ environment and its wildlife, the perhaps they 17___(will do, would do, are doing,did) more help organizations like the WWF.

notice of. Twice a day, with predictable regularity, the pot boils over. Whenever you look it’s people, people, people. The trains which leave or arrive every few minutes are packed: an endless procession of human sardine tins. The streets are so crowded, there is hardly room to move on the pavement. The queues for buses reach staggering proportions. It takes ages for a bus to get to you because the traffic on the roads has virtually come to a standstill. Even when a bus does at least arrive, it’s so full, it can’t take any more passengers. The smallest unforeseen event can bring about conditions of utter chaos. A power-cut, for instance, an exceptionally heavy snowfall or a minor derailment must always make city-dwellers realize how precarious the balance is. The extraordinary thing is not that people put up with these conditions, but that they actually choose them in preference to anything else. Large modern cities a too big to control. They impose their own living conditions on the people who inhabit them. City-dwellers are obliged by their environment to adopt a wholly unnatural way of life. They lose touch with the land and the rhythm of nature. It’s possible to live such an air conditioned existence in the large city that you are barely conscious of the seasons. A few flowers in a public park (if you have time to visit it) may remind you whether it’s spring or summer. A few leaves clinging to the pavement may remind you it is autumn. Beyond that, what is going on in nature seems totally irrelevant. Tall buildings blot out the sun, traffic fumes pollute the atmosphere. Even the distinction between day and night is lost. The flow of traffic goes on unceasingly and the noise never stops.

reading a book about astrology. 2. I go/are going to a party on Sunday. 3. Nurses look/are looking after people in hospital. 4. I speak/am speaking four languages. 5. Do you want/are you wanting to have a cup of tea? 6. Who sits/is sitting on my chair? 7. Look! She is wearing/wears the same shoes as me! 8. What do you look/are you looking at? 9. What do you do/are you doing on long winter evenings? 10. Ann comes/ is coming for the weekend. Choose the correct form – Simple or Present Continuous. Recollect non-continuous verbs 1)What … you (think) about?___________________. 2) Mother … (taste) the soup, because she thinks it is sour (прокис)._____________. 3) Chocolate … (taste) sweet