10. Ask questions on the text and retell it: about my family and myself

First of all let me introduce myself. My name is Victor Popovych. I am nineteen years old. I study at the Cherkas­sy Engineering and Technological Institute. I am in the second year. My family lives in Cherkassy in one of the residential areas. My parents have two more kids besides me. Thus I have got an elder brother Olexandr and a younger sister Olga. My sister is a schoolgirl. She is fourteen. My brother is five years my senior. So he is twenty-four already. He is a designer by profession. He is married. His it wife is a telephone-operator. They are four in the family. He has two children — a son and a daughter. They are twins. They are lovely little kids with golden hair and' dark blue eyes.

My parents are not old at all. Daddy is fourty- seven and my Mum is three years his junior. My grandpar­ents are already pensioners, but they are still full of life and energy. I have many relatives -- aunts, uncles, cousins.

My father is an architect and my mother is a hairdres­ser. They like their work very much.

I am fond of reading books on history and science fic­tion. I go in for sports. I like playing football, basketball and chess. Especially I’m good at chess.

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In four years I shall graduate from the Institute. To be a good specialist it is necessary to study many general and special subjects. My future speciality is electronic com­puters. In our age of rapid scientific progress and scientific

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discoveries electronic computing is becoming a branch of economy. It serves as the foundation of economic and engi­neering progress. Research is impossible without com­puters.

The pronoun grammar exercises

I. Fill in the blanks with personal pronouns:

1. ... am a first-year student of the Polytechnic Institute. 2. My family is not very large, ... consists of 3 persons. 3. My mother is a doctor. ... works in the hospital. 4. My father is an operator of the electronic computers. ... works at the plant. 5. My friends study at the University. ... are in their third year. 6. Have ... any relatives? 7. My aunt has two sons. ... are twins.

2. Complete the following sentences translating the words in brackets into English:

1. (Ckuii>kh) old are you? 2. (Re) and (kojih) were you born? 3. (Kojih) do you get up in the morning? 4. (B HKOMy) Institute do you study at? 5. (Hny) of these two foreign languages will you master? 6. (Xto 3a npoc^e- cieio) is your father? 7. (HoMy) have you decided to be­come an engineer? 8. (Xto) are you? 9. (Hhio) book do you see on the table? 10. (KoMy) did he make a pro­posal?

3. Give short negative answers to the questions using words nothing, nowhere, nobody, neither:

1. Where do your grandparents work? 2. What are you doing now? 3. Which of these two occupations will you train?

4. Who told you to do this work?

4. Fill in the blanks with any, some, much, little, many, few, a little, a few:

1. I have ... relatives. 2. My sister-in-law can speak French ... . 3. My mother has ... cousins. 4. He has ...

friends. 5. We’ll rest ... minutes and go back. 6. Have you ... news? Yes, I have ... . 7. There is ... light in my room.

5. Copy the following sentences. Underline personal pronouns in the objective case:

1. We see them at the club very often. 2. The man says he knows you and your family. 3. I seldom speak with him about my cousins. 4. Please, give me a note-book. 5. Our English is poor. Mr. Brown teaches us English. 6. Every day I help my mother to look after the house.

6. Put personal pronouns in brackets in the objective case:

1. My friend sends (I) many letters. 2. His brother knows (he) well. 3. I often see (they) in the park.

4. Don’t ask (he) about his wife. 5. Do you know Itali­an? — No, I don’t know (it) at all. 6. Sometimes we meet (she) at the Browns. 7. Our mother greets (we) every morning. 8. Your son studies together with (she), doesn’t he?

7. Insert possessive pronouns:

1. We have ... English classes twice a week. 2. She likes ... new dress very much. 3. Paul keeps ... books in the book-case. 4. I usually go to see ... friends in the evening.

4. They often take ... children to this park. 6. Do you help ... parents? 7. The film is very interesting but I don’t remember ... title. 8. Mary is an accountant. She does ... work well. 9. Mr. Wilson is in ... office now. 19. Peter and Ann teach ... children music.