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2. No article is used:

  1. with airports, bridges, chains of shops, parks, stations: Heathrow, Waterloo Bridge, Selfridges (shops), Harrods (store), Central Park, Hyde Park, Paddington Station, but the Golden Gate Bridge, the Scotch House (shop).

  2. with names of business and charities (even when an abbreviation is used): General Motors, Sony, Shell, BA (British Airways), IBM, Oxfam, Christian Aid. If the word "company" is mentioned the is used: the Bell Telephone Company, the General Electric Company, but General Electric (GEC).

  3. with streets and squares: Bond Street, Portobello Road, Piccadilly Circus, Madison Avenue; but: the High Street, the Strand, the Drive, the Mall.

  4. with titles of magazines: Newsweek, Punch, Which, Time.

  5. with some places of interest: Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle.

  6. with names of religious and other festivals: Christmas, Easter, Victory Day, Thanksgiving Day, etc.

E x e r c i s e s

4.1. Read the sentences and mark where the should be.

  1. I have been to United Kingdom, Germany and Soviet Union, but never to Poland. (the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union) (2)

  2. Amazon in Brazil is the longest river in South America.

  3. Japan and United States are separated by Pacific Ocean.

  4. Liverpool is in north of England, fairly close to Wales.

  5. I would love to go to Jamaica, Bahamas or somewhere else in Caribbean.

  6. Suez Canal flows through north of Egypt from Port Said to Suez, joining Mediterranean to Gulf of Suez and Red Sea.

  7. Lake Windermere in north-west of England is one of the largest lakes on British Isles.

  8. Iran has borders with Iraq, Turkey, Russia, Afghanistan and West Pakistan.

  9. Mount Everest is in Himalayas on the border between Nepal and Tibet which is part of People's Republic of China.

  10. Biarritz stands on the mouth of Adour river which flows into Gulf of Gascony in Bay of Biscay.

4.2. Insert the proper articles where necessary.

  1. – John Din, ….. British exchange postgraduate, is studying ….. Russian dialects. He has been staying at ….. Moscow university for over six months. John has spent ….. great deal of his time in ….. library.

  2. Mr Brown invited Victorov to visit ….. Houses of Parliament. Mr Brown is ….. M.P. for Leeds.

  3. There are over 900 peers in ….. House of Lords.

  4. There are 630 members in ….. House of Commons.

  5. No ….. King or ….. Queen of England can come into ….. House of Commons.

  6. They saw ….. front bench on ….. Speaker's right. This bench is for ….. Prime Minister and ….. leading members of ….. government.

  7. I wonder what the members of ..... Parliament shout when they like what ….. speaker is saying.

  8. My train leaves from ….. Waterloo Station at 7.10 p.m.

  9. ….. Queen Elizabeth II won't speak on TV tomorrow.

  10. ….. West End is the symbol of wealthy and luxurious life.

4.3. Correct any errors. Put in the where necessary.

  1. While we were in London we stayed at The Royal Hotel in the Albert Street near the Trafalgar Square.

  2. On the first morning we went to British Museum and had lunch at McDonald's in the Church Street.

  3. In the evening we went to a pub just off the Leicester Square , then we went to a play at the National Theatre.

  4. Next day we went to Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey and had lunch at the Peking Restaurant.

  5. We looked in Evening Standard newspaper and found there was a good film at Odeon cinema near Piccadilly Circus.