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The use of the indefinite article with class nouns:

1. He bought a book yesterday.

2. I watched a car as it came up our road.

3. He is a doctor.

4. A child can understand it.

5. A week or two past. The car makes 120 km an hour. I’ll be back in a minute.

6. It is a book. This is a picture. There is a plate on the table. What a clever man! She has a cat.

7. A cat is a domestic animal.

8. My friend, a history teacher, knows a lot about it.

9. He is such a clever man. She is quite a young girl. It was rather a difficult job.

10. Twice a day, 40 km an hour, 80 p a kilo.

11. Catch a cold, have a headache.

The use of the definite article with class nouns:

1. Where is the key?

2. This is the house that Jack built.

3. The wedding looked sad. The bride was too old and the bridegroom was too young.

4. The sun was getting warmer.

5. The pine grows in the North.

6. The Highest mountains are in Asia.

7. There are special schools for the blind.

8. The president is elected for 4 years.

9. John is not very well. He went to the doctor.

10. Can you play the guitar?

11. The Chinese, the Germans, the Scots.

12. The United Nations, The Titanic, The French revolution.

The use of articles with nouns of material:

1. He doesn’t like coffee.

2. Rose tasted the wine. It was good.

3. The coffee she made was better than he had hoped and very hot.

The use of articles with Geographical names:

1. a) Africa, Asia, France, London. Latin America, Central Asia.

b) Gone is the Moscow of merchants and aristocrats.

2. The Pacific, the Neva, the Black sea.

3. a) Lake Baikal

b) The Baikal

4. a) Elbrus, Everest

b) The Urals, the Alps

5. a) Madagascar, Corfu

b) The Bermudas, the Bahamas.

6. a) North America, Latin America, Central Asia

b) The middle East, the Far East, the north of England, the south of France

7. The South, the North, the West, the East.

The use of articles with proper names:

1. a) There is a letter from Susan.

b) He is very different from the rest of the Kents.

c) I have often wondered if Tim was really a Burton.

She left like an Alice in Wonderland.

I heard it from a certain Mr. Jagger.

2. a) Uncle Jim, aunt Polly.

She went into the hall: «Is mother back? »

b) The son was as clever as the father.

c) Lomonosov was the son of a fisherman.

3. a) Professor Brown, doctor Smith, etc.

b) The painter Warhol left many fine pictures.

The use of articles with parts of the day:

1. a) It was evening.

b) It happened in early morning.

2. He’ll never forget the day he met her.

3. I spent a sleepless night.

The use of articles with Cardinal points, with the word «weather»:

1. She is a weather forecaster.

2. What nice weather we are heaving today!

3. Let’s talk about the weather in Rome.

The use of articles in set expressions and with the words “town” and “country”:

1. a) In a hurry, as a result, it’s a pity.

b) it’s out of the question, in the original, on the whole.

c) at work, by name, at first sight.

2. a) You can’t go to town tomorrow.

b) I want go to the town I was born in.

3. a) What country are you from?

b) The country in which I live is called Russia.

The use of articles with names of meals:

1. Did you have dinner?

2. The dinner we have today is very good.

3. After a heavy breakfast, we went to sleep.

The use of articles with names of seasons:

1. I like winter.

2. It happened in the spring of 1930.

3. It was a beautiful spring.

4. It happened in late winter.