III. Lexico-grammatical exercises 3.1. Put the verbs in the brackets into the correct form of the Present Simple or the Present Continuous.
1. A: I …1.. (think) she’s busy at the moment. She …2… (wash) her hair.
B: But I want to get information how much this computer …3…. (cost).
2. A: Your new trousers …4…. (look) nice.
B: Thank you. The trouble is …5…. (they/not/fit) properly. I …6…. (not/know) why I bought them.
What …7… (you/think) of them?
3. A: What …8… (you/do)?
B: I …9… (weigh) this letter. I …10… (need) to know how many stamps to put on it. 10 points
3.2. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form
Last summer some friends and I arranged to go camping. We had been looking forward to going for weeks when finally the date of departure arrived. We ……1……..(load) the car with our luggage and ………2……..(set off) early in the morning. The weather was perfect, the sun ……3………(shine) brightly and the wind ……4………(blow) gently. There ………5…….(not/be) a cloud in the sky! Shortly afterwards, while we ………6…….(travel) along the motorway, we ………7……….(notice) that the car ………8………(make) a strange noise. Pete, who ………9………(drive) very fast, suddenly ………10……..(stop) the car. Everyone …………11………(get out) and ………12………..(go) round to the back of the car. To our surprise the boot was open – whoever had loaded the luggage hadn’t close it properly, and everything had fallen out!
1. Gardening takes up a lot of time.
2. She took away the food.
3. She takes after her mother in character.
4. He took off his coat.
5. Sorry, I took you for your sister.
6. Your daughter doesn't take after you at all.
7. Anxiety has taken over his appetite.
8. Do you take me for a fool?
9. He took off my wet boots and made me sit by the fire.
10. He takes up his duties next week.
11. I won't take up your time any more.
Если нужно, вот перевод:
1. Садоводство занимает много времени.
2. Она забрала/унесла еду.
3. Она похожа на свою маму по характеру.
4. Он снял пальто.
5. Извините, я принял вас за вашу сестру.
6. Ваша дочь совсем не похожа на вас.
7. Тревога лишила его аппетита.
8. Вы принимаете меня за дурака?
9. Он снял с меня мокрые ботинки и заставил меня сесть у костра/камина.
10. Он приступает к своим обязанностям на следующей неделе.
11. Я не буду больше отнимать у вас время.
English is a West Germanic language first spoken in early medieval England which eventually became the leading language of international discourse in today's world.[4][5][6] It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the area of Great Britain that later took their name, England. Both names derive from Anglia, a peninsula on the Baltic Sea. English is most closely related to Frisian and Low Saxon, while its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Old Norse (a North Germanic language), as well as Latin and French.[7][8][9]
English has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century, are collectively called Old English. Middle English began in the late 11th century with the Norman conquest of England; this was a period in which English was influenced by Old French, in particular through its Old Norman dialect.[10][11] Early Modern English began in the late 15th century with the introduction of the printing press to London, the printing of the King James Bible and the start of the Great Vowel Shift.[12]
Modern English has been spreading around the world since the 17th century by the worldwide influence of the British Empire and the United States. Through all types of printed and electronic media of these countries, English has become the leading language of international discourse and the lingua franca in many regions and professional contexts such as science, navigation and law.[4] Modern English grammar is the result of a gradual change from a typical Indo-European dependent marking pattern, with a rich inflectional morphology and relatively free word order, to a mostly analytic pattern with little inflection, a fairly fixed subject–verb–object word order and a complex syntax.[13] Modern English relies more on auxiliary verbs and word order for the expression of complex tenses, aspect and mood, as well as passive constructions, interrogatives and some negation.
English is the largest language by number of speakers,[14] and the third most-spoken native language in the world, after Standard Chinese and Spanish.[15] It is the most widely learned second language and is either the official language or one of the official languages in almost 60 sovereign states. There are more people who have learned it as a second language than there are native speakers. As of 2005, it was estimated that there were over 2 billion speakers of English.[16] English is the majority native language in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, and it is widely spoken in some areas of the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia.[17] It is a co-official language of the United Nations, the European Union and many other world and regional international organisations. It is the most widely spoken Germanic language, accounting for at least 70% of speakers of this Indo-European branch. English speakers are called "Anglophones". Variability among the accents and dialects of English used in different countries and regions—in terms of phonetics and phonology, and sometimes also vocabulary, idioms, grammar, and spelling—does not typically prevent understanding by speakers of other dialects, although mutual unintelligibility can occur at extreme ends of the dialect continuum.
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