Most exercises are based on the Headway Upper-Intermediate, by Liz and John Soars
1. Animal idioms and proverbs
2. Haunted house for sale; use the right verbal form.
3. The English tense system, Unit 1
4. Nouns, Unit 4
5. Exercises on Past S and Past C
6. Exercises on Present S and Present C
7. Animals
8. Revision of Units 11 and 12, Headway Intermediate
9. Revision of Units 1 and 5
10. Revision of Units 1 and 2
11. Revision of Unit 3
12. Thomas Hardy, the British novelist
13. More exercises on Unit 3
14. Revision exercises on Units 4 and 6
15. The supernatural and paranormal
1.ANIMAL IDIOMS&PROVERBS
1.MATCH BOTH PARTS OF A SAYING/PROVERB.
a. Don't make mountains ........in the mouth.
b. A bird in the hand ........before they are hatched.
c. Birds of feather ........new tricks.
d. It's raining .......catches the worm.
e.One swallow ........does not make a summer.
f.You can't teach an old dog .........out of mole hills.
g.Let sleeping dogs .........is worth two in the bush.
h.The early bird .......little mice play.
i. Don't count your chickens ........flock together.
j. Don't look a gift horse ........cats and dogs.
k.When the cat is away, ........lie.
2. INSERT "ANIMALS" EXPRESSIONS:
FISH,BEE, ANTS, COWS, BULL, MULE,GUINNEA PIG, RAT, FLEA, STAG, BUTTERFLIES
a. A week before the wedding day he gave a ........... party to his male friends.
b. He is such a clumsy person; he behaves like a ......... in a china shop.
c. Don't experiment on me: I don't want to be your ....................!
d. The girls met again after the break and they talked till the ...........came home.
e. I always have ................ in my stomach before each exam.
f. You fidget all the time; you must have ............. in the pants.
g.Although they denied any guilt, the headmaster smelled a .....(he felt that sth. was wrong).
i. My mum is always as busy as a ............ .
j. Don't be stubborn as a ...............!
k. He came home drunk as a ............ .
l. Go to the ........... market next Saturday to look for an old carved mirror frame.
2. HAUNTED HOUSE FOR SALE; Use the right verbal form.
There are lots of spine-chilling extras waiting for whoever buys the 13th century Chingle Hall near Preston. The hall, which is the oldest surviving brick-built residence in the country, .........1........(say) to be the most haunted house in Britain. It ....2...........(sell) by the international auctioneers, Sotheby's. The owners expect .....3..(sell) it for about L300,000.
A monk, a Roman soldier, a boy who hanged himself, and a ghost ..4........all..........(see) at various times over the century. Apart from these sightings residents .......5......also........... (hear) heavy footsteps and mysterious knockings.
The hall ....6................(build) in 1260 by Singleton and it ......7..........(have) a remarkable history ever since. Oliver Cromwell is said ...........8.........(stay)at the house on the eve of the Battle of Preston in 1648, and the hall may have been the scene of the capture of at least one Royalist sympathizer, as a sound of a running horse .....9..often ........(hear) in the lane outside.
In the 1920, the hall was the home of the Longton family. Their son wanted to marry a local girl, but his father didn't let him .......10......(do) this. Today the boy's ghost haunts the barn where he hanged himself.
Henry Soaper .....11.........(live) in the hall for the past ten years. While the house ..........12........(restore), they found ancient fireplaces. He said,"I..........13........(read) that there are secret hiding places somewhere. We .......14.....(look) for them for years but we ........15........(not find) them yet. One day my daughter said she .......16.......(see) a Roman soldier coming downstairs. She tried ........17.......(move) around, but she ......18......(CAN not) move.The soldier walked straight through her. We didn't really believe her until a few years later a guest ....19.....(take) a photo of a Roman soldier, being ...20...(reflect) in the mirror.
3. THE ENGLISH TENSE SYSTEM -UNIT 1, (HW-UPPER.)
1. ASPECT: SIMPLE or CONTINUOUS
| a. SIMPLE tenses express: | b. CONTINUOUS tenses express: |
| -PONAVLJAJOČA DEJANJA (habits)............................ | -ENKRATNA DEJ. V POTEKU............ |
| -DOKONČANA DEJ. (=DOVRŠNI GL.)......... | -NEDOKONČANA DEJ.(=NEDOVR.GL.) |
| -STANJA (State verbs:know, want,own, like..)..................... | -DEJANJA V POTEKU KOT OZADJE ZA NEKO DOVRŠENO DEJ. |
2. VOICE: ACTIVE or PASSIVE
a. TURN INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE. Če ni predmeta, pasiva NE moremo tvoriti!
-They leave the keys at the front desk. The keys ..................................................................
-She gave him a rollex watch. He ...................................... A rollex watch .........................
-Somebody is repairing the roof these days. The roof ..........................................................
-They broke into the safe. The safe .......................................................................................
-They haven't signed the treaty yet. The treaty ....................................................................
-Who smeared the wall? Who .........................................................................................by?
-They SHOULD support the candidate. The candidate ........................................................
b. TURN INTO THE ACTIVE VOICE.
-The road is being paved this week. They .............................................................................
-Had the message been forwarded before? Had you ...........................................................?
-Were you invited to the reception? Did he..........................................................................?
c. TURN INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE. FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE.
-They say that John forged the signature. -They report that Joe didn't repay the debts.
It is said that ....................................................-It ...........................................................
John is said to have forged the signature. Joe ..........................................................
The signature is said to have been forged. The debts ..............................................
-People believe that the boss seized the profits.-They think that Ted is smuggling drugs.
It........................ that .............................................. It ...........................................................
The boss ..................................................................Ted........................................................
The profits ...............................................................Drugs.....................................................
3. CAUSATIVE HAVE/GET TO HAVE/GET STH. DONE BY X.
-a sort of a PASSIVE =DATI NEKAJ DELATI NEKOMU
-Jill doesn't mend the clothes HERSELF, but she HAS/GETS them mended by Granny.
-We didn't dig these holes OURSELVES, but we................................................(by ........)
-They aren't trimming the hedge THEMSELVES, but they ................................................
-Pat hasn't cut his hair HIMSELF, but he .............................................................................
-You aren't going to change the tyres YOURSELF, but you ................................................
-The computer doesn't correct the mistakes ITSELF, but I ...................................................
4. HAVE: A.full verb B.auxiliary verb C.modal verb D. causative h a v e
NEGATE THE SENTENCES AND DECIDE ON THE TYPE OF H A V E.
-Mary HAS a little lamb. N. Mary .................................... F A M C
-She HAS just fed it.N. She...........................................yet. .................
-I HAVE to empty the room by 10. N................................ .................
-I HAD better pack my belongings now.N......................... ..................
-We HAD completed the task before. N............................. .................
-I am HAVING my car polished now. N............................ ..................
-Sue HAS got to pay the rent immediately.N..................... ..................
5. PERFECT TENSES:PAST PERF.S/C, PRESENT PERF. S/C, FUTURE PERF.S/C.
a. We .......... JUST ........... a meal.(-Now we are full).
b. Culkin .............(be) a filmstar SINCE he was 10. He .................................(act) FOR ages! (igra že dolgo)
c.I am soaked to the skin because I ....................(walk) in the rain.
d AFTER he ...............(have) lunch, he set off. d. They got married after they ........................ (date) each other FOR 5 years.
e. I didn't go to Holland UNTIL I .............(learn) Dutch well.
f. We ........................ (clean) your suit BY 5 p.m. tomorrow. (= It will be clean then!)
g. They .......................(redecorate) their cottage FOR a month BY next Thursday.
USE THE RIGHT NARRATIVE TENSE:
a. When my dad WAS a child, he ....... (wake up) every morning at 5 (by his stepmother);first he ........../..........(feed) the pigs and then he ........./........(take) the cattle to the pasture.
b. Mrs White WAS upset because she ................(wait) to hear from her son FOR days.
c. The couple ..................(rent) a small bed-sitter FOR years before they ...........(save) enough to buy an old cottage in the countryside.
d.By the time the boss ARRIVED, she ................(finish) most of the typing.
e. When my granny ................(return) from a German work camp after WWII, she WAS very pleased because she ................(give) the job by (with) an international oil company.
f. Yesterday at midnight when I ............(ring) them up, they .....still...........(argue).
g. (While) they ..............(fly) over the Andes, one of the engines ...........(break) down.
h. I .............(miss) the end of the film because I ................(fall) asleep.
i. Last week Mr D. ...........(leave) the LDS political party because he ...............(feel) dissatisfied with its leadership FOR months.
j.We ..............(not buy) the MP3 player until we ..............(check) all its properties described in the accompanying instructions booklet.
k. Snowwhite ............(knock) onto the little door reluctantly; there .........(be) no answer, so she ...........(step) into the tiny cottage uninvited. She ...........(feel) very uneasy. /.../
l.At 10 o'clock a telegram ..............(deliver) to them.
m.What ........you ..........(do) when the fire ............(burst) out? Were you napping?
n. Last July we did scuba diving; we ........never .........(do) anything that exciting before.
o.When(while) their drive ................(pave), we ...........(MUST) leave our two cars farther away on the public car park, which ...........(cost) us 4$ per day.
p. RS! Didn't you say that you ...........(be) interested in foreign political affairs?
r. RS! They complained that they ..............(swot) for hours the day before.
4. NOUNS UNIT 4
1. UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS -SINGULAR ONLY! e.g. Iron is a metal.
A. MASS NOUNS: meat, vinegar, fish (kot meso), glass, iron (Fe), fruit, corn, flour,
B. SUBJECTS: physics, statistics, history, psychology...
C. LANGUAGES: Turkish, Thai, Dutch, Greek...
D.GAMES: billiards, darts, chess, soccer...
E. DISEASES: plague, avian flu, measles, rubella...
F. NATURAL PHENOMENA. weather, hail, gravity, velocity, humidity, thunder, rain ...
G. ABSTRACT N.:courage, wealth, advice, news, evidence, information, homework
H. COLLECTIVE N.: baggage/luggage, rubbish/trash/garbage, stationery, cutlery...
Correct: I like fruits. He's found an evidence.Measles are contagious. The news are ...
MAKE UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS COUNTABLE by using A PARTITIVE. MATCH:
a piece bacon
a rasher chocolate
an item OF. information
a bar sugar
a loaf whole-meal bread
a lump news
2. UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS -PLURAL ONLY! The police ARE investigating the case.
-GARMENTS, TOOLS etc : pyamas, tights, pants...; scissors, pliers, tweezers,
spectacles/glasses, binoculars, compasses (šestilo), ...arms (orožje), ashes, barracks, clothes, looks (izgled), congratulations, outskirts, premises, riches (bogastvo), police, cattle, oats, hops, people ! PEOPLES-narodi
Correct: All the ashes has been disposed. His looks is awesome. My hair are thin.
BE CAREFUL WITH MANY SLOVENE PLURAL UNCOUNTABLES!
Vrata SO poškodovana. The door IS damaged.
Grablje SO ..................................The rake IS ......
Njeni lasje SO .............................Her hair IS ......
3. GROUP NOUNS -SG or PL.
class, council, jury, government,staff, club, headquaters, crew, committe...
The team was the best in the borough/precinct. (as a whole)
The team were all given gold medals. (each individually)
4. THE DIFFERENCE IN THE MEANING between
the SINGULAR and the PLURAL version.
paper U papers (dokumenti) C
a compass (kompas) compasses (šestilo) U
a custom (navada) customs (carina) U
experience (izkušnja) U experiences (doživetja) C
wood (les) U woods (gozdovi) U
people (ljudje) C peoples (narodi) C
a scale (stopnja, luska) scales (tehtnica) U
5. THE PLURAL OF NOUNS
a torch- torches a half- a sister-in-law a necessity-
a means- ..trout- an Irishman- a tray-
a species- a wife- a basis- a century-
a photo- a belief- a terminus- a louse-
a passer-by- a chief- a criterion- a kilo-
a mosquito- an ox- a medium- a luxury
EXPRESSIONS OF QUANTITY used with NOUNS (UNIT 4)
1. SORT OUT THESE NOUNS UNDER THE 2 COLUMNS BELOW:
proofs, copper, grain, holidays, vacation, patience, qualifications, geese, pork, lives, fodder, phenomena, housework, poverty, pairs of shorts, tin, tomatoes, times, knowledge, data, coins, money, people, silk, spices, cocoa, corn/maize, industry, support, men, salmon, cake, cakes... HOW MANY HOW MUCH
2. TRANSLATE INTO ENGLISH. USE some, any, (a) few, (a) little, the majority, the minority
a. Koliko železa smo letos izvozili (doslej)?
b. Dvakrat toliko udeležencev kot lani je sodelovalo na kongresu.
c. Dvakrat več člankov je bilo objavljenih v primerjavi z lanskim letom.
d. Toda bilo je manj gostov iz tujine- za 20 procentov.
e. Večina govornikov je razpravljala o vplivu medijev na mladino.
f. Včeraj sem prinesel nekaj sadja, a ga ni več prida ostalo.
h. Predavatelj je razložil vse v detajle, vendar je komaj kdo kaj razumel.
i. Veliko vprašanj se je nanašalo na zlorabo zdravil med mladimi.
j. Nekaj /več študentov je prisostvovalo predavanjem.
k. Nobeden od mojih profesorjev ni bil prisoten.
l. Vsi so bili povabljeni, a le malo jih je odgovorilo na vabilo.
m. Zaprosili smo za prav toliko denarja kot lani.
n. Reklame oziroma obvestila so bila obešena vsepovsod, toda on ni ničesar videl.
o. Žal je bilo manj odziva pri medijih kot lani. Pravzaprav najmanj doslej.
5. EXERCISES ON PAST SIMPLE & PAST CONTINUOUS
1.TRANSLATE. PAY ATTENTION TO SLOVENE DOVRŠNI&NEDOVRŠNI GL.
a. Včeraj je Tim posekal drevesa.
b. Včeraj jeTim sekal drevesa.
c. Jaz sem delal na polju včeraj. .............................................../..........................................
d. O čem si razmišljal, medtem ko si delal?
e. Ali ste naredili vse?
RULE:........................................................................................WHILE...............................
2. TURN INTO PASSIVE.
a. I did the task well.
b. Did you grow any garlic last year?
c. Mr B. was mowing the lawn.
d. It was drizzling all day long yesterday.
e. Who dug this ditch?
f. How long were they pruning the bushes?
3. PAST SIMPLE OR PAST CONTINUOUS?
a. I ...............(browse) through the magazines WHEN the librarian .............(approach) me.
b. The light ............(go)out WHEN we ...............(have) supper.
c. Liam ...............(hum) along with the tune WHILE his sis ..............(play) the accordion.
d. When I ................(talk) on the mobile to Lucy last night, our flat ....................(burgle).
e. These clothes ................(buy) last summer in Italy WHEN I ...............(visit) my godfather. f. When I ..........(be) still a child, I ..../...../.....(feed) the rabbits every day.PAST HABIT
4.USE PAST S.OR PAST C. (ACTIVE or PASIVE).
In 2000 James was a student at Oxford where he .................(study) law. Like many students he .............(not have) much money because his grant was scarce.During the last autumn term he ..............(decide) to visit some friends of his in Manchaster. As he .............(CANnot) afford a train ticket, he ..............(MUST) hitchhike there. He ............(catch) a local bus to the beginning of the motorway. It ...........(be) a cold November day and while he ..............(wait) for a lift, he .............(get) soaked to the skin. After two hopeless hours a lorry driver ..........(give) him a lift directly to Manchester. James ............(feel) extremely relieved.The lorry driver .............(seem) a friendly fellow of around 35, reasonably well-dressed, and they ............(keep) a pleasant company to each other, indeed. Suddenly a police car ...........(race) past them and they ................(make) to stop. They ..............(take) to the police station because the police suspected that the driver ..............(carry) stolen goods. James .................(interrogate) for two hours and he even ..............(MUST) to spend the night in a cell. As he ..............(not look) suspicious, he .....eventually ..............(release) the next day. Later he ..............(learn) from papers that the lorry was transporting Pakistani refugees. He ..............(swear) that he WOULD never hitchhike again. (RS)
5. USE PRESENT S/C, PAST S/C. MRS GIBBS, THE GLOBE TROTTER
Now at this moment Mrs Gibbs, 72, ....... probably..........(sit) in her camping van somewhere on the other side of the Atlantic. The travel bug ...........(come) to her rather late to her; that was about 14 years ago when she ............(try) to get over the death of her husband. Then she ............(go) on a bus trip to Nepal, which ...........(fire) her to travel more. But she ...............(CANnot) afford organized tours, so she ...........(take) to the road alone after buying a second-hand camper.
In an interview she says that she ...............(carry) as much food as she can with her and she ..........(go) shopping in a destination country only when she .........(be) forced to. She ...........(plan) her itineraries only vaguely; for her age she is very flexible and adjustable, indeed!
Once, when she ..............(camp) by the Zimbabwe ruins, she .............(wake) by a torch light, but she .............(take) no notice. The next morning she found out that her wallet HAD DISAPPEARED(disappear)!
6. EXERCISES ON PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS
1.a. Pete's father ...........(work) in a recording studio. He often ..............(have to) be on duty at night because it ............(take) long hours ..........(do) the job well. But today he ...................(not work); it's his day off. He .................(relax) on the lawn. Actually he ..............(pick) dead leaves. In general he ..............(enjoy) pottering in the garden. His son Pete ............(be) interested in the studio business, so dad ..........(take) him there occasionally.
b. Do you happen to know what my sis .................(wear) these days? Knickerbockers!
c. Betty and her spouse .....................(meet) their divorce lawyer tomorrow.
d. Many textbooks ..................(print) in China because the costs are much lower.
e. -I am starving, Mom. -Don't worry, your lunch .....................(cook) at the moment.
f. Have you heard the news? Your next-door neighbours .................(move) house soon.
g. Normally my brother .............(chop) wood but this week I ...............(do) it.
h. How many babies ....................(bear) every day in Gorenjska region?
i.The Earth ..............(rotate) and this rotation .................(produce) gravity.
j. French and Dutch ...................(speak) here. jj.Your feet ............(smell) awful!
k. I .................(not go) to the dentist regularly, but I .................(see) one tomorrow. I've got an appointment already. When ...........the dentistry ...........(open)
l. Don't believe him; he ................(lie). He ...........always ..............(tell) lies!
m. What ........ you ...........(do) for a living? -Well, I am a barber.
n. What ........... your sister ...........(look) like? -She is very tall and skinny with a hump and she .......(have) a very long nose! Despite her looks she .............(get) married next Saturday.
o. Listen, the child ....................(cry)! Otherwise he .................(cry) very rarely.
p. Sorry, Mr Wells cannot come to the phone as he ......................(have) dinner now.
2. CORRECT IF NECESSARY.
She is seeming very inventive. He is having a bath now.
You are being very impolite now. He is having a big flat.
She is tasting the sauce now. He is having an important
The sauce is tasting foul. meeting tomorrow.
3.HOW ARE NEWSPAPERS MADE
Many people ..................(employ) to work for a certain paper. Whenever something unusual ....................(happen), for instance an earthquake, at least one journalist ..............(ask) to travel to the site of the event to write an article on that topic. Of course (s)he ..........(have) a camera with her/him. When some photographs ...................(take) and some witnesses ...................(interview), the journalist .................(return) to her/his office and ................ (compose) a text which ..........then ............(send) via e-mail to the chief-editor. If the editor ...............(not be) thoroughly satisfied with the article, he ..............(hand) it to the lecturer who ..............(have) to correct it. Finally the text ................ (print) and .............(publish).
4.TRAVELLING BY PLANE
When you as a passenger ................(arrive) at the airport, first you .................(direct) to the check-in desk where your ticket ...............(check) and your luggage ..................(weigh). The officials ...............(charge) you extra if your baggage ................(be) too heavy. If you are on a domestic flight, you ...............(not have to) go through the customs control, but on an international flight you and your things ............. often .............(search) by customs officers, especially if you .............(look) suspicious. Your suitcases ............ always ...........(X-ray). If a sharp object, like a knife or a nail file, ...................(find) on you, you................(detain) immediately and your journey is over. Later your flight ticket ................(not be) valid any more-what a pity!
7.ANIMALS
1. ANIMALS
a. ANIMAL SOUNDS; Fill in the right word denoting an animal.
-.................. bark. ............. bleat. ................low, ........... purr, etc.
b. GROUPS OF ANIMALS
-a pack of ................, a pride of ..............., a school/shoal of ............, etc.
c. TURN into PLURAL.
-This ox pulls a heavy cart. These ......................................................
-That insect on the pillow is a louse. Those ........................................
-A mouse is a nasty rodent. .................................................................
-The calf has been chased by a deer. ....................................................etc.
d. PARTS OF ANIMALS
- Which of these animals (bear, stag, fish, bird, sea-urchine...)have
fins-.........., horns-..........., needles-............,gills-............,beaks-............,paws-............, etc.
e. SORT OUT THESE ANIMALS UNDER THE GIVEN COLUMNS:
swallow, rat, salmon, lark, squirrel, wasp, squid, flea, ray, mole, hawk, hornet, beaver ...
1. BIRDS 2.RODENTS 3.INSECTS 4. SEA FISH
COMPLETE THE SAYING or THE PHRASE.
-Don't count your chickens before ..........................
-You can't teach an old dog ....................................
-Don't be stubborn as a ................ . etc.
2. THE SUPERNATURAL BELIEFS - FORM THE RIGHT WORD.
To our ...............(astonish), Uri Geller curved the spoon- only by ............(use) his psychical energy. / Davidson, an .............(agriculture) engineer in his late ............. (fifty), jammed on the brakes. Now he saw something .............. (horrify). Was it an accident or a ................... (particular) brutal murder?He started to run along the ..........(desert) road to where the girl lay.
3. FORM QUESTIONS. PLACE THE PREPOSITION CORRECTLY!
- Stray dogs live ON trash. What .............................................?
- They are heading FOR the forest. Where ..............................?
4. ENGLISH TENSE SYSTEM; WHICH TENSE IS IT? ACTIVE OR PASSIVE?
- The food had been delivered before. .............................
- Was the dog being vaccinated when ... .........................
5. TURN INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE (PRESENT S., PRESENT C.).
a. They don't grow fodder. here. Fodder ..........................................(by them)
b. Look! Is the dog leading the blind man? Is ..................................(by the dog)?
c. She doesn't read ghost stories to the children. Ghost stories .......................................... .
The children ........................................... .
- People say that the manageress doesn't pay the employees well enough.
It is ...............................................................................................................
The manageress.............................................................................................
The employees..............................................................................................
6. TURN INTO THE ACTIVE VOICE.
a. A new shelter for abandoned animals is being built. They .........................................
b. Are aliens often seen in this region? Do people .........................................................?
7.USE THE RIGHT VERBAL FORM (PRESENT S. ACTIVE or PASSIVE)?
Friday 13th ................(consider) to bring you bad luck if you .........(do) anything vital on that day. That is why superstitious people .............(not accept) any important decisions on Fridays 13th. .......... you (be) also superstitious? ........... your best buddy (AE) also ..............(believe) in good and bad omens? ...........he/she bring a happy charm to school when you ...........(sit) an exam? As for me, all those omens .........just ...........(make) up!
8. FREE WRITING:A GHOST STORY/ALIENS ARE AMONG US/SUPERSTITIONS/ REINCARNATION/ANIMALS ARE BETTER THAN PEOPLE/ THE ABUSE OF ANIMALS/ MY PETS ...
8. REVISION EXERCISES ON UNITS 11&12 (HW INTERMEDIATE)
1.INDIRECT QUESTIONS
GLAVNI ST. NI V (PRED)PRETEKLEM ČASU.
a. Do you believe in ETs? COULD YOU TELL ME if ................. .
b. Did the UFO leave any traces? I'D LIKE TO KNOW if ............ .
c. WHAT were the aliens like? I DON'T REMEMBER .................
d. WHY did you hush the sighting? I'M ASKING YOU ..................
2. REPORTED SPEECH (POROČANI GOVOR)
GLAVNI ST. JE V (PRED)PRETEKLEM ČASU, ZATO MORAMO GLAGOL ODVISNEGA ST. PREMAKNITI "ZA EN ČAS NAZAJ" -SEQUENCE OF TENSES
-Reporting QUESTIONS
a. Do you believe in ETs? HE ASKED ME if I ............................ .
b. Did the UFO leave any traces? HE WANTED TO KNOW if .....
c. WHAT were the aliens like? HE ASKED ....................................
d. WHY did you hush the sighting? HE ENQUIRED ......................
PAZI ŠE NA DRUGE SPREMEMBE!
-Reporting STATEMENTS
e. Today it is very stuffy in here. SHE NAGGED that ....................
f. This folder doesn't belong to me. SHE SAID that ........................
g. I can't reply now. HE APOLOGIZED that ...................................
-Reporting COMMANDS (no problems with tenses!)
a. Notify the police immediately! HE URGED ME .........................
b. Don't postpone (put off) the final decision! HE BEGGED ME ...
c. Don't enter that building because it is haunted. HE WARNED ME
SPECIAL (paraphrased) EXAMPLES:
a. Tom:"Let's go to the fun park!" -Jim:"Yes, let's!"
Tom SUGGESTED .......................................................................
b. Lily:"Come over to my place tomorrow!" -Mike:"Thanks! I will."
Lily INVITED ...............................................................................
! NO SEQUENCE OF TENSES IN SOME CASES!
Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland. HE INFORMED US that ....
I wouldn't do that IF I were you. HE ASSURED ME .....................
TURN BACK INTO DIRECT SPEECH.
JUDY PHONED ME that she was going to quit the job the next day.
9. REVISION OF UNIT 1&5 HW UPPER-INTERMEDIATE)
1.SAY INDIRECTLY (INDIRECT QUESTIONS, REPORTED SPEECH).
a.Are there any guests in the lounge? I'd like to know if ................................ .
b. Did you understand the vow/oath? Could you tell me if you ...................... ?
c.How long have you been engaged? I have no idea how long .........................
d."Don't believe everything what he says. Mum warned me ..............................
e."Would you show me your dowry?" Leyla begged me ...................................
f."We are going to invite up to hundred participants." The organiser stated that they .
g."When did you decide to marry Harry?" She wanted to know when ....................
h. "Were you so in love to elope with him" Sue asked me if I ..................................
2. COMPLETE THE COMPOUNDS (ZLOŽENKE).
a.Our puppy is not HOUSE-................ yet; we need to clean after him.
b.The summers in Slo. are so hot that we should install AIR-................ system.
c.My flatmate suffered from FOOD-...............because she had eaten sth. stale.
d.You have moved into a new place but haven't given a HOUSE-............... party yet.
e.People who read a lot are called BOOK-.............................. .
3. FORM THE RIGHT WORD.
a.The life in the camp was .............(ENTERTAIN) but Joe felt .............(BORE) anyway.
b.The tent was rather ...............(MESS): clothes, sleeping bags, waste everywhere...
c.Cliff and Annie signed the rules of their ................(MARRY); their prenuptial ...................(AGREE) itemizes every detail of their lives together.
d.If any of the rules are broken, a fine will have to be ..............(PAY) out of ................ ...............(PERSON) savings.
e. In my opinion they are not the ...............(SAVE) of modern marriage but butchers of romance.
4. CAUSATIVE HAVE/GET HAVE/GET STH DONE
A.e.g. Did you sew this gown yourself? -No, I didn't. I had/got it sewn (by my sis).
a.Do you dye your hair yourself?- No, I ...................................................................
b.Are you going to mend the bike spikes yourself?-No, ...........................................
c.Had you translated the memo yourself?-No, I ........................................................
d.Will you distribute the leaflets yourself? - No, I.....................................................
e.Have you baked these croissants yourself? -No, I ...................................................
B. Use the Causative HAVE/GET in the right tense.
a.I can't invite you to my place today because we .......................our yard...............(pave) by Taber company.
b.Look, I .............just .............. my hair .................(cut); Do you like my new hair style?
c. We can't paint walls so we .............................. our interior ................(paint) by a reliable group of professionals.
5. THE USE OF TIME EXPRESSIONS: CHOOSE THE RIGHT EXPRESSION AND PLACE IT INTO THE CORRECT PLACE.
a.I have been learning Dutch. (when I was younger/recently/for a year/rarely/tonight)
b.They lived in Cologne. (never/during the WWII/soon/ages ago/in a week's time)
c.Tom has been weird (later/ recently/always/since he had a crash/when I saw him)
6. VOCABULARY- MATCH AND TRANSLATE INTO SLOVENE.
briefly, adv. .......................... ...... company
gauge, n ................................ ...... both-sided
fondness, n............................ ...... shortly
neat, adj................................. ...... device for measuring sth.
enterprise,n............................ ...... liking, love
mutual,adj. ............................ ...... clean, tidy, spic&span
7. FREE WRITING: PRENUPTIAL ARRANGEMENTS, CAMPING, EMIGRATING (Why do people move abroad; what problems do they encounter there?)
10. REVISION OF UNITS 1&2 HW UPPER-INTERMEDIATE
1. TURN THESE SENTENCES INTO PASSIVE.
a. A Swiss explorer discovered the ruins of Petra, Jordan.
b. Visitors were ruining the cave paintings in Lascaux.
c. They had to close the city of Venice to all tourists.
d. Who carved the names into the soft stone?
2. PAST SIMPLE or PAST CONTINUOUS (ACTIVE /PASSIVE)
Natalie .................(bear) in Coventry just before the WW1. In 1934 she ...........(go) to live in Dresden where she ...............(study) German, but she ............(spend) most of the time going to operas. During the war she ..............(broadcast) misinformation to the enemy. As a spy she ..............(MUST) to take an oath of secrecy. While she ................(live) with her family in Shropshire, she ...........(take) up growing lavender and keeping bees.
3. USE PUT or TAKE IN THE RIGHT FORM.
a. Their son has been ............ in charge of the food supplies.
b. You are supposed ............ risks if you want to make profits in the business.
c. Our teachers have been .............. a lot of pressure on us FOR half a year already.
d. How CAN you ..... up with your noisy neighbours without complaining? I'd freak out.,
e. Our girls .......... part at the internet competition in English last week and they won!
f. When her friends come to Kranj she always ......... them up.(=offers them food and lodging)
4. FORM THE RIGHT WORD. DEATH BY TOURISM
At the ...............(enter) to the temple of Petra there is an inscription .............(chisel) into the soft rock. One of King Herod's soldiers could have carved it when they were .............(prison) in the town 40 b.c. But if you look at it more ..........(close), you can read: "Shane and Wendy from Sydney were here." A recent report has shown that the temple of Petra is in grave danger of ............(be) destroyed by vast numbers of tourists. The tourist industry is almost the .............(large) in the world although it has ..............(bare) celebrated its 60th birthday. Will nothing put a stop to the ...........(grow) of tourism?
5. CORRECT THE MISTAKES (the letters, p.14, 15)
Basel is not a big city as London but it's everything clean and very cose the mountains witch are beautifull. (5)
6. CONTINUE THE SENTENCE ACCORDING TO THE GIVEN LINKING WORD.
Natalie keeps bees ALTHOUGH .................................................
She had her first child WHILST/WHILE .....................................
She never feels lonely DESPITE/ IN SPITE OF ..........................
7. IRREGULAR VERBS: SWELL-..........-............-.............; BROADCAST-..................
8. FREE WRITING: ADVANTAGES AND DRAWBACKS OF MASS TOURISM, PROS AND CONS OF CAMPING, TRAVELLING BROADENS (NARROWS?) THE MIND, MY EARLY CHILDHOOD, A BIOGRAPHY OF AN INTERESTING OLD PERSON
11. REVISION OF UNIT 3 HW UPPER-INTERMEDIATE
1.NARRATIVE TENSES: PAST S/C, PAST PERFECT S/C
a. As soon as we ..............(have) a meal together, we WENT to the graveyard.
b. My aunt TOLD us that her husband ................(fall) sick the day before. (RS!)
c. When Peter GOT home he .............(be) very exhausted because he ..................(drive) FOR 10 hours that day.
d. As a schoolgirl I often ...............(pick) flowers in the nearby wood. Then I .............(USE) to explore the nature around our home.
d. When I ..............(wake) up yesterday morning, the sun ................(shine) and the birds ......... ................(sing). Suddenly I ...........(hear) a kind of explosion in the kitchen.
e. T. Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge ..................(publish) in 1889.
f. Mandy FELT uneasy; she .............(think) that she ....................(follow) by a stranger. When she ARRIVED at the car park, she ..............(get) very upset because her car ..................(steal). At that moment she .........(CAN not) contact anybody as she .............(forget) her mobile at home.
2. USE THE CORRECT VERBAL FORM IN A TEXT (e.g. p.130, 131, T3.1-T3.4)
3.Thomas Hardy: THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE (1886)
ANSWER:-Where does the story take place? On what occasion?
-Who is Michael Henchard? Who else is present in this scene?
-What is an auction? -What happens to his wife Susan?
-What is the role of the sailor?
TRANSLATE INTO SLOVENE: (e.g. line 42) All eyes turned. Standing in the triangular opening which formed the door of the tent, was a sailor who, unobserved by the rest, had arrived within the last two minutes. a dead silence followed
.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
. 4. FORM THE RIGHT WORD.
a. to denote the OPPOSITE MEANING
Michael was a very ................(RELIABLE), ....................(RESPONSIBLE), ........................ (KIND), ..................(LOYAL), .....................(MATURE),...................(POLITE), ..................... (SENSIBLE), in short, he is just .................(USE)!
b. H e is popular probably because of his ................(KIND), ................(MATURE), ................ (LOYAL), ...................(RELEVANT).
The value of gold is .......................(MEASURE), but the value of love is not.
It is very ...................(USE) to do all the exercises one more time.
Mr Black has managed to ................(SUCCESS) in politics.
Bad education leads to .....................(POOR).
What I appreciate most about my grandfather is his ...................(WISE).
5. COMPLETE THESE DIALOGUES BY REPLY QUESTIONS.
a.I tried your recipe for fruit pie yesterday.
b................................?
a. But it wasn't as good as yours.
b. .........................? I don't believe you.
a. I've got a piece of it here.
b. .........................? Can I have a bite?
a. Here you are! But there isn't any yoghurt in it.
b. ....................? Oh, it doesn't matter. It's very delicious anyway!
6. FREE WRITING: THE ROLE OF WOMEN NOW AND IN THE PAST or A REVIEW OF A BOOK/FILM (ref. p.36)
12. THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928) the British novelist
the novel THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE (romanticism&realism)
ref. p. 3,32 THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS WIFE THE PLOT OF THE STORY:
Michael Henchard, a hay-maker, his wife Susan and their little daughter Elizabeth.Jane go to a country fair and horse auction. Michael gets very drunk, and, ..............(inspire) by the auction, he ends upsellig his wife and daughter for 5 guineas to a ...........(sail) called Newson. The next day, when Michael is ..............(sobriety) again, he is ..............(horrify) at what he has done and vows not to touch alcohol for 20 years.From then on he works hard, becomes ..............(wealth) and ..............(respect) and finally elected the mayor of Casterbridge.
Meanwhile Newson has taken Susan and the child to Canada. Their relationship is not harmonizing; Newson sails off again to Newfoundland and a short time later Susan hears that Newson has been ............(lose) at sea. So, after 18 years, Susan decides to look for her first husband. She soon finds him in Casterbridge, and she and Elizabeth-Jane are .............(reunite) with him.Susan leads Michael to believe that Elizabeth-Jane is his child, but in fact she is Newson's (Michael's daughter died just 3 months after their ..............(arrive) in Canada.). Finally Susan falls sick and dies, ............(leave) Michael a letter in which she tells him the ...........(true) about Elizabeth-Jane. His life then starts to go to pieces. His .............(busy), trading with grain, is ruined; the story of how he had sold his wife and child many years before is made ..............(publicity); all that makes him turn to alcohol again. His business rival Farfrie becomes the mayor of the town and marries Elizabeth-Jane. Then Newson, not drowned, only ...........(miss), returns from sea and claims Elizabeth-Jane as his daughter. The ...............(fortune) Michael dies lonely and alone in the wilds of Edgon Heath near Casterbridge. He has lost everything that he ever possessed.
ANSWER:
1.Where does the country fair take place?
2.Why are there so many people?
3.Who is Michael Henchard?What is he like when drunk?
4.What does he decide to do with his wife (and daughter)?
5.How does Susan react to his arrogant behaviour?
6.Who buys the mother and the little girl?
7.Is there anything that seems improbable in the extract?
8. The role of women in tha past (a hundred years ago)?
13. MORE REVISION EXERCISES on UNIT 3 (HW UPPER-INTERMEDIATE
1. TURN INTO PASSIVE.
a. Were gipsies selling horses?
b. Did the sailor give enough cash to Mike?
c. Had the auctioneer called lots of prices (before she was sold)?
2.FILL IN THE RIGHT NARRATIVE TENSE.
a. They didn't take the faulty goods back UNTIL I ..............(give) them the receipt.
b. RS! Didn't he state that he ..............(lose) the invoice the day before?
c. BY THE TIME I .............(reach) the stadium, the match .......already.........(win)!
d. AFTER she ...........(browse) through magazines FOR an hour, her kid started nagging.
e.WHILE the clerk ............(calculate) the costs, some items .........(steal) from the shelves.
f. WHEN we stayed in the country, we often ........./........./......(help) farmers with hay-making.
g. Basketball game .................(invent) by professor Naismith in 1891.
h. Last week I went skating. I .........never...........(do) skating before.
3. WORD FORMATION
-FORM THE OPPOSITE MEANING.(p.33)
........COURAGED ...........PROBABLE
........EXPECTED ...........PUNCTUAL
........MACULATE ...........TASTEFUL
........AGREEABLE ............TASTY
ADJECTIVE --NOUN VERB--------------NOUN
PROUD-................................... TO ENTER-.......................,.........................
SIMILAR-............................... TO PERMIT-......................,........................
DIFFERENT-.......................... TO BREATHE-..................
MATURE-............................... TO BELIEVE-....................
CONSCIOUS-......................... TO OBEY-..........................
LOYAL-................................... TO REFUSE-......................
KNOWLEDGEABLE-............ TO WIDEN-.......................
4. ANSWER USING REPLY QUESTIONS (p.37)
A: Lana dumped her husband.
B: .....................? Is she single again?
A: She 's started going out with Pete.
B: ...................?
A: But she doesn't intend to divorce her husband.
B: ....................? Why not?
A: There are too many obstacles.
B:.................? Like what? /.../
5. MATCH ACCORDING TO SIMILAR MEANING.
A. CLOTHES B. FACE&BODY
a. CUFFS ..............SOFT FABRIC/MATERIAL a. CHIN rama
b. HOOD ...............LOWER PART OF A SLEEVE b. SHOULDER palec
c. VELVET ................ATTACHED CAP c. THUMB brada
d. KNICKERS...............PART OF A SHOE d. PALM frfru
e. SOLE ..................WOMEN'S DESSOUS e. FRINGE dlan
6. CHARACTER ADJECTIVES
a. JEALOUS skop
b. STUBBORN/OBSTINATE ljubosumen
c. MEAN/STINGY sočuten
d. SYMPATHETIC trmast
7. THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE PAST COMPARED WITH THEIR ROLE NOWADAYS (refer to the text The man who sold his wife by Thomas Hardy)
8. A BOOK(or FILM) REVIEW
14. REVISION EXERCISES ON UNITS 4&6
1.EXPRESSIONS OF QUANTITY (BOOK, p.40)
a.PUT THESE NOUNS INTO PLURAL, IF POSSIBLE:
a crisis-........., a bacterium-.........., ink-..........,an Irishman-............,a series-..........,a match-
b.UNDERLINE THE SINGULAR. or PLURAL VERB.
The police HAS/HAVE interrogated several witnesses.
What means of transport IS/ARE the most convenient in your opinion, a bus or a train?
c.SORT OUT THESE NOUNS UNDER THE 2 COLUMNS: fruit, advice, homework, items of evidence, news, flour, yolks, yeast, progress, German, traffic, fodder, children, wood, woods
HOW MUCH HOW MANY
c. TRANSLATE THESE SENTENCES INTO ENGLISH.
Manj ljudi je prišlo in precej manj denarja se je nabralo kot ponavadi.
Nihče se ni zanimal za projekt; komajda kdo je vzel kakšen prospekt.
2. USE THE ARTICLES:A,AN, THE, or 0.
My aunt brought me ....... pair of socks and ....... hanky for Christmas. I gave ........ socks to my brother and I threw ......... hanky away.
Little is known about ....... beginnings of ........trade. In ........Europe they started trading with ........flint. Around 3000 years BC ........Egyptians travelled down ........ African coast as far as ........ Zambezi River in search of .........gold, .......silver and ........ slaves.
Bill Gates is ....... richest private citizen in ..... world. He became ....... billionaire at ...... age of 31. That was ....... incredible achievement, indeed.
3. RELATIVE CLAUSES (BOOK, p.60)
- USE A RELATIVE PRONOUN: WHO, WHOM, THAT WHICH, WHERE, WHOSE, WHAT, 0. Put down COMMAS, if necessary.
Jane is the sort of person ......../......../......../.........you can always trust.
Let me introduce you to Peter J. ......... manages our office
This chap ...........relatives all live in Scotland has applied for the post.
b. COMBINE 2 SENTENCES INTO A CLAUSE.
This jumper is pure wool. I bought it in Ireland.
These are the Joneses. We went to the theatre with them.
This is the motel. We used to stay at it every summer.
c. REWRITE THE CLAUSE WITH A PREPOSITION IN 3 POSSIBLE WAYS.
She is the girl ABOUT w h o m we were talking.
She is the girl .......................................................
She is the girl........................................................
4. INSERT THE RIGHT PREPOSITION: e.g. BY, ON, AT, DURING, TO, ...
They were angry .... me .... not sending them an invitation. They didn't turn ...., of course.
.......... the time we arrived at the station, the train had already left.
Who is Pamela married ............ now?
5. VOCABULARY WORK: TRANSLATE &MATCH
a. armour ................. ......various
b. tin ................. ......exchange
c. pottery .................. ......rich, successful person
d. pattern .................. ......yearly
e. diverse .................. .......chemical element (Sn)
f. swap ................... .......products made of clay
g. tycoon ................... .......metal body shield
h. annual ................... .......the regular way in which sth. happens etc.
FREE WRITING: SHAKESPEARE, HIS LIFE, WORK, THEATRE; LITERARY TERMS /COMPUTERS, BILL GATES/ 3000 YEARS OF WORLD TRADE/ SETTING UP YOUR OWN BUSINESS
15.THE SUPERNATURAL&THE PARANORMAL
1. SUPERSTITIONS 7.MONSTERS (e.g. Loch Ness monster)
2. APPARITIONS/SPECTRES 8. PSYCHO-KINNETICS
3. PROPHECIES, PREDICTIONS 9. FAITH HEALING
4. REINCARNATION 10. BERMUDA TRIANGLE
5. GHOSTS 11. SIGHTINGS OF EXTRA-
6. TELEPATHY -TERRESTIALS (ALIENS)
12.COMMUNICATING WITH THE DEAD
MATCH the above phenomena with the sentences underneath.
a. The crippled man prayed so piously that he could leave the church without his crutches.
b. Their skin was transparent, the eyes bulging and the heads equipped with tentacles.
c.Several divers claimed that they'd seen a huge creature with fins which had disappeared behind mossy rocks.
d. The boy clearly recalled where he had lived in his previous life.
e. The prophet Nostradamus was a clairvoyant; most opf the events he predicted, did really happen.
f. To our astonishement, the man named Uri Geller slowly curved the spoon -only by using his psychical energy.
g. Numerous vessels have never been seen again since passing that spot; and despite thorough searches no wreck has ever been recovered.
h. Noone else was supposed to be in the mansion that evening; nevertheless, some rattling was coming from the attic. The place was obviously haunted.
i.Swarms of pilgrims keep visiting Medjugorje where saint Mary was allegedly seen by four young shepherds years ago.
j. Somebody mentioned Mr Nolte at the table that evening. We hadn't talked about him for ages. the next moment there was a phone call from Boston. It was him!
k.By many people Friday 13th is considered to bring bad luck.
REINCARNATION - Form the right word.
In Asia, where ..................(believe) in reincarnation is a part of Hindu and Buddhist religions, there are a lot of unusual life stories.
When Titu was about 6, he began to tell everyone that once he had lived with his wife and children in a ................(distance) Indian town called Muttra. According to his memoires, he died of ................(violence) death, having been ...............(shoot) into his forehead. The boy really had a birthmark at ................(exact) the same place. So his parents, having been ..................(persuade) took him on a long journey to the north where Titu easily found his previous home. His wife recognized him ...................(immediate) and so did his children although "daddy" was their age.
APPARITIONS: MYSTERY OF THE GIRL WHO JUST FADED AWAY
-Explain the WORDS: to fade v- .................disbelief n-................. to illuminate v-.......................verge n-.................to drip v-................... torch n-..................... hedge n-.............. figment n-..................Rev.=reverend-častitljivi in vain-................................. twilight n-........... to stumble v-.............. to have sb on v-.........................footpad n-.................. exorcism n-.........
-READ the text, TRANSLATE it orally and ANSWER.
1. What was the weather that night like?
2. Who did Mr Davidson see lying by the road one night? In what condition?
LIE-LAY-LAIN
3. What did he do then? What happened to the bleeding girl? BLEED-BLED-BLED
4.Why was he shaken and puzzled after the girl's disappearance?
SHAKE-SHOOK-SHAKEN
5. Who(m) did he contact in this matter and why?
6. How many other drivers had seen a bleeding girl at the same spot in the previous 2 years?
7.Why didn't the farmer Nickolson report the sighting to the police?
8. What did a salesman do when he came across the apparition?
9. Which event did a local historian connect to the sightings of a naked, bleeding girl?
10. Why has the spectre never been seen again?
-COMMUNICATING WITH THE DEAD- Continue this story (in about 100 words).
One autumn morning a young lecturer was driving to college when he noticed a girl waiting at the bus stop. She looked like a student, and as it was pouring with rain, he pulled up and offered her a lift. She smiled, thanked him and got into the car. the driver naturally asked her where she wanted to go. She didn't answer as if she hadn't heard the question.