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Give the nouns of the opposite sex.

a baron, a count, a god, a duke, an emperor, an usher, a monitor, a manager, a steward, a waiter, a widow, a poet, a prince, a tiger, a lion, a hero, a tzar.

If you are interested in animals, try matching the male, female and their young.

Male Female Young
1. bull hind fawn
2. boar goose cub
3. buck cow calf
4. stag mare foal
5. fox hen pup
6. dog vixen piglet
7. gander sow gosling
8. drake bitch chick
9. stallion duck fawn
10. cock doe duckling
     

27.1. Choose either the infinitive or the present participle of the verbs: bum, crawl, get, move, play, pull, switch on, tap, try, walk, come.

1. I can feel something________________ up my leg!

2. I saw her ________________ the light and _________________ into the room.

1. For a while she stood and watched the men____________________ trees.

2. He smelt something________________ , so he rang the fire brigade.

3. We could definitely hear someone ___________________________ about

downstairs.

4. We listened to the school orchestra ______________________ the whole

of the Jupiter Symphony with hardly a mistake.

5. I felt someone_______________ on the shoulder, but when I turned

round, there was no one there.

6. Look at that poor old lady_________________ to cross the road.

7. I watched the man _____________________ out of his car and

___________ out a gun.

II. In the following sentences, use a suitable form of go together with the ap­propriate activity verb.

Verbs: cycling, dancing, fishing, hiking, horse-riding, sailing, skating, ski­ing, surfing.

1. Where is Harry? - He ___________________ but I doubt if he'll catch

anything!

2. ___________ (you) ______________ last night? - No, I don't like

the discos in this place.

3. What are you doing at the weekend? - We_______________________ if the

boat is ready.

4. If it hadn't been ready, we might _______________________ in the hills

above Budapest.

5. You're wet through! What have you been up to? - We

6. Now that she has her own pony, she___________________ every day.

7. If my bicycle were in better condition, I_____________________ in France

this holiday.

8. The ice rink is closed so we won't _________________________ tomorrow

night.

9. If there were more snow, we__________________ .

Put the following into the correct order.

1. English / lovely / several / old / tables

2. pretty / French / young / a lot of / girls

3. dining-room / Regency / few / valuable / last / these / chairs

4. first / really important / Impressionist / his / three / paintings

5. dark blue / best / silk / my / all / shirts

6. young / many / German / factory workers

7. marble-popped / old-fashioned / these / oval / all / wash- stands

8. wildlife / Mike's / all / black and white / latest / photographs



9. cotton / a few / plain / hand-woven / carefully-chosen / dresses

10. non-stick / brand-new / a number of / French-made / frying pans

11. really important / the first / national / government-sponsored survey

12. one-month / last / his / exhausting / European / tour

 

29. Form the comparative and superlative degrees of these adjectives. Pay at­tention to any spelling changes.

1. tiny 10. far 19. fat 28. healthy
2. handsome 11. sad 20. wide 29. true
3. lively 12. heavy 21. foggy 30. wide
4. dry 13. grey 22. able 31. early
5. pleasant 14. late 23. ill 32. narrow
6. simple 15. quiet 24. common 33. free
7. mellow 16. polite 25. soon 34. rare
8. good 17. clever 26. thin 35. flat
9. bad 18. big 27. calm 36. pretty

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