DEFINITE ARTICLE (THE) & NAMES

DONT USE WITH

people (Susan, Prince Charles)

languages (Sorry, I dont speak French.)
continents (Europe)
countries (Great Britain)
states (Iowa)
lakes (Lake Geneva)
mountains (Mount Everest)
cities, towns (New York, Birmingham)
streets, parks, squares, etc.. (Hyde Park)
most of bridges (Tower Bridge)
place-name + Airport, Station, Cathedral,
University, Palace, Castle, School (Oxford
Airport, Cambridge University)
name + possessive s ( Mc Donalds)

Match the names of places with the descriptions.

1 It goes from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. __
2 Poland is on this sea. ___
3 This bridge crosses the Vltava River in Prague. ___
4 It joins the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. ___
5 Bulgaria and Turkey are on its coasts. ___

USE WITH

deserts (the Sahara Desert)

rivers (the Thames)
seas (the North Sea)
oceans (the Pacific)
canals (the Suez Canal)
of structures (the City of London)
planets (the Earth)
plural names (the Alps, the Netherlands)
Republic, Kingdom, etc (the United Kingdom,
the Czech Republic)
large areas of the world (the Far East)
most names of buildings (the Globe Theatre,
the Eiffel Tower, the London Eye, the British
Museum, the Taj Mahal, the Hilton Hotel, the
Odeon, etc)

Put in the or nothing ().

1 ___ American English 2 ___ Asia 3 ___ Egypt
4___ Gobi Desert 5 ___ Rocky Mountains
6 ___ Metropolitan Museum 7 ___ Moon
8 ___ Hudson River 9 ___ Bank of Scotland

6 It is a famous Russian river. ___

10 ___ Middle East 11 ___ London University

7 It runs through Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and

12 ___ University of London 13 ___ Severn

Belgrade. ___

Bridge 14 ___Aunt Elizabeth 15

8 This bridge is a famous Australian landmark. ___

16 ___ Regent Street 17 ___ Atlantic Ocean

a) the River Danube b) Sydney Harbour Bridge

c) the Suez Canal d) the Black Sea e) the Baltic
f) the River Volga g) the Panama Canal h) Charles

___Paris

18 ___ Nelsons Column 19 ___ Plaza Hotel

20 ___ Birmingham Airport 21 ___ Florida

Bridge

Circle the correct answers.

Complete the text with the or nothing ().

1 I once went on a boat on the Rhine / Lake Victoria.

We had a great weekend in London last month. We

2 Were going to drive right across Europe / Sahara

Desert.
3 My sister works in Netherlands / Denmark.
4 Heres a photo of Max in USA / Trafalgar Square.
5 Id like to learn Japanese / the Japanese.
6 We have friends in Ireland / Republic of Ireland.
7 There are lot of Spanish-speaking people in the

USA / America.
8 Alan lives in a small town near the Barcelona /

Mediterranean.

stayed at ___ Regents Hotel. Thats in ___ Regent

Street., of course. On Saturday morning, we went
shopping ___ Oxford Street. It was a beautiful day
so we had a picnic in ___ Hyde Park. Then we took a
bus across ___ River Thames to ___ Globe Theatre
and watched a performance of a Shakespeare play.
We saw ___ Tower of London from the bus. The next
day it was raining so we went to a big cinema ___
Leicester Square. After the film, we walked to ___
Piccadilly Circus and saw ___ Statue of Eros.