ARTICLES Card 1

1. My neighbor is a photographer; let’s ask him for an advice about color films.
2. The youngest boy has just started going to the school; the eldest boy is at the college.
3. She lives on the top floor of an old house. When the wind blows, all the windows rattle.
4. We had a fish and chips for lunch. That doesn’t sound a very interesting lunch.
5. I had a very bad night; I didn’t sleep ?? wink.
6. The darkness doesn’t worry cats; Cats can see in the dark.
7. My little boys say that they want to be a spacemen, but most of them will probably end up in a
less dramatic jobs.
8. Do you know the time? Yes, the clock in the hall has just struck nine. Then it isn’t the time to get
yet.
9. I went to the school to talk to the headmistress.
10. I am on the/a night duty. When you go to the bed, I go to the work.
11. The travel agent would give you the information about the hotels.
12. We’d better go by the taxi – if we can get a taxi at such an hour as 2 a.m.
13. Do you take ?? sugar in thecoffee? I used to, but now I’m on a diet. I’m trying to lose weight.
14. It costs fifty-five and a half pence and I’ve only got ?? fifty pence piece. You can buy by the
cheque here. But can I write a cheque for 55 and a half pence?
15. I’m not a/the wage-earner; I’m an self-employed man. I have a business of my own. Then you’re
not the/a worker; you’re the/a capitalist!
16. Peter’s at the office but you could get him on the phone. There’s the telephone box just round
the corner.
17. A friend of mine is expecting a baby. If it’s a girl she’s going to be called Etheldreda. What a
name to give a girl!
18. I have an hour and a half for the lunch.
19. I hope you have a lovely time and a good weather. But I’m not going for the holiday; I’m going
on the??? business.
20. He got a bronchitis and was taken to the hospital. I expect they”ll send him home at the end of
the week.
21. He first went to the sea in a/the?? Swedish ship, so as well as learning the navigation he had to
learn Swedish.
22. On the Sunday my father stays in the bed till ten o’clock, reading a Sunday papers.
23. I have a headache and a sore throat. I think I’ve got cold.
24. If you go by the train you can have quite a comfortable journey, but make sure you get the
express, not the train that stops at all the stations.
25. Then he gets up, puts on the old clothes, has ??? breakfast and starts the work in the garden.