III. Answer the questions to the text.

1. What is your first name? What is your surname?

2. How old are you?

3. What’s your date of birth?

4. Is your family large?

5. Have you got any brothers or sisters?

6. What are your parents? Where do they work?

7. Do they have much in common?

8. Do you spend a lot of time with your family?

9. Who runs the house in your family?

10. What is your father`s hobby?

IV. Give the plural of the following nouns.

Army, diplomat, pie, day, leaf, gold, cherry, body, hero, ice, policeman, note-book, watch, tomato, sportsman, toy, thief, bush, sister-in-law, pocket- knife, box, Frenchwoman, literature, chief, knowledge, news, photo, tooth, piano, ferry, key, cheese, roof, wife, mouse, sheep, police, lawyer, investigator, prosecutor, judge.

V. Write sentences in plural form.

1. This is an old city.

2. That is a new text- book.

3. This is a naughty child.

4. That is a beautiful woman.

5. This is a nice guy.

6. This key is made of steel.

7. That's an easy text.

8. This lady is that gentleman's wife.

VI. Change the number of the italicized nouns and make all other necessary changes.

1. The child is playing in the yard. 2. The story was very interesting. 3. We came up to the woman who was working in the garden. 4. The match will be held in Kyiv. 5. The goose is in the yard. 6. The lorry passed by. 7. The tomato is ripe. 8. The book is on the shelf. 9. This watch was made in Minsk. 10. The cat caught a mouse.

VII. Choose the right form of the noun from the brackets.

1. Two... were playing on the doorstep (child/children). 2. A... looked round the corner of the house (woman/women). 3. The... was large, and had a faded Morris wallpaper (room/rooms). 4. A... drove up, the large... leaped from the chair and raised its voice in a crescendo of barking (car/cars, dog/dogs). 5. A tall... of about fifty-seven came into sight (man/men). 6. But... who read my books know what he's like (people/peoples). 7. The... ran twinkling across the road (water/waters). 8. Why do... represent in pictures the faces of their fellow men? (painter/painters). 9. The... was supposed to assemble at seven- thirty in the Common Room (company/companies). 10. The... opened to admit Sir Leopold (door/doors). 11. The... of the feast had been removed (remnant/remnants). 12. "You have read the morning papers, I presume?” “Yes, Mr. Poirot. The... from Geneva is not very good" (new/news).

VIII. Fill in the blanks with am, is, are.

1. I... a future lawyer. 2. This man... a farmer. 3. My friend... in the garden. 4. We... students. 5. My father... a judge. 6. The pupils... in the classroom. 7. She... an engineer. 8. I... busy. 9. My investigator... young. 10. They... in the park. 11. I … a law student. 12. … this good news? Yes, it …. 13. My brother … a lawyer. He …at work with his clients … he very busy? Yes, he …. 14 … she a young lady? No_, she … not. 15. They … always absent at the lectures. 16. Whose … these clothes?

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