№2. Posessive. 11 класс

11 class

Posessive

Task 1. Underline the noun that is usually uncountable in each group. Use your dictionary to  look up any new words.

1.       holiday        joumey         flight         luggage      suitcase

2.       meal        dish         food        menu       dessert

3.       cheque     coin       cash      salary      bonus

4.        tractor      com       bam       field      orchard

5.       raspbeny       plum       fruit      fig        mango

6.       job       employee      boss        unemployment         profession

7.       basement           attic         cellar          bedsit        accommodation

8.       health         pill          disease      opcration        prescription

9.       disco        musical         music       opera          concert

10.  motorway          traffic jam           lorry        rush hour      traffic

Task 2. Choose from the words below to complete each pair of sentences. Use the same word in

(a) and b). Decide if the word should be Mountable or uncountable. If the word is eountable,

add a/an it an appropriate point in the sentence or make it plural.

damage           education          traffic          paper          resistance          speech

1.  a) I had to go through      very strict and traditional                                     

b)                                       has been hit once again in the government's spending cuts.

2.  a)                                        was building up on the motorway as the fog got thicker.

b) Since the war,           illegal                                               in weapons has grown.

3.   a) Outnumbered by at least three to one, he knew that                                  was useless.

b) After a while we seemed to build up                                                     to mosquitoes.

4.   a) The judge awarded Mr Sinclair                                      of nearly £50,000.

b) The accident caused some                     to my car but it wasn't worth getting it repaired.

5.   a) Muriel gave                                      at the conference on the psychological effects of divorce.

b) The use of recycled                                      is saving thousands of trees from being cut down.

6.   a) It is said to be                                      that distinguishes us from the other animals.

b) We had to listen to some long and boring                                         after the meal.

Task 3. If necessary, correct these sentences. If they are already correct, put а V.

I .    Tony computers have been stolen.                                                                                                

2.       When the teacher had called out the girl's names, they all stepped forward.                             

3.       We had to study Charles Dickens early novels at school.                                                           

4.       I went to the newsagent's to buy a paper.                                                                                    

s.   There were hundreds of bird's nests in the trees.                                                                         

6.       They're my mother-in-law's favourite sweets.                                                                              

7.       I took the books to Lewis' house yesterday.                                                                                  

8.       If they had been anyone else's paintings I wouldn't have gone to the exhibition.                      

9.       She was a friend of my mothers.                                                                                                    

10.   The worlds airline's are moving towards a total ban on smoking.                                      

11.   The readers letters page in the newspaper is full of complaints about the article.                 

12.   I met a cousin of the Duke of Edinburgh last week.