Exercise 13. Supply prepositions wherever needed in the sentences

Exercise 9. Translate the sentences

Exercise 8. Answer the following questions

Exercise 7. Tell us what pieces of furniture there are in the sitting-room using the words suggested below

On the floor, opposite the window, on the wall, in the bookcase, in the middle of the room, in the corner of the living-room, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, near the window, on the desk, near the kitchen table.

A carpet, a wardrobe, a mirror, a sofa, two armchairs, a large number of books, a TV set, a dressing-table, six chairs, a lot of things, a bath and shower, four stools, a tape-recorder, a telephone.

1. What is there in the sitting-room? 2. What is there in the entrance-hall? 3. What is there on the wall? 4. What is there on the floor? 5. What is there in the book-case? 6. What is there in the right-hand corner of the room? 7. What is there in the middle of the room? 8. What is there in the bathroom? 9. What is there in the corner of the sitting-room? 10. What is there opposite the window? 11. What is there in your study?

1. How many rooms are there in your flat? 2. How many armchairs are there in your sitting-room. 3. How many books are there in the bookcase? 4. How many pictures are there on the wall? 5. How many chairs are there around the table? 6. How many taps are there in the bathroom? 7. How many bedside tables are there in the bedroom? 8. How many carpets are there on the floor? 9. How many sideboards are there at the wall?

1. Is there anything interesting in this journal? – Yes, there is something. 2. There is nothing interesting in this article for me. 3. There isn’t anything interesting in this article for me. 4. Nobody knows anything about this discovery. 5. Anybody will help you if you ask any of us. 6. No problem is so important as this one. 7. There isn’t anyone in the lab. 8. We could find your book nowhere.

Exercise 10. Write down some statements with these pairs of words using the constructions ‘there is’, ‘there are’

1. A telephone – on a small table. 2. Books – on the bookshelves. 3. Food – in the fridge. 4. Furniture – in the sitting-room. 5. Hot and cold water – in the taps.

Exercise 11. Write down the questions you would ask your friend (or your colleague) to get the following answers:

1. Oh, yes, there is a color TV-set in my flat. 2. Yes, there are some books on the desk. 3. Yes, there is a bath and a shower in my bathroom. 4. We have three comfortable rooms in our flat. 5. The dressing-table is in the corner of the bedroom.

Exercise 12. Fill in the blanks with some, any or no:

1. Are there … stools in the kitchen? 2. Are there … bookshelves in the study? 3. There is … refrigerator in the sitting-room. 4. Are there … pictures in the text? 5. She has … typewriter and tape-recorder on the desk.

This is my sitting-room. There is a thick carpet … the floor, a sofa … the right and 2 armchairs … a small table. The TV-set is … the left-hand corner … the room. The side-board is … the window. The bedroom is not very large. There is a dressing-table … the corner … the room. There are 2 beds … bed-side tables.

And this is my bathroom. There is hot and cold running water … the taps. The mirror is … the shelf, the rail for towels is … the basin.

Exercise 14. Disagree with the following statements using the expressions: nothing of the kind, I don’t think so or I’m afraid you are wrong

1. There is a mirror above the shelf. 2. There are some bookshelves in the entrance-hall. 3. There is a standard for hats and umbrellas in the bedroom. 4. There is a large number of books in the kitchen. 5. There are many pictures on the walls of our classrooms.

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