INDEFINITE ARTICLE EXERCISE: “a” or “an”?

INDEFINITE ARTICLE EXERCISE:  A or AN?

 

Complete the sentences with  “A” or  “AN”

 

 

1. There is _____ new English book on the desk.
2. She’s reading _____ old comic.
3. They’ve got _____ idea.
4. He is drinking _____ cup of coffee.
5. The girl is _____ pilot.
6. Leipzig has _____ airport.
7. This is _____ expensive bike.
8. Look! There’s _____ bird flying.
9. My father is _____ honest person.
10. My friend likes to be _____ astronaut.

READING ” The Boy and the Wolves”

The Boy and the Wolves

Retold by Andrew Lang

 

ONCE upon a time an Indian hunter built himself a house in the middle of a great forest, far away from all his tribe; for his heart was gentle and kind and he was weary of the treachery and cruel deeds of those who had been his friends. So he left them and took his wife and three children, and they journeyed on until they found a spot near to a clear stream, where they began to cut down trees and to make ready their wigwam. For many years they lived peacefully and happily in this sheltered place, never leaving it except to hunt the wild animals, which served them both for food and clothes. At last, however, the strong man fell sick, and before long lie knew he must die. So he gathered his family round him and said his last words to them.

“You, my wife, the companion of my days, will follow me ere many moons have waned to the island of the blessed. But for you, 0 my children, whose lives are but newly begun, the wickedness, unkindness, and ingratitude from which I fled are before you. Yet I shall go hence in peace, my children, if you will promise always to love each other and never to forsake your youngest brother.”

SONG “Don’t stop the music” by Rihanna

DON’T STOP THE MUSIC

Rihanna

Please don’t stop the music (4x)

It’s gettin’ _________
I’m making my way over to my __________ place
I gotta get my body moving shake the stress away
I wasn’t looking for _________ when you looked my way
Possible candidate (yeah)
Who knew
That you’d be up in here lookin’ like you do
You’re makin’ stayin’ over here ___________

 Baby I must say your aura is ____________

If you don’t have to go don’t.

1. Do you know what you started
I just came here to ________
But now we’re rockin’ on the dance _________
Acting naughty
Your ________ around my waist
Just let the _________ play
We’re hand in hand
Chest to chest
And now we’re _________ to face

Chorus

I wanna take you _________
Lets escape into the music
DJ let it ________
I just can’t refuse it
Like the way you do this
________ on rockin’ to it
Please don’t stop the
Please don’t stop the music

READING “BERTIE’S CORN-POPPER”

BERTIE’S CORN-POPPER

Bertie had the desire of his heart,–a corn-popper! He had wanted it for a long time,–three weeks, at least. Mamma brought it when she came home from the city, and gave it to him for his very own. A bushel of corn, ready popped, would not have been half so good. There was all the delight of popping in store for the long winter evenings.

Bertie could hardly wait to eat his supper before he tried his corn-popper. It proved to be a very good one. He popped corn that evening, and the next, and the next. He fed all the family, gave some to all his playmates, and carried a bag of pop-corn to school for his teacher.

Trip, the shaggy, little, yellow dog, came in for a share and Mintie too. Who or what was Mintie?

Mintie was a bantam biddy, very small, white as snow, and very pretty. She had been left an orphan chick, and for a while kept in the house, near the kitchen fire. She had been Bertie’s especial charge, and he fed and tended her faithfully.

As she grew older she would rove about with the larger hens, but was very tame, and always liked the house. She would come in very often. When Bertie happened to pop corn in the daytime she was pretty apt to be around, and pick up the kernels he threw to her.

One night he left his corn-popper on the kitchen table. It was open, and two or three small kernels were still in it.

Early next morning, long before Bertie was dressed, Mintie came into the kitchen. She flew up on the table, and helped herself to the corn in the popper. The girl was busy getting breakfast, and did not mind much about her. Presently she went down cellar, and Mintie had the room to herself.

When Bertie came down to breakfast there was a white egg in the corn-popper! It was so small that it looked almost like a bird’s; but it was Mintie’s first egg.

Bertie clapped his hands; he was very much pleased.

“Mamma! Mamma!” he shouted. “See this pretty egg! Mintie put it into my popper, and must have meant to give it to me.”

And mamma said, “Very likely she did.”

 

READING COMPREHENSION

Read the following questions about the text and answer them properly:

 

1)      What was Bertie’s heart desire?

2)      Who gave him what he wants when she came from the city?

3)      What time of the day did Bertie tried his gift?

4)      Who or what was Mintie?

5)      What was left in the coffee table?

6)      What was still in there?

7)      Why was Bertie so excited?

8)      Why did she think so about Mintie?

9)      Was she right?

10)  Did the mother tell her daughter the truth? Why?

 

 

EXERCISES: PREPOSITIONS OF TIME

PREPOSITIONS OF TIME

 

Fill in the correct prepositions:

 

AT – IN – ON – FOR -  SINCE – TO – PAST – UNTIL – BEFORE – BY – FROM – AFTER

 

1. Peter is playing tennis _______ Sunday.
2. My brother’s birthday is _______ the 5th of November.
3. My birthday is _______ May.
4. We are going to see my parents _______ the weekend.
5. _______ 1666, a great fire broke out in London.
6. I don’t like walking alone in the streets _______ night.
7. What are you doing _______ the afternoon?
8. My friend has been living in Canada _______ two years.

SONG “BABYLON” by David Gray

  

BABYLON

 

 

 ________ night I’m going nowhere

All the lights are changing ________ to red

Turning over TV stations

Situations running through my head

Well looking back through __________

You know it’s clear that I’ve been blind

I’ve been a _________

To ever open up my heart

To all that jealousy, that bitterness, that __________

 

___________ I’m running wild

And all the lights are changing red to __________

Moving through the crowd I’m pushing

Chemicals all rushing through my bloodstream

Only wish that you were _________

You know I’m seeing it so clear

I’ve been _________

To show you how I really feel

Admit to some of those bad ___________ I’ve made

 

EXERCISES ” Practice for IELTS”

PRACTICE FOR IELTS

 

Instructions: The words in these sentences are not in order, study them carefully and try to rearrange them grammatically.

 

1. so poisonous thousands of sea causes of the Oil is very deaths it animals.

______________________________________________________________________

 

2.       involving in a sea unsafe tankers. the of of accidents result pollution Much is oil the

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3.       tankers. accidents unsafe oil involving

______________________________________________________________________

 

4.       pollution the the in sea

______________________________________________________________________

 

5.       layer has pollutants. variety been of manmade over in a caused Southern the hemisphere The the hole by ozone

______________________________________________________________________

 

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6.       variety of a pollutants manmade

______________________________________________________________________

 

READING ” The Boy and the Turtles”

THE BOY AND THE TURTLES

A boy went on a turtle hunt, and after following the different streams for hours, finally came to the conclusion that the only place he would find any turtles would be at the little lake, where the tribe always hunted them.

So, leaving the stream he had been following, he cut across country to the lake. On drawing near the lake he crawled on his hands and knees in order not to be seen by the turtles, who were very watchful, as they had been hunted so much. Peeping over the rock he saw a great many out on the shore sunning themselves, so he very cautiously undressed, so he could leap into the water and catch them before they secreted themselves. But on pulling off his shirt one of his hands was held up so high that the turtles saw it and jumped into the lake with a great splash.

The boy ran to the shore, but saw only bubbles coming up from the bottom. Directly the boy saw something coming to the surface, and soon it came up into sight. It was a little man, and soon others, by the hundreds, came up and swam about, splashing the water up into the air to a great height. So scared was the boy that he never stopped to gather up his clothes but ran home naked and fell into his grandmother’s tent door.

“What is the trouble, grandchild,” cried the old woman. But the boy could not answer. “Did you see anything unnatural?” He shook his head, “no.” He made signs to the grandmother that his lungs were pressing so hard against his sides that he could not talk. He kept beating his side with his clenched hands. The grandmother got out her medicine bag, made a prayer to the Great Spirit to drive out the evil spirit that had entered her grandson’s body, and after she had applied the medicine, the prayer must have been heard and answered, as the boy commenced telling her what he had heard and seen.

SONG “This Kiss” by Faith Hill

THIS KISS

Faith Hill

 

 

I don’t ­­­­________ another heartbreak

I don’t need another turn to cry, no

I don’t ________ to learn the hard way

Baby hello, oh no, ___________

But you got me like a rocket

Shooting straight across the ______

 

It’ s the way you ________ me

It’s a feeling like this

It’s centrifical __________

It’s perpetual bliss

It’s that pivotal ___________

It’s, ah, ____________

This kiss, this kiss

Unstoppable

This kiss, this kiss

 

_____________ said to Snow White

“How does love get so off course

All I wanted was a _________ knight

With a good _________, soft touch, fast horse

Ride me off into the sunset

Baby I’m __________ yours”

 

READING: “The Boy and the Beast”

THE BOY AND THE BEAST

Pima (Arizona)

Once an old woman lived with her daughter and son-in-law and their little boy. They were following the trail of the Apache Indians. Now whenever a Pima Indian sees the trail of an Apache he draws a ring around it; then he can catch him sooner. And these Pima drew circles around the trail of the Apaches they were following, but one night when they were asleep, the Apaches came down upon them. They took the man and younger woman by the hair and shook them out of their skins, just as one would shake corn out of a sack. So the boy and the old woman were left alone.