Базовый курс английского языка - Эккерсли К.Э.
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OLAF: Is Lucille a good dancer?
PEDRO: Oh yes, wonderful. I don't know a better. She is quite the best dancer I know.
OLAF: Then you ought to have a very good evening together.
PEDRO: Yes, I think so-but what are you going to do?
OLAF: Oh, perhaps go to the cinema. Can you come with me, Hob?
HOB: Certainly. I'm always ready to go to the pictures.
PEDRO: Well, look here. I have two tickets for the new picture at the Plaza Cinema.
OLAF: Oh! that's fine. Thank you, Pedro.
HOB: Yes, thanks, Pedro.
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Степени сравнения прилагательнных (2)
Comparison of Adjectives (2)
В Уроке 20 вы познакомились с одним из способов образования сравнительной и превосходной степеней прилагательных - прибавлением к положительной степени суффиксов -er, -est.
У некоторых прилагательных сравнительная степень образуется при помощи слова more, а превосходная - при помощи слова most. Например:
Положит. Сравнит. Превосходи.
expensive more expensive most expensive
wonderful more wonderful most wonderful
beautiful more beautiful most beautiful
Примеры всех этих прилагательных вы найдете в диалоге Урока 22. Там вы также встретите пять прилагательных с "неправильными" формами сравнения. Это: good, bad, much, many, little.
Положит. Сравнит. Превосходя.
good better best
bad worse worst
much -1 many -I more most
little less * * * least
much, many, little, few
Мы употребляем слова much, little с неисчисляемыми существительными в единственном числе. Например:
Lucille has too much money and too little sense.
Слова many, few употребляются с исчисляемыми существительными во множественном числе. Например:
She goes to too many dances and too few English lessons.
In London there are too many cars and too much noise.
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A few означает "несколько", a little - "немного". Например:
There are a few apples on the tree.
1 have a little money in my pocket.
Слова few и little имеют, в сущности, то же значение, однако в первом случае главенствует идея наличия (хоть и мало, но все-таки есть), тогда как во втором - идея количества (есть, но мало).
В разговорном английском выражение a lot of заменяет как much, так и many за исключением вопросительных и отрицательных предложений.
Фонетическая тренировка
[I] [A] [з:] [o:] [ei] [ai] [a:]
hit bus turn nor late why part
twin dust servant more may try dark
busy drum work story say mile dance
1. Употребите глаголы в прошедшем времени:
1. We like our holiday in Scotland. 2. He walks all day without feeling tired. 3. They often climb the big mountain. 4. We bathe in the sea every day. 5. Lizzie always cooks the dinner well. 6. Lucille dances almost every evening. 7. Pedro looks handsome; he always dresses well.
8. My sister lives in a quiet little place in Norway. 9. They play football every day of their holidays. 10. For my holidays I generally stay at the seaside. 11. Susan works in the house all day, and studies Spanish every evening.
2. Вставьте much или many, little или few, где необходимо. Обоснуйте свой выбор:
much - many
1. There are too__buses in London.
2.1 haven't___time for study.
3. Please don't make so___noise.
4. Jan doesn't know_____people in London and hasn't _______friends
there.
5.1 don't like too__butter on my bread.
little -few
6. Hob said he had too____money and went to too_______dances.
7. There is only a__tea left in the teapot.
8. Your homework is better; you have_____mistakes than usual.
9. Jan gave me a____help with my work.
3. Образуйте сравнительную и превосходную степени прилагательных:
beautiful, comfortable, bright, correct, friendly, difficult, heavy, helpless, unkind, careful, quiet, happy
4. Образуйте от прилагательных в скобках сравнительную или превосходную степень, используя, где необходимо, more и most:
1. What (nice) present is there than a box of chocolates?
2. This is the (wonderful) and (beautiful) picture that has ever come out of Hollywood.
3. Frieda is (old) than Hans; she is the (old) of the family.
4. Summer is (warm) than winter.
5. Summer is the (warm) of the four seasons.
6. London is (big) than Manchester.
7. Manchester is (small) than London.
8. Frieda is (pretty) than her sister.
9. Lucille is (slim) than she was a year ago.
10. Winter in London is (foggy) than in Paris.
11.1 think I am the (bad) dancer in the world.
12. You are not (bad) than 1 am.
13. Your work is much (bad) than 1 thought.
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QPOK 23
"The Cat That Caused a Wedding"
(Practice in the past tense of regular verbs - and some irregular ones)
HOB: I went to the wedding of my old friend Tom Bailey and Miss Helen Jones last week. I enjoyed it very much. It was a good wedding with lots to eat and drink and there were some bright, lively people there. Tom is a lucky fellow. His wife is a very pretty girl, young and gay and interesting, and clever too. Oh yes, he is a lucky man. And it all happened because of a cat.
JAN: What do you mean? How could a cat cause a wedding?
HOB: Yes, it sounds funny, but it is true. It happened like this: - Helen lived in the next house to Tom, and Tom was soon head over heels in love' with Helen-and I am not surprised. He used to look at her over the garden wall; he talked to her one day for a short time; he walked to the station with her once or twice; and one evening, one great evening in his life, he went to a Christmas party and danced with her.
