III. Speaking

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a) What other British traditions do you know?

· Queen’s guard changing

· Pancake races are held all over England on Shrove Tuesday

· Cheese race

· Tossing the caber in Scotland

b) tell do you have any family traditions:

what the members of the family are doing;

what the father and his son have done;

what the father and his son will do;

that the members of the family do it every day;

that they did it yesterday;

that they were doing it when you came in.

Use the following words and word-combinations in your sentences:

to read a newspaper (book); to play chess; to watch TV; to build a house; to play with a doll.

IV. Grammar. T he pronoun one (ones)

1. Use the pronoun one (ones) to avoid the repetition of the preceding noun.

1. This band is as good as that band. 2. This fountain is more beautiful than that fountain. 3. This luggage is more expensive than that luggage. 4. I don’t want to buy this expensive dress. I want to buy a cheaper dress. 5. The shop-assistant showed me a grey suit. I asked him to show me a black suit. 6. Cotton dresses are cheaper than silk dresses. 7. These lamps are brighter than those lamps. 8. This bonfire is as bright as that bonfire.

2. Divide the following words into three groups: a) adjectives forming their degrees of comparison by means of -er, -est; b) those forming their degrees of comparison by more and most; c) those having irregular forms of degrees of comparison.

hot, bad, thin, beautiful, many, old, good, expensive, cheap, little, nice, much, important, red, happy, wealthy, widespread, wonderful, true, strong, sour, rosy, progressive, proud, pale, noble, light, long, large

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