Комплекс упражнений по теме "Артикли"

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My … name is … Michael. … My surname is … Simonov. So, … my … full … name is … Michael Simonov. I am … Russian. I am nearly … forty-five. I am … economist by … profession. I live in … Moscow. I am … married. I have … wife and … two children: … son and … daughter. They are … ten and … twelve years old. They go to … school.

… My … wife`s name is … Ann. … She is five … years younger than … I am. She doesn`t work.

She runs … house and looks after … children.

My brother, who is … lawyer, is … very nice man. … His name is … Ivan. He is older than I am and he is … friendly and … helpful. He takes … interest in … music and plays … piano quite well though … work at office takes a lot of his time. We are … big friends, but we see each other rather … seldom because he is … very busy man.

I have … mother and … father. They are too old to work. They are … senior … citizens. They live in … Moscow too. Their … flat is situated not far from our … flat, so we often see one another. It takes …me only … half … hour to get to their … place on foot and it takes … me about … five … minutes to get there by … car.

My … wife is on good … terms with … my … parents and … my parents always try to help .. my wife. We are all sociable. So I can say we are all … good … friends.

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I want to say a few words about … my … friend. His full name is … Alexander Smirnov. We work for … same company, so we are … collegues. He is … head of … our department. Smirnov is … experienced manager and he knows a lot about … his work. That is why … everybody respects him.

Smirnov is … rather … good-looking and good-natured person. He has … reddish hair and … kind blue eyes. He is not … tall and at …same time, he is … rather stout.

He is very … hard-working. I can discuss … important questions with Smirnov. His … advice often comes in handy. We have … similar views on … some … problems. Smirnov is very responsible and patient. He is … well brought up and well-educated. We can talk about … music, … art, … literature and life in … general. I trust him with some of … my secrets because I know that I can rely on him.

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It is … rainy morning. I am opening … my eyes. I slept well at … night, but I am still rather sleepy, which is only natural on … grey morning like this. It is … first day of … my … holiday, so I can stay in … bed … bit longer as I don`t need to go anywhere. I am lying and listening to … noises of … awakening house. Everybody works in … our …family, so they are in … great hurry. My mother has already got up and is cooking … breakfast in … kitchen. I can hear her talking to … my … elder sister, who is laying … table. … coffee has already been made and it smells delicious, in … fact, I can smell it through … door. I hear my father arguing with … my younger brother Tom, who is in … bathroom. My father`s voice is too loud to be friendly. Tom has just returned from … jogging he usually does every morning to keep fit and now he is enjoying … warm and relaxing bath. It is not bad at … all, but Tom is always doing it at … wrong time, which makes everybody mad. Now my father, who needs … bathroom, has to wait for it; he has … little time as usual, which makes him angry.

To tell … truth, my brother shouldn`t be so selfish and I have told him … thousand times to be more attentive to … people around him. I guess, my father is … bit nervous this morning. We bought … new car … last week and today he is going to his office in … new car. He tells my brother that he must leave for … work in … ten minutes and my brother answers that he is getting out in … second. It`s … first time he has been so cooperative. I wonder if he will really do what he promises because he has never taken into … consideration my parents` needs.

I am switching on … TV set to listen to … latest news and as I am waiting for it, I see through … door chinks … light flash out in… hall. My sister is putting on her shoes and coat. She will come … home from … work very late. It happens every day because she has … lot of things to do at … work. I feel sorry for my sister but … only thing I can do for her is help her about … house, which I will certainly do tomorrow. But not today. Today I am going to relax. I want everybody to leave as soon as possible and let me stay (at) … home late.

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1. I am looking for … new flat to rent. 2. … flat, you are staying at is … cheapest and … most comfortable I have ever seen. 3. She has been in … great need of … separate flat lately. 4. I must admit that … rent is too high for me. 5. We can`t give you any money – we are hard up at … moment. 6. … price is too high for … flat like that. 7. It takes me … hour and … half to get to … work. 8. They came to … office by … car yesterday. 9. Who is getting out of … car? 10. Oh, I have left my bag in … car! 11. Are you going to rent … car? 12. He wants to give you a lift as he has come in … car today. 13. How long has your car been out of … order. 14. I don`t like going by … train, I prefer to go by … plane. 15. Hurry up! Get on … bus. It is … number we need. 16. When … bus approaches … stop, there is … crowd waiting for it. 17. It is rather difficult to get on and off … bus in … rush hour. 18. How can I get to … underground station? 19. It is within … five-minute walk from here.  20. Don`t allow … boy to approach … crossroads – it is very dangerous. 21. Can you see … traffic lights over there – this is … place where we have to turn … left. 22. … houses in this street are very old. 23. It is nice you can go … rest of … way by … underground. 24. I like it when … trains come on … time. 25. You should turn to … right after getting off … tram. 26. … Moscow underground is very beautiful. 27. … Moscow streets are very wide even in … centre of … city. 28. Talk to him. He has been engaged in … real estate business for 5 years now – he is … very experienced person. 29. Oh! I am being late for … work again! 30. To get there you should change trains at… Arbatskaya to … Borovitskaya. 31. It is not easy to find … suitable price nowadays. 32. I have … couple of friends. 33. How long have you been looking for … new flat?