Sectio N 12: Determi Ners: Revise The Basics: This, That, These, Those
Sectio N 12: Determi Ners: Revise The Basics: This, That, These, Those
Sectio N 12: Determi Ners: Revise The Basics: This, That, These, Those
3.Put in this/that/these/those
2.Here are some sentences with any. Which word in each sentence give the
negative
Page 170 Some/any or no article Have some toast I don't like toast.
2. A man went shopping and bought some food. Complete the sentences.
Learn the words for food. Use a dictionary if necessary.
2.Put in no or none:
1. Complete each sentence with any and a word from the box
2.'Would you like red, blue, ...?' 'It doesn't matter any colour is OK.'
4. I think she knows everything. She can answer any question you ask.
6. 'When shall we meet?' 'I don't mind any day this week.'
2. Put the beginnings and ends together and put in anybody, anything or
anywhere .
2 'What would you like for lunch?' A 'I don't mind. I'm so hungry I'll eat
anything '
2. Any / No doctor can tell you exactly how long you're going to live.
4 If the police arrest you, say anything / nothing until your lawyer gets there.
5 What do you mean, music? I can't hear / can hear any music.
6 You can hear any / no kind of music you like at the Reading Festival.
7 Anna's very secretive: she talks to anybody / nobody about her problems.
3. I never had enough money when I was young: now I never have enough time.
7. She was clever enough;to do anything she wanted, but she didn't have enough
confidence to try.
3.Too much/many or too ? Look at the examples and complete the rules.
4.Invent answers to the questions, using too, too much or too many .
7 Why did you have the phone installed in the other room? (noise)
5. Write descriptions for the pictures using not enough or too much/many.
1.There's someone in the garden, but I can't see well enough to decide if it'sEmma,
(well / decide)
2. I'll work on this tomorrow - I'm too tired to think about it tonight, (tired / think
about)
3. I don't understand Arabic well enough to listen to Egyptian radio, (well / listen)
6. They were speaking too quietly for me to hear what they were saying, (quietly /
me / hear)
7. Near some beaches the sea's not clean enough for people to swim in. (clean
/people / swim)
8.The room was too dark for us to see anything, (dark/us / see)
9. He drove too fast for the police to catch him. (fast/ police / catch)
1. There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals. (. Francis
Bacon)
3. Men of few words are the best men. (William Shakespeare, Henry V)
4. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
(Winston ChurchMt
6. A country having a little inflation is like a woman being a little pregnant. (Leon
Henderson)
7. Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. (Woody
Allen)
8 Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation or creed.
(Bertrand Russel
There isn't / There's not much / There's only a little that I can do for you.
They didn't have much /They only had a little money, but they were pretty happy
1. Of all British cars, this one uses the least petrol. It also needs the fewest repairs.
2 . Fewer girls than boys do mathematics at university. This may be because girls
get less encouragement to study maths at school.
3. As the years went by, they had fewer things to say, and less interest in talking
to each other.
4. Do you want more time and less money, or more money and less time?
5. Liz is very clever, but she has got the least self-confidence of anyone I know.
6. I've had the fewest days off work of anybody in the office.
8. I earn the least money in our family, and my brother earns the most.
9 .Annie always has the fewest things to say, but what she does say is usually
interesting.
10. Now that we've got two children we've got much less spare time than we used
to have.
2.Complete the sentences with less or the least and some of the words from the box
(or other words if you prefer).
1.I feel ess optimistic about the future than I did a year ago.
5. People from the north of my country speak less quickly than people from the
south.
8. Some people say that money is the the least important thing in life, but I'm not
so sure.
10. The least intelligent ntelligent people often think they are the most intelligent.
4. All the roads were under water. Every road was under water.
5. All languages are difficult in one way or another. Every language is difficult in
one way or another.
6. All London trains are cancelled today. Every London train is cancelled today.
7. The police have interviewed all the employees. The police have interviewed
every employee.
10. All the computers are down today. Every computer is down today
1. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's
his.(Oscar Wilde)
2.In the future, everybody will be famous for fifteen minutes. (Andy Warhol)
3. All human beings are bom free and equal in dignity and rights. (Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights)
1. All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. (Charlie
Chaplin)
5. You can only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away
from them.(Solzhenitsyn)
6. They say everything in the world is good for something. (John Dryden)
7. [A cynic] knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. (Oscar Wilde)
6. The doctor made him sit down and looked into every ear. each
2. Both answers are correct, but one is a little better. Which?
3.I looked for my keys in each / every pocket, one after the other.
2. I learnt Latin for seven years at school, but I've forgotten every word.
3. 'Can I have one of those chocolates?' 'Sorry, I've eaten every one '
4. Every one of his teachers said he was stupid; but he did well in every one of his
exams'
5. When the soldiers left the town they burnt down every house.
2. 'Do you want to come round tomorrow or Friday?' ' Either day is fine.'3. 'Do you
like Brussels and Amsterdam?' 'I don't know either city.'
5. Both films looked interesting, but neither was much good, in fact.
6. Both her sons studied physics, but neither boy works in science.
7. Either shirt would look good on you. Why don't you buy one of them?
8. I don't like either camera. And both cameras are very expensive.
9. He's a good player, and he can kick equally well with either foot.
10. 'Which car can I take?' 'You can take either car. Both cars are full of petrol.'
10 When you're walking, you never have both feet off the ground
1.Which or what?
1. We’ve got red wine and white – which will you have?
2. What books did you read for last year’s English class?
3. What was your favourite subject at primary school?
4. Which English king had six wives?
5. What’s your name?
6. Which hand do you write with?
7. What kind of car have you got?
8. I’m going to buy a new carpet what colour should I get?
9. Which party do you think will win the election?
10.Which subject do you prefer, chemistry or physics?
1. I could see Karima and Nedjma at their desks – but where were the others
2. Long after all the other cars had left, Dawson’s BMW was still there.
3. I’ll phone all the others if you’ll phone Ted and Lucy, OK?
4. I can play the Sonata in C, but not any of the others
5. Do you know any other people who might have a reason to do this?
6. This doesn’t suit me. Have you got any other colours?
7. Some metals are magnetic and others aren’t
8. The police arrested Jane, Fred and two others
9. I wish that girl would play more with other children.
10.Gerald Durrell wrote a book called My Family and other Animals’
Dear Phil,
Well, some (1) of our luggage has arrived, so things could be worse. I've got the books and papers, but
I've lost most (2) of my clothes. I haven't got any (3) - socks at all, and I have to buy some more (4) -
jeans, but at least I've got enough (5) - underwear for the week. (They don't sell it here. I don't think they
wear it.) I'm going to buy a few (6) of those woollen shirts that you like, and one (7) of the big coats that
we looked at. They've got no (8) - shoes in my size, unfortunately, and none (9) of the jackets suit me.
Anyway, I'm not alone. Every one (10) of us has lost something - in fact, three (11) - people have got no
(12) - luggage at all. Well, as they say, into each (13) - life a little (14) - rain must fall. See you on the
17th.
Andy
2. Most of the people who wanted to see the match were disappointed.
3. I know most of the people in our street.
5. I think fishing for sport is wrong, but most people would disagree.
10. Most people would like more money and less work.
1 This car hardly uses petrol / some petrol / any petrol / no petrol.
2 Could you lend me money / some money / any money for a few days?
11 Her children all have left / have all left / have left all home.
13 She had a rose behind every / each ear, and one in her teeth.
2 Who can give you advice on: English pronunciation? any English teacher
8 'Did you find any mushrooms?' 'Yes, a lot of.' Yes, a lot.
9 We found the place without no difficulty. with no difficult/ without any difficult
12 Nobody played well, but Joe was the less bad. the least bad
14 Would you like other meat, or have you got enough? more meat
4.No etc. Write sensible answers. Use no, none, nothing, and nobody.
1 'Can you ask someone in your family to help you with your French?'
None of them.
6 'Why don't you phone home to find out if your letter's arrived?'
I had no money.
Few people learn foreign languages perfectly / Not many people learn foreign languages perfectly when
they're grown up. / as adults. The majority of us / Most of us
make many mistakes / make a lot of mistakes when we are speaking / when we're speaking another
language. / another language. It's best / The best policy is to aim for a reasonable level of accuracy, / to
try to get most things right, but not to be too perfectionist. / but not to be too perfectionist.
A lot of common mistakes / Many common mistakes have little effect / don't have much effect on
communication. / on communication.
A) FORMAL: Few people learn foreign languages perfectly as adults. The majority of us make many
mistakes when we are speaking another language. The best policy is to aim for a reasonable level of
accuracy, but not to be too perfectionist. Many common mistakes have little effect on communication.
B) INFORMAL: Not many people learn foreign languages perfectly when they're grown up. Most of us
make a lot of mistakes when we're speaking another language. It's best to try to get most things right, but
not to be too perfectionist. A lot of common mistakes don't have much effect on communication.
6.Internet exercise. Use a search engine (e.g. Google) to find simple sentences that begin as follows.
Write the sentences.
2 "All they asked for was" All they asked for was honesty.
3 "All she said was" All she said was she loves him.
7.Mixed structures. Use six of the expressions in the box to complete the four cartoon captions.
Which caption goes with which cartoon?
1 'Oh, he's right here beside me making his "I don't want to go anywhere with anybody at any time"
face.'
3 'I suppose you've brought me here to tell me you haven't got any money.'
1.Choose the correct words to complete the sentences. More than one answer may be possible.
1 John ……….passed. his exams last year, (none / none of/ any of/ no of)
7 I'll be home in …….. hours, (another two / other two / two other)
9 Those people have …….. money, (much/a lot/ a lot of /lots of)
13 ……………. her children is happily married. (Every / Every one /Every one of/ Every of)
19 I think the children ……... home, (all have gone / have all gone)
3 Mark and Joanna are here, but where are the others? Correct
12 We understood a little, because he had a really bad accent. We understood little/ We didn’t
understand much
13 This was terrible music. Please don't play it again. That was
16 'Would you like other coffee?' 'No, thanks. I've had enough.' more coffee
17 I don't think there are enough of rooms for everybody. enough rooms
19 She has to eat food without no salt. without any salt/ with no salt
20 Can you just wait another five minutes? Correct