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READING Comprehension -Two articles: E-mails - a sign of progress or of laziness? / Text messaging :-) OR :-(?
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
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The Indefinite Article: A or AN
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
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Grammar Review for Beginners - 3-page review, 14 different exercises, fully editable, with keys included
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
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A weekend in London - past simple and articles
Level: elementary
Age: 9-17
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Definite, Indefinite and Zero Article
Level: elementary
Age: 10-12
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Articles: A or An
Level: elementary
Age: 6-17
Downloads: 2288

 

1. Articles - A,An, or The
 
 Choose the best option

1. postman's little boy says that he'd rather be  dentist than  doctor, because  dentists don't get called out at  night.

2. Just as air hostess (there was only one on the plane) was handing me  cup of  coffee  plane gave  lurch and  coffee went all over person on other side of aisle.

3. There was  collision between  car and  cyclist at crossroads near my house early in morning. cyclist was taken to  hospital with  concussion. driver of car was treated for  shock.  witnesses say that car was going at  seventy miles hour.

4. Professor Jones, man who discovered new drug that everyone is talking about, refused to give  press conference.

5. Peter Piper,  student in professor's college, asked him why he refused to talk to press.

6. We're going to tea with Smiths today, aren't we? Shall we take  car? We can go by  car if you wash car first. We can't go to Mrs Smith's in  car all covered with  mud.

7. He got  job in  south and spent next two years doing work he really enjoyed.

8. It is  pleasure to do business with such efficient organization.

9.  day after day passed without  news, and we began to lose hope.

10. Would you like to hear  story about Englishman, Irishman and  Scotsman?

No. I've heard stories about ..... Englishmen, . . . Irishmen and . . . Scotsmen before and they are all . . . same.

11. But mine is not  typical story. In my story Scotsman is generous, Irishman is logical and Englishman is romantic.

12. My aunt lived on ground floor of . . . old house on River Thames. She was very much afraid of  burglars and always locked up house very carefully before she went to bed. She also took precaution of looking under  bed to see if  burglar was hiding there.

13. '  modern burglars don't hide under  beds,' said her daughter. I'll go on looking just same,' said my aunt.

14. One morning she rang her daughter in triumph. I found  burglar under bed last night,' she said, 'and he was quite  young man.'

15.  apples are sold by  pound. These are forty pence  pound.