Self-checking work for 1st year students A) Fill in the missing modal verb:
1. My sister can read English but she ... not read German. 2. Who ... recite this poem? 3. ... I smoke here? — I am afraid not. 4. ... I pay for these books at once? — No, you needn’t. You ... pay for them in a day or two. 5. The lesson is over. We ... go home now. 6. ... I take your dictionary? — Do, please. 7. Must we translate this article in class? — No, you ..., you’ll do it at home. 8. You ... find our dean upstairs. 9. ... I see your father’s study? 10. What kind of furniture ... you see in the sittingroom? 11. You ... take a cold shower every morning. 12. ... I come to see you tomorrow at ten o’clock? 13. ... you do this translation in the morning? 14. I ... be at the Institute at eight. 15. It is dark. You ... draw the curtains.
B) Use the following questions in indirect speech according to the given model. Make all the necessary changes.
Model: The teacher asks: “Do you know any English words?” The teacher asks if we know any English words.
1. He says: “This sentence is not difficult.” 2. Mary says: “There is only one window in our classroom.” 3. John says: “There aren’t many fruit trees in our Institute garden.” 4. Betty says: “Doctor Sandford isn’t in.” 5. Doctor Sandford says: “My family is not large.” 6. Helen says: “I have only one son.” 7. Mrs. Sandford says: “Benny is an only child in the family.” 8. Benny says: “Our house is not large.” 9. The student says: “I cannot speak English well.” 10. Betty says: “I must learn many poems by heart.” 11. The teacher says: “It is two o’clock. Our classes are over.” 12. The mother says: “Tom must come home at a quarter to three.” 13. The father says: “I must work till late at night to day.” 14. Bob says: “I can come in the morning.” 15. Nick says: “My sister is married to a sailor.”
C) For each question, write in the box either 'in', 'at', 'on' or "X" if there is no preposition is needed.
1. I'll see you next week.
2. He was born 1991.
3. Did you see her today.
4. It starts tomorrow.
5. It was sunny my birthday.
6. It will be ready eight months.
7. What's on the TV midnight.
8. The factory closed June.
9. the winter, it usually snows.
10. Friday, she spoke to me.
