Task 1
Complete the gaps in the text with a / an, the, or no article (–).
My school

There is 1 school near my house, and I go there. We have 2 nice classroom, with lots of interesting pictures on the walls. The school isn't very high-tech, but there is 3 old laptop for the teacher at the front of 4 classroom.

My favourite day at school is Friday because we do 5 music in 6 morning. Then we play basketball in 7 gym after 8 lunch. We have 9 really good English teacher too. She went to 10 Oxford University, and she's really nice.

I go to 11 really big school and I love it because it is next to 12 sea. 13 school is about half a kilometre from my house, so I walk there every day.
We do sports in 14 school gym on Mondays and Fridays. I like 15 football the most.
We have our other lessons in 16 really nice classroom. I have 17 very good class teacher. Her name is Miss Graham, and she's also my English teacher. 18 English is my favourite subject. There’s 19 interactive whiteboard in our classroom. Miss Graham writes on it, and she plays 20 videos on it too. We always have fun in her class.

1. When she phoned her father, he was watching TV.

2. Yesterday at seven my mother was preparing dinner.

3. The children were playing in the garden when it suddenly began to rain

4. I was practicing the playing piano when my girlfriend came home.

5. They were not cycling all day.

6. While Mike was working at the project, his friends were playing football.

7. I tried to tell her the truth but she was not listening.

8. What was he doing at 5 o’clock yesterday ?

9. Most of the time we were sitting in the nearest park.

10. I was reading the book while my brother was watching TV.

11. When I arrived, my friends were playing cards.

12. We were studying German at 6:00 p.m. yesterday.

I have a very good friend. His (her) name is ... Friends arevery important in our life. I think one cannot live without friends. The most important thing for being good friends, to my mind, is to be ready to help one another in any situation, nevertheless how difficult it is, to support one another and to solve all the problems together. And never mind, that the friends may have different interests and hobbies, different likes and dislikes. They say that the friend in needis a friend indeed. I think it is really so.

My friend and I always do our best to help one another. We discuss all our troubles and try to find the best decision in any situation. My friend is a very good, kind and clever boy (girl). We often spend our free time together. It is not very easynow, because both of us are very busy — we are going to enter institutes and have a lot of work to do.