Упр.1 Check your progress Юнит 1 New Millennium English 11 класс
Answer the questions and correct the mistakes.
MY ATTITUDE TO LEARNING ENGLISH
If I could choose subjects, I would never study English at school. There are a lot of reasons for that. First, English grammar is very difficult. Verb times (1) make me lose sleep. Second, the words — there are so much (2) of them and I can’t remember all (3)! Third, it is very difficult to read. If I not know (4) a word I come across, I try to find it in a dictionary and while I’m looking for it, I forget what was the sentence about (5). Fourth, it’s listening. English-speaking people speak so quickly that I can’t catch nothing (6). I work at English very hardly (7), but nothing doesn’t help (8). My friend says me (9) that I must find something interesting to learn and that he has begun (10) with the same problems six years ago. But I afraid (11), it is a bit too late for me to begin!
- Is present simple or present perfect a time?
- We can count words, can’t we?
- Doesn’t all look too lonely?
- Do you need anything else in a negative statement?
- Are you asking a question here?
- Isn’t this sentence negative?
- That’s why you make so many mistakes!
- Do you need two negatives?
- Is there anything missing here?
- Look at the time expression at the end of the sentence!
- Is afraid a verb?
MY ATTITUDE TO LEARNING ENGLISH
If I could choose subjects, I would never study English at school. There are a lot of reasons for that. First, English grammar is very difficult. Verb tenses make me lose sleep. Second, the words — there are so many of them and I can’t remember them all! Third, it is very difficult to read. If I don’t know a word I come across, I try to find it in a dictionary and while I’m looking for it, I forget what the sentence was about. Fourth, it’s listening. English-speaking people speak so quickly that I can’t catch anything. I work at English very hard, but nothing helps. My friend told me that I must find something interesting to learn and that he had begun with the same problems six years ago. But I am afraid it is a bit too late for me to begin!
Разбор
1. tenses — речь о грамматических временах, а не о present simple/present perfect.
2. so many — слово words исчисляемое, поэтому нужно many.
3. them all — после remember нужно местоимение, а не all отдельно.
4. don’t know — в отрицательном предложении нужен вспомогательный глагол do.
5. was about — в косвенном вопросе порядок слов обычный, без инверсии.
6. anything — после отрицания can’t употребляется anything, а не nothing.
7. hard — здесь нужен наречный вариант, а не hardly.
8. helps — в английском не нужно два отрицания в одном предложении.
9. told — после say с косвенным дополнением обычно нужно to, а здесь лучше told me.
10. had begun — действие произошло раньше другого прошлого действия, поэтому нужен Past Perfect.
11. am afraid — это устойчивое выражение с глаголом be.
