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For the 1st year students of all specialties

UNIT XVIII

MOVING

A Without transport

walk run jump dance jog fall

В Transport
You go by car / plane / bus / train / bike / motorbike / ship / taxi / underground
[not by-a-car].

You ride a bicycle / bike / motorbike / horse.

You take a bus / train / taxi / plane and you take the underground.

You drive a car / bus / train. The pilot flies a plane.
How did you get to Istanbul? We flew there.
If you catch the bus, train or plane, you arrive in time to get it. If you miss the bus, train or plane, you arrive too late to get it.

You arrive at or in a place [NOT-to-a place]. The train arrived in Tokyo on time. The plane arrived late at Heathrow.
С Moving objects

D Action verbs

Exercises

1 Fill the gaps with verbs from A above. Write them in the correct form.

1 Jack likes ....jogging round the park every morning but Betty prefers
.... walking ..................... round it with her dog.
2. Everyone at the party last night.
3. Every day Jane ,........ ten lengths of the swimming pool before breakfast.
4. James can very fast. He has won a lot of races.
5. Robert loves hills.
6. The old lady on her way home and broke her arm.
7. Sandra into the swimming pool and quickly................................ to
the other side.
8 It is much better for you to.......................... to work than to go by car.

2 Ride, drive, go by or take. Write the correct word(s) in the phrase.

1. Can you a motorbike?
2. He works for a railway company. He.................... a train.
3. She sometimes the underground to work.
4. He goes away from home a lot. He.................... a lorry.
5. I prefer to a bus than..................... car.
6. Would you like to an elephant.
7. You never forget how to..................... a bicycle.
8. I usually a taxi when it rains.

3 Answer these questions. Use every day, once a week, once a year or never.

1. How often do you walk to work or school? I walk to work every day.
2. Have you got a bike? How often do you ride it?
3. How often do you go swimming? Do you go in the sea or in a swimming pool?
4. How often do you go jogging?
5. How often do you drive a car?
6. How often do you go dancing?
7. Do you often go climbing?

4 What other things do we often ask people to pass at the dinner table?
Write down Please pass + a noun six times. Please, pass the sugar.

5 Put these sentences into the past tense with the word yesterday.

1. Jim runs a mile every day. He ran a mile yesterday.
2. Maria often drives her grandmother to the city.
3. Bill catches the 9.45 train to London every day.
4. I sometimes take a taxi home from the station.
5. Jane often falls when she rides her bike.

Grammar

## Contents

- ВВЕДЕНИЕ
- UNIT I. Introduction.The Verb ‘to be’
- UNIT II. Favourite Things. Articles UNIT III. The Family Tree. Possessive Case of Nouns
- UNIT IV. Family. The Verb ‘to have / have got’
- UNIT V. Numbers (Cardinal,Ordinal)
- UNIT VI. Everyday Things. Present Simple
- UNIT VII. Time, Days, Months. Prepositions of Time
- UNIT VIII. Daily Routine. Personal Pronouns
- UNIT IX. At School and University. Plural of Nouns
- UNIT X. In the living room. Prepositions of Place
- UNIT XI. In the bedroom and bathroom. Construction ‘There is/are’
- UNIT XII. In the kitchen. Modal verb (can)
- UNIT XIII. Food and Drink. Indefinite Pronouns ‘some/any’
- UNIT XIV. Eating Out. Construction ‘Would you like… / I’d like
- UNIT XV. Parts of the Body. Possessive Pronouns
- UNIT XVI. Clothes. Present Continuous
- UNIT XVII. Describing People. Adjectives / Comparison
- UNIT XVIII. Moving. Past Simple
- UNIT XIX. Jobs. Future Simple
- UNIT XX. Weather. Adverbs
- REFERENCES

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