FSP-exercises
Níže je uveden pouze náhled materiálu. Kliknutím na tlačítko 'Stáhnout soubor' stáhnete kompletní formátovaný materiál ve formátu DOC.
Chalker, S. A Student´s English Grammar WB, Longman
Exercise 182 Given and new information
There is often more than one way of ´saying the same thing´.
How we say it depends on several factors – the emphasis we want to give to different parts of the ´message´ and what we think is the most important part. Often we begin with something already known or GIVEN, and keep the important NEW INFORMTION to the end of the sentence.
Decide which is the likeliest (unmarked) answer to each of the following questions.
Example: When shall we know what Mary’s going to do?
Next week we shall know.
It’s next week we shall know.
She’ll tell us next week.
Next week she will tell us.
Answer: (c)
1 What have you done with your car?
(a) We have sold our car.
(b) We’ve sold it.
(c) Our car has been sold.
(d) The car we have sold.
2 Is there a post office near here?
(a) There’s one near here.
(b) Near here there’s one.
(c) There’s one just beyond the chemist’s
(d) Just beyond the chemist’s is a post office.
3 Where do you keep your car?
(a) I have to park it outside the house.
(b) Outside the house is where I park it.
(c) It’s outside that I park my car.
(d) Park it outside is what I have to do.
4 Which newspaper do you read?
(a) The Guardian I sometimes read.
(b) The Times is my favourite paper.
(c) Usually The Daily Telegraph.
(d) What I read is The Independent.
5 What are the most popular TV programmes in your family?
(a) Comedy programmes and the news are watched by all the family.
(b) Comedy and the news are our favourite TV programmes.
(c) We regularly watch comedy programmes and the news.
(d) It’s comedy and the news that are most popular with us.
6 How often do you go to the cinema?
(a) About once a week on average I go.
(b) About once a week on average I go to the cinema.
(c) To the cinema I go on average about once a week.
(d) I go about once a week on average.
Exercise 184 Theme and focus
Bearing in mind that in answering people’s questions we should focus on the new information that they want, choose the likeliest answer in the following.
1 Who was the first man to walk to both Poles?
(a) Robert Swan (GB) led expeditions to the South Pole in 1986 and to the North in 1989.
(b) Robert Swan (GB), who led expeditions to the South Pole in 1986 and to the North in 1989.
(c) A small expedition to the South Pole in 1986 and another expedition to the North
were both led by Robert Swan.
(d) Robert Swan became the first man to walk to both Poles.
2 What was the name of his South Pole expedition?
(a) The Footsteps of Scott was the name of his South Pole venture.
(b) It was called the Footsteps of Scott.
(c) He led a South Pole expedition called the Footsteps of Scott.
(d) The Footsteps of Scott was the name given to this expedition.
3 How big was this Footsteps of Scott expedition?
(a) There were just three men.
(b) Three men took part in the Footsteps of Scott expedition.
(c) A three-man expedition is what it was.
(d) Three men walked to the South Pole.