Grammar exercises. Exercise I. Put am, is, are, am not, isn’t, aren’t into the gaps (пропуски)

Exercise I. Put am, is, are, am not, isn’t, aren’t into the gaps (пропуски).

Model: The captain is on the bridge. He isn’t on the bridge.

1. The officer of the watch _____ on the navigating bridge. 2. He _____ a cadet. He _____ at the college. 3. The sailors _____ on the deck. 4. The motorman _____ on the bow. 5. The Second Mate _____ in his cabin. 6. The deck _____ very clean.
7. I _____ a first-year student. 8. My friend and I _____ seamen. We _____ good sailors. 9. This work _____ very interesting. 10. The cargo _____ in the port.
11. The cadets _____ in the classroom. 12. The ship _____ in the dock. 13. I _____ the Chief Engineer. 14. You _____ from Italy. 15. You _____ 25 years old. 16. He _____ from Japan. 17. _____ she married? 18. _____ he the Captain? 19. _____ they cadets? 20. _____ you engineers?

Exercise II. Put there is / there are into the gaps.

Model: There is a book on the table.

1. _____ many ships in the port. 2. _____ a plan on the desk. 3. _____ not any tankers in the port. 4. _____ many groups at our college. 5. _____ a captain on the bridge. 6. _____ many sailors on the deck. 7. _____ a radiogram in the radio room. 8. _____ many texts in this text-book. 9. _____ three windows in our classroom. 10. _____ a tanker at sea. 11. _____ a maritime college in the city. 12. _____ many tests in the book.

Exercise III. Put demonstrative pronouns this, that, these, those into the gaps.

Model: That (This) ship is new.

1. _____ sailor is on the deck, and _____ one is in the cabin. 2. _____ ships are at sea, and _____ ships are in the port. 3. _____ man is captain and _____ men are officers. 4. _____ men are good sailors. 5. _____ port is big. _____ port is big too. 6. _____decks are white and clean.

Exercise IV. Make up the questions.

1. This Greek ship is in the port. (What ship? What? Where?) 2. The Master is on the bridge. (Who? Where?) 3. The seamen are in the cabins at night. (Where? When?). 4. A white tall ship is in that port now. (What ship? Where? What port? When? What color?). 5. An old sailor is in the cabin. (What sailor? Who? Where? Why?) 6. The cargo plan is on the table. (Where?)

Exercise V. Translate into English:

а) Наше судно, его капитан, их палуба, ваши матросы, их документы, мои вещи, твоя книга, наш груз, их лодка.

b) 1. Палубы нашего судна чистые. 2 Документы нашего капитана на столе в его каюте. 3. Родители нашего второго помощника тоже моряки. 4. Это вещи нашего нового моториста. 5. Это каргоплан (cargo plan) второго помощника.
6. Их судно в море. 7. Наш капитан на мостике. 8. Мой экипаж очень квалифицированный.

Exercise VI. Tell about the ship’s crew and the duties of each crew member.

LESSON 2. VISITING A SHIP