Task 2. Put adjectives in brackets to the degrees of adjectives.
1. Your English is much ___ now. ( good)
a) better
b) good
c) the best
d) best
2. He is ___ among his classmates.( tall)
a) taller
b) higher
c) the youngest
d) short
3. The weather is ___ ___ in June. (hot)
a) as hot as
b) hotter
c) the hottest
d) as not hot as
4. Jake is __ __ Peter (not happy)
a) not as happy as
b) as happier as
c) as happiest as
d) as happy
5. John is boy in the class. (smart)
a) smarter
b) the smartest
c) smart
d) smartier1. It hardly ever rains in central Madagascar.
2. The wettest part of the island is the east.
3. January-March is a good time to visit eastern Madagascar.
4. The centre of Madagascar is the coldest part.
5. The north-east is hotter than the south-east.
Task 1. Read the text and mark the sentences True or False
Madagascar
Madagascar has two seasons, a warm, wet season from November to April, and a cooler dry season between May and October. However, different parts of the country have very different weather.
The east coast is hotter and wetter, with up to 4000mm of rainfall per year. In the rainy season, there are strong winds, and these can cause a lot of damage. Avoid visiting eastern Madagascar between January and March because the weather can make road travel very difficult. The dry season is cooler and more pleasant.
The high, central part of the country is much drier and cooler. About 1,400 mm of rain falls in the rainy season, with some thunderstorms, but the summer is usually sunny and dry, but it can be cold, especially in the mornings, with freezing showers, and it may snow in mountain areas above 2,400m, and even stay there for several days.
The west coast is the driest part of the island. Here, the winter months are pleasant with little rain, cooler temperatures and blue skies. The summers can be extremely hot, especially in the southwest. This part of the country is semi-desert, and only gets around 300mm of rain per year.
1. It hardly ever rains in central Madagascar.
2. The wettest part of the island is the east.
3. January-March is a good time to visit eastern Madagascar.
4. The centre of Madagascar is the coldest part.
5. The north-east is hotter than the south-east.
1. The first voyage was to a strange country Lilliput. As the result of a shipwreck Gulliver finds himself in a country, inhabited by a race of people about six inches high. Everything else in this country is on a correspondent scale. Swift meant this small country with it's shallow interest, corrupted laws and evil customs to symbolize the England of the 18'th centure, the court with it's atmosphere of hostility, hypocrizy and flattery where the author felt as lonely as his hero when among the liliputians.
2. Before long Gulliver undertakes another voyage. The ship anchors near the land of the giants to take in a supply of water. While on shore Gulliver is captured by the giants. They are good-natured creatures and treat Gulliver kindly, though they are amused by his small size and look upon him as a plaything.
Brobdingnag is an expression of Swift's desire to find the ideal and escape from the disgusting world of the Liliputians. The author idealizes an agricultural country ruled by ideal monarch. Swift creates such a monarch in the king of Brobdingnag. He is clever, honest and kind to his people. He hates wars and wants to make his people happy.
3. The third voyage is to Laputa, a flying island Laputa. Swift's imagination the bitterness of his satire reach their climax in the third part where he shows the academy of sciences in Laputa (the author touches upon all the existing sciences). It is easy enough to understand that in ridiculing the academy of Laputa. Swift ridicults the scientists of the 18'th century. The scientists are shut in their chambers isolated from all the world.
3. In the 4'th part Swift describes Gulliver's adventures at the Heuyhnhnms - a ideal land where were is neither sickness, dishonesty, non any of the frivo-lities of human scociety. The human race ocupies a position of servility there and a noble race of horces rules the country by reason and justice.
"Gulliver's travels was one of the greatest works of the period of the Enlightment in world literature. Swift's democratic ideas expressed in the book had a great influence on the English writers who came after Swift.
1. I was afraid that I would get lost in the forest. 2. She knew that we
had never seen her painting. 3. I knew that you had come to St. Peter-
burg, and I thought that you would visit me. 4. We learned yesterday that
she was ill. 5. I knew that she was studying French, and I thought that she would go to Paris. 6. We saw children playing in
the sand. 7. The teacher said that our friends sent a letter from
London. 8. She said that she would not bathe again, as
the water was cold. 9. He said that when he entered the room, his
friend was sitting on the couch reading a newspaper. 10. I was afraid that you would not follow my advice. 11. I was sure that if we hurried,
we would not miss the train. 12. Everyone was sure that Boris would pass the exams well.