Exercises book for the first- Year non- enghlish major students

n? I _______ (start) to feel tired.
“ Can you drive?” “ I _______ (learn). My father _______ (teach) me.
 Normally I _______ (finish) work at 5.00, but this week I _______ (work) until 6.00 to earn a bit money.
 My parents _______ (live) in Bristol. They were born there and have never lived anywhere else. Where _______ ( your parents/ live)?
Sonia _______ (look) for a place to live. She _______ (stay) with her sister until she finds somewhere.
 “ What _______ ( your father / do) ?” “He’s an architect but he _______ (not/ work) at the moment.
(At the party) Usually I _______ (enjoy) parties but I (noy/enjoy) this one very much.
The train’s never late. It _______ (always/ leave) on time.
Exercise 9: Complete the sentences with correct tense: simple present or present continuous or simple past.
We _______ (see) Rose in town a few years ago.
Who is that man? What _______ he _______ (want)?
Julie is very good at English. She _______ (speak) four languages very well.
He always _______ (make) noise in class.
The police _______ (stop) me on the way home last night. Water _______ (boil) at 100 degrees Cesius.
Where _______ ( your father / be)? – He _______ (be) in the garden. He _______ (plant) flowers.
Annie _______ (go) to her girlfriend’s party last Sunday.
He _______ (study) English every Monday and Friday.
Look! A dog _______ (chase) a cat.
I cannot go because it _______ (rain).
Her father _______ (not/go) to work yesterday because he _______ (be) ill.
He usually _______ (sit) in front of row. Today he _______ (sit) at the back
 My father _______ (live) in the house near the sea because he _______ (like) sailing.
 When _______ (he/ learn) to drive? A long ago?
Exercise 10: Read the text and answer the questions: 
AN ARTIST AND A FARMER
An arrtist went to a beautiful part of the country for a holiday, and stay with farmer. Everyday he went out with his paints and his brushes and painted from morning to evening, and then when it got dark, he went back to the farm and had a good dinner before going to bed.
At the end of his holiday, he wanted to pay the farmer, but the farmer said, “ No, I don’t want money, but give me one of your pictures. What is money? In a week it will all be finished, but your painting will still be here.”
The artist was very pleased and thanked the farmer for saying such kind things about the paintings. The farmer smiled and answered, “ It is not that, I have a son in London. He wants to become an artist. When he comes here next month, I will show him your picture, and then he will not want to be an artist anymore, I think.”
Answer the question below:
Who went to a beautiful part of the country for a holiday?
What did he do during the holiday?
What did he have before going to bed?
Why didn’t he pay the farmer?
Did the farmer’s son want to become an artist after he had seen the artist’s picture?
True or false.
The artst spent his holiday on a farm.
Everyday he went back to the farm when it was dark.
He made paints and brushes during his holiday.
The farmer asked the artist for many pictures at the end of the holiday.
The artist was very pleased with the farmer request because he thought his pictures so beautiful.
Exercise 11: Read the text and answer the questions: 
Mary worked in an office in London, and she usually went out and had lunch in a restaurant. She liked foreign food and often looked in the newspaper for the names of new restaurants, because she enjoyed going to them and eating new things. Sometimes she said, “I don’t like this restaurant. I’m not going to come here again.” But often she said,” I like this one. I’m going to have my lunch here often.”
One day she saw a name of a Greek restaurant in her newspaper, and she went there for lunch. It was very small, but it was clean and nice, and the food was good.
But then Mary found something hard in her mouth. She took it out. It was a button.
“Look here, waiter!” she said. “I’ve found this button in my food.”
“Thank you, thank you!” the waiter answered happily. “I looked everywhere for it.”
Answer the question below:
What food did Mary like?
Where did she go one day?
What did she find in her mouth?
What did she say then?
What did the waiter answer?
Exercise 12: Read the text and answer the questions: 
THE KIWI
The Kiwi lives only in New Zealand. It is a very strange bird because it can not fly.
The Kiwi is yhe same size as a chicken. It has no wings or tail. It doesnot have any feathers like other birds. It has hair on its body. Each food has four toes. Its bead(mouth) is very long.
A Kiwi likes a lot of trees around it. It sleeps during the day because the sunlight hurts its eyes. It can smell things with its nose. It is the only bird in the world that can smell things.The Kiwi’s eggs are very big.
There are only a few Kiwis in New Zealand now. People never see them. The government says that people cannot kill Kiwis. New Zealander want their Kiwis to live.
There is a picture of a Kiwi on New Zealand money. People from New Zealand are sometimes called Kiwis.
Answer the question below:
Where does the Kiwis live?
What’s a Kiwi?
How big is a Kiwi?
Does a Kiwi have feathers?
Does it have a tail and wings?
When does a Kiwi sleep?
Can most birds fly?
Why can’t people kill Kiwis?
Why does New Zealand have a picture of a Kiwi on its money?
True or False
Kiwis live in Australia and New Zealand.
A Kiwi has a tail but no wings.
A Kiwi has a big beak.
It sleeps during the day because light hurts its eyes.
The New Zealand government does not want all the Kiwis to die.
A Kiwi is like most other birds.
Exercise 13:
COFFEE
	Do you feel tired? Drink some coffee! Do you want to welcome your friends to your house? Drink some coffee together!
	Coffee grows on trees in tropical countries. The trees are not very tall. They are less than four meters high. They have shiny leaves and white flowers. Fruit starts to grow when the trees five years old. Each fruit has two seeds in it. We call the seeds coffee beans.
	Worker collect the coffee beans by hands. There are no machines for collecting coffee beans.
	Coffee came from Ethiopia in East Africa. People saw animals eating the leaves and fruit of coffee plants. The animals stayed awake all night. Then people started eating the fruit too.
	People took coffee from Ethiopia to the Middle East and then to Europe. They started making a drink from coffee about 700 years ago. They liked to go to the coffee houses to drink coffee and talk.
	Now coffee grows in many countries in South America, Asia, and Africa. People all over the world like to drink it.
	Questions:
Where does coffee grow?
How high are there?
What do we call the seeds of coffee?
How do workers collect the coffee bean?
Where did people take coffee?
Comprehension: True or false.
Coffee trees grow in the desert.
The trees are short.
Fruit starts to grow when the trees are five years old.
Coffee beans are really seeds
There are a lot of beans in each fruit.
Workers collect the beans with small machines.
Coffee came from Africa.
Coffee made animals stay awake.
People started drinking coffee around 700 years ago.
Only people in the tropical drink coffee.
WHY IS THE SEA SALTY?
There is a lot of salt on the earth, and it mixed very well with water.
	There is some salt in all water. Water on the land runs into lakes and rivers. The water from most lakes goes into rivers. These rivers run into the sea and oceans. They carry a little salt with them. Some of the ocean water moves into the air and clouds. It evaporates. Salt cannot evaporate. It stays in the ocean.
	The water in the oceans has more salt than river water. Ocean water is about 3 ½ % (three and a half percent) salt. Some seas have more salt than others.
	Some lakes do not have a river to carry the water and salt away. Some of the water leaves the lakes. It evaporates, but the salt cannot. These lakes are very salty. There are two famous lakes like this. They are the Dead Sea in the Middle East and the Great Salt Lake in the state of Utah in the United States. They are much saltier than the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
I. Answer the questions:
What does salt mix well?
Is there salt in lakes and rivers?
Where does river water go?
Where does the salt in the ocean go?
Which has more salt, rivers or oceans?
Why are some lakes very salty?
Name two famous salty lakes?
Are there fish in Dead Sea?
II/ True or False.
Salt mixes with water.
There is salt in rivers.
Rivers have more salt than oceans.
Salt evaporates.
Ocean water is about 2 ½ % salt.
I arrived in London at last. The railway station was big, black and dark. I did not know the way to my hotel, so I asked the porter. I spoke English not only carefully, but clearly as well. The porter, however, could not understand me. I repeated my questions several times and at last he understood. He answered me, but he spoke neither slowly nor clearly, “lama foreigner”, I said. Then he spoke slowly, but I could not understand him. My teacher never spoke English like that! The porter and I looked at each other and smiled. Then he said something and I understood it.
	“You’ll soon learn English!”, he said. I wonder, “ In England, each man speaks a different language. The English understand each other, but I don’t understand them! “Do they speak English?”
I/ Answer the questions:
How was the railway station?
Who did the writer ask how to get to his hotel?
Did the writer speak English carefull and clearly?
How many times did he repeat his questions?
Did he at last understand what the porter said?
II/ True or false:
The writer asked the porter where the railway station was.
The porter couldn’t understand the writer because the porter didn’t know English.
The writer’s teacher of English spoke English differently from English people.
In England, each person speaks a different language.
The porter didn’t feel angry with the writer.