Countables nouns Exercises

UNIT 66   Countables nouns Exercises

66.1   What are these things? Try and find out if you don't know.
Example: an ant? It's an insect                       ants? bees? They are inserts.

1.   an onion? It's__________________________

2.   a pigeon? It__________________________

3.   a dandelion?_________________________

4.   a skyscraper?__________________________

5.   Earth? Mars? Venus? Jupiter? They______________________

6.   the Rhine? the Nile? the Mississippi?________________________

And who were these people?

Example: Beethoven? He was a composer.            Beethoven? Bach? They were camposers.

7.   Picasso? He was_____________________

8.   Shakespeare? He_______________________

9.   Einstein?_________________________

10.   Marilyn Monroe?_________________________

11.   Kennedy? Johnson? Nixo? They______________________

12.   Elvis Presley? John Lennon?____________________________


66.2   Read about someone's job and then write what his or her job is.

Example: Ron flies airplanes.  He's a pilot.

1.   sue types letters and answers the phone in an office. She is__________________________

2.   Tim plans people's vacations for them. He_________________________________

3.   Carol takes care of patients in a hospital. She__________________________________
 
4.   Mary teaches math._________________________________________

5.   Martha directs movies._______________________________

6.   John translates what people are saying from one language into another, so that they can understand each other.  ________________________________________________                     


66.3   Put in a/an or some, or leave a space (without a word).

Examples: I've seen some good movies recently.
Do you have a headache?
Are most of your friends _______________ students?

1.   Do you have________ camera?

2.   Would you like to be_______actor?

3.   Bill has ________ big feet.

4.   Do you collect _________ stamps?

5.   Tom always gives Ann_____________flowers on her birthday.

6.   Those are___________ really nice slacks. Where did you get them?

7.   What____________beautiful garden!

8.   What_________nice children

9.   ____________birds, for example the penguin, cannot fly.

10.   Jack has___________very long legs, so he's _____________fast runner.

11.   You need______visa to visit foreign countries, but not all of them.

12.   I'm going shopping. I'm going to get___________new clothes.

13.   Jane is teacher. Her parents were______________teaches too.

14.   When we got downtown,_____________ stores were still open, but most of them were already closed.

15.   Do you enjoy going to______________concerts?

16.   When I was child, I used to_____________be very shy