There is some milk and some coffee in the fridge.
7. Look around. Answer the questions.
1. Are there any sockets in your room?
2. Is there any paper on your table?
3. What is there next to the window?
4. How many drawers are there in your desk?
5. Are there any children in the room?
6. Where are your books?
7. Where is your food?
8. There is an extra word in each sentence. Find it.
1. There are not no drawers in the desk.
2. There is a some fax-machine in our department.
3. There is not some any paper in the laser printer.
4. Are there any an airline tickets in the reception?
5. There is not a any juice in the glass.
6. How many rooms are there are in this department?
7. Are there any not letters for our tenants?
READINGAND SPEAKING PRACTICE
1. Answer the questions.
1. What do you usually do at work?
2. What do you especially enjoy/are bored with/hate doing?
3. What are you doing now?
4. What are your secretaries/managers doing now?
5. What equipment is there in your office?
6. How many departments are there in your office?
7. How often do you organize meetings/discuss your problems/send letters/sign the documents?
8. How many people are there in the office today?
9. Who is using a phone now?
10. Who regularly brings new information to the office?
2. Complete the questions in The Present Continuous and Present Simple tenses with the words from the Active Vocabulary.
1. Are you………………………………………………………….?
2. What is he………………………………………………………?
3. Am I……………………………………………………………?
4. Where is he……………………………………………………..?
5. Why are the doctors……………………………………………..?
6. Does she…………………………………………………………?
7. When does he……………………………………………………?
8. Who……………………………………………………………….?
9. Why do they………………………………………………………?
3. Read the dialogue and try to learn it.
Boris: Julia, could you help me, please?
Julia: Yes, Boris. What is wrong?
Boris: Well. I would like Alice to type a letter. But there aren’t any secretaries in the department now.
Julia: I see. Can you type?
Boris: Yes. I think so.
Julia: There is a word processor on Alice ’s desk. Can you use a word processor?
Boris: Yes. And where is the disk?
Julia: It is in the top drawer of the desk.
Boris: Julia, there isn’t a dollar sign!
Julia: Yes, there is.
Boris: Well, I can’t see it.
Julia: Oh. Boris. That’s terrible. Would you like me to help you?
Boris: Oh, thanks. Can you read my writing?
Julia: Yes. I think so!
4. Complete the dialogue with the words from the Word Box.
A: Alice! It is seven o’clock! And you are still working!
B: No, I am not working. I’m…………………….
A: What are you reading? Is it a business document?
B: No, it isn’t. It is a German book. I’m leaning German.
A: Is German for work or is it a………………?
B: It’s for work. I want to ……………… some transparences in German. For our international…………….
A: Are you keen on learning languages?
B: Yes, I like learning them. I ………………… know four.
A: Oh. And I can speak just two.
B: Well. Never mind. You can do …………… other things.
5. You are very angry. What will you say? Find the proper response.
1. The children don’t want to get up. It is time to go to school.
2 The cat is eating your breakfast.
3. Your wife wants to have a holiday without you.
4. Your son is not eating his dinner. He is watching TV.
5. Your secretary doesn’t have transparencies.
6. Your fridge is empty. You have no food to eat. And your 16-year-old son is playing computer games.
7. Your husband doesn’t want to give you the money he gets at work.
8. Your children don’t want to show you their school results.
9. It is very cold. The window is open.
10. Your baby is drawing on your documents.
A. Don’t go without me, please!
B. Don’t watch TV! Eat your dinner!
C. Alec! Go to the shop! Now!
D. Show me your record books, please. I want to see them.
E. Get up immediately!