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Q Grammar in a text. Put in a, an, the or nothing (-).

In i ............ 1969, in 2............Portland, 3 ............. Oregon, 4 ............... man went to rob 5 ............ bank.

He didn't want 6............people in 7 ............... bank to know what was happening, so he walked up to
one of 8.............cashiers, wrote on 9 ..............piece of 10...............paper. This is 11............... robbery and
I've got 12............gun', and showed 13...............paper to 14..............cashier. Then he wrote,'Take all
15.............money out of your drawer and put it in 16..............paper bag.' 17 cashier read
18............message, wrote at 19............. bottom of 20..............paper,'I haven't got 21................paper bag'

and gave 22............. paper back to 23............. robber. 24...............robber ran out of 25...............bank.

0 GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY: m a teria ls
Learn some or all of the words in the box. Use a dictionary. Then write some sentences
to say what your clothes and other possessions are made of.

brick cotton china diamond glass gold leather metal paper
plastic rubber silk silver stone synthetic fibre wood wool

My shoes a rt v^a d t ?£ leather Ryyd rydobtr, (n o t the.Leather...... ) ............................................

0 Internet exercise. Use a search engine (e.g. Google) to find the names of the following in Britain,

Australia, Canada or the USA. Write them using articles correctly.
1 a river ..................................................................................................................................................................

2 a lake ..................................................................................................................................................................
3 a mountain .........................................................................................................................................................
4 a part of the country ..........................................................................................................................................
5 a hotel .................................................................................................................................................................

6 a station ..............................................................................................................................................................
7 an airport ............................................................................................................................................................
8 a tourist attraction ..............................................................................................................................................
9 a cathedral ..........................................................................................................................................................
10 a museum .....................................................................

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