ARTICLES Fill in an article (THE, A, AN) where necessary — or leave blank | Teachers ate like ‘weather, one minute they're good, other they're bad. 2. Jake took out. beer opened it and drank. cold beer from bottle. beer always tasted better from bottle. She is on diet, so she ordered calorie-free dinner. We'd like to have ‘wedding in early fall, in early October if possible. Emma's eyes rested on letter. Here was opportunity she had been waiting for. The plane was climbing up through sky. My grandmother was true original. Strong of character, she ruled our family with iron hand. 8. Maxim was at centre of her thoughts. 9. Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of England, went to Harrow. 10. Marmalade is usually made from oranges. 11. I ive in apartment, which is brand new. 12 Royals is a serial which portraits lite of members of Royal family in United Kingdom. 13. twas cold Saturday morning at beginning of. month, 14. Ithad rained earlier in the day and as Maggie left the house she lifted her eyes towards sky. 15. arrived | USA last Monday. We left Rome, flew over Alps and made a quick stop in London. 16. Before we landed at JFK airport, we saw ‘Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and Empire State building. 17. Most children like sweets. 18, Jane's husband got home early from. work. 19. Last year we visited St. Paul's Cathedral and Tower of London 20. Our friends, Millers, moved to Florida last summer. 21. Our children go to school by bus 22. She likes Indian tea but she doesn't like tea that comes from Ceylon. 23. President of the United States is giving a speech tonight. 24, The two countries reached peace after a long, disastrous war. 25. We needed house to live in when we were in London. 26. Elephants are intelligent animals. 27. This is a book on Irish history. 28. She had laughing eyes and most charming mouth. 29. I'l book sleeper on Geneva-Paris train tomorrow, 30. 'm tired. | think I'l be going to bed. 31. We need to be at airport in hour. 32. Their car does over a hundred miles hour. Noone 33. Carol's father works as electrician. 34 Milk is rich in nutrients. 35. Money is one of most important things in life. 36. Dogs make wonderful pets. 37. Do you happen to know who invented camera?Exercise Try this exercise, putting alan/the in the blanks. If there should be no article, then place a * in the biank. Mr Coleman was (1) __ very fastidious person. He lived three (2)___ streets away from us, in (3)__ small house with (4)__ beautiful garden. Having taken early retirement from his (5) __ job as (6) __button counter, he now had plenty of time to worry, and this he did very ‘successfully. He often spent sleepless nights trying to figure out how he could successfully cook both sides of (7)__ omelette without it breaking, or how he might achieve better access to (8)_ tins at (9) __ back of his cupboard. (10) __ most of his home was exceptionally neat and tidy, but several loose cables behind (11) __ television set bothered him, and he never quite knew what to do with (12)__ empty plastic bags. Then, one day, his life changed, and he began to experience some relief from his anguish It seemed that other people underwent similar mental trials, for (13)__ new catalogue appeared ‘on his doorstep. (14)___ catalogue contained solutions for many of his problems, and for others which had not yet given him any cause for concern. There was (15)__set of three egg timers, for example, shaped like (16) __ chickens and designed to emit (17) __clucking sound at (18) __ end of three, four and five minutes respectively. In this way he could cook (19)__ eggs to ‘suit each of his friends individually, and then keep them warm with (20) __ specially designed ‘covers which went with the timer, marked ‘3’, ‘4’ and ‘5’ for identification purposes. And (21) __ catalogue contained many other wonderful ideas, such as (22) toaster which could be adjusted to produce different degrees of brownness on (23) __four slices toasted simultaneously, and (24) __ photo frame that rotated pictures at (25) __ touch of (26) ___ invisible button, so that visiting relatives would never be offended by not seeing their pictures on display, unless, of course, they all tumed up together - Mr Coleman eventually solved this problem too by ordering four frames.