What is Happiness for You

Do you consider yourself a happy person?

- Happiness is a sunny morning, a smell of flowers, a friendly smile.

- I’m happy to be me!

- In fact I think I am happy just because I am.

- My friend is my hope. I feel happy when I have someone to share my happiness with. Byron said: “Happiness was born a Twin”.

- Happiness is when you are understood. Happiness for me is understanding.

- Everybody has his or her own notion of Happiness. For me it’s my family and buying new things.

- Happiness depends much on myself. I feel happy when I help other people.

- Today I am a grown-up enough to see that Dostoyevsky had a good reason to say: “Happiness doesn’t lie in happiness but in the achievement of it” So it’s life.

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So happiness is something impossible to explain. Happiness consists of many things. The criterion of happiness is the joy of life.

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GRAMMAR EXERCISES.

The Pronoun.

I. Change the following sentences by using pronouns instead of the underlined nouns.

1. Mike likes to help his parents.

2. The newspaper is on the table.

3. Children like to spend their holidays with their parents.
4- Mary is our friend.

5. We haven't got new books.

6. She hasn't got money with her.

7. We have bought expensive things.

8. My brother and me work hard.

II. Fill in the blanks with personal and possessive pronouns.

1.... name is Ann. This is... family.

2. My family is large.... consists of three persons.

3. My father is abuilder,.., works in Kyiv.

4. We have... English classes once a week.

5. Our director is in... office now.

6. If I see my brother I shall tell about it.

7. The team is preparing for... big game.

8. Have... any relatives?

III. Choose the correct word.

1. Our parents worry about my brother more than about (myself, me).

2. If I see (him, his) I’ll tell him to call you.

3. It takes (me, myself) 20 minutes to go there.

4. This is a good picture of (he, his).

5. Thank you for (you, your) helping me.

6. Everyone did (its, his) best on the homework.

7. His son often get (oneself, himself) in trouble.

8. He is always talking to (oneself, himself).

IV. Complete the sentences with the correct pronoun.

1. I have a dog; that dog is...

2. You have a car; that car is...

3. They have a brother; that brother is...

4. We have a garden; that garden is...

5. She has a house; that house is...

The Noun.

V. Write the plural of the following nouns:

A country, a wolf, a tomato, a brush, a baby, a watch, a sheep, a postman, a day, a shelf, a sister-in-law, a text, a roof, a tape-recorder, a page, a mouse.

VI. Put these sentences into the plural.

Pattern: The book is on the table. The books are on the table.

1. The boy is standing by the window. 2. The girl is in the street. 3. The worker is having a rest. 4. The mechanic is working hard. 5. The farmer works in the field. 6. The student reads much in the library. 7. The apple is red.

VII. This —► These

That —►Those

This is a valley. 2. That is a man. 3. That sportsman is at the stadium. 4. That woman is an accountant. 5. That is a sheep. 6. This is a mouse. 7. This is a builder and that is a farmer. 8. This is a big country. 9. That is a toy. 10.This is a knife.

VIII. Change the following sentences into the plural where possible.

1. The house is not large but it is comfortable. 2. A study is a room where we study, read or write. 3. The furniture is old-fashioned. 4. Have you got an exercise to do? 5. Is this family large? 6. This television - set costs a lot of money. 7. What is there in that box? 8. There is no soup in my plate. 9. Is the curtain write or yellow? 10. There is a lot of snow in winter. 11. The woman's dress is red. 12. A city is a big town. 13. The child's toy is on the floor. 14. There is a tomato on the plate.

IX. Read quickly in the singular.

1. My friends want to study French. 2. They remember everything. 3. Children receive a lot of pleasure from this game. 4. Do these girls go to the theatre on Saturday? 5. His friends work in Kyiv. 6. The children play in the morning and sleep in the afternoon. 7. My friends like meat and don't like fish. 8. They live in small houses which have three rooms. 9. His brothers word hard all day. 10. They get new books from the library every week. 11. The postmen bring letters three times a day. 12. They want to buy some toys, because their sons have a birthday tomorrow. 13. These girls come to our library every Thursday. 14. The boys wake up at seven. 15. Housewives have to work very hard. 16. They don't believe her stories.

THE ARTICLE.

X. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate articles:

1. There is … book on the table.

2. I have just seen … boy whom we met last week.

3. This is … pen.

4. This is … pen that I need.

5. It is … hard work.

6. It is … hard job.

7. Weather is nasty today.

8. He was taken to … hospital.

9. Hospital was far from our place.

10. Italy is a beautiful country.

XI. Divide the sentences into two groups: a) sentences in which the definite article should be used; b) sentences in which no article should be used:

1. Dnipro is a great river.

2. He was in … Alps last spring.

3. One of the most dangerous places in the world is … Bermudas.

4. Trafalgar Square is in the centre of London.

5. Have you seen … Tereshchenkiv Street?

6. The wind is blowing from … North.

7. May is a spring month.

8. My day off is … Friday.

9. "Hamlet" … famous tragedy was written by Shakespeare.

10. Last summer I visited … National Gallery in London.

XII. In the following sentences find the mistakes in the use of articles. Correct the mistakes.

1. The English is one of the most important languages in the world.

2. United Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

3. Last year we visited Canada and United States

4. When you are in London, you must see National Gallery.

5. The Africa is much large than Europe.

6. Would you like to be the builder?

7. We always give our mother the flowers on her birthday.

8. My friend has a cat and the dog.

9. She lives in small a flat.

10. What time do you go to the bed?

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