Grammar World Context 6. The Article

Have a look at the dialogue and explore any unfamiliar words . Press the word of your interest. The selected word appears with a black background. Click on the word to look it up in an online dictionary that you have to choose in the window on the right. Choose the languages to translate (from-to) and the dictionary. Remember, you may switch the dictionaries at any time, you may click on the listening icon next to the word and listen to how it is pronounced.

Task 1. Picture the followingsituation: two sweet hearts - Robbie and Cecelia - meet up after a long break. Both of them have had a lot of misfortunes, but they are still happy to see each other again, though not knowing how to start a converstaion. They are talking in a cafe in London, trying to overcome their akwardness. Follow the instructions in the brackets, come up with the necessary nouns and articles in the right functions.

Robbie: I'm sorry I'm late, I got lost.

Cecelia: I'm sorry, I can't remember, how much sugar you take in ... (generic function, material noun)

Robbie: Thank you. Where are you living?

Cecelia: ... (classifying function, concrete noun) in Balham, ghastly. The landlady's rude and horribly nosy.

Robbie: You look the same. Apart from ... (specifying function, concrete noun), of course.

Cecelia: Yes, I'm sorry. I've got to go back to ... (generic reference, concrete noun) in half ... (numerical function, a noun denoting time).

Robbie: Oh, God, that... Have you been in touch with your family?

Cecelia: No, I told you I wouldn't. Leon waited outside ... (specifying function, concrete noun) last week, I just pushed past him. Left her there standing, looking at ... (aspective fuction, noun with unique reference).

Robbie: Cee, you don't owe me anything.

Cecelia: Robbie, didn't you read my letters? Had I been allowed to visit you, had they let me every day, I would have been there every day with ... (generic reference, abstract noun).

Robbie: Yes, but... If all we have rests on a few moments in ... (classifying function, concrete noun) three and a half years ago, then I'm not sure, I don't know if...

Cecelia: Robbie, look at me. Come back. Come back to me.

Robbie: I hope ... (specifying function, concrete noun) never comes.

Cecelia: Here. Something to think of while you're away. I love you.