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We don't use the when we i Whafs the weather like? but / don’t like hot weather.

The lanes near our cottage are very narrow. but Don‘t drive fost in narrow lanes.

| No, I don't. Do you1~|

m the east coast of England. The town is called Grimsby. It's a nice place, and I like living by the sea. My dad's a fisherman. He’s got a big boat. I sometimes go K } fishing with him on the boat.

S 1 We use a when we talk about something for the first £ time. (I've got a cat.)

| 2 We use the when we talk about something again. (I've 2 got a cat and a dog. I like the dog best.)

I"^{1 2 3 4 5} 3 We use a when we say what someone's job is [She's a doctor.), or when we describe what somebody or i something is. (He‘s a nice man./lfs a lovely day.)

—4 We use the when there is onlyone of something.

(E.g. the sun/ the president)

3 Find one morę example of each rule in the text.

4 Choose the best answer, a or the. Which rule applies?

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Dave76 Hi Jess. What's the name of ‘a / the yillage? Jess22 Thurlbury. It's in Scotland. Where do you live, Dave?

|Dave76 Ashford._

Jess22 Is that ⁶a / the town or ^{7 8}a / the yillage?

i s 'a / the smali town in ^{9 10 11 12}a / the south of England. ItS OK here. There's 'a / the sports centre and ¹⁰a / the cinema, but "a / the cinema's only got

i Jess22 Cinema! We haven't even got ¹³a / the cafś.

making generalisations.

Unit 3 • Town and country

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Read the Look out! box. Are the sentences generalisations or not? Choose the correct answers.

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   Life /The life in a smali village can be very boring.

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   Weather /The weather in Scotland was terrible last weekend.

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   This Crossing isn't for bicycles/the bicycles, it's for pedestrians/the pedestrians.

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   I love Indian food/the Indian food.

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   Fields /The fields around the village are fuli of cows.

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   I hate advertisements /the advertisements. They're usually so boring.

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6 (i 1.25 lil:W.'HKW;IU«],'l Listen and repeatthe phrases in the box- How do we pronounce the before a vowel sound? the advertisement the cottage the east the end the English the gate the industry the scenery the yillage the west

big dties? weather today? scenery in Mazury?

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American Rlms? the Italian food?

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Do you like    American President?

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original Star Wars film? talkative people? tracksults? song in Unit 1? new i Pod? optimistic people?

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| Doyou like bigcities? |

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[~Yes. I do. Do you like the weather today? |