Teksti
exercise 22 Translate into English. Your partner checks.
1. Can/May I ask you another question?
2. The President would like to be in office for another six years.
3. Others / other people might vote for him, but not me.
4. My aunt's twin sons/boys resemble each other / one another.
5. One is called Jack, the other Peter.
6. Some girls prefer Jack, others Peter.
7. Can we be honest with each other / one another?
8. Our cat had six kittens. Some were grey, the others black.
9. Would you like another cup of tea?
10. Emma and I are each other's / one another's best friends.
11. Why do some people always complain and others never do?
12. I didn't know which bag to buy. One was bright red and the other shiny.
exercise 23 Translate into English. Your partner checks.
1. All my credit cards were stolen.
2. All (of) the money in my bank account was spent in a day.
3. All (that) / Everything (that) I remember is having my wallet in my pocket on the train.
4. We all were surprised when it was gone.
5. After that everything went wrong on our trip.
6. My friends had to lend me money all the time / the whole time.
7. I didn't care about the stolen wallet but partied all night.
8. My whole trip turned out to be a success after all.
9. All Naples partied with us.
10. Both my dad and mum were quite worried about me.
11. Each of them called me many many times.
12. They told me to either come home or stop partying.
13. I neither listened to them nor went home.
14. I'm now so broke that I need to do all (that) / everything (that) my parents tell me to.
15. The whole of Finland is sunny but I need to do chores/housework indoors.
16. I need/have to work all summer / the whole summer.
exercise 24 Look at the drawings below. Match the proverb with the picture. Fill in.
1. The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill.
2. If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
3. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
4. All is fair in love and war.
5. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
6. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
7. All good things must come to an end.
exercise 25
1. All of you / You all out there are reading this sentence now.
2. Some of you have realized that this is a stupid fact while the others reading this are still wondering what's going on. 4. You neither noticed nor wondered why I had skipped number three.
5. You are either checking now or already smiling.
6. Some are still reading this while others find it too silly to continue.
8. One of you has perhaps noticed that I skipped number seven, but not all/everybody.
9. You are having another look and smiling about how you fell for the same thing again.
10. Tell each other / one another how you did.
11. Can you also come up with another joke like this that you have seen or heard?
exercise 26 The following is an African folktale. Fill in the story with the indefinite pronouns given in the box. Listen to check your answers. Ratkaisut Long, long ago some animals had 1. no tails and 2. others very small ones. One day the lion asked 3. all the animals to come to him and told them to get good tails 4. one way or another. It was 5. both cold 5. and rainy. The hare only had a short little tail. But he did not like to go out and said to 6. the other animals, “Please, bring me a tail. I can’t go 7. anywhere when it rains.” “What kind of tail do you want to have?” 8. every / each animal asked him in turn. “Oh, 9. any tail will be good for me," the hare answered 10. every one of them. 11. Some time later the animals came back and 12. each / every animal had a beautiful tail. But 13. nobody had remembered to bring 14. another tail for the hare. 15. None of the animals had 16. anything for the hare. 17. Some of them forgot all about the hare; 18. the others perhaps remembered but could not find a good tail. The hare still has a short little tail and learnt that if you must do 19. something, don’t ask 20. other animals to do it for you.
1. Can/May I ask you another question?
2. The President would like to be in office for another six years.
3. Others / other people might vote for him, but not me.
4. My aunt's twin sons/boys resemble each other / one another.
5. One is called Jack, the other Peter.
6. Some girls prefer Jack, others Peter.
7. Can we be honest with each other / one another?
8. Our cat had six kittens. Some were grey, the others black.
9. Would you like another cup of tea?
10. Emma and I are each other's / one another's best friends.
11. Why do some people always complain and others never do?
12. I didn't know which bag to buy. One was bright red and the other shiny.
exercise 23 Translate into English. Your partner checks.
1. All my credit cards were stolen.
2. All (of) the money in my bank account was spent in a day.
3. All (that) / Everything (that) I remember is having my wallet in my pocket on the train.
4. We all were surprised when it was gone.
5. After that everything went wrong on our trip.
6. My friends had to lend me money all the time / the whole time.
7. I didn't care about the stolen wallet but partied all night.
8. My whole trip turned out to be a success after all.
9. All Naples partied with us.
10. Both my dad and mum were quite worried about me.
11. Each of them called me many many times.
12. They told me to either come home or stop partying.
13. I neither listened to them nor went home.
14. I'm now so broke that I need to do all (that) / everything (that) my parents tell me to.
15. The whole of Finland is sunny but I need to do chores/housework indoors.
16. I need/have to work all summer / the whole summer.
exercise 24 Look at the drawings below. Match the proverb with the picture. Fill in.
1. The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill.
2. If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
3. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
4. All is fair in love and war.
5. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
6. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
7. All good things must come to an end.
exercise 25
1. All of you / You all out there are reading this sentence now.
2. Some of you have realized that this is a stupid fact while the others reading this are still wondering what's going on. 4. You neither noticed nor wondered why I had skipped number three.
5. You are either checking now or already smiling.
6. Some are still reading this while others find it too silly to continue.
8. One of you has perhaps noticed that I skipped number seven, but not all/everybody.
9. You are having another look and smiling about how you fell for the same thing again.
10. Tell each other / one another how you did.
11. Can you also come up with another joke like this that you have seen or heard?
exercise 26 The following is an African folktale. Fill in the story with the indefinite pronouns given in the box. Listen to check your answers. Ratkaisut Long, long ago some animals had 1. no tails and 2. others very small ones. One day the lion asked 3. all the animals to come to him and told them to get good tails 4. one way or another. It was 5. both cold 5. and rainy. The hare only had a short little tail. But he did not like to go out and said to 6. the other animals, “Please, bring me a tail. I can’t go 7. anywhere when it rains.” “What kind of tail do you want to have?” 8. every / each animal asked him in turn. “Oh, 9. any tail will be good for me," the hare answered 10. every one of them. 11. Some time later the animals came back and 12. each / every animal had a beautiful tail. But 13. nobody had remembered to bring 14. another tail for the hare. 15. None of the animals had 16. anything for the hare. 17. Some of them forgot all about the hare; 18. the others perhaps remembered but could not find a good tail. The hare still has a short little tail and learnt that if you must do 19. something, don’t ask 20. other animals to do it for you.