English Grammar with Kudjo. Part 4. Понятная и забавная грамматика для детей и взрослых

1 While sitting and crying at the bottom of the pit, Kit suddenly heard somebody come up to it.

2 Luna stopped suddenly and raised her head, listening to some sounds very carefully.

3 Chilly stumbled over the tree root and nearly fell down in a deep hole. It was very dark in the hole but he was sure he could see somebody moving at the bottom.

4 Chilly told Cuba about it but she didn’t answer. He turned his head in surprise and didn’t see her anywhere.

5 After several minutes Chilly found her stuck in a thick clump of wait-a-bit. Cuba refused to explain how she had got there.

6 They both returned to the pit and peered out into the gloom. The dogs didn’t see anything but could hear someone snoring at the bottom.

7 They were standing at the edge of the pit when they felt somebody standing behind their backs breathing heavily.

8 Cuba got scared stiff but Chilly immediately growled, jumped and bit in the intruder’s throat.

EXERCISE 6

Choose the correct alternative:

1 Caught unawares, Chilly can’t /must have realised he was biting Luna.

2 Having an acute sense of smell, Luna must / can’t have found the friends easily.

3 Luckily, she can’t / might have been hurt badly because Chilly recognised her just in time.

4 The dogs heard miserable meowing coming from the pit. It sounded so familiar that the dogs hardly had any doubts it was Kit who must sit / be sitting in the pit.

5 Poor Kit must be spending/ have spent so long there that he stopped hoping to be rescued.

6 He must /can’t have tried to escape from this trap but he was too little and too weak to do it on his own.

7 When Kit heard the dogs talking above him, he could hardly believe his ears, thinking he must suffer / be suffering from auditory hallucination.

8 The kitten didn’t know how long he had been sitting in the trap but he had a feeling that he must have been / be there for ages.

EXERCISE 7

Fill the gaps in the story with missing words:

As the pit was absolutely *****, it must have been dug to trap huge animals. At the mere thought of having such monsters around the ***** were terribly screwed up and immediately started ***** Kit out of the pit. They used all their bags to make one long ***** but it wasn’t enough to get Kit out of the *****. Luna tied herself to one ***** of this rope and jumped to the trap to rescue her unfortunate *****. Chilly and Cuba had to try their best and worst to get the both friends up. The fear of being attacked by giant wild ***** made them far stronger and Kit was finally free and *****. He looked so ashamed of himself that the dogs didn’t ***** him. This adventure must have taught the kitten a *****, which he’ll remember for a long time.

EXERCISE 8

Find and correct 9 mistakes in the sentences:

1 The dogs were so happy to find Kit that they can’t have forgotten about the danger.

2 They were standing around the pit discussing where to go next when they heard spine chilling howls. Some wild animals must been approaching.

3 The friends looked around trying to find a kind of shelter to hide but they can hardly see anything suitable.

4 The sound of howling was getting louder and louder, which meant the monster must has been coming nearer and nearer.

5 Suddenly the beast stopped howling but it can’t go away because the dogs could hear it snapping branches to crush everything crossing its path.

6 Chilly suggested to trap the beast into the pit and the dogs rushed to cover it with big sticks for camouflage.

7 The girls with the kitten hid behind a big spruce while Chilly kept to stand near the edge of the trap to provoke the animal to jump.

8 Chilly must wish he hidden too but he had to be a tease to attract the monster.

EXERCISE 9

Choose the correct option:

1 A huge lynx appeared out of the forest and stopped to smell the air suspiciously. It ***** the dogs.

a must detect

b can’t be detecting

c must have detected

2 When the lynx saw Chilly, it growled and moved slowly towards him. Chilly ***** scared stiff but didn’t run away.

a can’t have got

b must have got

c must get

3 The lynx and Chilly ***** at the opposite edges of the trap for a long time but suddenly Kit jumped out from behind the spruce and hissed furiously.

a could have been standing

b can’t have been standing

c could stand

4 It ***** the lynx jump forward and fall right into the trap.

a must made

b can’t have made

c must have made

5 When the lynx realised what had happened, it started dancing up and down with rage and fear. It ***** helpless and yelled.