Weights and Measures

English weights and measures are very difficult to___(1) foreigner. For general use the smallest weight is 1 ounce (written oz), and there___(2) 16 ounces in a pound (written lb). The English buy___ (3), tobacco and sometimes cigarettes by the ounce while most___ (4) or fruit, such as apples, ___ (5), strawberries, by the pound, half-pound or quarter-pound. Fourteen pounds___(6) 1 stone. The English always give people's weight in stones and pounds. For example, a man___(7) 11 stones 9 lbs (not 163 lbs).

112 lbs make up 1 hundredweight (written cwt) and___(8) are 20 hundredweights in a ton.

Liquids are___(9) in pints, quarts and gallons. There are 2 pints in a quart and 4 quarts in a___(10).

Finally, for length the principal___ (11) are inches, feet, yards and miles.

The easiest way to remember them, perhaps, is a little ___ (12) like this:

1. with

2. 

3. off

4. for

5. to

6. up

7. up

8. 

9. down

10.   near

11. off 

1/more regulary2.even slower

3.even louder

4.more faster

5 .    than 8

6. more badly

,much more often

8. ann lives farther

there are  this town in two railway stations.

there is an old tv in my room

there are two new sports shop in the centre of shopping.

1. i  was hungry after so many exercises. - я был голодным после стольких

2. the exercises in the last lesson  were difficult. - на прошлом занятии

были сложными

1. is this  the book which you need? - это та книга, которая нужна тебе?

2. it is a good idea. - это хорошая идея

3. the moon is up. - луна поднялась

4. give me a lot of sugar, please! (нет артикля) - дайте мне много сахара, !

8 - eight, 19 - nineteen, 731 - seven hundred and thirty one, 1988(дата) - nineteen eighty eight, 456 791 - four hundred fifty six thousands seven hundred and ninety one