Articles with the nouns school, hospital, prison, bed, church, work, space, etc. Если эти существительные имеют значение конкретного места, здания или учреждения, они употребляются с артиклем по общим правилам употребления исчисляемых существительных. This is a school. The school is big. Это школа. Школа большая. The workers will go to the school to repair the roof. Рабочие пойдут в школу чинить крышу. Если эти существительные обозначают процессы, которые в них происходят, артикль не употребляется. Например: bed (сон, болезнь), hospital (лечение), school/college/university (учеба), prison (лишение свободы), church (церковная служба). The boy will go to school. Мальчик пойдёт в школу (учиться). She went to the bed and sat on it. Она подошла к кровати и села на неё. She went to bed. Она легла в кровать (легла спать). The policeman is in the prison now. Полицейский находится в здании тюрьмы. The thief is in prison for his crime. Вор сидит в тюрьме за своё преступление. There is a wide space between the rows. Между рядами большое расстояние / пространство / много места. The cosmonaut is in space. Космонавт находится в космосе (совершает космический полёт). Read exercise 25 at page 67 and learn the word combinations. Fill in a, the or – (no article). 1. Tom is a student. He is at … university. He went to … university last year. 2. Mr Henderson is a writer. He is at … university now. He is giving a lecture there. 3. Dan is a pupil. He is at … school. He went to … school when he was 7 years old. 4. Dan’s mother went to … school to talk to the teacher. 5. John Binks is a thief. Last year he was caught and now he is in … prison. 6. Mrs Binks goes to … prison to visit her son John. Mrs Binks is in … prison now. 7. Paul Smith is a lawyer. He sometimes goes to … prison to talk to his clients. 8. Alice is a nurse. She works in … hospital. She goes to … hospital every day. 9. Sarah is ill. She is in … hospital. She went to … hospital last week. 10. I will go to … hospital tomorrow to visit Sarah. 11. The tourists went to … church to take some pictures. 12. Nora is a religious woman. She goes to … church regularly. She is at … church now. 13. My father isn’t at … home now. He is at … work. He starts … work at 8 o’clock. 14. I know that … work he does is very important. 15. It is late. The children should go to … bed. 16. Alex is in … bed. He is asleep. He goes to … bed at 10 o'clock. 17. When she was cleaning the room, she found a book in … bed. 18. They put an armchair in … space between the sofa and the bookcase. 19. Yury Gagarin was the first man who went to … space. 20. We are going to watch … television. 21. Could you turn off … television? I’m trying to listen to … radio. 22. Have you heard the news on … radio today?