IX. Write your cv. Lexical - grammar test №1

Variant №3

Для правильного выполнения контрольной работы №1 необходимо усвоить следующий грамматический материал:

1. Существительное. Множественное число. Притяжательный падеж. Артикли.

2. Местоимения личные, притяжательные, вопросительные, указательные, относительные.

3. Числительные.

4. Прилагательные. Степени сравнения.

5. Структура предложения. Повествовательные, отрицательные, вопросительные предложения. Оборот there is/ are.

6. Особенности образования форм глаголов to be, to have.

7. Видовременные формы глагола (действительный залог). Правильные и неправильные глаголы. Типы вопросов.

I. Read the short text and choose the correct word in the sentences below. Too many mistakes

More and more organisations are now approaching us to teach grammar and business writing to their staff", says Julian Watts, from the Better English Group, which runs grammar courses for companies nationwide. There are different reasons for this: Senior staff no longer ask secretaries to prepare their business documents. Also, communication is very fast and staff send emails without checking them first.

1. Im/I'm currently responsible for European sales.

2. Could you give us you're/your new price-list.

3. - What's/whats the manager's family name?

- Her/hers last name is Shvedova.

4. Whose/who's is that car?

5. - What time does the client arrive?

- Thats/that's half past seven in the evening.

II. Define the tense forms of the underlined verbs. Translate the sentences into Russian. Make the sentences negative.

1. The manager has been showing the visitors around the factory for 3 hours.

2. Are you organizing a project in Liverpool this month?

3. Tomorrow at this time she will be going here to the Institute.

4 Yesterday the price was € 4.50. Today it is € 4.30. It has gone down by 20cents.

5. If we don't improve our after-sales service, our reputation will suffer.

6. My boss wrote a report last week.

III. Fill in the gaps with the necessary form of the verbs “to be, to have”. Translate the sentences into Russian.

1. There … PCs and telephones on the desks.

2. Few people … enough money to buy everything they want.

3. We … no problems with our project last year.

4. … she … busy next Monday?

5. … you at the product development meeting yesterday?

6. The team … a meeting every week.

IV. Define degrees of comparison of the adjectives:

Greater achievement, a better student, more simple, the latest news, more important, less difficult, the least complicated, a longer way, the earliest hour, the most famous library.

V. Make up sentences with “there is/are”.

Модель: faculties, in London university, many.

There are many faculties in London University.

1. error messages, on the screen.

2. subjects, many, at each faculty.

3. different, many, books, in our library.

4. students, at our university, how many?

5. equipment, modern, in the office.

VI. a) Write and say the numbers and the dates.

NUMBERS: DATES:

43__________ 1997________

90__________ 2001________

972_________ 1431________

157_________ 1209________

b) Write the words in italics as numbers.

Model: 1. There are fifteen thousand seven hundred products in the catalogue. - 15700

2. It costs two hundred and seven euro and forty-five cents.

3. We have worked on this project since nineteen ninety-nine.

4. Could you contact our export manager. His telephone number is seven double eight nine seven six seven.

5. The price of energy rose by seven point five percent last year.

c) Write about Ted’s working day. Use the words in the box in Present Simple (V/Vs/es).

to leave home to wake up to have breakfast to be at the bus stop to go to bed to work to be on the way to work