- •Articles
- •5. Put in the or a/an or zero article where necessary
- •7. Put in article where necessary
- •8. Use the proper article. Point out the nouns which denote an object or person already mentioned
- •9. Use the proper article. Point out the nouns which have a limiting attribute
- •10. Insert articles where necessary
- •My uncle’s a shopkeeper
- •The verb “to be “ Present Simple tense of verb to be
- •1.Write the short form:
- •Pronouns (personal and possessive)
- •1. Write the correct possessive adjective for these sentences:
- •2. Use the correct possessive adjective (or a name) to complete the sentences:
- •3. Complete these paragraphs with the correct subject pronoun or possessive adjective:
- •4. Choose the correct word:
- •1. Write the plurals:
- •4. Write your sentences with these uncountable nouns
- •Noun – forming suffixes
- •5. Insert preposition on, in, at or into
- •6. Insert prepositions in or to
- •Prepositions of time at and on
- •7. Translate into your native language.
- •8. Insert prepositions to or of:
- •9. Translate into your native language
- •10. Translate into your native language the following word combinations
- •An English town
- •Numerals
- •1. Write in words:
- •2. Fill in appropriate articles where necessary
- •3. How do we say large numbers?
- •Facts of life
- •6. In the text find expressions which mean the same as:
- •7. Read these sentences and say what statements are true or false True False
- •8. Write these words in right word order
- •10. Put the following sentences in negative and interrogative forms
- •Position of adverbs in sentences
- •A) front position; e.G:.Fortunatly, my sister loves cooking.
- •5. Answer the questions about you. Use an adverb of frequency in your answer.
- •6. Answer the questions, use adverbs: usually, seldom, often, sometimes, and always
- •7. Complete these sentences adverbs of frequency:
- •8. Insert gaps by prepositions and adverbs:
- •Construction there is /are
- •1. Complete the sentences using there’s, there are, is there or are there.
- •5. Ask questions to the italicized words:
- •6. Put the following sentences into plural forms:
- •7. Put the following sentences into negative and interrogative:
- •8. Insert the verb to be in appropriate form:
- •9. Put questions to italicized words:
- •Quantities adjectives: much, many, few, little, a lot of
- •1. Complete the sentence using much, many:
- •7. Translate into your native language:
- •8. Translate the following sentences onto your native language:
- •10. Insert gaps with words: many, much, a lot, little, a lot of:
- •Modal verbs can, may, must.
- •1.Write the sentences negative or question:
- •9. Translate into your native language:
- •What can Tina do?
- •1. Use “can”, “may”, “must”:
- •2. Define the meaning of the modal verbs “must”, “have to”, “should”, “ought
- •3. Use “can”, “could”, “may”, “might”, “to be able”, “to be allowed”:
- •4. Rewrite each sentence using the words in bold. Do not change the meaning:
- •5. Underline the correct words in each sentence:
- •6. Use “was (were) to” or “had to”:
- •7. Make up a list of what a student has and what he doesn’t have to do:
- •8. Respond to the following statements expressing doubt, expectation, assuredness or advice. Work in pairs.
- •9. Rewrite each sentence using might, can’t or must. Do not change the meaning:
- •I’m sure that David took your books by mistake.
- •Good manners How not to behave badly abroad Traveling to all corners of the world gets easier and easier. We live in a global village, but this mean that we all behave in the same way
- •Greetings
- •Past Simple Tense
- •1. Complete these sentences in the past simple:
- •2. Change the verbs into the past:
- •3. Read and translate these sentences:
- •4. Translate the following sentences into your native language:
- •9. Transform these sentences into tag questions and give answers to them:
- •10. Make up questions according to the example:
- •The verb ''to be'' in the Past Tense
- •1. Complete the sentences using was or were:
- •2. Complete the story, add was or were:
- •3. Write questions and answers about the story above, using was or were:
- •Indefinite pronoun any / some
- •6. Choose only one word from the brackets:
- •7. Put the following sentences in negative and interrogative form:
- •8. Insert one of these words:
- •9. Complete the sentences with some or any:
- •The Infinitive
- •1. Insert the particle “to” before Infinitive, where necessary:
- •2. Translate into your native language, be attentive with Active Infinitive and Passive Infinitive:
- •3. Translate into your native language, be attentive with Perfect Infinitive:
- •4. Open the brackets, use necessary forms of Infinitive:
- •5. Change the parts of the sentences:
- •6. Open the brackets to insert the necessary forms of Infinitive:
- •7. Complete the sentences, using a verb given below:
- •The infinitive of purpose
- •1. Make eight more sentences from the box:
- •2. Rewrite the sentences, using to – infinitive:
- •4. Tick the correct sentence:
- •6. Read the sentences about the past. Make negative sentences about the future:
- •7. Complete the sentences with going to and a verb or expression given below:
- •8. Read about Jane’s busy day Jane’s busy day
- •9. Infinitives after adjectives. Complete the sentences:
- •The Smith family’s doctor and dentist
- •Degrees of comparison of adjectives
- •1. Give the comparative and superlative degree of the following adjectives:
- •2. Translate the following adjectives and give their degree of comparison:
- •3. Compare according to the model:
- •4. Answer these questions, pay attention to degree of comparison:
- •5. Translate:
- •8. A) Complete questions, putting the adjectives in brackets in the comparative or superlative
- •9. Give the superlative form of the adjectives in brackets:
- •10. Write the correct comparative for these sentences:
- •Word-building
- •Future Simple Tense
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •3. Translate:
- •Read this text and translate it in written form The end of the melting pot?
- •1. Form nouns from these by means of conversion. Translate them:
- •2. Make up sentence using nouns from ex.
- •3. Give the part of speech of each word in italics, giving a reason for your answer:
- •The Group of Simple Tenses
- •2. Make the following interrogative:
- •9. Complete the questions about Mattie:
- •10. Answer the following questions:
- •Read this text and translate it in written form. Distance education in the world
- •Forming of adverbs
- •1. Form adverbs from these adjectives and translate them:
- •2. Point out the italicized words: adverbs or adjectives
- •3. Choose the proper form of adverb or adjective:
- •4. Insert adverbs in the brackets where necessary:
- •5. Write the adverbs:
- •6. Rewrite the sentences using a verb and an adverb:
- •7. Point out the correct word:
- •8. Put the adjective in brackets in the correct place in the sentence. Where
- •9. Match the verbs or phrase with an adverb:
- •10. Insert the proper adverbs given below:
- •Present Continuous tense
- •1. Translate the following sentences, paying attention to the tense:
- •Open the brackets, using the correct form of verbs:
- •6. Choose the correct verb form:
- •Past Continuous tense
- •4. Complete the sentences using did, was or were.
- •5. Open the brackets and use the Past Continuous Tense:
- •6. Write questions. Use was/were –ing.
- •7. Translate the following sentences into your native language.
- •8. Put the following sentences in negative and interrogative forms:
- •9. Answer the following questions:
- •An embarrassing incident
- •Future Continuous tense
- •I usually …
- •1. Explain the use of Present Perfect in the following sentences and translate:
- •Break, buy, finish, do, go, go, lose, paint, read, and take
- •3. Mary is 65 years old. She has had an interesting life. Write sentences about the things she has done. Use the Present Perfect:
- •6. Choose the correct verb form:
- •1. Read and translate the following questions. Answer them:
- •2. Put your own yes /no questions.
- •3. Alternative questions. Read, answer them and make up your questions:
- •4. Tail questions. Read and answer them. Put your own questions:
- •5. Put the words in the right order to ask a question and write true answers:
- •6. In each of the following sentences there is one mistake. Find it and correct it:
- •1. Complete the sentences using one of these verbs in the correct form:
- •3. Put the verb into the correct form, present simple or past simple, active or passive:
- •4. Rewrite these sentences. Instead of using 'somebody/they/people' etc. Write a passive sentence:
- •5. Use the words below to write questions in the Passive. Answer them:
- •6. Rewrite these sentences in the passive:
- •2. They went to the party without ….
- •3. Most people like … presents.
- •4. It’s a dangerous city. People won’t go out after dark because they are afraid of …
- •5. I don’t like … stupid questions.
- •8. Rewrite these sentences. Instead of using 'somebody/they', write a passive sentence:
- •9. Make sentences from the words in brackets. Sometimes the verb is active, sometimes passive:
- •10. Turn these sentences into the Passive Voice:
- •The rubbish dump in the sky
- •Word-building
- •Types of sentences: personal, indefinite personal and impersonal
- •1. Write it is (it’s) or is it:
- •2. Write questions with How far … ?
- •4. Rewrite the sentences in the correct order.
- •The Gerund
- •1. Translate into your native language, be attentively with Gerund:
- •2. Complete these sentences, putting the verbs into the gerund and using one of the following prepositions. Some of them are used more than once:
- •3. Translate into your native language, be attentively with Gerund:.
- •4. Open the brackets, using the Gerund in active or passive forms:
- •5. Translate into your native language, pay attention to nouns and pronouns before the Gerund:
- •6. Fill the gaps with the gerund from the box. Use each verb once only:
- •7. Write these sentences, changing the verbs into gerunds:
- •8. Rewrite these sentences, starting with a gerund. You may need to change
- •9. Write the verbs in the box in the correct form in these sentences. Use each verb once only:
- •10. Complete the sentences using the Gerund:
- •The £ 349 housewife
- •Sequence of Tenses
- •1. Translate into your native language, pay attention to tenses:
- •2. Rewrite the following sentences in the Past tense:
- •3. Open the brackets and chose necessary tense:
- •7. Open the brackets, using appropriate form of conditional mood after “I wish”:
- •8. Change conditional sentences of type I into sentences of type II:
- •9. Answer these questions:
- •Smart shopping
Facts of life
Every hour 15,000 babies are born. The world’s population increases by 9,300 and the world spends over $ 100 million on weapons. In a lifetime of 65 years the average person watches television for 12 years, and sleeps for almost 22 years.
Your heart beats approximately 75 times in a minute. In that same 60 seconds you breathe in about 18 times and you blink 17 times. You lose between 50 and 100 hairs and more than a litre of sweat daily.
In one hour the world drinks 22,500,000 coca-colas. McDonald’s hamburger shops serve 916,500 customers. People buy enough BIC ballpoint pens to draw a line round the equator 160 times.
In one-year people in Britain drink 73 billion cups of tea. Per head they eat 65 loaves and 157eggs. Each person drinks 216 pints of milk, 50 bottles of wine and 207 pints of beer. But Britain is only twentieth of alcohol drinking countries.
In one hour Volkswagen makes 165 cars at its factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, in the same period of time the Hero Bicycle Company of India produces 591 bikes and the Reynolds Tobacco Company in the United states produces 13,640,872 cigarettes.
Every hour over a 1,000 planes take off or land somewhere in the world, and there are 11 recorded earthquakes.
5. Read the text again. Mark these sentences True (+) or False (-)
1. Every hour about 5,700 people die.
2. You spend about 30% of you life asleep.
3. You blink approximately two million times a year.
4. McDonalds sell 916,500 hamburgers in one hour.
5. There are nineteen countries where people drink more alcohol than Britain.
6. Approximately 500 planes take off every hour.
6. In the text find expressions which mean the same as:
approximately (four possibilities)
more than
every day
to produce
to go up
each person
a minute
a bicycle
7. Which of the facts in the text do you think are:
the most surprising?
the most interesting?
the most depressing?
the most pleasing?
the least interesting?
the most useful?
Retell the text.
8. Practice these dates. They are in British English:
4 June, 5 August, 31 July, 1 March, 3 February
21/1/1988; 2/12/1996; 5/4/1980; 11/6/1965; 18/10/2000; 31/1/2005.
NB!
There are two ways of saying dates
British English (25/12) the twenty fifth of December
American English (12/25) December the twenty fifth
9. Write the following dates in American and British English
1/8/98; 16/7/85; 25/11/02
1/8/98; 7/16/85; 11/25/02
NB!
How we pronounce the dates in English:
1976 – Nineteen seventy six
1900 – Nineteen hundred, but 2000 – two thousand
2007- two thousand and seven
10. Write these dates:
1941; 2005; 1918; 1812; 2030; 1945; 1961; 1564; 1998; 2003; 1612; 1500; 1342; 1200; 1480;
Present Simple tense
Positive |
Negative |
Question |
I/you/we/they work |
I/you/we/they don’t work |
Do I/you/we/they work? |
He/she/it works |
He/she/it doesn’t work |
Does he/she/it work? |
1. Complete the sentences with the verb in the correct form
1. Children (to ask) a lot of questions. 2. I (to love) classical music. 3.You always (to forget) my birthday. 4. She never (to listen) to me. 5. They usually (to have) coffee after their evening meal. 6. I (not to go) to work when the weather’s cold. 7. Big dogs (to like) a lot of exercise. 8. Lessons (to start) at 9 o’clock every morning. 9. He often (to fight) with his brother. 10. My parents usually (to come) to our house on Sundays.
2. Write the sentences again, using she or he:
1. I always listen to the radio in the mornings.2. I take the dog for a walk every day. 3. I usually buy all food. 4. I teach history and Latin. 5. I walk to the office every day. 6. I never wash the car.7. I open the building every morning.
3. Open the brackets and use verbs in Present Continuous or Present Simple:
1. I (to read) books in the evening. 2. I (not to read) books in the morning. 3. They (not to play) in the street now. 4. He (not to help) his mother every day. 5. You (to go) to school on Sunday? 6. My sister (to eat) sweets every day. 7. My father (not to work) on Sunday. 8. The children (not to eat) soup now. 9. Where John (to live)? – He (to live) in England. 10. When you (to sleep)?
4. Change these sentences from the positive to the negative
1. She works very hard. 2. It usually snows here in the winter. 3. I like a big breakfast every morning. 4. The film starts very early. 5. He swims every morning. 6. They always open the windows at night. 7. We often see our neighbors in the garden. 8. You drive very fast. 9. Chris goes on holiday every year. 10. These children learn very quickly.
5. Make these sentences into Yes/No-questions
1. The shop closes at 5 o’clock. 2. They go swimming every weekend. 3. She speaks English well. 4. You drink a lot of tea. 5. Tony often plays golf at the weekends. 6. They read many books. 7. He works every day.8. She plays the piano in the morning. 9. My granny sleeps after dinner. 10. My cousin goes to school every day.
6. Write the questions
1. Where/you/ work? 2. What/she/do? 3. Where/he/live? 4. What music/your husband/like? 5. Why/we/learn English? 6. Where/the woman work? 7. Why/ you/ go there? 8. What/ she /do at the weekend? 9. Where/ they/ go on their holiday? 10. How often/you/ go to the theatre?
Read the text and answer the questions
The Smith’s daily routine
Paul and Sue Smith always get up at half past six on weekdays. Mary doesn’t get up so early: she gets up at seven o’clock. They all have breakfast at a quarter past seven. Sue leaves home at half past seven, and she usually gets to work at half past eight. Paul and Mary don’t leave home so early: they leave home at a quarter past eight. Sue, Paul and Mary don’t have lunch at home. Sue has lunch at the hospital; Paul and Mary have lunch at their schools.
Mary finishes school at a quarter to four. She always gets home first. Paul and Sue usually get home at about half past five. They have dinner at seven o’clock. Paul and Mary usually work in the evening. Sue sometimes works and she often watches television. Mary usually goes to bed at nine o’clock. Paul and Sue usually go to bed at eleven.
Mark has a flat, but he often comes home at the weekend.