1Complete the Sentences with the Correct Present Form of the Verbs Given

Name ...... Class ......

Grammar

1Complete the sentences with the correct present form of the verbs given.

1That man ______(look) just like his dog. They’re both quite ugly!

2The lesson never ______(finish) before 3.35.

3______you ______(meet) Gary and Dan this evening?

4We ______(live) in a small flat near the school at the moment, but soon we’ll move closer to my dad’s work.

5Something ______(smell) delicious in the kitchen!

6Sorry, I can’t talk right now as I ______(have) dinner with the family.

2Choose the correct alternative to complete the sentences.

1What did you say/were you saying when I came in just now?

2Anna was angry because I wasn’t inviting/hadn’t invited her to my birthday party.

3As soon as I was getting/got home, I was packing/packed my suitcase for the holiday.

4Jackie couldn’t take us to the station because her car broke/had broken down.

5My brothers were playing/played a computer game when I went into the bedroom.

6When we were getting/got to the airport, Leo and Mark already checked in/had already checked in.

3Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences.

1Did you have anything to eat yet?

2I was working on this essay for two hours and I still haven’t finished it yet.

3Mr Kent was been our teacher since December.

4Keira has spoken English for she was five years old.

5I didn’t used to enjoy maths, but I do now.

6Who did you wait for when I saw you yesterday?

Vocabulary

4Complete the sentences with the correct words.

1 A polite adjective for someone who is old is e______.

2 Someone who enjoys going out and meeting people is s______.

3 The cases you take on holiday are called l______.

4 When something is very dirty, it is f______.

5 When a house is not connected to another house, it is d______.

6 When you start a journey, you s______o______.

5Choose the correct alternative to complete the sentences.

1My cousin is a bit ___ and needs to go on a diet.

Aslim

Bbright

Coverweight

2I’ll try to ___ the 6.30 train tomorrow morning.

Acatch

Bmiss

Cdelay

3Where did your car break ___ at the weekend?

Aup

Bover

Cdown

4The ___ to Rome is £400, and that’s a little too expensive for us.

Acost

Bfare

Cdeparture

5Amelia and Sam are getting married in the ___ on Tuesday.

Atown hall

B square

C port

6The hotel was ___; it had several hundred rooms!

Aancient

B historic

C enormous

6Complete the sentences with the correct words.

flat outgoing factory motorbike van coach

1It’s strange that Lisa is so shy because her sister is so ______.

2My parents refused to allow my brother to buy a ______when he was a teenager.

3That white ______has driven past three times in the last ten minutes.

4My mum used to work in a ______that produced furniture.

5The football team is travelling on a ______to the match on Saturday.

6I didn’t like living in the ______because it was on the tenth floor!

Reading

7Read the article from which some sentences have been taken out. Choose the correct sentences A–G to fill the gaps. There is one sentence you do not need.

So where in the UK are you from?

The UK has so many regional accents and dialects that it is often very difficult for visitors to identify them. (1) ___ They usually know from a person’s accent if he or she is from the south, the midlands, the north or London. But you need to know an area quite well to be more accurate. In fact, language experts can sometimes guess the area a person was born and brought up in to within five kilometres! The English language is very rich in its variations, and most people are naturally proud of their local identity.

Many people who live outside the UK think that there are basically two accents in English: posh and working class! (2) ___ If you watch a night’s TV in the UK, you can hear many of our regional accents in the popular soap operas! There is the famous east end of London accent in EastEnders, the Yorkshire accent in Emmerdale and the Lancashire accent in Coronation Street. There’s a Scottish detective series called Taggart where you can hear the accent from Glasgow (which is very different from the accent spoken by the people from the capital, Edinburgh!). Many of the more famous accents have special names too – Cockney for the east end of London, Geordie for Newcastle and Scouse for Liverpool.

Regional accents have developed over the centuries for a lot of different reasons. (3) ___ Changes in language happen because people communicate with each other. If a community doesn’t have much contact with another community, then those changes don’t happen.
(4) ___ For example, the accents and dialects of north and south Wales are different because of the mountains that divide them.

(5) ___ People are fighting to keep these alive. The Welsh language is still very strong. It is spoken throughout Wales and is taught in schools. There are TV programmes completely in Welsh and the road signs are in both languages. Gaelic is still alive and well in Scotland, and there is even a campaign to protect Cornish, a language that people in the West of England spoke until about 150 years ago.

So, what will happen to the languages and dialects of the UK over the next 100 years? (6) ___ Or will everyone sound the same? It will be interesting to see.

AHowever, it is much more complicated than that.

BWill we still keep a local identity?

CExperts have studied dialects for a long time and their research has shown some important results.

DWe must also not forget that, as well as English, there are other completely different languages that still exist in the UK.

EThe English of today is the result of different languages that invaders and settlers brought to England in the past.

FThis is how different dialects and accents develop.

GEven British people themselves have problems!

Listening (Tests CD, Track 4)

8Listen to the dialogues and choose the correct answers.

1 What caused the doctor to lose his memory?

Aan operation

Ban accident

Ca prisoner attacks him

2 Why is Gary phoning Lea?

Ato make an arrangement

Bto change an arrangement

Cto cancel an arrangement

3 What was the problem on the man’s holiday?

Athe weather wasn’t good

Bhis children got bored

Canother family was very noisy

4 Where is the girl living at the moment?

Anext door to the boy

Bin Kennet Road

Cnear the leisure centre

Use of English

9Complete the second sentence so it means the same as the first, using the word given. Do not change the word given. Use between two and five words.

1We saw the film and then we had a meal at a good restaurant.

AFTER

______the film, we had a meal at a good restaurant.

2We always went on holiday to the beach when I was very young.

USED

We ______holiday to the beach when I was very young.

3I’ve arranged for the taxi to pick us up at 6.30 tomorrow morning.

The ______up at 6.30 tomorrow morning.

4I met Danielle when we started school together in 1996.

KNOWN

I ______we started school together in 1996.

5I was playing tennis earlier and I’m really tired now.

HAVE

I’m really tired because ______.

6I started work here in 2007.

SINCE

I ______2007.

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Writing

10Choose a city that you know well and write a description of it for a travel magazine.

Write 120–170 words.

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