- •6. Why are these utterances wrong?
- •7. Classify these words into nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions or prepositions.
- •8. Why do these nonsense sentences sound acceptable? How can you transform them?
- •9. What do the utterances in each of these groups have in common? What distinguishes the sentences within each group from each other?
- •1. Complete the text. Give your own examples to illustrate how you understood it:
- •2. What part of speech will complete each blank in the following sentences? Complete each sentence with meaningful words.
- •3. Tell the part of speech of each italicized word in the following sentences and explain what the word does in the sentence.
- •4. What are the possible functions of the words in italics?
- •5. What is the function of the expressions in italics?
- •6. What do the following utterances have in common?
- •7. Complete the text filling in the gaps. Compare your ideas with those of your partner :
- •8. Complete the following text filling in the gaps:
- •9. Find and circle the correct sentence. Explain your choices.
- •Unit 2: nouns
- •Test Your Grammar
- •1. Choose the correct word.
- •2. Choose the most suitable word underlined.
- •3. Fill in each space in the following sentences with an appropriate noun.
- •4. Match the words from two columns to form compound nouns
- •5. Translate the words in brackets
- •6. Work out the rules how to build the plural of irregular nouns which retain their original Greek or Latin forms by analyzing examples:
- •Golden Rules
- •1. Here are seven groups of nouns. Look in the box and find two more nouns to add to each group.
- •2. Underline the correct word:
- •3. Would you normally expect to find the following things in most people's houses/flats or garages/gardens? Where in those places would you expect to find them? Discuss in pairs.
- •4. Answer these remarks using the word in brackets, as in the example. Use a(n) if the meaning is countable.
- •5. What is the difference between (a) and (b) in each pair?
- •10. Correct the mistakes in these sentences.
- •11. Give the plural forms of the following irregular nouns of Latin and Greek origin:
- •12. Give the singular of the following words:
- •13. Choose the best combination for each blank.
- •14. Choose the right verb.
- •17. Match the expressions on the left with their meanings on the right.
- •18. What do you call these?
- •19. Choose the correct noun group.
- •20. Add suffixes to form nouns:
- •22. Decide whether the following compound nouns are countable or uncountable.
- •23. Complete the sentences below with one of the following compound nouns.
- •24. Right or wrong? Find correct sentences; rewrite incorrect ones.
- •Achievement Test
- •1. Complete the sentences with is, are, has or have.
- •2. Complete each sentence with a/an , some or by leaving the space blank.
- •3. Choose the most suitable word underlined.
- •4. Put one suitable word in each space.
- •5. Complete each sentence with the most suitable word or phrase.
- •6. Choose the most appropriate meaning for each sentence.
- •7. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words.
- •8. Complete each sentence with one suitable word from the list. Use each word once only.
- •9. Complete each sentence with one suitable word from the list. Use each word once only.
- •10. Correct the errors:
- • Common uncountable nouns
- • Common pieces and amounts
- •Unit 3: articles
- •Insert the appropriate articles in the following sentences. Part a
- •Part c
- •2. Insert the appropriate articles in the following sentences. What type of nouns have you dealt with in every section?
- •3. Translate the phrases in brackets from Russian into English:
- •4. Select any two paragraphs from an English newspaper or magazine (also available in the Internet). Find the articles and classify their uses.
- •3. Translate the following extracts into English paying attention to articles.
- •Insert the appropriate articles in the following sentences.
- •Unit 4: pronouns Test Your Grammar
- •30 Points
- •1. Study the chart below carefully. Can you give examples of all groups of the pronouns mentioned?
- •2. Some of the above-mentioned groups can be further subdivided. Which ones?
- •3. Do all the pronouns have the categories of number, case and gender? The table below can help you answer this question.
- •1. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate pronouns:
- •I. There is/ it is:
- •2. Translate the phrases in brackets from Russian into English:
- •3. Explain what each pronoun in bold refers to in the following sentences. Part a
- •Part b
- •Communication Practice
- •1. Circle the demonstratives in job vacancy announcements and discuss in pairs to what phrases they refer to.
- •3. Complete the telephone following dialogue by adding some, any, or a related word or phrase. Then make a similar dialogue calling different departments.
- •1. Rewrite the following dialogue using the appropriate pronouns to replace the underlined words.
- •3. Read the following personal diary entries and suggest corrections. Then write an entry of your own.
- •1. Read the following sentences carefully and choose the correct word
- •2. Translate the words in brackets into English.
- •3. Correct a mistake.
- •60 Points unit 5: adjectives, adverbs, numerals
- •1. Choose the right word.
- •2. Choose the most appropriate alternative (a, b, c or d) to complete the sentence.
- •3. Correct the mistakes.
- •Points to Think of
- •1.1. Compare the following pairs of sentences and indicate whether the highlighted word is an adverb or an adjective:
- •1.2. Complete the rule and find suitable examples from 1.1.
- •2.1. Complete the missing information in the charts using the examples:
- •2.2. Other ways of making comparisons are:
- •2.3. Fill in the chart and find suitable examples using the following adverbs:
- •4. Pick out the numerals from the following sentences and sort them out into two groups.
- •Golden Rules
- •1. Spelling Notes:
- •2. Meaning and Usage:
- •1. Complete the sentences with the words below. More than one answer may be correct
- •2. Paraphrase the sentences beginning with the given words.
- •3. Complete the sentences with the words in brackets in the appropriate degree of comparison. Use than where necessary.
- •4. Fill in the gaps with any suitable word
- •5. Put the adverbs in the right place
- •6. Which is the correct order?
- •7. Put in dozen(s) (of), hundred(s) (of), thousand(s) (of) or million(s) (of).
- •8. Translate the words in brackets into English:
- •Communication Practice
- •1. Work in pairs. Choose any of the topics below and compare the two notions. Make sure you give at least three similarities and differences.
- •2. Ask you partner the quiz question, then count the Yes answers and summarize your partner’s image. How Ambitious Are You?
- •If you have…
- •Writing Practice
- •I. This is a tape script of a radio programme about London. Unfortunately, the transmission was bad. Restore the script using the words from the box.
- •II. Write about the town that you come from or any other place you know well using the sentences in part a as a model.
- •III. Write these figures in words.
- •Achievement Test
- •I. Find the mistakes and correct them. If there are no mistakes, put a .
- •II. Choose the right adverb in each sentence.
- •III. Complete the conversation. Put in good, well (x2), bad, badly and ill.
- •IV. Choose the correct form of the words given in brackets.
- •V. Translate the adverbs in brackets into English.
- •VI. Translate into English.
- •Unit 6 The Verb: Tenses Active voice
- •1. Chose the correct tense form:
- •2. Fill in the gaps using necessary forms of the verbs in brackets Drama in the air at 2,000 ft
- •1. Correct all possible mistakes:
- •Present and past Tenses
- •Golden Rules
- •2 Match the questions and answers.
- •3 Put in the correct tense.
- •4. Complete the sentences with suitable verbs from the box. Use the past simple or past continuous.
- •5 Choose the right tenses (present perfect, past or past perfect; simple or progressive).
- •6. Choose the best tense.
- •7. Open the brackets using necessary forms of the verbs:
- •8. Complete the text with the appropriate form of the verbs in brackets.
- •9. Read the article and decide which word or phrase below best fits each space. Circle the letter of the option you choose.
- •10. Complete the texts with the appropriate form of the verbs in brackets.
- •Communication Practice
- •2. Choose the correct alternative(s):
- •Unit 7 : The Verb: Tenses. Passive voice
- •Test Your Grammar
- •1. Paraphrase each of the following sentences in such a way that it is similar to the sentence before it.
- •2. Use the correct tenses and passive forms of the verbs in brackets. Fishy Tales
- •20 Points Points to think of
- •Golden Rules
- •2. Make sentences passive where possible:
- •4. In each sentence there is one mistake. Find and correct it.
- •5. Supply active and passive forms in these sentences using the verbs in brackets. Some variations in tense may be possible.
- •6. Rewrite these sentences using passive forms:
- •Communication Practice
- •1. Making Plans
- •2. Beauty Talk
- •3 Rewrite each sentence so that it contains the word in capitals.
- •Unit 8. Reported speech Test Your Grammar
- •Dorect and indirect (reported) speech
- •Indirect statements
- •Indirect questions
- •Indirect orders and requests.
- •Offers, suggestions and advice
- •Indirect exclamations.
- •2. Change the sentences into reported speech. Chose the most appropriate verb from the list, using each verb only once, and choose an appropriate tense form for the verb in that-clause.
- •3. Complete these sentences with either said or told.
- •4. Using told, report each sentence in one of two different ways, depending on whether it is information or instruction.
- •5. You have to report these suggestions, using the verb suggest and making any other appropriate changes in the sentences.
- •6. Report these dialogues:
- •9. Put in the correct forms and tenses of the numbered verb
- •10. Report these telephone messages. Make sure that you change tenses, pronouns and adverbs as necessary.
- •11. Report these sentences. Decide whether to change the tenses and adverbs of time and place.
- •12. Translate the following sentences.
- •1. Report the following:
- •2. This text would be improved if at least seven of the verbs were passive. Underline the phrases that should go into passive and rewrite them below.
- •3. Fill in the gaps using necessary forms of the verbs in brackets.
- •4. Find which sentences are wrong and correct them.
- •5. Report what these people said using the suitable reporting verbs in the past tense.
- •6. Translate the following sentences as indirect questions, using the polite formula.
- •Unit 9: conjunctions Test Your Grammar
- •20 Points
- •1 Say whether the linking word used in each of the following sentences is a subordinating conjunction or a coordinating conjunction.
- •2 What kind of relationship do the conjunctions express in the following sentences?
- •I Complete the following sentences with the appropriate conjunctions from the box.
- •2 Combine the following sentences to show the relationships between the ideas. Make the necessary changes.
- •You are gossiping about your colleagues Richard and Jane who have been dating for several years and are thinking of getting married. Make use of the clues provided.
- •20 Points unit 10: prepositions
- •50 Points
- •1 Read through the table and add the missing prepositions.
- •2 Match the prepositional combinations on the left with the appropriate explanations on the right.
- •I Fill in the gaps with the appropriate prepositions. Part a
- •Part b
- •2 Paraphrase the following sentences using the verbs in brackets
- •3 Translate the phrases in brackets from Russian into English.
- •4 Translate into English.
- •Discuss the following ideas with your partner. Part a
- •Part b
- •Part c
- •1 Choose the correct word in brackets.
- •2 Fill in the gaps with appropriate prepositions. Part b
- •50 Points
- •Verbs with prepositions
- •Nouns with prepositions
- •Further Practice Section: Tests Bank Test 1
- •Test 2
- •Test 3
- •Test 4
- •Test 5
- •Test 6
- •Test 7
- •Test 8
- •Sources of Reference
I. There is/ it is:
1. I love the spring – …'s a wonderful time of the year. 2. In forecasting the future … is no certainty. 3. Is … life on other planets? 4. …'s my birthday today. 5. … is a three-hour drive to Boston. 6. In some cases … is a minimum age limit.
J. reflexive pronouns:
1. I blame … for what has happened. 2. Why can't your boyfriend cook lunch …? 3. It is only through study that one really begins to know …. 4. Doctors … are the first to admit the treatment has side effects. 5. Helen, Mother, come and warm … by the fire. 6. "Could you pass me that book?" "Get it …!" 7. We built the wall all by …. 8. It’s a restaurant that prides … on speed of service. 9. The ornate Town Hall was opened by Queen Victoria ….
K. each other/ each other’s:
1. It's normal for people to ignore … in an elevator. 2. The girls looked at …. 3. They enjoy … company. 4. Terry and Mark were jealous of …. 5. Maybe they got on … nerves and snapped at ….
L. which/ who/ what/ that/ whose:
1. Do you know the people … live over the road? 2. Now they were driving by the houses … Andy had described. 3. That's the man … house has burned down. 4. I believe … he told me. 5. The first thing … I ever had published was an article for the Boy Scout magazine. 6. Cutting costs is the only solution … seemed the most agreeable. 7. Solar energy is an idea … time has come. 8. They had to wait for over an hour, … annoyed them very much. 9. Let me see … you've got in the box. 10. All … I'm asking for is a little respect.
M. I/ my/ mine/ me/ myself:
1. …’ve got a problem. Can you help …? 2. I want you to meet an old friend of …. 3. Even … own family wouldn't believe …. 4. …'d like to be by … for a while. 5. 'Is that your car?' 'No, … is parked over the road.' 6. Oh, I hurt ….
2. Translate the phrases in brackets from Russian into English:
One should always be in control of (своей) life.
The story of your life is an unbelievable story of success. (Моя) is a sad story.
When my leg got stuck in the fence and wouldn’t pull out, Herry couldn’t stop laughing, (что) made me furious.
Mr.Thomson told me that the only thing (на что) I can count on is a modest dinner.
I was told there are books on the history of Ancient Rome in the library. But so far I have found (ни одной) that would suit for my report.
I have heard a lot about Professor Simpson and Dr.Carlos, but I haven’t been introduced to (никому из них).
Nobody supposed the new technology would cause such devastating consequences, (не правда ли)?
Unfortunately I didn’t find my parents’ support. They (оба) hardly believed in my talent, luck and success.
I have invited (некоторых) of my colleges to join our party but (никто) has come so far.
We searched the house inch by inch making sure that every tiny piece of paper was put back in (свое) place.
– Do you remember our childhood, when we would slip away from the house and make our sectret trip to the pond?
– (Те) were lovely days indeed!
Alice hardly went out (куда-либо) preferring the wild atmosphere of book adventures to real life events.
(Многие) try hard to understand the sense of life but (мало кто) find an answer.
– I’m afraid we’ll have to do without my speciality as we have (мало) milk left.
– I think we have (какое-то количество). I’ll fetch you (немного).
Don’t worry. I have (несколько) friends in Chicago so I won’t have to stay at a hotel.
I was too absorbed in my thoughts to notice that I had tied only one shoe and (другая) remained undone.
– I had hoped (все) would agree to my plan, but the audience split up.
– That’s life. (некоторые) are in favour of novelties while (другие) are strongly against.
– I wonder how much money we have left. – (Нисколько).
(Всё)is well that ends well.
Peter went out of the room leaving (остальных) to guess what his last words were supposed to mean.
(Все)people in the train compartment fellt that something was going wrong.
My left shoe pinched my toe badly, (что) was impossible to hide when dancing.
I couldn’t risk (всеми) money investing in such a strange project, (суть которого) was absolutely vague and unclear to me.
(Каждый из четырех) scripts found in the cave was given a close examination .
My friend and I listened to Mike’s story attentively, but (ни один) of us believed it.
(Мало что)has changed in my friend’s appearance so I recognized him easily.
I could hardly make out (что) she was saying, as the noise of the passing-by train was deafening.
I was a bit envious of Kelly as, in my opinion, my present was much of a triffle in comparison with that (её).
I’m afraid green isn’t my colour at all. Could you offer me (другую) T-shirt of a somewhat lighter colour?
Maybe (другие) will put up with such an attitude, but I’m not (они) and I won’t!
There is (никто другой) who is to blame for the accident. Just (я).
(Кто из вас)are going to apply to Harvard?
(Мало что)did I know of what real trouble is.
I’m afraid I don’t quite follow (на что) you are hinting at.
I couldn’t confide in a person (чья) was all covered in mystery.
Could you tell me (каких тем) I should avoid so as not to hurt Mrs.Nillson’s feelings?