EXAM PRACTICE

1. Choose the correct verb and make sentences using present

simple.
Not like / say / play / meet / study / read / have
My sister a book about History.
Paul and Anne . vegetables at all.
............ you .. at university?
They their friends once a week.
Bill two notebooks.
She .. she does not want a pay rise.
. your parents . any sport?

2. Make affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences using

present simple.
Julie (learn) English

Mike and Peter (ride) a motorbike

3. Classify the following nouns according to whether they are

countable or uncountable:
time hair -

books -

milk -

pens -

chairs -

meat -

butter -

friends -

fingers -

flour -

apples -

houses -

sugar -

cheese -

pencils -

oil -

bread -

cars -

jam -

salt -

rice -

tea -

honey -

games -

tomatoes -

cream -

carrots -

4. Choose a, an, some or any

a) It is

dog.

friends?

b) Have you got

c) I bought

d) Linda has not got

table.

pets.

f) Tim eats

j) Do you have

e) There is

orange on the

cheese every day.

g) We don't have
money.

milk.

bread.

h) My brother found

i) My sister found

pen.

eggs?

the classroom. l) Is there

k) There are

students in

pencil on the desk?

5. Choose a lot of, much or many:

We have . oranges
We dont have bananas, and we dont have .. fruit juice.
How is this? Its ten dollars.
How do you want? Six, please.
Hes very busy; he has .. work.
London has .. beautiful buildings.

6. Put the adverb of frequency on the right place.

1. He listens to the radio. (often) _____________________________
2. They read a book. (sometimes) _____________________________
3. Pete gets angry. (never) _____________________________

4. Tom is very friendly. (usually) _____________________________

5. I take sugar in my coffee. (sometimes) _____________________________
6. Ramon is hungry. (often)

7. Fill in the gaps with the verbs in brackets:

1. I like .. (go) out with friends.
2. She doesnt like (play) any sport.
3. He hates (cook).
4. She loves .. (swim).

8. Write the questions in the correct order.

1. film? / like / you / Did / the / _________________________________
2. you / many / did / ask? / How / people / _________________________________
3. a / have / time? / they / Did / good / _________________________________
4. did / weekend? / the / What / do / we / at /
_________________________________

9. Correct the sentences.

Who do you met on Saturday morning?
Who did you meet on Saturday morning?
Did he went to school yesterday?
Why did you to go home early?
Where you did learn English?
Did she works today?

10. Regular (R) or irregular (I) verbs?

1. play ___________ 2. fly ___________ 3. use ___________ 4. study ___________ 5.
eat ___________ 6. make ___________ 7. travel ___________ 8. see ___________

11. Write the past simple of the verbs of exercise 10.

1. ___________ 2. ___________ 3. ___________ 4. ___________ 5. ___________ 6.
___________ 7. ___________

12. Complete the sentences with the past simple.

be got up meet have go run drink sleep swim eat
Yesterday I got up early, at about seven oclock. 1. I ________ a shower and
some fruit for breakfast. 2. Then I ________ to the sports centre. 3. I ________
500 meters in the swimming pool and then 4. I ________ 5 kilometers. 5. At
lunchtime I ________ my friends in a caf. 6. We ________ some pasta and
________ some juice. 7. After lunch I ________ for a few hours, I ________ tired!

13. Complete with the correct form of future with will.

1 On Monday Stevie (be)

in Poland.

2 On Tuesday he (not/be)

3 He doesn't know where he (be)

4 At 8.00 a.m on Thursday Stevie (be)

in Poland.

on Wednesday.

on a plane to

Switzerland
5 On Friday evening he (still/be)

in Switzerland.

6 On Saturday he (not/be)

in Switzerland. He'll be in

France.

7 Where (he/be)

on Sunday?

8 How long (he/be)

away?

9 When (he/be)

10 (He/be)

back from his trip?

at home next month?

14. WRITE THE COMPARATIVE OR SUPERLATIVE FORM OF THE

ADJECTIVES IN THESE SENTENCES
1. She was a very intelligent student. She was

(intelligent)

girl in her class.

2. Its a very old castle. Experts argued it is

3. Im going to sleep on the sofa. The floor is

(old) in Britain.

(uncomfortable)

than it.
4. This new job is

5. Living in the countryside is

6. These instructions were

(important) for me than the last I had.

(healthy) than leaving in town.

(difficult) ones I have ever read.