CELEX ESIME ZACATENCO

BASIC 2A FINAL EXAM

Name:______________________________________ Date:_____
May the odds be ever on your side.
1. Complete the following text using the past tense of the verbs in brackets.
Anna's holiday ____________ (be) great last summer. She _______________ (stay) in a college
in England for two weeks. She ________________ (have) classes in the mornings and in the
afternoons she ________________ (do) some sports like swimming or tennis. In the evenings she
often __________________ (go) dancing or ________________ (watch) films with her new
friends. At weekends they __________________ (drive) to some interesting places. Once they
__________________ (visit) Marwell Zoo where they _______________ (see) some beautiful
animals. Anna ____________________ (not like) the food at the college but that
_____________________ (not be) a problem. She ____________________ (meet) a lot of people
and ____________________ (learn) some English. All the students in her class
________________ (be) sorry to go home. They all _________________ (promise) to come back
next summer.
2. Rose spent the weekend at her grandparents. Ask her questions about it. Use the
past simple.
1. (go / alone?)
_____Did you go alone?___________________________________
2. ( the weather / good?)
_Was the weather good?
3. (how/get/there?)
___________________________________________________________________
4.(what/do/in the evenings ?)
__________________________________________________________
5. ( when / go to sleep?)
_________________________________________________________________
6. ( who / go / for a walk with?)
___________________________________________________________
7. ( your grandparents / happy to have you with them?)
_________________________________________
8. ( help / your grandmother much about the
house?)________________________________________
9. ( make / new friends there?)
____________________________________________________________
10. ( have / a good time in the country?)
______________________________________________________
3. Put the verbs in the correct places. Use the past simple. Sometimes you need the
negative form.
Be // win // break // buy // can // get // go // fall // know // lose // miss // sell // spend // want //
wake
1. Jane, Nelly and Ann are excellent players, so they won the first match easily. 2. We
______________anywhere and _______________ most of our time at home last summer. 3.
Yesterday my aunt _____________ in town and ________________some new clothes at Bailey’s.
4. I _____________up early and quickly _______________out of bed so I ________________the
train. 5. Our cousin Frank first ________________ abroad alone when he ________________only
seven. 6. They ______________good friends and they _______________each other very well. 7.
Little Paul _________________the key and _______________open the front door. 8. Two days
ago Nick ___________________off the ladder and _______________his leg very badly. 9. I
________________how to drive, so I _____________________my brother to teach me. 10. My
neighbour __________________a car in a lottery two months ago and __________________his
old BMW.
4. EXTRA EXERCISE. Conjugate the following verbs in past simple.
Simple Form Past Form Simple Form Past Form
Be Speak
Do Get
Make Fly
Stay Wear
Finish See
Wake Read
Have Kill
Go Talk
Take Watch
Travel Arrive
Want Feel
Sleep Sell

5. What’s your favourite season? Describe it in 3 or 4 lines including the weather

you like and why
6. Put in the verbs in brackets with the Present Progressive or Present Simple

1. I ____________________ thirsty (be)

2. John often _____________________________ sugar in his coffee (take)
3. Look! They ______________________________ home (come)
4. I usually ____________ as a teacher in Germany, but this summer I
_______________________ as a language assistant in Rome (work)
5. Anne _________________ red hair (have)
6. The flowers ______________________ beautiful (smell)
7. The bus to New York _______________________ at 06:30 (leave)
8. My history teacher ___________________________ too much (talk)
9. Right now Christine ______________________________ on the computer (work)
10. Hey! _______________ you __________________________ there? (do)
11.
7. EXTRA EXERCISE. Make the following sentences negative.

1. They are using a dictionary ____________________________________________________

2. Stacy works in a library________________________________________________________
3. She is good at sports_________________________________________________________
4. The diary is lying on the floor___________________________________________________
5. Anne is smiling______________________________________________________________
6. We are carrying a big box______________________________________________________
7. I like fish___________________________________________________________________
8. They are preparing a picnic____________________________________________________
9. My friend lives in Stockholm____________________________________________________
10. He is waiting for the bus_______________________________________________________

8. EXTRA EXERCISE. At the back of this exam draw a house and indicate the parts
of it.
9. According to the phonetics seen in class, categorize the following words with the
proper phonetics of the letters “a” and “o”.

Shout, bank, want, man, have, spain, cake, party, glass, garden, plant, flat, train, phone,
now, go, slow, job, not, boat,camp, bus, drove, lovely, home, cloud, snow, sun, rain.
/æ/ /ɑː/ /eɪ/ /ɒ/ /əʊ/ /aʊ/