Fourth Year Second English 1- I prefer ………… furniture. a) ancient b) elderly c) fashionable d) high 2- She ………… on the bus in the center of the city. a) did got b) got c) get d) getting 3- We ………… up very late. a) waking b) wakes c) waken d) woke 4- When you arrived at the party …………? a) Alan was dancing b) Alan have dance c) was Alan dancing d) Alan is dancing 5- When I saw you and Lucy last night, what …………? a) are you doing b) was you doing c) is doing d) were you doing 6- The dress ………… me 150 pounds. a) didn't costed b) didn't cost c) did costed d) does costed 7- When I phoned my friends, they ………… monopoly. a) playing b) play c) played d) were playing 8- Yesterday at six I ………… dinner. a) prepared b) have prepared c) was preparing d) prepare 9- The kids ………… in the garden when it suddenly began to rain. a) play b) played c) were playing d) have played 10- I ………… the guitar when he came home. a) practiced b) practice c) was practicing d) have practiced 11- Most of the time we ………… in the park. a) sitting b) are sitting c) have sit d) have sat 12- When I arrived at the cinema, the film ………… . a) starts b) is starting c) have started d) had started 13- The garden was dead because it ………… dry all summer. a) is b) had been c) be d) have been 14- The grass was yellow because it ………… all summer. a) hadn't rained b) rained c) hadn’t rain d) haven’t rained 15- The children ………… their homework, so they were in trouble. a) haven’t done b) hadn't done c) hasn't done d) didn't 16- Julie and Anne ………… before the party. a) meet b) meets c) meeting d) hadn't met 17- You ………… for the test so you were very nervous. a) hadn't studied b) hadn''t study c) haven't study d) study 18- He ………… email before, so I showed him how to use it. a) hadn't use b) hadn't used c) haven't use d) haven't used 19- There were no schools for the deaf at that time. The underlined expression talks about: a) a time before b) a time after c) a specific time d) actions at the same time 20- From that point on, I took my studies more seriously. The underlined expression talks about: a) a time before b) a time after c) a specific time d) actions at the same time 21- I learned about his art in high school, and since then I have loved Picasso. a) a time before b) a time after c) a specific time d) actions at the same time 22- ln 218 BC. The underlined word talks about: a) a time before b) a time after c) a specific time d) actions at the same time 23- Up until now, everything has gone very well. The underlined expression talks about: a) a time before b) a time after c) a specific time d) actions at the same time 24- Throughout his life he remained loyal to his friends. The underlined word talks about: a) a time before b) a time after c) a specific time d) actions at the same time 25- We got along well during the trip. The underlined word talks about: a) a time before b) a time after c) a specific time d) actions at the same time 26- For the previous years. The underlined expression talks about: a) a time before b) a time after c) a specific time d) actions at the same time 27- Be careful on the icy path. It's very ………… . a) stretchy b) itchy c) furry d) slippery 28- I can't wear wool because it's too ………… for mys kin. a) soft b) stretchy c) itchy d) furry 29- For the interview I wore a suit and my new ………… leather shoes. a) shiny b) smooth c) rough d) itchy 30- It was a very uncomfortable journey because the road was so ………… . a) smooth b) rough c) itchy d) soft 31a) b) c) d) 32a) b) c) d) 33a) b) c) d) 34a) b) c) d) 35a) b) c) d) 36a) b) c) d) 37a) b) c) d) 38a) b) c) d) ………… Second World war ended in 1945. no article A An The Do you know ………… people who live next door. no article a an the Are you interested in ………… art? no article a an the Don't stay in that hotel. ………… beds are very uncomfortable. no article A An The I hate ………… violence. no article a an the Ken's brother is in ………… prison for robbery. no article a an the What time do your children finish ………… school? no article a an the When Ann was ill, we went to ………… hospital to visit her. no article a an the 39a) b) c) d) 40a) b) c) d) 41a) b) c) d) 42a) b) c) d) 43a) b) c) d) 44a) b) c) d) Please do it ………… nice quick quickly pretty He ran as ………… as he could. fastly fast fasts fasting I am not ………… interested in this offer. much many most muchly It was a ………… occurrence. rare rarely scarce scarcely I was ………… to hear the news. eager eagerly eagring eagered His situation was very ………… . serious seriously serous serrously ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Unit 1 1.1 Grammar: | question tags 11 a Complete the examples in the Active grammar box with the missing auxiliary verb Active grammar (1) Choose the correct answer from the following question tags: 2. Which verb tense would correctly complete the sentence "You had a best friend at school, ________ you?"? a) Have b) Will c) Do d) Didn't 3. Which pronoun would correctly complete the sentence "That's just the way life is, _________ it?"? a) Is b) Don't c) Isn't d) Isn't it 4. Which auxiliary verb would correctly complete the sentence "You can't keep in touch with everybody, __________ you?"? a) Don't b) Can c) Won't d) Should ___ Read the interview below between Simon and his boss, Jo. Three of the question tags are incorrect. *Choose the correct form from the following: 1. Jo: So, Simon, you've been with the company for nearly a year now, aren't* you? 💎 a. Have b. Haven't c. Didn't Simon: Yes, that's right. Jo: You worked for Thomson International before then, didn't you? Simon: Yes, for five years. Jo: And you feel happy here now, don't you? Simon: Absolutely, it's a great job and everyone's been really friendly. 2. Jo: Now, you're clear about your targets for this year, isn't you? a. Don't b. aren't c. haven't Simon: Yes, I think so. We have to increase last year's sales by 15%, don't we? Jo: That's right. If that happens then everyone gets a 20% bonus which everyone will be very happy about, won't they? Simon: Definitely. 3. Jo: Now, on the subject of your punctuality. That hasn't been particularly good, was* it? a. wasn't b. Haven't c. Has Simon: Ah yes, now I can explain that. ____ 13 a Active grammar (2) 1 I'm too late, ...I? a. have b. aren’t c. do 2 Help yourself to a coffee, ... you? a. Would b. have c. did 3 Let's get a sandwich, ... we? a. Don't b. shall c. did 4 You never go to the theatre,...you? a. Have b. Do c. go 5 Nothing went wrong today,...it? a. Did b. went c. does 6 Nobody has complained,...they? a. Has b. have c. does -14 a. 1. Which question tag would correctly complete the sentence "She's getting very tall, __________?"? a) isn't she? b) is she? c) does she? 2. Which question tag would correctly complete the sentence "They don't seem to like their present, __________?"? a) do they? b) don't they? c) did they? 3. Which question tag would correctly complete the sentence "You haven't been waiting long, __________?"? a) haven't you? b) have you? c) did you? 4. Which question tag would correctly complete the sentence "We can't leave the party early, __________?"? a) will we? b) can't we? c) can we? 5. Which question tag would correctly complete the sentence "Let's go and see a film, __________?"? a) shall we? b) shouldn't we? c) will we? 6. Which question tag would correctly complete the sentence "Do sit down, __________?"? a) will you? b) didn't you? c) did you? ----------------p.9 6. b. Choose the correct alternative for each of the rules 1-5. 2 …………… looks at all the things together. a. Any b. Every c. something 3 We use …………… to mean it doesn't matter which, who, etc. a. every b. something c. any 4 ………… means not + anything. a. Nothing b. Something c. anything 5 We use ……. in questions when we expect the answer 'Yes'. a. any b. some c. other Choose the best alternative. 1 I'm going to try and see my boyfriend …….. weekend. a. every b. any c. something 2 ……. was thrilled to see Naomi. a. Everybody b. Anybody c. Something 3 Get me …………. soup you can find. It doesn't matter what kind. a. every b. any c. nothing 4 I can't get rid of this cold. ……… seems to help. a. Nothing b. Anything c. something 5 The market had flowers of ……….. kind. a. every b. any c. no 6 I'd like to go ……….. hot for my holiday. I need the sun. a. everywhere b. somewhere c. nowhere 7 You can come …………. time after 5p.m. I'll be at home all evening. a. every b. any c. all ---------------------p. 11 Page 4 Vocabulary | making adjectives from nouns 3. Which word is the noun form of "jealous"? a) jealous b) jealousy c) jealously 4. Which word is the adjective form of "lonely"? a) loneliness b) lone c) lonesome 5. Which word is the noun form of "successful"? a) success b) successify c) succession 6. Which word is the adjective form of "responsibility"? a) responsibleness b) responsible c) responsiblist 7. Which word is the adjective form of "importance"? a) important b) importancy c) importal 8. Which word is the noun form of "skill"? a) skilled b) skillful c) skillfulness 9. Which word is the adjective form of "frustration"? a) frustrating b) frustrate c) frustrator 11 Choose the correct answer: 1. Which word would correctly complete the sentence "Do you realize the _____ of these exams? They will decide which university you can go to."? a) importantly b) unimportance c) importance 2. Which word would correctly describe the sister in the sentence "My sister is very _____ . She can paint well and writes poetry."? a) artistic b) artless c) artistically 3. Which word would correctly describe the experience of trying to phone the bank in the sentence "It's so _____ trying to phone my bank. You have to wait for hours before a real person will answer the phone."? a) frustrate b) frustrating c) frustrated 4. Which word would correctly describe the feeling towards Bob in the sentence "You shouldn't be _____ of Bob. He's not my type!"? a) envy b) jealousy c) jealous 5. Which word would correctly complete the sentence "He's lived alone for ages but he says he never feels _____."? a) lonely b) alone c) lone 6. Which word would correctly describe the situation in the sentence "There's a lot of _____ involved in juggling."? a) skilled b) skillfulness c) skilful 7. Which word would correctly complete the sentence "I wish someone would take _____ for the train crash."? a) responsibly b) responsibleness c) responsibility 8. Which word would correctly describe the last film in the sentence "His last film was an incredible _____ . Apparently, it won five Oscars."? a) success b) successful c) successfully -P14 Active grammar Choose the correct description for the modal verbs of possibility: 1. a. b. c. It could be someone talking to his boss. It is possible It is not possible It is certain 2. a. b. c. He might need help finding his way. It is possible It is not possible It is certain 3. a. b. c. The weather can't be very good. It is possible It is not possible It is certain 4. a. b. c. He must be late. It is possible It is not possible It is certain 5. a. b. c. They may go to the cinema later. It is possible It is not possible It is certain __ 10. Complete the second sentences with the correct choices so they have the same meaning as the first sentences: 1. I'm sure that Terry is stuck in traffic. He's Never normally late. “Terry …………….. be stuck in traffic. He's never normally late.” a. may b. must c. might 2 It's possible that we'll go and visit my brother in Manchester. “We ………. and visit my brother in Manchester.” a. May b. Must c. can't 3 It's not possible that Jane wants to go to Morocco this summer. She hates hot weather. “Jane …….. go to Morocco this summer. She hates hot weather.” a. Must b. Can’t c. May 4. There's a chance that Susie will come to the party tonight. “Susie ……… come to the party tonight.” a. Could b. Must c. Can’t 5 I have no doubt that there are better ways of solving this problem. “There ……. be better ways of solving this problem.” a. Can’t b. Must c. Might 6 Perhaps Tarek will change his mind About lending you his car. “Tarek …………. Change his mind about lending you his car.” a. Can’t b. Must c. Might -P15. vocabulary phrasal verbs 3 Choose the correct answer in each of the following sentences: 1 How long have you and your fiancée been…….? a. going out b. growing up c. looking up 2 You don't ….. with your boss very well, do you? a. show off b. get on c. go out 3 I think our parents did a great job of …….. with very little money. a. growing us up b. splitting us up c. bringing us up 4 David really ……. you. He thinks you're amazing. a. goes out to b. looks up to c. grows up to 5 Who do you ……….. in your family, your mum or your dad? a. take after b. take them after c. take after them 6 I wish you would …….. up and start behaving like an adult! a. Grown b. Grow c. Grew 7 John's ……….. with his brother again. I think his brother owes him some money. a. fallen out b. went out c. looked up 8 Why did he tell us how much money he earns? I hate it when people …….. like that. a. show on b. show off c. split up 9 Why did you and Lorraine……..? I thought you were quite happy together. a. split up b. go out c. scream -3. True or False: Choose (True) for the correct sentences and (False) for the incorrect sentences. 1 How long have you and your girlfriend been going out with? False 2 You don't get on with your boss very well, do you? True 3 I think our parents did a great job of bringing us up with very little money. True 5 David really shows off to you. He thinks you're amazing. False 6 Who do you take after in your family, your mum or your dad? True 7 I wish you would grown up and start behaving like an adult! False 8 John's fallen out with his brother again. I think his brother owes him some money. True 9 Why did he tell us how much money he earns? I hate it when people show on like that. False 10 Why did you and Lorraine split it up? I thought you were quite happy together. False 4 Read the following statements. Which of them are true for you? Change the others so that they are also true for you. 1. Of all the people in my family I probably ……..best with my dad because we're so similar. a. get on b. bring c. look up 2. I …………. my grandmother in lots of ways. We both love travel and discovering new places. a. take after b. bring up c. fall out with 3. In my opinion, couples should ………….. for at least two years before they get married. a. grow up b. go out c. show off 4. If I have children in the future, I'll probably ……… up in much the same way that My parents brought me up. a. grow b. look them c. bring them 5. I really ……….. to my grandfather. He's incredibly kind and always ready to listen to you if you have a problem. a. make it up b. look up c. show off -P.15 1 Review and practice 1. Which question tag would correctly complete the sentence "Everything is ok, ________"? a) won't it? b) is there? c) isn't it? 2. Which question tag would correctly complete the sentence "Have some more dessert, ________"? a) do we? b) is there? c) won't you? 3. Which question tag would correctly complete the sentence "I'm talking too much, ________"? a) do we? b) aren't I? c) shall we? 4. Which question tag would correctly complete the sentence "We don't have much time, ________"? a) do we? b) is there? c) shall we? 5. Which question tag would correctly complete the sentence "Somebody's moved the desk, ________"? a) haven't they? b) is there? c) shall we? 6. Which question tag would correctly complete the sentence "That's the law, ________"? a) do we? b) is there? c) isn't it? 7. Which question tag would correctly complete the sentence "There's hardly any bread left, ________"? a) do we? b) is there? c) isn't it? 8. Which question tag would correctly complete the sentence "Let's make a fire, ________"? a) do we? b) is there? c) shall we? ---------------True or False: Choose (True) for the grammatically correct sentences and (False) for the incorrect sentences. 1 Do you have every idea how I can get to Croydon by public transport? F 2 Would you like something else to eat? T 3 That dog will eat anything. It's amazing. T 4 Every help you can give with the redecorating would be much appreciated. T 5 FlyFast say that you can go anywhere in Europe with them for under £50! F 6 Holiday companies go somewhere now so there are no undiscovered places left. F 7 As regards the housework, John does the washing-up and I do everything else. T 8 Every student needs to take the test before they can join a class. T 9 Anyone said how much they enjoyed the party. It was a great success. F 10 There isn't nothing else we can do today. F Choose the correct answer: 1 Your dad ……… want some tea. Will you ask him? a. might b. can c. do 2 You ……… get the job. You're easily the most qualified person. a. can't b. must c. wan 3 They …………. win the next election. Nobody trusts them anymore. a. can't b. could c. aren’t 4 This cat ………… belong to the people at number 43. Why don't you go and find out? a. may b. can't c. won’t 5 You ………….. be David. I've heard such a lot about you. a. could b. must c. can’t 6 We ……….. need some help at the weekend. Will you be free? a. might b. must c. can’t 7 You realize he ………… be lying. Are you sure he wants to borrow your car to visit his grandmother? a. don’t b. can't c. could 8 She ………… be very ill if she didn't come to school today. She never misses school. a. must b. can't c. don’t Choose the correct word from the following sentences : 1 Mike and I stopped ……… out last June. It was about something I said about his sister. I apologized but he hasn't spoken to me since. a. Going b. Looking c. Bringing 2 I get on very well with my ………….. , Barbara, although we've been divorced for nearly seven years. a. Partner b. Ex-wife c. Half-sister 3 I have a lot more ………… in my new job than before. I manage twenty-five people and have a budget of nearly £1million. a. Responsibility b. Frustration c. Loneliness 4 I just bought my ……. a really nice engagement ring. It was incredibly expensive though. a. Ex-wife b. Half-sister c. Soulmate 5 I wonder why next door's dog keeps ………… . I don't think they look after him very well. a. Shouting b. Barking c. Screaming 6 He really …………… after his dad you know. He's got an amazing sense of humour and he's terribly generous. a. Takes b. Looks up c. Go out 7 My dad …………… so loudly that it stops my mum sleeping at night. a. Creaks b. thuds c. Snores 8 Janine is just a work ………… of mine. We share an office. a. Step-sister b. Colleague c. Close friend 5. Question : 1. Which sentence is an example of a question tag? a) You'd like to go to the shops soon, wouldn't you? b) Her brother's name is Ivan. c) We should go for a swim this afternoon. d) You'll make yourself comfortable. 2. Which question tag is correctly used in the sentence "Her brother's name is Ivan, ….."? a) is it? b) isn't it? c) won't he? d) doesn't he? 3. Which question tag is correctly used in the sentence "We should go for a swim this afternoon, …….."? a) should we? b) shouldn't we? c) will we? d) won't we? 4. Which question tag is correctly used in the sentence "You'll make yourself comfortable, ……"? a) will you? b) won't you? c) can you? d) can't you? 5. Which question tag is correctly used in the sentence "Nobody told him we were having a party, ….."? a) don't they? b) didn't they? c) do they? d) did they? 6. Which question tag is correctly used in the sentence "You think you're in time for the start of the film, ….."? a) do you? b) don't you? c) can you? d) can't you? 7. Which question tag is correctly used in the sentence "He never eats meat, ….. ?"? a) does he? b) doesn't he? c) is he? d) isn't he? ----------------- Unit 2 Lessons 1, 2 ******Page 1****** Vocabulary | verb phrases about work 5 In pairs, find the difference between the verb phrases in italics in the sentence pairs. Use a dictionary if necessary. Choose: 1. I …….. in a charity shop once a week. a. do voluntary work b. study c. play 2. She ………. part-time in a shop while she was studying for her degree. a. Play b. Worked c. Eat 3. My uncle was very wealthy and …………. at the age of fifty-two. a. Slept b. took early retirement c. was fired 4. I like ……… because I can choose the hours to suit me. a. working flexitime b. working full-time c. not working 5. She decided not to be a nurse because she didn't want to do ………. a. shift work b. no work c. full workout 6. Bus drivers are ………. until the unions can agree on a new pay deal. a. On vacation b. On retirement c. On strike 7. I'm afraid he will be ……… at least until the end of the month. a. on sick leave b. on live action c. on adventure 8. He was ……… after he was caught stealing office equipment. a. Rewarded b. Sacked c. Avenged 9. I'm going to …….. from my job and go travelling for a year. a. Apply b. Resign c. Promote 6. Complete the questions with the correct form of the phrases in Ex. 5. Use each phrase once. 1 Would you like to…………, e.g. gardening for old people? a. do voluntary work b. study c. play 2 For what reasons do people sometimes choose to ………. instead of full-time? a. working full-time b. not working c. work part-time 3 Have you ever ……….. from a job to go and do something completely different? a. Applied b. Resigned c. Promoted 4 How would you feel about ………., e.g. working nights and weekends? a. Doing shift work b. Doing no work c. Doing a full workout 5 Would you ever consider ………….., e.g. at the age of forty-five or fifty? a. Sleeping b. taking early retirement c. escaping 6 For what kinds of reasons can people ………. and have to leave their work? a. Be Rewarded b. Be Sacked c. Be Avenged 7 Which groups of workers (if any) in your country have been …….. recently? What were they asking for? a. On vacation b. On retirement c. On strike 8 Which do you think is the most common reason for being …….. in your country (backache, flu, etc.)? a. on sick leave b. on live action c. on adventure 9 Which do you think is more common in your country: working nine-to-five or …… ? a. working flexitime b. working full-time c. not working 10 Are there any particular industries in your country in recent years which have declined and workers have been ………? a. working without pay b. Made redundant c. not working ------------------------- 2.1 Grammar | futures overview p. 22 9.a 2.3 Complete examples 1-6 in the Active grammar box from memory. Then listen and check your answers. Active grammar 1 That's a good idea! I think I …….. to the library now and do it there. a. Will go b. Going to go c. is going 2 I've decided I ……………. work and go back to college. a. Will go b. Am going to leave c. is going 3 I’m ………them at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. a. Will go to b. Going to go c. meeting 4 I think they ……. Sally the job of departmental manager. She's really good and she's been there ages. a. Might offer b. Are not going to offer c. They’ll offer 5 David ……….. assistant manager. I heard him talking to James about it. a. Will be b. Is going to be c. Is being 6 He ………… get the job. It's obvious. He's being fast-tracked for it. a. Is bound to b. Going c. is ---------------------. 10 Choose the correct alternative. 1 I've decided. I'm definitely not …….. to apply for that job. a. Bound b. going c. doing 2 We …….. after work at the café on the corner. a. will meet b. are meeting c. would meet 3 She……….. the job. She's got the right experience. a. is getting b. is bound to get c. won’t get 4 I bought a newspaper this morning. I ……… a better-paid job. a. will look for b. I’m going to look for c. won’t look for 5. Oh, there's the personnel officer. I ……….. then because I need to talk to her. a. won't go b. I'm bound to go c. will go 6 ……….. tennis with a colleague at 5p.m. this afternoon. a. I'll play b. I'm playing c. I won’t play 7 He's doing shift work at the moment so he ……….. tired tomorrow. a. won't be b. is bound to be c. will be bound --------------------. 11 Complete the How to box with the words in the box below. . Express some uncertainty about future plans 1 I'm ………. About resigning. a. Thinking b. Looking c. Doing 2 I'm not ……… yet but I think I'll leave soon. a. Sure b. Possible c. Uncertain 3 One ……….. is to do some voluntary work. a. Deed b. Idea c. Work 4 It ………. on being accepted on the course. a. Depends b. Perhaps c. Possible 5 I'm ………… going to start in September. a. Probably b. Not sure c. Uncertainly ---------------Lesson 2.2 Grammar | Future Perfect and Continuous 4.a. Match the examples 1-4 in the Active grammar box with the correct tense. Active grammar 1 Tomorrow morning, ………… the same as he's doing today. a. he'll be doing b. Is doing c. Won’t go 2 Soon, Chand …………. half a century working on this garden. a. will have spent b. won’t have spent c. should have 3 What …………. in five years' time? a. will he be doing b. won’t he be do c. would he do 4 He ………. the garden by the time he retires. a. won't have finished b. Won’t had done c. Will be done Future tense: 7 a Choose the correct answer to complete the verb phrases: 1 do …………….. a) up to date with (your email, your diary, ...) b) the (bedroom, kitchen, ...) c) an evening class 2 visit…………….. a) the (bedroom, kitchen, ...) b) an evening class c) chat rooms 3 study…………….. a) late at the office b) research on the Internet c) for a (law, business, ...) qualification online 4 work…………….. a) late at the office b) research on the Internet c) for a (law, business, ...) qualification online 5 spend…………….. a) with friends b) for a (law, business, ...) qualification online c) quality time with (your children, family, ...) 6 keep…………….. a) up to date with (your email, your diary, ...) b) the (bedroom, kitchen, ...) c) an evening class 7 redecorate…………….. a) the (bedroom, kitchen, ...) b) an evening class c) chat rooms 8 socialize…………….. a) with friends b) for a (law, business, ...) qualification online c) quality time with (your children, family, ...) ------------. 5 Complete the sentences with the Future Perfect or Continuous form of the verbs in brackets. 1 By this time next week, he ………….. his Art project. a. finish b. will have finished c. won’t finish 2 I'm sorry I can't come. I ……….. football tomorrow afternoon. a. Play b. will be playing c. should play 3 My boss won't be at work at 5.30p.m. She …….. home already. a. Go b. will have gone c. would go 4 Between 10.00 and 12.00 tomorrow I ………..a meeting so l'll phone you after that. a. Have b. had c. will be having 5 I hope you ………. making dinner by the time I get home. a. Finish b. will have finished c. would finish 6 I can't wait! This time next Friday, we ………… on a beach in Australia! a. Lied b. Will be lying c. lie 7 This article says that when you're 50, you …………. a total of 16.7 years asleep. a. Spend b. will have spent c. should not spend 8 Don't phone between 7.0o and 7.30 because I ……….. my piano lesson. a. Have b. will be having c. won’t get ---------------- 8.a. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the most appropriate phrase from. 1 On a typical weekday evening I ………. - I've taken on a lot of extra responsibility and I often don't leave until after 9p.m. a. work late at the office b. Study for a qualification online c. Visiting chat rooms 2 I love ……… in my free time. I’ve made loads of friends without having to even go out! a. Visiting chat rooms b. Study for a qualification online c. Socializing with friends 3 My evenings are very busy. On Mondays, I ………….. in pottery, on Wednesdays, it's Spanish and on Thursdays, I do jazz dance. a. Do an evening class b. Socializing with friends c. work late at the office 4 I want to make the living room look nice and I can't afford to pay someone else to do it so at the moment I'm spending my weekends ………. a. Decorating the living b. Socializing with friends c. Studying for a qualification online 5 I'm ……….. at the moment. I'm doing the next level in my accountancy training and it's a great course that can do at home. a. Studying for a qualification online b. Decorating the living c. Socializing with friends 6 Whenever I'm not working I try to ………..with my children. They're growing up so fast. a. Spend quality time b. Studying for a qualification online c. Decorating the living 7 I've been writing a diary since I was twelve. I try to ………. with it so I write a bit every day. a. Keep up to date b. Socializing with friends c. Spend quality time 8 ………….. is a big part of my life, either having dinner parties at home or going out. a. Socializing with friends b. Spend quality time c. Studying for a qualification online ------------------------. Grammar | in case 6 Choose the correct alternatives for the rules 1-4 in the Active grammar box. Active grammar 1• She stayed behind in the office ………… the telephone rang. a. in case b. If c. whether 2• I phoned my boss again ………… she hadn't got my message. a. in case b. so c. unless 3• I'll stay here …………. any clients come in. a. in case b. unless c. because 4• I might leave early just ……… there are problems on the trains. a. in case b. where c. will 5• I always leave plenty of time to get to work just………... a. in case b. as well c. for importance --------------. 2 Vocabulary Collocations with prepositions 1. Complete the sentences using the correct preposition which collocates with the adjectives in bold. 1 l'm interested ………… training to be an architect. a. of b. in c. about 2 Nek Chand is very modest ………. his achievement. a. of b. for c. about 3 A lot of people are afraid …………… losing their jobs. a. of b. at c. for 4 I'm really worried ………. my interview tomorrow. a. about b. from c. on 5 I'm keen ……….. doing some voluntary work in a prison if possible. a. about b. on c. in 6 This job is very similar ………….. my last one. a. of b. for c. to 7 You look different ……….. your sister, don't you? a. to b. from c. of 8 Marc is really good ………….. tennis. He always beats me. a. about b. in c. at 9 I'm proud ……… passing all my exams this year. a. of b. about c. for 10 My uncle has been passionate …………… jazz all his life. a. about b. of c. for --------------------. Question Bank for 4th grade 1. I met a new person at the party, but we don't know each other well. She is my ________________. a) acquaintance b) colleague c) best friend d) soulmate 2. I have always ________________ my grandfather, who was a successful businessman. a) looked for b) looked at c) looked up to d) looked into 3. When I met my girlfriend, we immediately felt comfortable and enjoyed each other's company. We ________________ with each other. a) clicked b) clacked c) clocked d)clicken 4. My colleague and I always agree on work-related decisions. We see________________ on most things. a)eye on eye b) eye to eye c)eye at eye d) eye for eye 5. The question tag for 'Nobody came' is: A. Did nobody? B. Didn't nobody? C. Didn't they? D. Did they? 6. My parents ________________ to be a responsible and independent person. a) look me up b) brought me up c) show me off d) send me out 7. My mother had a child with a different man, and we share only one biological parent. She is my ________________. a)sister b) brother c)half-sister d) half-brother 8. I feel a deep connection with my partner. She is my ________________. a) soulmate b) colleague c)friend d) sister 9. The question tag for 'Be quiet' is: A) Be you? B) Will you? C) Won't you? D) Do you? 10.Yau can't play tennis this evening, ……you? a) can't b) could c) can d) couldn't 11.Do you have ….. idea how I can get to Croydon by public transport? a)every b) each c) all d) any 12.You ….. get the job. You're easily the most qualified person. a) can't b) may c) must d) won't 13.To share many of the same interests, experiences or opinions as someone else is to: A) Have a lot in common B) See eye to eye C) Be on the same wavelength D) to make a good impression ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ● 5. There is a/an ……. Possibility that he will succeed. He never studies. a. wrongb. 6. Please do not rely on Tom's mental abilities. He is ………. . a. Open-minded Left-handed thin c. b. remote d. Absent-minded impossible c. Hot-tempered 7. When two people are arguing bitterly, they often need someone who's unbiased and …….. to help them. a. friendly b. cute c. level-headedd. 8. What type of class room exercises appeal…..you? narrow-minded d. a. to b. in 9. I do not believe what he says, he always……exaggeration. a. Prone to b. c. for Prone for d. c. from Prone in d. Prone at 10. She is very ……. . She makes her own food and entertains herself for hours. a. Thick-skinned self-sufficient 11. me. On my first day at work, I received a……. reception. No one talked to a. cruel b. bad b. c. Career-oriented frosty d. c. Level-headed d. rude 12. there is a ……. Possibility that she will make it to the laboratory on time. It is near. a. strong b. good c. sure d. reasonable 13. Cape Town city is one of the most beautiful cities in Africa. The awareness of its inhabitants kept the city ……. a. untouched b. unspoilt c. new d. natural 14. A professor of ……. argued that no one can master more than three languages completely a. languages b. pragmatics c. 15. He'll be here soon. His plane …… at 6:45 a. Will arrive b. 16. …..is the distress caused by being away from home. a. Traveling abroad b. euphemism 17. it ……that William Dickson had invented the motion picture. a. was believed have believed arrives b. c. polyglots is arriving homesickness was believing c. c. d. linguistics d. arrived Nostalgia d. has believed d. 18. By June, we……….finished the project. a. Have b. 19. I recommend……to Tokyo this summer. a. To go b. 20. could you …… be a bit quieter? a. possible Will have go b. c. c. had gone d. possibly c. d. will be going possibility d. impossible 21. ……. Is a style of comedy that deals with subjects normally considered painful and serious a. Dark humor b. humor Sad humor c. Funny humor d. 22. ……… is someone who masters two, three or more languages a. bolyglot 23. I cannot believe that hoax about the ……… tribe. It is insane! a. Stone-edge b. b. ployglot Stone-era c. c. polyglot Stone-age d. Strange bloyglot d.stone-made 14. Even at advanced level, some students' spoken English is riddled ……. errors. a. in b. for c. by d. with 24. They are rather…… . At the Party, they did not talk to anybody. a. Stand-offish b. Career-oriented 25. No sooner …… closed his eyes than his alarm clock rang. a. Had b. 26. My father was a top chef. I decided to follow ….his …. . a. In, way Level-headed He had b. c. In, steps c. Had he c. Absent-minded d. At, steps d. has d. At, way 27. No way….. going to sing in public! a. am i b. 28. Nobody imagined that the whole thing was a/an…… hoax a. elaborate 29. I look forward ….. you at the party. a. meet b. 30. Are you nervous….giving presentations? a. with b. I am c. b. invented meeting to I will be c. c. c. d. Be i created to meeting d. about d. d. made to meet for 31. they are really …. .Even when they won all that money, they did not get too excited. d. open-minded c. cool b. level-headed a. Career-oriented 32. All the members of the team follow the captain's orders. He is the one who… a. Gives the shots Does the shots 33. If I …… you, I would buy this car. a. was b. is b. c. Calls the shots am d. c. Makes the shots d. were 34. A/An ……….. is a casual or unconstrained conversation about other people. a. gossipb. lie 35. ………. Is one of the well-known spots to dance Salasa . a. Athena b. c. occasion Cali c. d. chat Cape Town d. Brussels 36. We have a lot of money! There is no need to spend the night in this ….. hotel. a. Run-down b. ordinary 37. ……. Is a form of word play. c. historic d. monumental a. pun b. dark comedy 38. When Ali traveled to the USA, he suffered from cultural…… . a. habits b. mitigation c. c. surreal hegemony d. d. farce shock 39. our ……… is not only the place we live in, but also the ideas we share with other people a. community b. habits c. homeland d. class 40. Characters in this novel are entirely …… . The author created them using his own imagination. a. Fiction b. 41. By the time they arrived, i…… studying for 5 hours. a. Will have 42. A Japanese ….. faked the Piltdown man hoax. a. Psychologist linguist 43. Chinese is the hardest language to …… a. master 44. Bia's father encouraged her and accepted the financial…. a. border 45. I believe that I have the…. To achieve my dreams. a. dense b. b. ambitious Have been c. b. b. b. c. Analyst control burden luck c. c. c. sense d. fictitious Had been c. d. d. dangerous Will have been archaeologist controls additions d. d. d. masters support potential Question Bank for 4th grade 14. I met a new person at the party, but we don't know each other well. She is my ________________. b) acquaintance b) colleague c) best friend d) soulmate 15. I have always ________________ my grandfather, who was a successful businessman. b) looked for b) looked at c) looked up to d) looked into 16. When I met my girlfriend, we immediately felt comfortable and enjoyed each other's company. We ________________ with each other. b) clicked b) clacked c) clocked d)clicken 17. My colleague and I always agree on work-related decisions. We see________________ on most things. a)eye on eye b) eye to eye c)eye at eye d) eye for eye 18. The question tag for 'Nobody came' is: A. Did nobody? B. Didn't nobody? C. Didn't they? D. Did they? 19. My parents ________________ to be a responsible and independent person. b) look me up b) brought me up c) show me off d) send me out 20. My mother had a child with a different man, and we share only one biological parent. She is my ________________. a)sister b) brother c)half-sister d) half-brother 21. I feel a deep connection with my partner. She is my ________________. b) soulmate b) colleague c)friend d) sister 22. The question tag for 'Be quiet' is: A) Be you? B) Will you? C) Won't you? D) Do you? 23. Yau can't play tennis this evening, ……you? b) can't b) could c) can d) couldn't 24. Do you have ….. idea how I can get to Croydon by public transport? a)every b) each c) all d) any 25. You ….. get the job. You're easily the most qualified person. b) can't b) may c) must d) won't 26. To share many of the same interests, experiences or opinions as someone else is to: A) Have a lot in common B) See eye to eye C) Be on the same wavelength D) to make a good impression