Thursday, October 22, 2015

PRE-INTERMEDIATE REVIEW 7-8

REVIEW 7-8

A.- Fill in the gaps with the right form of the verbs in brackets












1. If the hotel facilities ............................ (not / be) goodl .......................... (not /book) a room.
02. Our boss ............................. (send) us home if we  ............................ (not/wear) a suit in the office.
03. If your car ............................. (not / start ), my father ................................ (give) you a lift.
04. ..................... she ...................... (go) to the lake if it .............................. (not / be) sunny at the weekend?
05. If he ........................ ( gamble ) a lot , he .......................... (be) soon broke.

06. If you .................. (leave) me , l ......................(kill) myself.

B.  Make negative and interrogative sentences as in the example:



 He usually reads in the evening.
 He wasn’t reading when l saw him yesterday.
 Was he reading when you saw him?
01. He usually practises the piano in the mornings.
02. They usually play chess in the afternoons.
03. She usually does her shopping on Saturday mornings.
04. He usually goes home after work.

C. Past Continuous and Past Simple

Write complete sentences using the prompts and the Past Continuous or Past Simple.
I / drive / home / when it / start / to rain
I was driving home when it started to rain.
 1   I / watch / TV / when the phone / ring
     ____________________________________________ .
 2   While I / look through my photos / Rachel play computer games ____________________________________________ .
 3   We / talk about Katie / when she / come over
 ____________________________________________ .
 4   While / Marco / play tennis / it / start / to rain
 ____________________________________________ .
 5   Where / you / go / when I / see you yesterday    _

D. Active or Passive ?

1.Portuguese ( speaks / is spoken ) in Brazil.
2. Mickey (calls / is called )Topolino“ in Italian and “Mi Lo Shu“ in Chinese.

E. Change the sentences into passive
1. We usually lock the safe.
2. Somebody calls the president at 9 a.m. every day.
3. Hurricanes destroy a lot of properties yearly.
4. Martha delivers the documents to the department.
5. The company orders new equipment every two years.
6. How much money  do they spend on junk food every year?

F.  stop, try, remember: gerunds and infinitives





 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs
from the box.
 spend   be  book    drink   buy     finish
 Please stop being so aggressive.

1   I’ll try _______ this article today because I know it’s urgent.
 2   Did you remember _______ a table for this evening?
 3   Anna stopped _______ a bottle of water before the meeting.
 4   Why don’t you try _______ hot milk before you go to bed if you can’t sleep?
 5   I remember _______ a lot of time with my cousins when we were young.

G.Parts of the body
 Put the words in the correct column.
 ankle    eye    forehead    ear    finger    elbow    palm    knee    wrist    lips    thumb
   hand     leg    head    arm 

H. Describing appearance
 Choose the correct answer.
 I’m very _______ so I have to be careful when I go out in the sun.
a   fair-skinned  b   dark-skinned  c   attractive

 1   Both of Jason’s parents are of medium height – around 1 metre 70 centimetres, but he is 1 metre 90 centimetres which is very __
a   short  b   tall  c   fat

 2   I can’t believe how _______ Jenny is. She’s lost so much weight.
a   tall  b   skinny  c   short

3   Dan does a lot of sport. That’s why he has such ____ legs.
a   muscular  b   overweight  c   ugly

4   Doctors are worried about the number of children who are now ___ because they eat too much junk food and don’t exercise.  
a   overweight  b   slim  c   muscular

5   Men who become models are usually tall, slim and ___
a   beautiful  b   ugly  c   handsome

I. Speed
 Complete the sentences with the words and phrases from the box. There are four extra words.
 down                immediately                speed                on the go                rush  in a hurry                top                speeding                your time                limit
 You should slow down because you’re driving too fast.

 1   Take _______ . We don’t have to hurry.
 2   I think the speed _______ here is 100 kmph.
 3   Dad is always _______ . He doesn’t like to sit down and relax.
 4   I don’t like driving in the _______ hour because there are too many cars and buses.
 5   Can you be quick please? I’m _______ . J. Measurements 

J. Write the measurements in words.
 9 ¾ minutes  nine and three-quarter minutes

1   32.9 centimetres  _____________ centimetres

2150 kilometres per hour  ______________  kilometres per hour. 

3   4.18 seconds  _______________ seconds

4   2 ½ kilograms  _______________ kilograms

5   1,576 metres  _______________ metres

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