1 - ENTRY TEST (grammar review)

ENTRY TESTS

ENTRY TEST - 1

Name: _______________________________________  Date: _________________

A. Choose the correct answer.  Example:  Lynn   [ x ]is  [  ]am  [  ]are  my teacher. (50 points)

 1. [  ]Am [  ]Are [  ]Is  you Italian?  Yes,   [  ]I am  [  ]I’m  [  ] I are.

2. [  ]His [  ]Her [  ]It’s  name’s Richard.

3. He’s English but now he [  ]lives [  ]live [  ]living  in Italy.

4. He’s married and he [  ]haves  [  ]is having  [  ]has two sons, John and Robert.

5. Richard’s wife, Mary [  ]don’t  [  ]doesn’t  [  ]no go to work.

6. It’s 8 o’clock and Mary and the children [  ]have  [  ]having  [  ]are having breakfast. The children usually  [  ]have  [  ]having  [  ]are having  Kellog’s cornflakes for breakfast.

7. Richard’s apartment  [  ]no is  [  ]isn’t  [  ]aren’t  very big.

8. There [  ]have  [  ]has  [  ]are  two bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room.

9. At the moment there isn’t  [  ]much  [  ]many  [  ]lot  food in the fridge, but Mary   [  ]go    [  ]goes  [  ]is going  shopping this afternoon.

10.  Mary wants to buy [  ]any  [  ]some  [  ]a few  vegetarian food.

11. Mary’s meals are delicious. She [  ]cans  [  ]can  [  ]can’t  cook very well.

12. Richard  [  ]was  [  ]were  [  ]is  born in Birmingham.

13. He [  ]live  [  ]lived  [  ]was living  there until he [  ]was  [  ]were  [  ]had been eighteen.

14. Then he  [  ]went  [   ]goed  [  ]was going  to live  [  ]in  [  ]to  [  ]at  Scotland.

15. In Scotland he  [  ]studies  [  ]study  [  ]had studied  Italian at university for four years.

16.  Mary  [  ]don’t go  [  ]didn’t  go  [  ]not go  to university. She  [   ]meeted   [  ]met         [   ]did meet   him while she  [   ]works   [   ]was working  [   ]working   at the university Internet café.

17.  Richard  [  ]has got  [  ]have got  [  ]got  a car, but he  [  ]is liking  [  ]would like [  ]like  a  [  ]bigger  [  ]biggest  [  ]more bigger  one.  

18. Mary thinks Robert drives too  [  ]fast  [  ]fastly  [  ]quick.

19. Robert and Mary are saving their money  [  ]to  [  ]for  [  ]because to   go on holiday in Florida. If they save enough money, they  [   ]will visit  [   ]visited   [   ]visit   New York, too.

20. They   [  ]did  [  ]have  [  ]is   never been to the U.S.A. before.

21. If you  heat  water at a temperature of 100°C, it   [  ]to boil  [  ]is boiling  [  ]boils.

22. In some countries  [  ]there is  [  ]is  [  ]it is  very hot all the time.

23. In cold countries people wear thick clothes [  ]for keeping   [  ]to keep   [  ]for to keep  warm.

24. In England  people  are  always  talking  about  [  ]a weather  [  ]the weather  [  ]weather.

25. In some places  [  ]it rains  [  ]there rains  [  ]it raining   almost every day.

26. In deserts there isn’t  [  ]no   [  ]some  [  ]any   grass.

27. Places near the Equator have  [   ]a warm  [   ]the warm  [   ]warm weather even in the cold season.

28. In England  [   ]coldest  [  ]the coldest   [  ]colder   time of the year is usually from December to February.

29. [   ]The most  [   ]Most of   [   ]Most  people don’t know what it’s like in other countries.

30. Very [   ]less   [   ]little   [   ]few   people can travel abroad.

31. Mohammad Ali   [  ]has won  [  ]won   [  ]is winning  his first world title fight in 1960.

32. After he  [   ]had won  [   ]have won  [  ]was winning  an Olympic gold medal he became a professional boxer.

33. His religious beliefs [  ]have made him  [  ]made him to  [  ]made him  change his name when he became the champion.

34. If he  [  ]has  [  ]would have  [  ]had  lost his first fight with Sonny Liston, no one would have been surprised.  

35. He has travelled a lot  [  ]both  [  ]and   [  ]or  as a boxer and as a world-famous personality.

36. He is very well known  [  ]all in  [  ]all over  [  ]in all  the world.

37. Many people   [  ]is believing   [  ]are believing   [  ]believe  he was the greatest boxer of all time.

38. To be the best  [  ]from  [  ]in  [  ]of   the world is not easy.

39. Like any top sportsman, Ali   [  ]had to   [  ]must   [  ]should   train very hard.

40. Even though he has now lost his title, people   [  ]would   [  ]will   [  ]did  always remember him as a champion.

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ENTRY TEST - 2

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 Prepositions of time

in	on	at
-parts of the day In the morning In the afternoon In the evening -years In 1999 (nineteen ninety-nine) In 2001 (two thousand and one) In 2010 (twenty ten) In 1905 (nineteen –oh- five) In 1400 (fourteen hundred) -months In January In April -seasons In (the) summer In (the) spring In (the) autumn/fall In (the) winter	-days of the week On Monday On Saturday afternoon On Sunday night -dates On 25th December -day of a festival On Christmas Day	-festivity/specific time At Christmas At lunch At Easter at the moment -time At 7:00 am At midnight -        At night -        At (the) weekend

this  /  next   /   last  -  no prepositions, for example: this week, next week, last week

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FUTURE TENSES

Be going to -intention -evident (is about to…happen) go / come I’m going to go I’m going to come	Will -prediction -promise -action decided at the moment (speaking
Today, we are going to do an experiment. Next week, you are going to have a test.	Today, we will do an experiment. (Hopefully, if everything goes to schedule.)

 

Present continuous	Present simple
-programmed action I’m leaving for NY tomorrow at 7am. Tomorrow we are going to experiment. Next week you are having a written test. have a test sit a test do a test Next week we are having a test. (programmed) Next week we are going to have a test. (intention) Next week we will have a test. (definite future with certainty)	-timetable (not dependent on us) My plane for NY leaves at 7am tomorrow. This year school ends on the 7th June. Next week you have a written test on Monday. Next week we have a test.(on a timetable)

We are experimenting … now.

Tomorrow it’s going to rain.

Tomorrow it will rain.

It’s raining now.

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PERFECT vs. PAST

Present perfect

Past Simple

-action which began in the past and still present -action not specified in the past -experiences in life I have lived in Italy for 22 years. I have been to Spain twice. I have ridden a motorbike. Where have you been? I have been to school (today). I have gone to school. (And I am still at school) go vs. be Where is Sally? She’s gone to Spain. (she isn’t in the country at the moment.) Where have been all week? I’ve been to Spain./ I went to Spain. (And she is back home now.) Sally, where did you go? I went to the supermarket. (she is at home now.) Have you done the experiment? I have done the  experiment.

-completed action in the past I went to school this morning. Did you do the experiment (that) I asked you to do? I did the experiment 5 minutes ago and it didn’t work.