1. Read about Ann McGregor
Ann McGregor
lives in
2. Look at the verbs in the box. Check the meaning of the new verbs:
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love chat visit |
relax eat bring |
stay go listen |
cook live go out |
have arrive get up |
like come live |
3. Fill in the gaps from the following text about Ann with the correct forms of verbs in the box:
On Fridays I ____ home from the BBC at about 2.00 in the afternoon and I just ___.
On Friday evenings I don't ____, but sometimes a friend ____ for dinner. He or she ____ the wine and I ____ the meal. I ____ cooking! We ____ to music or we just ____.
On Saturday mornings I ____ at 9.00 and I ____ shopping. Then in the evenings I sometimes ____ to the theatre or the opera with a friend. I ____ opera! Then we ___ in my favourite Chinese restaurant.
On Sunday... Oh, on Sunday mornings I ____ in bed late, I don't ____ until 11.00! Sometimes in the afternoon I ____ my sister. She ____ in the country and ____ two children. I ____ playing with my niece and nephew, but I ____ early because I ____ to bed at 8.00 on Sunday evenings.
4. Match a line in A with a line in B to make a question. Then, find an answer in C.
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Questions |
Answers |
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B |
C |
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What time Where What When Who Why How |
do you like your job? do you travel to work? do you go on Saturdays evenings? do you visit on Sundays? do you go to bed? do you do in the evenings? do you do your homework? |
My grandmother. To a disco. After dinner. At 11 o'clock. I watch TV. Because it's interesting. By train. |
5. Make the Positive sentences negative and make the negative sentences positive:
e.g She's French. She isn't French.
I don't like cooking. I like cooking.
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a. She doesn't speak German. b. They want to learn English. c. We are tired and we want to go to bed. d. John likes watching football on TV, but he doesn't like playing it. |
e. I work at home because I have a word processor. f. Sarah isn't happy because she doesn't have a nice flat. g. I smoke, I drink and I don't go to bed early. h. He doesn't smoke, he doesn't drink and he goes to bed early. |
6. Notice how so and but join sentences:
I love eating out. I often go to restaurants. ---> I love eating out, so I often go to restaurants.
I like Judy. I don't like her husband. ----> I like Judy, but I don't like her husband.
Match a line in A with a line in B and a line in C.
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A |
B |
C |
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I like pop music, I love cooking, I like watching cricket, I like skiing, I love dancing, I like classical music, I love the countryside |
so but |
I often go walking. I often invite friends for dinner. I always have a winter holiday I often go to discos. I don't like classical music. I don't like playing it. I often go to concerts. |
7. i. Read about Jack and Isabel Tippit. Are the sentences true or false?
Jack Tippit and his wife,
Isabel, who is Spanish, both work at the Regent hotel in the centre of
Jack says: 'Ten million people
visit
Our
visitors like doing many things. On a typical day they have breakfast in the
hotel restaurant, an English breakfast of eggs, bacon, tea and toast. After
breakfast they visit the Houses of Parliament and
We work long hours. I work from six o'clock in the morning till three in the afternoon, and Isabel works from six o'clock in the evening until one in the morning, but we love our work. We like meeting people of all nationalities.'
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a. A lot of foreign visitors come to the hotel. b. Both Jack and Isabel speak French and German. c. Both Jack and Isabel want to learn Japanese. d. The visitors have breakfast in bed. e. They visit the Houses of Parliament in the morning. |
f. They
like shopping in g. They have tea in the hotel. h. They relax in the evening. i. Jack and Isabel don't like their work. |
7. ii. Fill in the gaps with the correct Present Tense Simple form of the verbs in brackets:
Isabel and I (a live (live) in a room in the hotel. I (b) ____ (get up) at 5 o'clock and I (c) ____ (have) a
shower. Isabel (d) ____ (stay) in bed. I (e) ____ (start) work at 6 o'clock in the morning and Isabel (f) ____ (start) at 6 o'clock in the evening. We (g) ____ (meet) at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when I (h) ____ (finish) work. I (i) ____ ( go) back to our room and Isabel (j) ____ (make) a late lunch for us.
7. iii. Complete the interview with Jack:
e.g. A: What do you do ?
B: I'm a receptionist in a hotel.
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A: What ___ your wife ___? B: She works in the hotel bar. A: Where ___ you ___? B: At the
Regent Hotel in A: How many languages ___ you ___? B: Four. English, German, French and Spanish. A: ___ you ___ Japanese? |
B: No, I don't. But I want to learn it. A: ___ your wife ___ English? B: Yes, she does. She speaks it fluently. A: What time ___ you ___ ? B: At 6 o'clock in the morning. A: Why ___ you ___ working in the hotel? B: Because we meet people of all nationalities. |
8. i. Mr. and Mrs. Adams want a holiday. They are with a travel agent. Read the conversation and number the lines in the correct order:
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Travel Agent |
Mr. and Mrs. Adams |
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___ Yes, of course. Where do you want to go? ___ Children? How many children do you have? 1 Good morning! Can I help you? ___
French! Ah, yes! That gives me a good idea! I think I have the perfect winter
holiday for the ___ And how old are they? What do they like doing? |
2 Yes, please. My husband and I want to have a winter holiday. ___ Well. The boy is twelve. He loves all sports - skiing, swimming, football . . . The girl is sixteen. She doesn't like sports. She likes sitting in the sun, reading, drinking coffee . . . and she wants to practise her French. ___ Two . . . two children, a son and a daughter. ___ Well. This is the problem. I like skiing and winter sports, but my husband doesn't. He wants to relax and sit in the sun, and the children . . . |
8. ii. Write short
answers to the questions about the
e.g. Do the want a summer holiday? No, they don't.
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a. Do they want a winter holiday? c. Do Mrs. Adams and her son like skiing? d. Does their daughter like sports? |
b. Do Mr. Adams and his daughter like skiing? e. Does their daughter speak French? |
8. iii. Now, answer the following questions about you. Use do, don't, am and am not:
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a. Do you speak French? b. Are you French? c. Do you work in an office? |
d. Are you a teacher? e. Do you like learning English? |
9. Put am, is, are, do or does into the gaps:
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a. I ____ a bank manager. b. ____ he like his job? c. Where ____ they live? d. ____ she very rich? |
e. Why ____ you want to learn English? f. We ____ American. g. What ____ he do at weekends? |
10. Complete the sentences with a negative:
e.g. I like swimming, but I don't like tennis.
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a. I like coffee, but I __________. b. We like playing tennis, but we ___________. c. Sue likes cats, but she ___________. |
d. I speak French, but I __________. e. Tom speaks Spanish, but he __________. f. Mr. and Mrs. Green have a son, but they ________. |
ARTICLES
11. Match a line in A with a line in B and a line in C:
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A |
B |
C |
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Cats Policemen Mechanics Children Word processors Dentists Journalists Elephants |
live look after write wear eat go mend are |
uniforms cars teeth for newspapers. in fish expensive to school. |
12. i. Each sentence has a mistake. Find it and correct it:
e.g. John is on the holiday. --> John is on holiday. I am teacher. --> I am a teacher.
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a. Her name is Anna. She's doctor. b. She has
the flat in c. I go to the work by car. |
d. We have the dinner at 8 o'clock in the evening. e. John always stays in the bed late on Sundays mornings. |
12. ii. Put a, the or nothing into the gaps:
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a. ___ English is easy. b. ___ students in the class aren't lazy; they work hard. c. Please, have ___ lunch with us. |
d. What time do you go to ___ school? e. Can I have ___ cheese sandwich, please? f. What do you do in ___ evenings? |
13. i. Read the text about the Forrester family. Put a, the or nothing into the gaps:
Mr. and Mrs. Forrester have ___ son and ___ daughter. ___ son lives at ___ home and ___ daughter is ___ student at ___ university. Mr. Forrester is ___ journalist. He works for ___ Times. He writes ___ articles about ___ restaurants. 'I love ___food!' he says.
13. ii. Mr. Forrester talks about his holidays. Put a, the or nothing into the gaps:
'Every spring ___ children go
skiing, so my wife and I go to
14. Put a, the or nothing into the gaps:
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a. b. ___
Queen lives in ___ very big house in c. I have ___ breakfast in ___ bed on ___ Sundays. |
d. Do you go to ___ work by ___ car? e. My sister is ___ student. She comes ___ home at weekends. f. Do you like ___ Chinese food? |
15. One sentence has a mistake. Choose the correct sentence.
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a. Where do they live? b. Where they live? a. She goes to home by taxi. b. She goes home by taxi. a. Mr. and Mrs. Smith go walking in summer. b. Mr. and Mrs. Smith go walking in summer. a. I don't understand the question. b. I no understand the question. a. He doesn't know the answer. b. He doesn't know the answer. |
a. She goes at weekends swimming. b. She goes swimming at weekends. a. What you do on Sunday mornings? b. What do you do on Sunday mornings? a. Do you play tennis sometimes? b. You play tennis sometimes? a. I like very much football. b. I like football very much. |
ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY 16. i. put the words in the correct order to make sentences:
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a. always b. stay hotel a usually we in c. plane sometimes by go we |
d. sometimes ferry goes we by e. children with never our us come f. we restaurant go a often evenings Friday to on |
16. ii. Answer the questions about you. Use an adverb in your answer:
e.g. How do you usually come to school? I usually work.
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a. What's the first thing you do in the morning? b. Do you have tea or coffee for breakfast? c. What do you do in the evenings? d. What do you do on Sundays? |
e. Where do you go on holiday? f. Do you sometimes have a winter holiday? g. What does your family usually do at Christmas? |
16. iii. Answer the questions about you. Use the phrases in the box to help you:
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every morning/evening every day every (Friday) (once) a week (three or four) times a year never (twice) a month |
e.g. How often do you go swimming? About once a week.
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a. How often do you go to the cinema? b. How often do you have a bath or a shower? c. How often do you go shopping? |
d. How often do you read a newspaper? e. How often do you eat meat? |
PREPOSITIONS 17. Put a preposition into each gap: in on at to by near with
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a. ____ summer I play tennis ___ Sundays. b. We always go ____ c. The train arrives ____ d. Mr. Stanley arrives ___ school ___ 8.15 am. |
e. I want to stay ___ home this evening. What's ___ TV? f. He likes playing football ___ his sons ___ weekends. g. They live ___ a village ___ the sea. |
e.g. Do you like dancing?
- doing crosswords - dancing - taking photographs - skiing - watching TV
- visiting museums - walking - listening to music - cooking - ice-skating
- playing computer games - painting - reading - going to cinema - windsurfing
- playing cards - swimming - sailing -eating in restaurants - fishing
- playing volleyball - sunbathing
19. i. Before reading the following text, answer the questions:
What season is it now? What are the seasons? What month is it now? What are the months?
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Al Wheeler from |
Manuela da Silva from Portugal |
Toshi Suzuki from |
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We
have long, cold winters and hot, short summers. In summer I go sailing and I
play basketball, but in winter I play ice hockey and go ice-skating. We have
a holiday home near a lake, so I go fishing a lot, too. My favourite season
is autumn, or fall as we say in |
People think it's always warm and sunny
in |
I work for Pentax cameras, in the export department. I don't have a lot of free time, but I have one special hobby - taking photographs, of course! I like taking photographs of flowers, especially in spring. Sometimes, after work, I relax in a bar near my office with friends. My friend, Shigeru, likes singing pop songs in the bar. This has a special name, karaoke. I don't sing - I'm too shy! I just watch him. |
Answer the questions:
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a. Do they all play sports? b. What do Al and Manuela do in winter? c. Do Manuela and Toshi like going to bars? d. Where is Al's holiday home? e. When does Toshi like taking photographs of flowers? |
f. What do Manuela and her friends do in summer? g. DO you know all their jobs? h. Why does Al like autumn? i. Who does Toshi watch? Why doesn't Toshi sing? j. Which colours are in the text? |
19. ii. Find five mistakes in this summary and correct them:
Al
comes from
Manuela
comes from
Toshi
comes from
20. Write play or go:
___ football ___ walking ___ sailing ___ fishing ___ baseball
___ swimming ___ volleyball ___ tennis ___ ice hockey ___windsurfing
___ golf ___ ice-skating ___ dancing ___ skiing
21. Complete the conversations with the sentences on the right:
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a. A: _______. I'm sorry. B:Yes? Excuse me. A: Do you have a light? That's OK. B: __________. I don't smoke. A: __________. |
c. A: _____. The traffic is bad today. Don't worry. B: _____. Come and sit down. We're on page 25. I'm sorry I'm late. |
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b. A: _____. It's very hot in here. Really? B: _____. I'm quite cold. Can I open the window? A: OK. _________. It doesn't matter. |
d. A: _____. Pardon? B: Can I help you? Now I understand! A: Can I have a film for my camera? Excuse me! B: How many exposures? What does exposure mean? A: __________. B. How many exposures? A: __________. B: How many pictures? 24? 36? A: Ah! _________. 36, please. |
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