MASTER COLLEGE/BREAKTHROUGH PRACTICE

BREAKTHROUGH PRACTICE

Directions: Change the statements to questions using the question word in parenthesis. Check verb tense.

Example: The train arrived at ten o’clock. (what time) What time did the train arrive?


1.They do their homework at night. (when)..........................................
2.Mr. Robertson came to the party alone. (who).....................................
3.The car is across the street from the house. (where).............................
4.I like the red blouse, not the blue one. (which).................................
5.She felt better after she took a nap. (how)......................................
6.That is an English book. (what)..................................................
7.My sister called her boyfriend yesterday (when)..................................
8.She talked to him for an hour. (how long)........................................
9.He studies piano at the university. (what)......................................
10.The party lasted all night. (how long).........................................
11.The check was for $5.50. (how much)............................................
12.She was eating a sandwich. (what)..............................................
13.She is working hard. (what)....................................................
14.My parents have two cars. (how many)...........................................
15.They are coming to visit tomorrow. (when)......................................
He is going to work right now. (where)............................................
The man with the white hat is my brother. (who)....................................
I don’t get up early because I like to sleep late. (why)...........................
We have an English class every day. (how often)....................................
They like to dance on weekends. (what).............................................
The club is not far from their house. (where)......................................
Their favorite kind of music is Latin Jazz. (what)................................
I didn’t bring my dictionary today. (why).........................................
They are singing popular songs. (what kind)........................................

TENSES

Directions: Complete with the verbs in brackets. Use Simple Present/Present Cont/Simple Past/Past Cont/Present Perfect/Future Simple

Jill.............. (see) a robber yesterday. She actually........... (catch) him while he............. (look) for valuable things in her kitchen. She............ (scream) and hE........... (run) out through the back door.
She............ (call) the police straight away.

She........... (have) no news since yesterday. Some reporters.......... (knock) on her door. She........... (hate) any foreign people knocking at her door, so when they........... (come), she.......... (send) them away.

She is glad because her daughter.............. (not be) at home at the time of the robbery. Because she............. (not call) home from the University yet, she still ............ (not hear) about the news. She............. (probably /come) home early on Saturday. She ........ (be) surprised!

Jill's husband.......... (be) in the kitchen now. He............ (repair) the back door. When the robber........... (come) in, he......... (break) the glass. So Jill's husband............... (buy) a new piece of glass and ............. (try) to fit it in now.

MASTER COLLEGE/Getting ready for the progess test/Unit 5

VOCABULARY: Choose the correct alternatives.

a. This is really___________job- Everything we do is difficult(tolerant-taugh)
b. What is the ______________ of Ed Stafford´s journey? (prefession-purpose)
c. She´s a very ______________ and wants to teach at university (ambitious-generous)
d. They´re very ____________ ata that office- They work all day (hard working-perfect)
e. What kind of ____________ do you need to be a journalist? (knowledge-occupation)
f. Is this job_____________? (experienced-well paid?
g. Ed Stafford´s clothes are always ____________because it rains a lot in the Amazon (damp-sensible)
h. I broke my leg last year and it took a long time to _________ it (get over-put up with)


GRAMMAR: Choose the correct alternatives.

a. I think I____________get a good job after university (are going to-will)
b. We____________ send the applications now- It´s too late (aren´t going to- won´t)
c. Susan is sure that she ____________pass the test (is going to- will)
d. _____________talk to my boss for me tomorrow please? (are you going to?-will you)
e. He______________ get that job because the boss doesn´t like him (isn´t going to/won´t)
f. I´m sure Ed Stafford ____________walk the length of the Amazon. He´s determined (is going to/will)
g. Kim________________go to college- She passed her exams! (is going to-will)
h. Peter hopes he _____________get a better salary in his new job (is going to- will)

GRAMMAR: Complete with the future continuous or the future simple Use these verbs:


WORK/FINISH/NOT STUDY/READ/YOU-GET/HE-FISH/VISIT/NOT OPEN


a. This time next week I______________________as a journalist for the college newspaper.
b. Just wait a minute and we´ll go- I_____________my work by 5 o´clock.
c. I_____________ this time next year- I finish my course in two months.
d. During the weekend I________________ a book about great adventurers.
e. __________________ you pay by Saturday so we can celebrate?
f. __________________in the lake all weekend ?
g. She ________________ten countries by next year. She´s on a world tour now.
h. Ted _________ his own company by next month _ He needs more time.

MASTER COLLEGE/Getting ready for the Progress Test

A. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses:Simple Past, Present Perfect or Past Perfect

1. When I ...........(arrive) home last night, I discovered that Jane...................... (prepare) a beautiful candlelight dinner.

2. Since I began acting, I................. (perform) in two plays, a television commercial and a TV drama. However, I................. (speak, never even) publicly before I came to Hollywood in 1985.

3. By the time I got to the office, the meeting..............(begin, already) without me. My boss................ (be) furious with me and I.............. (be) fired.

4. When I ................(turn) the radio on yesterday, I .............(hear) a song that was popular when I was in high school. I ...............(hear, not) the song in years, and it (................bring) back some great memories.

5. Last week, I................. (run) into an ex-girlfriend of mine. We............. (see, not) each other in years, and both of us.............. (change) a great deal. I ...............(enjoy) talking to her so much that I............... (ask) her out on a date. We are getting together tonight for dinner.

6. When Jack................ (enter) the room, I............. (recognize, not) him because he ................(lose) so much weight and (grow) a beard. He looked totally different!

7. The Maya established a very advanced civilization in the jungles of the Yucatan; however, their culture................... (disappear, virtually) by the time Europeans first.............. (arrive) in the New World.

8. I (visit) so many beautiful places since I .............(come) to Utah. Before moving here, I................ (hear, never) of Bryce Canyon, Zion, Arches, or Canyonlands.

B. Present and Past review:Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses: Simple Present, Present Continuous, Present Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous, Simple Past, Past Continuous, Past Perfect or Past Perfect Continuous

Lars: Excuse me, which movie are you waiting for?

Tony: We ................(wait) for the new Stars Wars movie. In fact, we .............(wait) here for more than five hours.

Lars: Five hours? When did you arrive?

Tony: We........... (get) here at 6:00 o'clock this morning. More than forty people.............. (stand, already) here waiting for tickets when we arrived.

Lars: I can't believe that! Are you serious?

Tony: Yeah, people ...............(take) Star Wars movies seriously. In fact, this particular showing has been sold out for over a week. We ..................(wait, just) in line to get a good seat in the theater.

Lars: When did you buy your tickets?

Tony: I ...........(buy) them last week by phone. I.......... (know) tickets would be hard to get because I............... (see) a news interview with a group of people standing in line to get tickets. They............ (wait) in line for almost a month to buy tickets for the first showing.

Lars: I don't believe that!

Tony: It's true. They............. (camp) out in front of Mann's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles for about a month because they .........(want) to be the first people to see the movie.

C. UNIT 3: Choose the correct alternatives

1. The have .....................to estimate the size of the Deinocheirus for years (been trying/tried)

2. Jim has .........six paleontonlogists already (been interviewing/interviewed)

3. How long has he .............at the information centre? (been working/worked)

4. How many fires has the smoke jumper............this year? (been putting out-put out)

5. Have you ever...............a tree house in your garden? (been building/built)

6. They´ve ............trees all day (been planting/planted)

7. I´ve .............to school all year (been cycling/cycled)

8. Have you..............your rubbish yet? (been recycling/recycled)

D. UNIT 3: Fill in with good/tall/dangerous/little/difficult/far/beautiful/good. You need to write some of the adjectives in their comparative form.

1. Who grows..............vegetables in the whole school?

2. Was the Deinocheirus as..........as a Tyrannosaurus rex?

3. Some dinosours were .............than others.

4. The fire last summer was ..............to put out.

5. Which country in Europe recycles ............?

6. Does Jim have to cycle ........than Joe to get to school?

7. Which animal has ........fur?

8. This axe doesn´t cut as .............as the other one.

E. UNIT 4: Put the words in the correct order.

1. Jhon/Amelia/Farhart/never/before./heard/of/had

2. story/finished/I/morning./by/the/this/had

3. Many/had/times/"wolf"/too/shouted/before?/he

4. honest/hadn´t/people./with/his/the/king/been

5. 1933?/across/Earhart/flown/the/had/by/Atlantic

6. wrote/been/after/Knossos/She´d/there./about/she

7. before/to/Crete/hadn´t/he/been/this/summer/

8. Theseus/change/he left./to/had/before/forgotten/sails

F. UNIT 4: Choose the correct alternative

1. Kate always says really horrible things to people. She´s very(careful-unkind-dishonest)

2. Sally isn´t mean. She´s(brave-generous-patient) and gives people lovely gifts.

3. You look so (miserable-responsible-patient)

4. Mike headed(at/in/for) the next village

5. Do you get the /impression/reply/surprise)

6. She´s really (cheerful/impatient/unkind) and always smiles at people.

7. I want to be (foolish/honest/impatient) with you and tell you the truth.

8. Did Theseus kill the minotaur wit his(fuel/sails/sword)

G. UNIT 4: Simple Past or Present Perfect

1. The programme had started before Kelly ........home(get)

2. Tom read the story of Anansi after he .........to bed (go)

3. Had anybody heard of Amelia Earhart before her plane........?(crash)

4. Polly got a job after she ........to Los Angeles(move)

5. Had the plane landed before it ...........to snow? (start)

6. We hadn´t taken off when the storm ..........(begin)

7. Did they discover Earhart´s plane after it .........in the sea? (crash)

8. I hadn´t noticed the UFO before I ..........in my car (get)

MASTER COLLEGE/6TH FORM

UNIT 1

VOCABULARY: Choose the correct alternatives.

1. Do you want tomatoes from the ____________? (market/border)
2. The next_____________ on our journey is NZ. (border/destination)
3. The Colorado is really__________river-be careful! (flat/powerful)
4. Stonehenge is a ______________monument.(prehistoric/shallow)
5. I really love_____________ beaches. (sandy/steep)
6. We walked up really____________mountains and we got tired.(deep/steep)
7. How far is the_____________with Germany from here? (border/point)
8. "The Angel of the North" is a ______________ sculpture. (massive/unspoilt)

GRAMMAR: Choose the correct alternatives.

1. The bus to Glasgow_______________at 5.00 tomorrow afternoon.(is leaving/leaves)
2. It_________ a lot in Britain. (is raining/rains)
3. In the photo, uncle Oliver and Jake_______________outside the camper van.
(stand/are standing)
4. We_________around the Greek Islands at the moment and it´s fantastic! (are travelling/travel)
5.María__________ past the Angel of the North every day because she lives near there. (drives/is driving)
6. I______________ when we went to the Grand Canyon.(rememember/am remembering)
7. Paul__________about going to New Zealand but he isn´t sure yet. (is thinking/thinks)
8. We_____________Hampton Court Palace every summer. (are visiting/visit)

Complete the sentences with WHEN-WHICH-WHO-WHOSE-WHERE

1. Norway,________is in Scandinavia, has amazing fiords.
2. This is the girl, ________ friend owns a camper van.
3. I went to a place in Iceland__________there was an amazing waterfall.
4. This is the woman________wrote that great guidebook about the Grand Canyon.
5. My friend__________went to Whales last summer, said it was a really wild place.
6. The man,_________ vegetables i bought at the marker, was very funny.
7. The dog_________went to the museum was really rainy.
8. My birthday,_______ we visited Stonehenge, was a very special day.

UNIT 2

GRAMMAR: Put the sentences in order.

1. already/on/earth?/have/contacted/aliens/us
2. even/have/never/a/solar/used/I
3. Here/has/since/1980/worked/astronomer/the
4. just/they/a/new/planet/discovered/have
5. you/decided/your/yet?/about/job/have
6. 1876/in/Bell/telephone/invented/the
7. just/Peter/computer/a/gone/has/to/buy
8. rocket/have/seen/they/space/a/ever

GRAMMAR: Choose the correct answers

1. He used the telescope, discovered the planet and __________the aliens(contacted-used to contact-was contacting)
2. People___________to each other but they just send messages now (used to talk/use to tal/were talking)
3. Scientists didn´t_____________that there is intelligent life in other planets (believing/use to believe/used to believe)
4. Kate_________Sally in the garden when it suddenly started to rain (interviewed/used to interviewing/was interviewing)
5. I_______a decision- I want to be an astronomer(made/used to make/was making)
6. ______________ used to be an observatory near our house, but it´s closed now (it/there/we)
7. I_______ my homework last night because I was too tires (didn´t do/didn´t used to do/wasn´t doing)
8. ______________the dishwasher when I called you at 8, last night? (did you fix/did you use to fix/were you fixing)

ESBA/5TO CUSTRIMESTRE

1. Adjectives: Complete the sentences. Use the comparative or superlative form of the following adjectives.

-tall- happy- fat- beautiful- good-boring-far-successful-

a. I think my city is _____________________ city in the world.
b. Oh, no- I must stop eating! I´m getting_________________ my dad!
c. The day! I married you mother was wonderful. It was _________________ day of my life!
d. Were the Twin Towers___________________ buildings in the world?
e. That was a great holiday! It was much _______________ last year.
f. Is the planet Neptune______________________ Jupiter from the sun?
g. I fell asleep while I was watching the film! It was much __________________ the film we saw last week.
h. Bill Gates id one of __________________ businessmen in the world.

2. The Simple Past

a.When____________ (you/see) your sister?

b.I ____________(see) her two days ago.


c.He____________ (not/come) to the meeting on Wednesday because he was on holiday.


d.Where ___________(you/go) for your holidays?


e.How long____________ (it/take) you to drive from London to Edinburgh?


f. _________________(you/enjoy) your holiday


g. I_____________ (see) a fantastic film at the cinema last week.


h. He ___________(be) 20 years old when he started work.


i. How old __________(he/be) when he started school?


j.How old _______________(you/be) when you started school?

When (you/see) your sister?


3. Your Test


A) Which answers are correct?

1) Which verb forms are in the Simple Past?

2nd column of the table of the irregular verbs
3rd column of the table of the irregular verbs
Infinitv + -ed
was/were + Infinitiv + -ing


2) Which of the following words are used with the Simple Past (signal words)?
at the moment
in 2002
two weeks ago
while
yesterday



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B) Negate the given sentence.

Example: He walked to the park.
He did not walk to the park.

1) They came out of the house.


2) Lee drew a picture.



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C) Form questions in the Simple Past.

Example: when / he / to visit / his uncle

When did he visit his uncle?

1) why / Julia / to ask / questions


2) what / Peggy / to throw



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D) Which sentences/questions are correct?

1) Which negative sentence is in the Simple Past?
They did'nt sing a song.
They didn't sing a song.
They don't sang a song.


2) Which question is in the Simple Past?
Did you saw her?
Did you see her?
Have you seen her?



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E) Which form is correct?

1) you getted/got

2) she meeted/met

5TO CUATRIMESTRE

SIMPLE PAST PRACTICE: Complete with the past form of the verbs in brackets.
1.Last year I (spend) my holiday in Ireland.
2.It (be) great.
3.I (travel) around by car with two friends and we (visit) lots of interesting places.
4.In the evenings we usually (go) to a pub.
5.One night we even (learn) some Irish dances.
6.We (be) very lucky with the weather.
7.It (not / rain) a lot.
8.But we (see) some beautiful rainbows.
9.Where (spend / you) your last holiday?

Complete with WAS or WERE

1.I .............happy.
2.You .............. angry.
3.She ............ in London last week.
4.He ............ on holiday.
5.It ..............cold.
6.We ..............at school.
7.You ........... at the cinema.
8.They............ at home.
9.The cat .......... on the roof.
10.The children ......... in the garden

Make questions for the bold part of the sentence

1.She pushed her bike. →
2.She carried a bag. →
3.We waited in the park. →
4.The policeman arrested the thief. →
5.We ate fish. →
6.She watched the match last night. →
7.She asked her friend because she did not know what to do. →
8.I opened the door. →
9.The teacher checked our homework. →
10.Cindy had a dog. →

Make these sentences negative

1.They collected postcards. →
2.You jumped high. →
3.Albert played squash. →
4.The teacher tested our English. →
5.Fiona visited her grandma. →
6.He washed the car. →
7.You were thirsty. →
8.He had a computer. →
9.I bought bread. →
10.You saw the house. →

Make a positive sentence in simple past


1.he / the question / answer
2.you / a question / ask
3.the dog / bark
4.they / us / call
5.we / a mountain / climb
6.John / stamps / collect
7.we / in London / live
8.I / hungry / be
9.they / a hamster / have
10.he / to school / go

READING:

Oxford is a beautiful university town that is famous all over the world. The University of Oxford is the oldest university in Great Britain; it already existed in the 12th century. In the town centre there are many old buildings. There is also a museum where you can learn more about Oxford’s history.

1.The University of Oxford............ (be) the first British university.
2.The lecturers of the colleges.......... (speak) a very clear English.
3.That's why Oxford English .............(become) known as the English of educated people.
4.In the 19th century, Lewis Carroll ............(write) 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' in Oxford.
5.Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean)............... (study) electrical engineering at Oxford

MASTER COLLEGE 2/6TH FORM

VERB TENSE: Complete with Past Simple or Past Continuous.
Last night, while I was doing my homework, Angela....... (call) . She said she ..............(call) me on her cell phone from her biology classroom at UCLA. I asked her if she............. (wait) for class, but she said that the professor was at the front of the hall lecturing while she.............. (talk) to me. I couldn't believe she............. (make) a phone call during the lecture. I asked what was going on.

She said her biology professor was so boring that several of the students.................. (sleep, actually) in class. Some of the students ..............(talk) about their plans for the weekend and the student next to her ..........(draw) a picture of a horse. When Angela ...........(tell) me she was not satisfied with the class, I............... (mention) that my biology professor was quite good and ................(suggest) that she switch to my class.

While we were talking, I............... (hear) her professor yell, "Miss, are you making a phone call?" Suddenly, the line went dead. I........... (hang) up the phone and went to the kitchen to make dinner. As I.............. (cut) vegetables for a salad, the phone rang once again. It............. (be) Angela, but this time she wasn't sitting in class.

VERB TENSE: Complete with Past Simple or Present Perfect.

Since computers were first introduced to the public in the early 1980's, technology ..........(change) a great deal. The first computers............ (be) simple machines designed for basic tasks. They............ (have, not) much memory and they ..............(be, not) very powerful. Early computers were often quite expensive and customers often............... (pay) thousands of dollars for machines which actually.............. (do) very little. Most computers............. (be) separate, individual machines used mostly as expensive typewriters or for playing games.

Times........... (change) . Computers.......... (become) powerful machines with very practical applications. Programmers........... (create) a large selection of useful programs which do everything from teaching foreign languages to bookkeeping. We are still playing video games, but today's games .............(become) faster, more exciting interactive adventures. Many computer users ............(get, also) on the Internet and............. (begin) communicating with other computer users around the world. We................ (start) to create international communities online. In short, the simple, individual machines of the past............. (evolve) into an international World Wide Web of knowledge