Class 8/9

GRAMMAR

ENGLISH LANGUAGE SHOOL COMPETITION year 2013/14

TEST

I. Put the verbs in the correct form.

1 In the year 2121, all people ......................... (not,live) in peace and happiness.
2 .............................................(she,swim) at the pool on Fridays?
3 Give me some of the shopping bags. I....................... (help) you carry them home.
4 Susan ........................ (not,ride) her bike at weekends.
5 What ....................................................................(you/do)? I'm a doctor.
6 I.......................... (talk) on the phone when I .............................(hear) the explosion.
7 .......................Kristina ....................... (prepare) her favourite dish last night at 7?
8 Look, theres Tim! He
................................................(wear) new glasses!
9 ....................Dorothy .................... (take) part in a beauty contest two years ago?
10 The phone .......................(ring) when ............................(have) dinner.
11 They ..................... (not,win) the competition last month.
12 I ..................... (not,read) a magazine when Trish..................... (call) me.
13 The girls ..................... (not,practice) volleyball at the beach yesterday at 6 oclock.
14 Judy ..................... (feed) the pigeons happily in the park while her boyfriend .....................
(drink) coffee with Sandy.
15 Jane ..................... (finish) her work and then..................... (go) to her Japanese lesson.
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II. Put the irregular verbs in the correct form.
Base form
Past Simple
fall
.............................................
break
.............................................
buy
.............................................
fight
.............................................
hold
.............................................
write
.............................................
hang
.............................................
know
.............................................
fly
.............................................
shake
.............................................
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III. Make the sentences comparative or superlative or use as...as

busy
rich
bad
good
expensive popular tall far cheap poor
1 Bil Gates is one of........................................man in the world according to the
magazine Forbes.
2 Cumberland Road is ........................................street in the city.
3 Diane French test results were..............................................than mine. I had
.......................................results in the whole class.
4 Angela ................................Kerry. Angela is 1.62 meters and Kerry is 1.72 meters tall.
5 The DVD costs 11.99 and the book costs 6,99.The book .........................................the
DVD.
6 Table tennis is ...........................................than tennis in China.

7 .........................................capital city from London UK is Wellington in New Zealand.

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VOCABULARY
IV. Choose the most appropriate word.
each other
themselves
surface foreign French-speaking
embarrassing
passenger
alone
click
single
go survival
surviver area
1 There wasn't anyone in the room with me. I was..................................

2 There was a Russian player and a Spanish player

in the tennis final. They spoke to
......................................in English.
3 in Canada not everyone speaks English. There
are seven million
...............................
Canadians.
4 The parachute was floating on the ............................of the water.
5 It is forbidden to have more than seven .............................on board this boat.
6 This has been the longest ........................in the history of mankind. He was in the
woods for three years.
7 This is my Homepage. ...........................on the links at the bottom of the page and
you'll find more details.
8 When I got to school yesterday, I found that there was a big hole in my trousers. It
was really ...........................
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READING

Mobile-phones
How old were you when you got a mobile? Everybody knows that teenagers love their
phones. Here are
some mobile phone facts.
Two-thirds of 12-15-year-olds in the UK have a smartphone.
People in the UK send 50 text messages a week on average.
British 12-15-year-olds send an average of 200 messages a week.
British girls aged between 12 and 15 text more than boys of the same age group. Girls
send 221
messages a week!
Parents
Parents want their kids to be safe. Are teenagers safer with a mobile phone or without?

Many parents want

their children to have a phone so that they can be in contact at any time or in any
place. On the other hand,
for lots of parents a phone is a source of possible danger. Parents worry that their
child may meet the
wrong kind of friends on social networking sites or that they might receive cruel
messages from school
bullies.
Some parents have rules about their childrens mobile phone and Internet usage and
bad
behaviour can result in removal of mobile privileges.
School
Mobile phones are permitted at school in the UK but pupils are not allowed to use them
in class and they
must be on silent during lessons. Teachers can take away phones if these rules are
broken. School
students can use their phones at break time and at lunchtime. Some teachers in
British schools complain
that pupils dont always follow the rules and that lessons are disrupted by people
texting, making and
receiving calls, looking at social networking sites, watching videos and even making
videos in the class.
V.
Circle True or False for these sentences.
1. British girls send more text messages than boys.

True

False

2. Some parents think that mobile phones are dangerous.

True

False

3. If Children behave badly,their parents take away their phones.

True

False

4. Mobile phones are not allowed at school in Britain.

True

False

5. British 12-15-year-olds send maximum 200 messages a week

True

False

6. Some teachers use mobiles phones to help their students learn.

True

False

Total 50

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