Test (Vocabulary and Grammar)
Task 1. Match the types of schools (1-6) to the descriptions (A-F):
boarding school single-sex school co-educational school state school private school specialist school | a school for boys and girls; a school you usually have to pay to go to; a school students go to for a particular reason (e.g. to become actors); a school for only boys or only girls; a school owned by the government; a school which students live in during school term. |
Task 2. Give names to the descriptions of these jobs:
a person who arranges appointments, types letters and organizes meetings;
a person trained and equipped to extinguish fires and rescue people;
a person who works with wood (The man who made Pinocchio was a …);
a person who designs buildings and prepares plans to give to a builder;
a person whose job is to help people with the law or talk for them in court;
a person whose job is to protect the public, make sure people obey the law and make people feel safe, usually wears a uniform;
a person whose occupation is on board a ship at sea, especially a member of a ship's crew;
a person who cuts and styles people’s hair;
a person trained to look after sick animals;
a person who acts in a dramatic or comic production and works in film, television, theatre, or radio.
Task 3. Choose the correct tense.
1. When we go to Paris, we will climb/will have climbed the Eiffel Tower.
2. James will have completed/will complete his studies by the end of the year.
3. Kim will be performing/will have performed in the school concert next week .
4. The team will be leaving/will have left the office by 9 o’clock tomorrow.
5. 'We've run out of milk.' 'Really? I will buy/will be buying some more this afternoon'.
6. This time tomorrow, I will leave/will be leaving for the airport.
7. I will collect/will have collected you from Peter's house on my way home.
8. ‘How is your project coming along? Is it done?’ ‘Not yet, but I will finish/ will have finished it by the time the holidays are over.’
9. ‘What are your plans for the weekend?’ ‘I am spending/will have spent some time with my friends.’
10. Richard is such a poor guy, he has got the flu, but his elder sister will have taken/is going to take care of him, she’s a nurse.
Task 4. Choose the correct preposition.
I am going to pick on/up my sister from school.
Don’t pick on/at him! He’s my best friend!
Harry is responsible to/for arranging the party.
My dad is in/at charge of twenty people.
No wonder she is thin. She only picks up/at her food.
Read the poem and pick …… all the adjectives.
Task 5.Open the brackets, form the appropriate degree of the adjectives.
1. We should eat (healthy) food.
2. Today the streets aren’t as (clean) as they used to be.
3. It’s (bad) mistake he has ever made.
4. This man is (tall) than that one.
5. Asia is (large) than Australia.
6. The Volga is (short) than the Mississippi.
7. Which building is the (high) in Moscow?
8. Mary is a (good) student than Lucy.
9. The Alps are (high) than the Urals.
10. This garden is the (beautiful) in our town.
11. She speaks Italian (good) than English.
12. Is the word “newspaper” (long) than the word “book”?
13. The Thames is (short) than the Volga.
14. The Arctic Ocean is (cold) than the Indian Ocean.
15. Chinese is (difficult) than English.
16. Spanish is (easy) than German.
17. She is not so (busy) as I am.
18. It is as (cold) today as it was yesterday.
19. She is not so (fond) of sports as my brother is.
20. Today the weather is (cold) than it was yesterday.
21. This book is (interesting) of all I have read this year.
22. January is the (cold) month of the year.
23. My sister speaks English (bad) than I do.
24. Which is the (hot) month of the year?
25. Which is the (beautiful) place in this part of the country? :
26. This good-looking girl is the (good) student in our group.