Test Your Research Skills
Fears and Phobias 1
What are you most afraid of? Use a library or the Internet to find out the official names of these fears and phobias.
Test Your Research Skills
Famous Britons – Why are they Famous Today? Part 1
Write a sentence to show why these Great Britons are still famous today.
Use the library or the Internet to find the answers.
Test Your Research Skills
Famous Britons – Why are they Famous Today? Part 2
Write a sentence to show why these Great Britons are still famous today.
Use the library or the Internet to find the answers.
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Find the Odd One Out 5
Example questions...
1. Which of the following is not a food that comes in tins?
a) beans b) peas c) crisps d) sardines
2. Which of the following is not a type of shop?
a) chemist b) dentist’s c) newsagent d) bakery
Test Your Vocabulary Skills
Noisy Words 1 – Animal Noises
Examples
Write the name of the animal that makes each of these noises:
1. baa ________________________
2. chirp ________________________
3. squeak ________________________
Test Your Creative Writing Skills
Write a Story 3
The students use the picture provided in the work to give then an idea for a story. The story must also include the
following things:
A broken down pizza delivery vehicle
A bus stop in the middle of nowhere
A mysterious stranger
A man who claims to have had nothing to eat for five days
Test Your Research Skills
You Either Know It Or You Don’t! 1
Use a research library or the internet to find the answers to this quick quiz:
Example questions...
1. The capital city of Luxembourg is __________________.
2. The six English counties that start with the letter ‘S’ are:
______________________________________________________
3. Tea bags were invented in 1908 by __________________.
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You Either Know It Or You Don’t! 3
Use a research library or the internet to find the answers to this quick quiz:
Example questions...
1. The capital city of Romania is __________________.
2. The Victorian Prime Minister Viscount Palmerston belonged to the __________________ Party.
3. The Greek god Hebe represented __________________.
4. The chemical symbol for Hydrogen is __________________.
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You Either Know It Or You Don’t! 2
Example questions...
Use a research library or the internet to find the answers to this quick quiz:
1. The Battle of Bunker Hill took place near Boston, US, in ___________.
2. John Schlesinger won the 1969 Best Director Academy Award for the movie __________________.
3. Couples celebrate their pearl wedding anniversary after ___________ years of marriage.
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You Either Know It Or You Don’t! 5
Use a research library or the internet to find the answers to this quick quiz:
Example questions...
1. A female pig is known as a __________________.
2. Plutocracy is government by __________________.
3. The acronym RADA stands for _______________________________.
4. In the traditional English Christmas Carol ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ there were ________ ladies dancing and ________ geese a-laying.
Are you wanting to encourage your students to research a wide range of different topics? Then try this fun set of resources. There is plenty of homework / home study or joint study here! All the worksheets come complete with an answer.
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You Either Know It Or You Don’t! 4
Use a research library or the internet to find the answers to this quick quiz:
Example questions
1. In the 2002 FIFA World Cup Final Brazil defeated _____________ 2-0.
2. The capital of the Australian state of Victoria is __________________.
3. The chemical symbol for silver is __________________.
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You Either Know It Or You Don’t! 6
Use a research library or the internet to find the answers to this quick quiz:
Example questions...
1. Kazuo Ishiguro won the Booker Prize in the UK for his novel ____________________________________ in 1989.
2. Samuel Ryder founded the Ryder Cup golf tournament in 19_____.
3. Couples celebrate their ruby wedding anniversary after _______ years of marriage.
4. The acronym TESSA stands for ______________________________.
5. The acronym KG after your name stands for ____________________.
Test Your Vocabulary Skills
Adjective Pairs – ‘-ing’ and ‘-ed’ Adjectives
This worksheet helps your students revise the verb form , ‘-ing’ adjective: ‘-ed’ adjective:
Test Your Grammar Skills
Auxiliary Verbs in Question Forms – Complete the Sentences 3
Verb ‘to have’
Example
Practise using auxiliary verbs in question forms by completing the following sentences:
1. Who have you _____________________________________________?
2. What have you _____________________________________________?
3. Why have you _____________________________________________?
4. Why haven’t you _____________________________________________?
Test Your Grammar Skills
Make or Do 1
Example questions...
Complete each gap below with either make or do:
1. _______________ a bet
2. _______________ a job
3. _______________ the dishes
4. _______________ a skirt
5. _______________ the cleaning
6. _______________ your hair
Test Your Grammar Skills
The Funny Noise –
Irregular Verbs in the Past Simple Tense (gap-fill)
Example work:
Complete the gaps with an irregular verb in the past simple tense. Choose from:
be, break, buy, come, drive, eat, feel, find, get, give, go, have, hear, hold, know, let, lose, make, put, read, ring, run, say, sleep, take, think, tell, write
Note: you will need to use some verbs more than once:
Dear Ethel
I’m writing to tell you about something that happened yesterday. I __________ up at the usual time – about 10 am – __________ a shower and __________ breakfast. I __________ a big bowl of cereal and some toast and watched TV for a while. Then I __________ into the kitchen where I __________ a funny noise. I __________ it __________ from behind the cooker. I __________ my tool box and moved the cooker out of the way.
Test Your Grammar Skills
School Variety Show – Who Did What?
Passive Voice – Future (with will) and Past Simple
Instructions:
You’re involved in helping to organise your school variety show.
You are at a meeting to discuss who will do what job at the variety show. Use passive voice (BE + past participle) to write full sentences using future form with will, to show who is scheduled to do what:
1. a) PHOTOS > TAKE > JOE (STEVEN) The photos will be taken by Joe.
But when the day of the variety show finally arrived, absolutely nothing went to plan! The person in brackets actually did the job in question, so write a sentence using active voice with past simple form to show what actually happened:
1. b) Steven took the photos.
Then write a sentence using passive voice with past simple form that you can put in your after-show report:
1. c) The photos were taken by Steven.
In summary, you have to write three sentences for each question:
i) passive voice with future form (will)
ii) active voice with past simple form
iii) passive voice with past simple form
Note: each group of three sentences could also be drilled orally.