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 Vocabulary Skills List of Common Abstract Nouns These could be perfect for anyone looking for playing charades with their class!

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.

Test Your Grammar Skills Make or Do 2 Example Complete each gap below with either make or do: 1. _______________ the laundry 2. _______________ an appearance 3. _______________ something crazy 4. _______________ a phone call 5. _______________ a fuss

Test Your Grammar Skills Make or Do 3 Example questions... Complete each gap below with either make or do: 1. _______________ some yoghurt 2. _______________ the best of things 3. _______________ more than 120 miles per hour 4. _______________ an appointment 5. _______________ your homework 6. _______________ some arrangements

Test Your Grammar Skills Passive Voice – Mixed Passive Forms Match the Sentence Halves Match together the two halves of each sentence.

Test Your Grammar Skills Pre-Intermediate Lesson – Correct the Errors Check out the following sentences made by Polish students at a recent pre-intermediate spoken English lesson. The students were talking about going on holiday in Poland. Consider the error(s) in each sentence and suggest corrections: 1. We visited to Mexico City. 2. I was in Olsztyn on the lake. 3. You can visit Ocean Museum in Gdynia. 4. It’s a lot of tourists in Zakopane. 5. I was there in the ski.

Test Your Grammar Skills Prepositions of Place – Where I Live Students write fifteen sentences about the important buildings and places in their town or city. Use one of the following prepositions of place in each sentence: next to near opposite behind in front of in on For example: “The bus station is next to the theatre.”

Test Your Grammar Skills Question Tags Using Verbs ‘could’, ‘would’ and ‘should’ 2 Add an appropriate question tag to the end of each question. For example: They wouldn’t listen, would they? 1. You should get a refund if the concert doesn’t happen, _________________________ 2. The learners who finish first could do some extra reading practice, ___________________ 3. You should never switch off a computer without first closing it down, __________________

Test Your Grammar Skills Question Tags Using Verbs ‘can’, ‘will’ and ‘must’ 2 Add an appropriate question tag to the end of each question. For example: He can’t cook, can he? 1. Gabriella won’t let me use her hairdryer, _________________________ 2. He must send the application form to us by the fourth of June, _______________________ 3. My phone can send picture messages, _________________________ 4. You can’t come to the meeting tomorrow night, _________________________

Test Your Grammar Skills Sentence Building 3 Write six sentences using this word order: article adjective adjective noun verb (present continuous) article adjective noun For example: A large black dog is biting the helpless burglar. Tip: don’t forget to start with a capital letter and put a full stop at the end!

Test Your Reading Skills Advanced Homophones 2 Homophones are words that sound the same as each other, but have different spellings and meanings. Write an English word that sounds the same as each of these words: Examples... 1. flee ___________________________ 2. hail ___________________________ 3. wholly ___________________________ 4. cheap ___________________________ Comes with an answer sheet

Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills Any Answers – Think of an Answer 2 Work with a partner. Take turns reading the questions and statements below. Think of a way to reply to each one. Talk about the context of each sentence. After practising out loud, write down your answers: Example questions... 1. My brother has just bought a new house. 2. Everyone’s gone out. 3. Can you lend me a pound for the bus home? 4. There’s something wrong with my car.

Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills Any Answers – Think of an Answer 3 Work with a partner. Take turns reading the questions and statements below. Think of a way to reply to each one. Talk about the context of each sentence. After practising out loud, write down your answers: Example questions 1. What do you want for dinner? 2. When does this lesson finish? 3. Your brother has been caught speeding. 4. I’d like two first class stamps, please.

Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills Class Survey 1 – Food & Drink Complete the survey by asking people in your class about what they eat and drink. Ask them: ‘Do you like …?’ Write the names of the people that you ask on the left and put either a tick () or a cross (x) for each food and drink. Perfect for collecting data.

Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills Class Survey 2 – Free Time Complete the survey by asking people in your class what they do in their free time. Ask them: ‘Do you …?’ Write the names of the people that you ask on the left and put either a tick or a cross (x) for each reply. Perfect for collecting class data.