Test Your Research Skills 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.

Test Your Research Skills 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 __________________.

Test Your Research Skills 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 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!

City Quiz Series Around Derby Museum and Art Gallery 1 Example: In the ‘Joseph Wright of Derby’ gallery, complete the table with the names and dates of these paintings: Painting: Date Painted: The ____________________’s Shop 17 ____________ The Wood ____________________ 17 ____________ A Philosopher Lecturing on the ____________________ 17 ____________ Self-Portrait as a ____________________ Man 17 ____________