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 __________________.

Test Your Research Skills 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 __________________.

Test Your Research Skills 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.

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.”