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 ____________

Test Your Research Skills The Great Big Yellow Banana Quiz – Fun Facts about Bananas 1 How much do you know about the world’s favourite yellow-skinned fruit? Try your luck with our absolutely bananas multi-choice fun quiz! Example questions... 1. Bananas are a type of... a) vegetable. b) fruit. c) potato. d) meat. 2. Bananas are an excellent source of... a) sodium. b) oxygen. c) potassium. d) magnesium. The worksheet comes complete with answers for the teacher.

City Quiz Series Eagle Shopping Centre, Derby, UK – Quiz 4 Example questions... 1. Which fruit is used for the logo of Adams children’s clothes store and what colour is it? 2. The initials HS stand for which store and what do they sell? 3. Which children’s clothes store is opposite Dixons? This worksheet also contains a teacher answer sheet.

City Quiz Series Iron Gate, Derby, UK Example questions... 1. Name two different ‘gates’, opposite the old Derbyshire Building Society. 2. Which ‘A’ road is Iron Gate? 3. How much is a cream doughnut and a cup of tea in Birds Restaurant? 4. Name a shop that sells musical instruments. The worksheet includes a page of answers for teachers.

Test Your Vocabulary Skills Nationalities 2 Examples... Write the name of the country that each person comes from: 1. An American comes from _____________________________________. 2. An Austrian comes from _____________________________________. 3. A Briton comes from _____________________________________. 4. A Cambodian comes from _____________________________________. The worksheet also includes a teacher's answer sheet.

Test Your Research Skills Out of this World! 2 How much do you know about the solar system that we live in? Example questions... Fill in the gaps below: 1. ___________________ is the second planet from the sun. 2. ___________________ is the smallest planet in the solar system. 3. ___________________ was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel. The worksheet also includes a teach answer sheet.

Test Your Research Skills Out of this World! 1 Example questions... How much do you know about the solar system that we live in? Fill in the gaps below: 1. ___________________ is the closest planet to the sun. 2. ___________________ is the largest planet in the solar system. 3. ___________________ is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. This worksheet includes an answer sheet.

Test Your Research Skills Rivers of the World Match the major city on the worksheet with the river that it stands on. The worksheet comes with an answer sheet.