Test Your Grammar Skills Adjectives (Group 2) – Adverb, Noun and Verb Forms. Complete the table b with the most suitable words:

Test Your Grammar Skills Mistakes that English Native Speakers Make 3 Believe it or not, English native speakers sometimes make mistakes when using their own language! To find them, simply read a daily newspaper regularly or check out some of the leaflets at an English Tourist Information Centre or library! Identify one mistake in each sentence below and write the letter of the category that it belongs to out of the following: A. apostrophes B. articles C. capital letters D. clumsy style E. commas F. extra or missing words G. spelling mistakes

Test Your Grammar Skills Mistakes that English Native Speakers Make 4 Believe it or not, English native speakers sometimes make mistakes when using their own language! To find them, simply read a daily newspaper regularly or check out some of the leaflets at an English Tourist Information Centre or library! Identify one mistake in each sentence below and write the letter of the category that it belongs to out of the following: A. apostrophes B. articles C. capital letters D. clumsy style E. commas F. extra or missing words G. spelling mistakes

Test Your Grammar Skills Personal and Possessive Pronouns (gap-fill) 1. Personal subject pronouns:  the subject of a sentence  go before the main verb  e.g. “she” in: “She had a cup of tea at eight o’clock this morning.” 2. Personal object pronouns:  the object of a sentence (what the subject is talking about)  go after the main verb  e.g. “him” in: “I saw him for a few minutes before he left.” 3. Possessive adjectives:  describe possession  go before a noun  e.g. “my” in: “Can you pass my bag please?” 4. Possessive pronouns: o describe possession o replace a noun o e.g. “hers” in: “Whose book is that?” “It’s hers.” Put the pronouns in the correct order.

Test Your Grammar Skills Trace Lower Case (Small) Letters of the English Alphabet 1 Help your students to handwrite.

Test Your Grammar Skills Building a Sentence Using Subject-Verb-Object Word Order Grid (blank) This word order grid will help you to write a very common type of sentence in English using Subject-Verb-Object word order:

Test Your Grammar Skills Trace Lower Case (Small) Letters of the English Alphabet 2 Help your students to improve their handwriting skills

Test Your Grammar Skills Trace Numbers – with Lines (1 to 5) Help your students to write and learn their numbers up to 5.

Test Your Research Skills Famous Britons 3 Match the famous Briton with their principal occupation.

Test Your Research Skills Famous Britons – When Were They Born? Write these famous Britons in the order in which they were born, starting with the earliest in history. Use the library or the Internet to find the answers.

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.

Test Your Research Skills 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 __________________.

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.