Pre-Intermediate 1-2

Grammar

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs! Use Present
Simple or present progressive or going to future !

Hello! I’m Paula and I ……………..(come) from Warsaw , the capital city of Poland. I’m 21, and I
…………………………………(study) pharmacy at the university of Warsaw . The course ………………..(last) five
years and I …………………… (have) four classes only in English so it’s tough but I …………………………..(like) it
very much.

I ……………………. (live) with my elder sister. She …………………………… (study) law and she’s 24 and she
…………………………..(graduate) at the end of this term. My parents live in a small town-it ………………………
(take) about two hours from here but I …………………………(not, have) enough time to visit them
regularly. Anyway my sister and I ……………………………….(spend) every holiday time with them .

I’m in my third year now and I……………………………(plan) my future. After I....................................

(graduate)I…………………… (move) to another country and work for a pharma company. I ……………………
(want) to live and work in a different city because I can already …………………………… (speak) three
languages-Polish, English and German so I’d like to …………………………….(make) progress in my
career but I’m afraid I ……………………………………………………….(miss) my family a lot!

Match the questions to the answers!

1. When are you going? a. I'm going on foot.

2. Why do you want to go to the cinema?
3. What are you going to do next b. About five blocks.
summer?
4. How far is the movie theatre from your c. I might go to the movie theatre.
house?
5. Who are you going with? d. I guess two hours.

6. Do you like movies better than plays? e. There's a good movie by Spielberg, and I
want to watch it.
7. How are you going?
8. How long does the film last? f. I might go in the early evening
.
g. Maybe alone.

h. Yes, I do.

Ask the correct questions to the underlined parts in the answers .

1……………………………………………………………………………………………………….........................?
I speak two languages.

2. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………........................?
I paid only £ 35.50 for these shoes!

3. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………........................?

I left school at the age of 14 because I needed the money.

4. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...............?

My parents’ close friends came over .

5. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ……............?
We took the cable car from Nob Hill and went to Alcatraz by boat.

6. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………............?
She graduated two years ago and studied law afterwards.

7. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..........?
I bought the black jumper, not the blue one .

8. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. ?
We’re going to stay in Egypt for fifteen days.
9. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………?

I usually get the news on the Internet but today I’m reading the paper.

10. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..?

They are going to move to Perth ,in Australia .

Change the grammatical person in the sentences below !

1. My parents rent a DVD every weekend. ( My brother )

2. Millions of people enter competitions every year. ( My sister)

3. What was the weather like in Ottawa? ( the people )

4. How are you going to travel to San Francisco? ( your wife )

5. Were all your classmates there on time yesterday? ( your guest )

 6. Was the air-conditioner on when you came in? ( computers )

7. Are you going to have a meeting tomorrow afternoon ? ( the manager)

8. Whose wife is she? ( relatives )

9. Has anyone got some good news? ( you )

10. Do your neighbours make a lot of noise ? ( your dog )

VOCABULARY
What part of the speech are the below words ?Some of the words go under
more than one category!

FROM – FUNNY- FOREIGN – TWIN – OUTGOING - BLIND- SHARE-

WONDERFUL- STORE – SUCCESSFUL – FOR – COUPLE - BRAVE – DATE-
PREFER- COMPETITION – WEAR- WAGE – MISS – MESS – RETIRED- IN

Put the words below in the sentences!

Fill in the blanks with the words given. Change the words where necessary!
never mind / loft / bring /communication/ celebrity / advice / kind / take / lucky
in common / first things first !

1. I really don’t know what to do, I need some good................................. .

2. C : “ Mum ! I really don’t want to do my homework right now. Can I go out and
play basketball?”
M :” Sorry honey , .......................................................... ! You can do that later.”

3. My mother keeps her childhood stuff in the......................................... . She even

keeps her toys and dolls there!
4. Last Saturday’s ............................... lottery numbers were 4-12-21-26 -36 and
42.
5. My boyfriend and I decided to break up after two months because we had
nothing.................................................
 6. Yesterday was one of my friends’ birthday so we ....................................... a
birthday cake to the classroom and made her a surprise!
7. We call a famous person a “...........................................”
8. Telephone, the Internet and fax are some of the means of ............................ .
9. A: Oh ! I’m so sorry! I’ve broken your Chinese vase!
B: .................... ................................... ! It wasn’t real anyway, I can find it
anywhere I want.
10. A: Janet! Listen to this track!
J: What ........................ of music is that? It’s too noisy!
11. A football match normally................................... ninety minutes but last night
there was a thirty-minute extra-time.

Beautiful Day, isn’t it ?

The day started out rotten. Mary overslept and she was late for work. Everything happened at
the office made her nervous . When she reached the bus stop for her homeward trip, her stomach
was one big knot.
As usual, the bus was late – and jammed .She had to stand in the aisle. As the vehicle lurched,
her sadness deepened.
Then she heard a voice, “Beautiful day, isn’t it?”. Because of the crowd , she couldn’t see the
man , but she heard him as he continued to talk about the spring scenery ; the man called
attention to each landmark. This church. That park. This cemetery. That firehouse. Soon all the
passengers looked out of the windows. The man’s happiness was so catching! She smiled for the
first time that day.
They finally reached her stop. Walking toward the door, she took a look at their
“guide”: an older gentleman with a beard , wearing dark glasses and carrying a thin , white cane.

Match the words in bold to their definitions in the below table.

exciting a similar feeling in other people
a stick that blind people use

to sleep more than you need

full , tight

a small rounded mass

Answer the questions below !

1.Did Mary have a fine day ?

2.How did she travel home ?

3. What did the man on the bus talk about ?

4.When did Mary first smile ?

WRITING
Nadia has just received an e-mail from her friend who lives in Wellington and
she’s writing back but there are 12 mistakes in her writing: Please find and
correct her mistakes!

Dear Maria,

I’m very pleasing to hear from you. It’s been a long time since we last wrote to each other.
What great news you gave me! I can’t believe you’re getting engage! And I’m really curious
about it. When have you met? What’s he like? What’s his job? Is he a New Zealander? And
how are you two getting on?
I have news too ; I got a new job as an assistant architect, we’re usually designing big
buildings. We got a very important project about a month ago and we still work on it.
My jobs sometimes stressful but I love it! And, my colleagues are very helpful and friend.
I live alone, but I’m soon going to have a flat-mate. She work for a small company. We met
her at a party about four months ago and we became friends soon.
She’s 24 and is coming from Germany but she grew up here in Australia .
And relationships... Well, you know Sid. He travels a lot so we hardly see us. I’m thinking of
breaking up actually !
That’s all for now, I’m looking forward your e-mail very soon!
Love,
Nadia

UNIT – 3
Grammar
A. Make questions with the jumbled words! Then do the quiz !

Fifty years of Music...

1. Freddie Mercury / die?

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 a) 1981 b) 2001 c) 1991

2. be/the Beatles /together?

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a) For ten years b) For thirteen years c)For seventeen years

3. sing/ ‘I can’t get you out of my head ‘ ?

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a) Britney Spears b) Kylie Minogue c) Beyoncé

4. band / Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel/ play for?

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a) Dire Straits b) Genesis c) Pink Floyd

5. the Eagles / stay / write famous song in 1976 ?

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a) Heart Break Hotel b) Hotel California c) Hilton Hotel

B. Fill in the gaps with the correct forms of the verbs given in the brackets.

Who wrote Imagine ?

 Imagine , John Lennon’s most famous song , was recently voted ‘ Britain’s favourite song
of all time.’ It was an idealistic song about peace and the hope for a better world.
‘Imagine all the people living life in peace.’ The song.................. (be) a big hit in 1971, and
again in 1980 when Lennon was murdered in New York .It .............................. (become)
a hit for a third time after the attacks of September 11 th 2001.

But who really ................................ .(write ) the song ? Until recently the answer to this
question ................................(be) always John Lennon. But on a TV programme this week
Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono , ..................................... (speak) for the first time about how she, in
fact , ................................. (help) to write the song .
Ono ............................... (say) that the idea and inspiration for Imagine came
from some of her poems that John .............................................. (read) at that time. The
poems ......................................... (begin) with the word ‘ Imagine’: ‘ Imagine a raindrop,
Imagine a goldfish.’ Ono said, ‘ When I ................ (be) a child in Japan during he Second
World War my brother and I were terribly hungry. I .............................. (imagine)
delicious menus for him and he ................................. (begin) to smile. If you think something
....................... (be) impossible , you can imagine it and .......... ............... (make) it happen.’
In an interview just before he .............................. (die) , Lennon admitted that Yoko
deserved credit for Imagine . He said , ‘ A lot of it- the lyrics and the concept –
came from her, from her book of poems, imagine this, imagine that.’ Lennon said that
he ................................. (be) ‘too macho ‘ to share the credit with her at the time.
Ono said that they wrote some of the song while they ............................................... (fly)
across the Atlantic and they wrote the rest of it on the piano at their home in England.
Ono said, ‘ The song speaks about John’s dream for the world. It was something he
really .................................... (want) to say.’ Imagine ............................ (become) a popular
song for peace activists everywhere.

In March 2002 , the airport in his home town of Liverpool was re-named John Lennon
Airport. A sign above the main entrance .................................. (have) a line from Imagine:
‘ Above us only sky.’

Complete the sentences with Past Simple or Past Continuous.

1. I .............................................(drive) my new car when I......................(have) the accident.
2. She.........................................(walk) down the street when she........................... (trip) on the
pavement.
3. They ........................................(not see) me because they...................... (talk) to each other.
4. I .............................................(have) a shower so I.............................. (not hear) the phone.
5. We.........................................................(walk) in the mountains when we..........................
(hear) a piercing scream.
6. They...............................................(have) so much fun at the party, they ..........................
(decide) to stay.
7. When the teacher...................................... (arrive), they.................................... (play) in the
back of the classroom.
8. While I...................................(have) a drink in the cafe, I......................(see) an accident
outside.
9. What..........................................(you / do) when the telephone............................... (ring)?
10.Why................................................................. (you /run) when I ........................ you (see)
the other day?

Complete the sentences with Past Simple or Past continuous!

While I............................................(talk) to my friends at the disco last Saturday a boy

I ................................(know) called John.................................... (come) up to me
and......................... (ask) me to dance. While we....................................... (dance), he
accidentally............................................... (stand) on my foot. I................................ (scream) in
pain. We........................................ (stop) dancing and .............................. (walk) over to the bar.
While we........................................... (walk), I .................................... (notice) some other friends
of mine. They......................................... (start) to argue. I ................................. (ignore) them
and while John................................................. (order) the drinks, I .................................. (hope)
for a better evening.

VOCABULARY
Below are some adjectives: Change them into adverbs where necessary and use them in the
sentences!

Easy Sudden Soft Shrill Loud Lazy Angry Fast

Dramatic Noisy Coy

1. The cost of fuel has risen …………………………………..

2. When the teacher came into the classroom, the kids were chattering …………

3. A woman was singing …………………… while I was grumbling …………………………..

4. The train whistle blew ………………………. at the crossing.

5. The tree that my grandpa and I planted grew up …………………………………………

6.A ……………………………….thunder slipped my mind while I was lying down on the

couch ……………………………………...

7. I looked at my dad’s ………………………… face and apologized ………….................for

being late for dinner.

8. It wasn’t ……………………………… for Nadal to win the Wimbledon Cup but he did it at
the age of 22.

READING

Read the story and order the paragraphs 1-6.

 One October Evening
Next day Jamie phoned Hannah and invited her to dinner. He took her to a very romantic French
restaurant and they talked all evening .After that Jamie and Hannah saw each other every day .Every
evening when Hannah finished work they met at 5:30 in a coffee bar in the High Street.
They were madly in love.

Two hours later a police car arrived at Hannah’s house. A policewoman knocked at the door.’ Good
evening Madam, ‘she said. ‘Are you Hannah Davis? I’d like to speak to you. Can I come in? ‘

Hannah met Jamie in the summer of 2004. It was Hannah’s 21st birthday and she and her friends went
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to a club. They wanted to dance, but they didn’t like the music so Hannah went to speak to the DJ. ‘This
music is awful, ‘she said. ‘Could you play something else? ’The DJ looked at her and said,
‘Don’t worry. I have the perfect song for you. ‘

One evening in October, Hannah was at work. As usual she was going to meet Jamie at 5:30. It was dark
and it was raining. She looked at her watch. It was 5:20! She was going to be late! She ran to her car and
got in. At 5:25 she was driving along the High Street. She was going very fast because she was in a hurry.

Two minutes later he said: ‘The next song is by Coldplay. It’s called Yellow and it’s for a beautiful girl
who’s dancing over there.’ Hannah knew that the song was for her because she was wearing a yellow
dress. When Hannah and her friends left the club, the DJ was waiting at the door. ‘Hi, I’m Jamie, ‘he said
to Hannah. ‘Can I see you again? So Hannah gave him her phone number.

Suddenly, a man ran across the road. He was wearing a dark coat so Hannah didn’t see him until it was
too late. Although she tried hard to stop, she hit the man .Hannah panicked. She didn’t stop and she drove
to the coffee bar as fast as she could. But when she arrived Jamie wasn’t there. She phoned him, but his
mobile was off, so she waited for ten minutes and ten went home.

Read the story again and answer the questions.

1. Why did the DJ play the song Yellow?

2. Where did Jamie take Hannah on their first date?

3. Why was Hannah rushing and driving fast?

4. How do you describe the man she hit on the road?

5. Why did she not stop although she hit the man?

6. Jamie wasn’t in the coffee bar when Hannah arrived. Where was he, do you think?
7. What is going to happen next? What do you think the policewoman is going to tell her?

WRITING

Paula is a Polish tourist in an English-speaking country. She speaks only a little

English. She stays in a hostel by herself.

Yesterday she decided to explore the city but everything went wrong. Above, you have

got only four pictures-they describe her first failure as a passenger.

Write a story of Paula’s terrible first day – try to imagine what she went through all

day long! Use at least 80 words please!