3. Klasse Gymnasium Test 2
Modal verbs: be able to – be allowed to – shall - might
Complete the mini-dialogues using phrases from the box.
Remember, you may have to make them into negative phrases.
 Pat: __________________ we go to Frederick's party tomorrow?
Sue: I don't think so, I __________________ to go to a party at
midnight.
 Liz: Guess what, I __________________ see myself in the mirror
yesterday.
Dee: __________________ I run away now, are you a vampire?
Liz: No, it was only steamed up.
 Pam: My best friend Marion
__________________be at the
party next week. Tom: Why not?
Pam: She broke her leg so she __________________ get out of
the house
Tom: __________________ we visit her?
Pam: Yes, good idea. I'm sure mum__________________ drive
me to her house.
 Sarah: Don't forget to email Vanessa about the party, John!
John: Yes, she __________________ be sad if I forget to invite
her.
 Joe: I was in our attic today and tried to catch a sleeping bat.
Ken: __________________ you really __________________ to
catch it?
Joe: No, I was very close but then I was afraid it
__________________ bite me.
Present perfect simple or progressive
Fill in the correct verb forms.
The Browns __________________ (live) next door to us since
1980.They are nice people.
My brother __________________(wait) for you since four o’clock.
Where __________________ (you/be)?
The baby__________________ (sleep) for live hours, but it's time for
the next bottle now.
My brother__________________ (not do) his homework for nearly a
week.
Frank __________________ (be) a good friend since we first met.
Nelly __________________(study) irregular verb forms for hours. I
this she knows them now.
I __________________ (clean) seven pairs of shoes today. Now it’s
your turn, Joe.
Reading comprehension
Read about the book "Chandra". Then put the sentences below the text into
the correct order to make a summary.
"Chandra" is a book about a young Indian girl who goes to a modern school.
She has a lot of friends there who do not keep to the old Indian traditions.
Chandra's mother and grandmother are not very strict, and they want a
modern education (Erziehung) for her. But Chandra's father is strict, and he
thinks the old traditions are very important.
One day Chandra's cousin and his family, who live far away, come to visit her
father. It turns out that they want Chandra's cousin and Chandra to get
married. Chandra is very excited about it. Her cousin seems very nice, and he
promises Chandra that he will always respect her. They get married, and then
her new husband and his family leave again. Chandra will live with them after
finishing school in three years' time.
During her school holidays, Chandra goes to visit her husband. When she gets
there, she learns that he had died two weeks before. It is the tradition that she
must now stay with her husband's family and work for them. Her mother-inlaw (Schwiegermutter) hates her. Chandra has to work very hard. She makes
friends with a woman who helps her a lot. In the end, this woman helps
Chandra to run away. Chandra dresses as a boy and goes back to her family,
but her father sends her away again. He believes in the traditions and thinks
that she must stay with her husband's family.
Chandra stays with the family of a friend and with her grandmother for some
time. One day, some men from her husband's family come. They want to take
her back. Chandra's grandmother knows that Chandra will never be safe if
she stays there. So Chandra has to leave India and go to England. There she
can stay with one of her aunts. She is safe there.
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A woman helps her, and she gets away dressed as a boy.
But her father believes that the old traditions are very important.
But she is going to stay with her parents for three years until she
finishes school.
Chandra gets married to her cousin, who is very nice.
Chandra hates living with them decides to run away.
Chandra is a modern Indian girl who does not keep to the old traditions.
She doesn't want to go back to her husband's family, so her
grandmother helps her to go to England.
She goes back to her family, but her traditional father sends her away
again.
Then her husband dies, and it is the tradition that she must stay with her
dead husband's family.
There she can live safely with one of her aunts.
Text writing
Read this letter to Jennifer. Then write an answer to it. (80 words)
Dear Jennifer,
My problem is that ALL my friends are allowed to go out until midnight on
Saturdays. I'm only boy in my class who isn't allowed to go out. My friends only
go to the church youth club anyway, and there are always older boys who see
to it that everything is OK. My parents are strict and they say that 13 is too
Young to go out. They say I can ask them again when I'm 16. But when I'm 16, I
won't have any friends any more because I can't see them in my free time.
How can I make my parents understand that it is VERY IMPORTANT for me to
be with my friends?
Michael
Text writing
Look at the pictures and write a story about what happened to Patrick one
day. (Past tense, 140 words)