Josina Machel Secondary School Exercises Handout Covers Unit 1 of the programme. Grade: 12; Subject : English 1. Adjective Formation (-y, -less, -al, -able, -ful, -ive, -ing, -ous, -ent and –ed) E.g. –able/ible: understandable/ incredible a) Make adjectives from the following words. Use the suffixes (endings) given in bracket above. Use a bilingual dictionary to find the meaning of each adjective you have made. E.g. Nature – Natural sleeve _______________ execute __________________ attract_______________ mathematics___________________ help_________________ eat_________________ chemistry_____________ peace_______________ danger_______________ chock_______________ hope_________________ appeal_______________ operation_____________ retreat________________ interest_______________ mystery________________ b) Write the correct form of the adjective of the word in CAPITALS in the blank space Be sure to contact him if you need advice. He's a very ____________person. (HELP) It was a really _____________ party. Thanks for inviting me. (ENJOY) She was very ______________ when they offered her the new job. (HAPPINESS) This is an ________________ book we’re ______________.(INTEREST) In order for the medicine to be __________you must take the correct amount. (EFFECT) HIV is _________________(TREAT) but it isn’t ______________(CURE). Magnesium is a _____________(CHEMISTRY) element with the symbol Mg and __________(ATOME) number 12. Enjoy lifetime ownership of a luxury home for an________________price. (AFFORD) How __________________ is hygiene to public health? (IMPORTANCE) I’m _____________. I don’t understand. The instructions are really ____________.(CONFUSE) 2. Question Tags a) Put the following question tags in to the correct gaps. Each question tag is used only once. isn't it?, has he?, were you?, aren't you?, doesn't he?, do you?, is she?, didn't you?, did she? She didn't watch the film last night, ________ It's great to see each other again, __________ He comes every Friday, _________ You're married, __________ You went to Tom's last weekend, _________ You don't like tripe, ___________ She isn't much of a cook, ________ He hasn't lived here long, ________ You weren't invited to the party, __________ b) Choose the correct question tags: 1. You wanted that, .......... ? A. would you B. didn't you C. wouldn't you 2. He saw that .......... ? A. is he B. won't he C. didn't he 3. He wil be coming .......... ? A. is he B. did he C. doesn't he 4. He is suffering from yellow fever he needs to see a doctor..........? A. doesn't he B. did he C. won't he 5. You may think you know the answer but you don't .......... ? A. don't you B. would you C. wouldn't you 6. You had seen it before, .........? A. had you B. had you seen C. hadn’t you 7. Everybody looked so miserable, ........? A. didn’t he B. Didn’t everybody C. didn’t them 8. Come here and hear what Mike has to say, ____________________? A. will you B. don’t you C. shall we 9. I never said I love him, ____________________ ? A. didn’t I ever B. didn’t I C. did I ever 10. The old lady’s stolen the money, __________________ ? A. isn’t she B. doesn’t she C. hasn’t she c) Write a question tag for each sentence below 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Listen to me, __________________________? Let´s go to Polana Shopping, ___________________________? Beto and Susan are in New York, ____________________ ? Your brother has been away for a long time, ____________________? This work could be done in ten minutes, ____________________ ? One should never harm any kind of people, ____________________ ? Nobody called for me while I was out, ____________________ ? Beth might not come tomorrow, ____________________ ? D. do you D. doesn't he D. won't he D. is he D. do you D. hadn’t you seen D. didn’t they D. didn’t you D. did I D. didn’t she 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Patricia, don’t close all the windows, ____________________ ? One must work to ear one’s living, ____________________ ? Come here, ____________________ ? I am late, ____________________ ? Don’t close your book, ____________________ ? She won’t arrive late, ____________________ ? Let’s take a walk, ____________________ ? We couldn’t go there, ____________________ ? The boys had gone there by bus, ____________________ ? It would be difficult to refuse the invitation, ____________________ ? You will be happy to get that job, ____________________ ? The children don’t like the dog, ____________________ ? Go to your bedroom, ____________________ ? Those girls seldom travel abroad, ____________________ ? 3. Adjectives: comparative and superlative a) Complete the chart with the comparatives and superlatives: Adjective Comparative Superlative long longer than the longest fast __________________ _________________ pretty prettier than the prittiest handsome __________________ __________________ beautiful more beautiful than the most beautiful ugly ___________________ ___________________ thin thinner than ___________________ fat _____________________ ___________________ fashionable _____________________ ____________________ good better than the best bad _____________________ _____________________ b) Make comparative sentences. (Short and Long adjectives) 1. English – easy – Japanese _________________________________________________________ 2. Brazil – big – Argentina _________________________________________________________ 3. Tom – Silly – Jerry ____________________________________________________________ 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. The winter – bad – the fall ______________________________________________________ Monkeys – intelligent – cats _____________________________________________________ Football – popular – baseball ____________________________________________________ A movie – interesting – a book ___________________________________________________ Ronaldo – famous – Domingues_______________________________________________________ Marta – attractive – her sister ____________________________________________________ Johannesburg – modern – Maputo _______________________________________________ c) Read the following article and then answer the questions about the CD_ROM and the books. Incredible, but True!! All the information in the enormous Encyclopaedia Britannica now comes on one small disk. Which do you prefer – the CR-ROM or the set of 30 books? Let’s compare them. The CD-ROM is smaller and cheaper than the books. We think it’s more interesting, too, because it has video and sound – you can hear animals, musical instruments and famous people talking. So if you think the 30 books are good, we think the CD-ROM is better!. 1. Which is heavier?_____________________________________________________________________ 2. Which of the articles is more boring? ____________________________________________________ 3. Are the books bigger than the CD-ROM? __________________________________________________ 4. Is the CD-ROM more expensive than the books? ___________________________________________ 5. Why do the writers think the CD-ROM is better than the 30 books? __________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ d) Choose the correct alternative for each sentence. (Comparatives or Superlatives) 1. I think that’s _____ film I’ve ever seen A. the funnier than B. the funny C. the funniest D. the funnier 2. Is football the _____ sport in Chile? A. popular B. more popular C. popularest D. most popular 3. Vegetables are _____ last week A. expensiver than B. more expensiver than C. more expensive than 4. I think Vladimir is _____ intelligent person in the class A. more than B. the most C. most D. the more 5. Don’t you think there are _____ things to do on hokidays than watching tv all day? A. best B. bestest C. better D. better than 6. Summer is _____ season in our country A. the hottest B. hotter than C. the hot D. hot 7. Groenland has the _____ weather of the world. It’s always raining and snowing A. bad B. worse than C. worst D. worsest 8. The Everest is _____ the Aconcagua A. the highest B. highest than C. the higher than D. higher than 9. Last week we had _____ day in Santiago, the temperature was –18ºC A. the colder B. the coldest C. the cold D. colder than 10. To fall from a motorcycle is _____ to fall from a bicycle. A. more painful B. more painful than C. painfuller than D. the painfullest 11. If you suffer asthma, don’t go to Mexico City. It is one of the _____ cities in the world A. pollutest B. more polluted C. polluter than D. most polluted 12. The _____ place from Chile is Australia. It’s on the other side of the world. A. farther B. farthest C. farther than D. farthest than 13. I don’t think your bike is _____ mine. A. fastest than B. faster C. fastest D. faster than 14. Michael was _____ basketball player in the world A. taller B. tallest C. the taller D. the tallest 15. Speaking Japanese is _____writing it. A. the easiest B. easy D. easyer than C. easier than 4. The Simple Past and the Past Continuous a) Fill in the correct form of "was" or "were" A class trip to Jerusalem Yesterday our class 1. ________ on a trip. It 2. ________ a trip to Jerusalem. At seven o’clock we 3. ________ still at home. Our things 4. ________ ready. At half past seven we 5. ________ at school. All the pupils 6. ________ there. Our teachers 7. ________ there and the buses 8. ________ there, too. At eight o’clock we 9. _______ on the buses on the way to Jerusalem. We 10.________in Jerusalem all day. The weather 11. _______ very pleasant. It 12. _______ a long day but it 13. ________ very interesting. At six o’clock in the evening we 14. _______ back at our school. It 15. _______ a nice class trip. b) Write Yes/No questions to the following answers 1. Yes, we were in the park on Saturday. _________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 2. No, I wasn’t angry about what she said. _______________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 3. No, he wasn’t late this morning. _____________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 4. No, the weather was nice yesterday. __________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 5. Yes, I was in the kitchen a minute ago. ________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ c) Write WH questions on the underlined words 1. ___________________________________________________ Mr. and Mrs. Smith were here last month. 2. ___________________________________________________ I was at the zoo on Sunday. 3. ___________________________________________________ Many pupils were late for school this morning because of the traffic. 4. ___________________________________________________ We were in Eilat last summer. 5. ___________________________________________________ Some apples were in the basket. d) Fill in the passages with the verbs in brackets. Use the past simple A minute before we ___________ (leave) Casablanca, a women _________ (get) on the plane. She ________ (not have) much luggage for an international flight. From the moment I ________ (see) her I ________ (think) she was an interesting person. The only empty seat ________ (be) next to me. She ________ (ask) me if she ________ (can) sit there. She ________ (speak) English but she ________ (have) a foreign accent. Later I ________ (hear) her speak French and Italian. I ________ (want) to talk to her but she ________ (not say) much the whole flight. I ________ (become) more and more curious as the trip ________ (continue). I ________ (watch) her carefully and ________ (notice) that she ________ (have) two passports. From time to time she ________ (read) her book, but most of the time she ________ (seem) to be thinking about something else. When we finally ________ (arrive) in New York she ________ (go) to the customs officer. He ________ (look) quickly inside her luggage. Then he ________ (tell) her to go on. Later I________ (meet) her at the airport. She suddenly________ (wave) to someone and________ (smile) I ________ (turn) around for a minute and she ________ (disappear). e) Rewrite the sentences in the negative. 1. They sold postcards. → _______________________________________________________________ 2. You jumped high. → _________________________________________________________________ 3. Albert played squash. → ______________________________________________________________ 4. The teacher tested our English. → ______________________________________________________ 5. Fiona visited her grandma. → __________________________________________________________ 6. He washed the car. → ________________________________________________________________ 7. You were thirsty. → __________________________________________________________________ 8. He had a computer. → _______________________________________________________________ 9. I bought bread. → ___________________________________________________________________ 10. You saw the house. → _______________________________________________________________ f) Write questions in simple past. 1. Anna / the window / open →___________________________________________________________ 2. she / home / walk →__________________________________________________________________ 3. you / in the garden / work →___________________________________________________________ 4. you / a song / sing →__________________________________________________________________ 5. she / on a chair / sit →_________________________________________________________________ 6. you / the castle / visit →_______________________________________________________________ 7. Jenny / the door / close →_____________________________________________________________ 8. she / happy / be →___________________________________________________________________ 9. Greg / to the radio / listen → ___________________________________________________________ 10. the car / at the corner / stop →________________________________________________________ g) Answer the questions Have a look at James's last week's diary and answer the questions in complete sentences. Put the time expression at the end of the sentence. Mon Tue Wed Thu football shopping meeting sing cinema tennis Fri take flowers Sat Sun concert sailing English Italian restaurant 1. When was his English course? __________________________________________________________ 2. When did he go shopping? _____________________________________________________________ 3. When did he take flowers? _____________________________________________________________ 4. When was his meeting? _______________________________________________________________ 5. When did he play football? ____________________________________________________________ 6. When did he go to the Italian restaurant? _________________________________________________ 7. When did he sing? ___________________________________________________________________ 8. When did he go to the cinema? _________________________________________________________ 9. When did he play tennis? ______________________________________________________________ 10. When was the concert? ______________________________________________________________ 11. When did he go sailing? ______________________________________________________________ h) Fill in the blanks with the verbs in the past continuous tense 1. John and I ...................................... (stay) in a beautiful hotel. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Kevin .......................................... (work) at home yesterday. I ...................................... (wait) for a very important letter. You ...................................... (walk) too fast. We ........................................... (plan) our holiday. The girls ............................................ (visit) their grandmother today. She ....................................... (read) in her bedroom at that moment. The baby ...................................... (learn) how to walk. i) Rewrite the sentences in the negative. Use the past continuous 1. They .......................................... (buy) a new car. 2. He ............................................... (learn) to read. 3. I .................................................. ( look) for your keys. 4. We ............................................... (sell) the house. 5. They ........................................ (drink) tea. 6. You ....................................... (work) very hard. 7. Jack and Jill ....................................... (run) downhill. 8. I ....................................... (go) home that moment. j) Write the questions. Use the past continuous 1. What /Jessica / do? ______________________________________________________________ 2. Why / John and Patrick / laugh?____________________________________________________ 3. What book / you / read? __________________________________________________________ 4. What / we / watch? ______________________________________________________________ 5. Where / they / stay? _____________________________________________________________ 6. Why / we / sit in the dark? ________________________________________________________ 7. Where / they / wait? _____________________________________________________________ 8. What / you / sell? _______________________________________________________________ k) Answer the questions in the Past Continuous Tense using when and the verb of the clause in brackets (see example in the box below) When did she meet Helen?(walk along the street) — She met Helen when she was walking along the street. 1. When did you catch that cold? (skate on a frosty day) ____________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 2. When did he write those nice poems? (have a holiday)____________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 3. When did she learn the language? (live in England) ______________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 4. When did she hear that song? (listen to the concert on the radio) ____________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 5. When did you buy that book? (read up for my exams) ____________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ l) Answer the questions in the Past Continuous Tense using because and the verb in brackets. (see example in the box below) Why didn't you go out last night? (rain) — Because it was raining. 1. Why didn't you come to the party? (feel bad) ___________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 2. Why did James want the pen? (write a composition)_____________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 3. Why did they tell him to be quiet? (watch TV) __________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 4. Why did Olga stay at home? (do the flat) ______________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 5. Why didn't he stop to talk to you? (hurry to the lecture) ___________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ m) Complete the text with either the past simple or the past continuous form of the ver bin bracket. I _____________ (buy) a new alarm clock one day in Twinkle’s, when I _____________ (see) somebody shoplifting. I’d just finished paying for my clock as I _____________ (turn) round, an elderly woman _____________ (slowly put) a silver ashtray into her bag that she _____________ (carry). Then she _____________ (walk) over to another part of the shop and _____________ (pick up) an expensivelooking bracelet many times. When she _____________ (think) that nobody _____________ (look), she _____________ (drop) it into the bag. Before I _____________ (have) a chance to tell the staff in the shop, she _____________(notice) that I _____________ (watch) her and _____________ (hurry) out. Unfortunately for her, two policemen _____________ (walk) past at that moment and she _____________ (run) straight into them. n) Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous form. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Where _______ he ________ (go) when you _________(see) him yesterday? The boys ________ (break) the window when they _______ (play) football. I _______ (lose) all my money when I ________ (travel) from Prague to Budapest. It ________ (rain) while I ________ (go) home. When my mother _________ (clean) my room she __________ (find) all my love letters. I __________ (stop) at a garage because my car __________ (make) a funny noise. He __________ (think) of her while he __________ (travel) home. The doorbell ___________ (ring) while I __________ (dry) my hair. They ___________ (have) an accident when they __________ (come) back from holiday. My grandmother first ________ (meet) my grandfather when he _________ (work) in the country. I ________ (see) him at the party. He __________ (wear) jeans and a T-shirt. She _________ (go) to sleep while I __________ (tell) her about my boyfriend. When I __________ (look) at him I saw that he _________ (cry). They ___________ (clean) the house all day yesterday. 15. They ___________ (play) in the garden when it __________ (start) to snow. o) Make Yes\No Questions in the Past Simple and Past Progressive 1. Yes, my grandmother was lying n bed all morning. She`s sick ! ___________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 2. Yes, the party last night was a success. ______________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 3. No, we weren't watching a movie yesterday from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. _______________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 4. No, my friends didn`t fly to Africa last year. __________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 5. Yes, the children were sleeping all night. ____________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 6. No, Dana didn't tell me what happened yesterday. ____________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 7. Yes, the car was making strange noises all the way home. _____________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 8. Yes, the baby ate her supper a few minutes ago. _____________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 9. No, Amir didn't borrow his father`s car when he was younger. __________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 10. Yes, Liran was playing football as his parents were playing football _______________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ p) Make WH Questions in the Past Simple and Past Progressive: 1. The vegetables were fresh. ________________________________________________________ 2. I was sleeping in a tent yesterday night between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m . _____________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 3. She was tired yesterday because she worked hard. _____________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. Sima was knitting a new sweater when the telephone rang. _____________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 5. The building was beautiful last year . ________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 6. We were doing homework when the telephone rang. __________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 7. The money was in my pocket an hour ago. ___________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 8. John recognized his friend last June. _________________________________________________ 9. Tom was driving to Eilat yesterday between 5:00 and 10:00 a.m. __________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 10. The accident happened 10 minutes ago. _____________________________________________ 11. The opera singer sang loudly. ______________________________________________________ 12. We spent 50 Rands last Friday. _____________________________________________________ 13. I wrote poems last week. _________________________________________________________ q) Ask the correct question: Sarah is talking to Hanna on the phone. Sara: _____________________________________________________________________________? Hanna: Yes, I was busy when you called yesterday. Sara: _____________________________________________________________________________? Hanna: No, I wasn't reading a book when Naira arrived. Sara: _____________________________________________________________________________? Hanna: Yes, I was listening to music while cleaning the bedroom. Sara: _____________________________________________________________________________? Hanna: No, I wasn't watching television. I was study for a test. Sara: _____________________________________________________________________________? Hanna: Yes, I watched a film in the morning Sara: _____________________________________________________________________________? r) Decide whether the parts in bold are in the correct tense. write the correct form when necessary a. b. c. d. e. f. Leopold was falling off the ladder while he was painting the ceiling. Wendy was waiting for me when I arrived. We didn’t go fishing because it rained. I was seeing Scott in the park. He was sitting on the grass and he read a book. This time last year I had holiday on Bali. When I was getting up the TV was on. English Group Prepared by David Lugundu