INITIAL TEST – 7TH GRADE
A. Put the verbs in brackets in the Present Simple or Present Continuous: (10x2p=20p)
1.My name _________(to be) Peter and l _________ (to live) in the suburbs of Boston with my family.
2.Most people_________ (to believe) we ________(to be) rich because we__________(to live) in a big
house3..But our family ______________(to seem) to be like any other one.
4.Maggy, my wife, ______________(to like) cooking. 5.She_____________(to enjoy) being in the
kitchen with her friends.6. At the moment she ____________(to make) a cake and you can't talk to her.
7.What really ___________ (to worry) her is our daughter who ________________(to prefer) to chat in
front of her computer instead of cooking with her. 8.Like many teenagers, Jenny_____ _________(to
think) it _________(to be) easier to get advice from someone you____________ (not/know). 9.It's 5 pm
now and Paul, my son, _________________ (to play) basketball in the garden and I _______________(to
watch) TV.10.I ___________________ (to wait) for this delicious cake that Maggy ______________(to
cook) .
I told you, a family as yours. '
B. Put the verbs in the brackets in the Past Tense: (10x2p= 20p)
1.Last week we (go) ________________on holiday by the sea.2.We (stay)___________________on a
lovely hotel by the sea.3.The weather (be)_____________very good all week.4.It (not
rain)___________________ at all.5.We (spend)______________________most days sitting on the
beach.6.In the evening, we (have)__________dinner in the hotel restaurant .7.The food and the service
(be)_____________excellent, so we (not spend) too much money.8..We also (make)_________some new
friends there and we(do)______________lots of funny things together.9.We (leave)__________on
Saturday and we (come back)______________very late and very tired.10.We (not
want)________________to come home!
C. Ask questions to which the words underlined are the answers: (10x1p=10p)
John lives in London. He is a teacher. He works in a private school in the town centre. He teaches
Spanish. In his spare time, John likes to play football. His best friend is Steve. They met 8 years ago
when they were at university. They are friends because they both like football and have the same age.
They went together in the mountains every summer. John wrote poems. Steve said that they will be
friends for ever.
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D. Circle the correct adjective: (10x1p=10p)
a. The streets in Los Angeles are very crowded/heavy.
b. Big cities are often quiet/noisy and polluted.
c. The street was too narrow/wide. Tom couldn’t drive his new jeep along it.
d. He couldn’t buy the shoes because they were too expensive/cheap.
e. He’s a very clever/silly child. He knows all the answers.
f. Don’t go near the river, it’s very safe / dangerous!
g. That is a(n) difficult/easy question. I can’t answer it.
h. It was a cold/hot day, so we went to the beach.
i. He wasn’t scared when the fire started. He was very brave/blind.
j. I loved the movie. It was very interesting / boring.
PARTEA a II-a – 30p___________________________________________________________
E. Describe your best friend
You should include information about his physical appearance, moral qualities, common interests and you
should mention what is it about him/her that made him/her your best friend, how did you meet, or what
other things you find worthy of mentioning.
Write your description in 10 to 15 lines.
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