Grammar Test
Name___________________________________________Course_______
1. Answer the following questions
What time do you get up?
How often do you go to the beach?
What do you usually do at weekends?
Why are you studying journalism?
When were you born and where?
2. Write the verbs in the correct tense
Where (you work)?
What time (he start) work every day?
David is the bathroom. He (have) a shower
Where (you go) last night?
You (meet) my wife?
3. Complete the sentences with modals
What time do you_________start work?
I’m late. I_________go now
______I help you?
A teacher _______________to wear uniform
I __________speak English
You____________stop smoking
You______________wear tuxedo for the wedding
I__________go to your party, I’m not sure
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You_________turn left on the corner
You__________smoke in international flights
4. Fill in the gaps with the correct tense
When Andrew __________(arrive) at Orly airport he__________(look) around but
he________(not can) see anybody there to meet him. A lot of people in uniforms
_____________(hold) cards with names on them, but they ________________(not
wait) for him. It______________(be) a beautiful, sunny day and he__________(decide)
to go to the hotel on his own. He_____________(go) out of the airport
and___________(look) for a taxi. A lot of people ___________(wait) , so he
____________(decide) to get the airport bus into Paris. The bus_________(stop) in the
city centre, quite near his hotel and he_________(get off). When he________(walk)
towards his hotel with his case a car suddenly ____________(stop) next to him. A
woman_________(get) out. She__________(wear) a uniform and __________(carry) a
card which said “Mr Andrew Jones.”
“Mr Jones” she said, “I
____________(wait) for you at the airport but you_________(not see) me!”
5. Complete with who, which or where
This is the school_________I study German
I know a girl __________can play the saxophone
Hitchhike is a word_________means to travel free in somebody’s car
An interpreter is a person________can speak several languages
The place _________you can leave your car is called a car park
6. Complete with prepositions
I’ll see you____Friday
They are arriving___the office____10.00 a.m._____Monday
We arrived______Rome _____3.30 p.m.
We’re leaving____8.00_____the morning
Are you free_____Tuesday evening?
7. Write sentences with comparatives and superlatives
A BMW is__________________(cheap) a Rolls Royce
My English isn’t_____________(good) yours
She drives___________________(good) her sister
Apples are__________________(healthy) bananas
What is the______________(old) religion in the world?
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8. Write the first or second conditional
If you_________(call)me, we __________( go) shopping
I________________(go)to hospital if she ________(be) ill
We______________(do) the exam again if we____________(fail) it
If you ______________(buy) two cokes, you___________(get) one free
I________________(go) to the beach if the weather_________(be) nice
9. Turn into the passive
Christopher Columbus discovered America when he thought he had arrived in Asia
The Romans built the Coliseum
Nobody will invite me to that party
They told me a strange story
They sell fresh vegetables in that market
10. Translate the following sentences into English
He estado viajando y no he podido estudiar
¿Cuánto se tarda en volar a Pekín?
¿Te gustaría tomar un poco de té o prefieres agua?
No me quedan huevos pero puedo comer algo de pan
¿Has ido alguna vez a un concierto de una gran estrella?
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