EXERCISES
I) ANSWER WITH COMPLETE SENTENCES.
1) What’s your name?
2) How do you spell it?
3) What’s your telephone number?
4) What’s your nationality?
5) What’s your father’s name?
6) What’s your sister’s name?
7) What’s your brother’s name?
8) Are you a student?
9) Is your father a doctor?
10) What time is it now?
11) At what time is your English class?
12) Is there a garage in your house?
13) How many doors are
there in your house?
14) Where are you from?
15) Do you work?
16) Do you study?
17) Where do you study?
18) What do you
usually do on the weekends?
19) What are you doing
now?
20) What are you
wearing?
II) COMPLETE WITH HIS, HE, SHE or
HER.
1) My brother has a new car. _______ car isn’t very
big but
_______ carries _______ two children
and ______ wife. ______ wife’s name is Sue, ______ is a nice and
intelligent woman. ______ is a
teacher. The school is near her house.
III) COMPLETE.
A) Excuse me. ______ you Ingrid Nilson?
B) Yes, I _____.
A)Oh, hello. I ______ Steven Hopkins.
B)Pleased ___________ you Mr.
Hopkins!
A)________ to meet you, too, Mrs.
___________.
a) That’s “Mr. Hopkins”. What’s ________first name? Steven.
b) My wife and I are doctors. _______work at Centre Hospital.
c) My mother lives with _______ husband in Curitiba.
d) Susan and Ingrid are Swedish, _______ are from Stockholm.
________father is a taxi driver.
e) We live in Salvador. _______address is 456 São Borba
street.
IV) Find the different word:
a) car bus book
bicycle
b) I she
they from
c) here that
these this
d) doctor name lawyer
engineer
e) England Brazil Canada
American
V)What time is it? (In the morning,
afternoon or evening? )
a) 11:00 - _____________________________________
b) 12:00 - _____________________________________
c) 2:10 - _____________________________________
d) 4:15 - _____________________________________
e) 6:45 - _____________________________________
f) 9:35 - _____________________________________
g) 4:50 - _____________________________________
h) 5:25 - _____________________________________
VI) Complete with the verbs below. (
present continuous )
do -
study
- enjoy - plan
- sell
John: Nice to see you! What ________you _____________these days?
Ann: I _____ ______________ mathematics at college.
John: Really! What is it like? _____ you _________________ it?
Ann: Yes, I am. And you, What ______you_________________?
John: Well, I’m between jobs. But I _____ _________________ to have my
own clothing shop.
I ____ ______________ T-shirts. Would you like to buy one?
VII) Write in full? + (plus), -
(minus), : ( divided by ), x (
times )
a) 6 + 5 =
eleven
b) 6 : 2 = _______ c) 3 x 2 =
________
d) 6 - 2 =
________
e) 8 + 4 = _______ f) 40 - 12 =
_______
g) 20: 5 =
________
h) 5 x 5 = _______ i) 26 + 5
= ________
VIII) PLURAL NOUNS:
1.
General rule: Add -s in the plural:
Ex.
bag - bags
book - books
2. If the word ends
in z, s, sh, x, or ch; add -es:
Ex.
Bus - buses
Watch - watches
Flash - flashes
Box - boxes
3. If the noun
ends in a consonant + y, the y changes to ies.
Ex.
City - cities
Baby - babies
BUT if the word ends in a vowel
+ y, the y doesn’t change.
Ex.
day - days
key
- keys
play
- plays
4. Some are
irregular:
Ex. Child -
children
woman - women
Man -
men
person - people
Tooth -
teeth
foot - feet
# Write the plural
of these words.
House - _____________ mouse -
_____________
orange - _______________
Woman - _____________ church - _____________ cigarette -
_____________
Pencil - ______________ kiss - _______________
shirt - ________________
Match - ______________ eyes - _______________ apple -
_______________
Foot - _______________ actress - _____________
tie - _________________
Teacher - _____________ month - _____________ pear -
________________
IX)Look
at these words. What do they mean in your language? Translate
them into your language.
a) What -
b) Where -
c) When -
d) Who -
e) How -
f) Why -
g) Whose -
h) Which -
X) Questions:
a) Are you American?
b) Are you Brazilian?
c) Are you a student?
d) Are you a doctor?
e) Is your friend an engineer?
f) Is your mother a homemaker?
g) Is your father a politician?
XI) Complete the sentences with “there
is”, “there are”, “have”, “has”.
a) How many people _______________ in the house.
b) _______________ many cats in your house?
c) I ______________some things to do.
d) _______________ a vase on the table?
e) _______________ a mouse next to the computer?
f) Do you _____________ a dog?
g) The city _____________ beautiful buildings.
XII) Complete with this, that, those
and these.
a) Is ________a panel? No, this is a T.V. screen?
b) Look at this picture. _________ are my cousins from Oklahoma.
c) What’s _________ on the patio? It’s my new dog, it’s a
yorkshire.
d) Please, take ________ things out of here. I need this table.
e) Look at _________ airplane. It’s so small because of the
distance.
1)Complete with
possessive adjectives.
a) I wear shoes on ______ feet, so they don’t get
cold.
b) You wear gloves on _______ hands for the same reason.
c) A snake changes _______ skin every year.
d) Antonio visits ________ parents every weekend.
e) They like to go to ________ house in the country every Summer.
f) Maria is from Mexico, so ______ family probably live there.
g) We study English at Meridiano Zero. ________ class is very
nice.
2)Complete the dialogues using the
present continuous:
1) A: What _____ you _____________ now? (do)
B: Nothing. I ____ _____________ to some
music. (Listen)
2) A: ______Ann ______________a paper for school? ( write)
B: No, she _____ _______________ a
letter for her friend from Mexico. (correct)
3) A:______ they ______________ ______ tonight? (go out)
B: Yes, they ____ _____________ at
“Trade”. (dance)
4) A: _____ Cecilia __________________ home? (come)
B: No, she ____ ______________for a
week. (stay)
3)Fill in the blanks
with personal pronouns .
I’m
an English
student. _____ study at Meridiano Zero. I have classes twice a week. I
always come early to class and talk to other students. ______ are
learning English with me. We listen to our teacher explaining the
lesson. _____ explains the material to us, so _____ can understand it.
I like English. I think ____ is an
interesting subject.
4)Complete the
sentences with the verb to be.
1. I _____ a boy.
2. We _____ students at Meridiano Zero.
3. _______ it black or white?
4. Ann _____ a lovely person.
5. My friends ________ usually late for the appoitments.
5)A or AN?
1. ____
dog.
2. ____ book.
3. ____
apple. 4.
____ ugly boy.
5. ____
rose.
6. ____ university
6)What time is it?
Write complete sentences.
1) 10: 15 =
...................................................................
2) 12:00 =
...................................................................
3) 9:50 =
...................................................................
4) 8:30 =
...................................................................
5) 8:30 =
...................................................................
7)Write the
questions for the answers.
Example:
Question: What do you have for breakfast?
Answer: I have toast and coffee for breakfast.
1. Q: What
..............................................................................at
the university?
A: Martha studies business administration at
the university.
2. Q: Where
.......................................................................................................?
A: My friends go to the beach on vacation.
3. Q:
...................................................................................................................?
A: I study English at Meridiano Zero.
4. Q:
What...........................................................................................................?
A: He watches television in the evening.
5. Q:
....................................................................................................................?
A: They eat cheeseburgers and french
fries for lunch.
8)Rewrite these
sentences. Put the adverbs in the correct place.
1. I eat my meals by the pool. (never)
2. Some of my friends go dancing. (every weekend)
3. Donovan wakes up before breakfast. ( always)
4. He doesn’t study. (on the weekend, usually)
5. Patrick goes to a restaurant. (sometimes)
9)Complete these sentences with the correct
form. (There is,
there are, have, has).
1. _____________________six chairs in the room.
2. How many chairs __________________ in the next room?
3. We ____________ a lot of material to study this semester.
4. ________________doctors in the hospital?
5. ________________a printer next to the computer?
10)Answer these questions with short
answers.
1. Are you Brazilian?
2. Do you think this test is difficult?
3. Are you studying at the university?
4. Do you live in this city?
5. Do you like Chinese food?
11)Put the words of these sentences in the
correct order.
1.Buy supermarket in
car
a can’t a you.
................................................................................................................................................
2.Music hear the
you can ?
................................................................................................................................................
3.very can well
swim I.
................................................................................................................................................
4. Hear can you me ?
................................................................................................................................................
12)Complete the past tense questions and
answers.
1. A: Where _______ you go on your last vacation?
B: I _______ to the mountains.
2. A: _______ your team win the soccer match?
B: Yes. They ______ with a score of three to
two.
3. A: What ______you think of that horror movie on T.V. last
night?
B: I _________ it was great!
4. A: ________ you hear the story about the salesman and the
politician?
B: I _________ it last week.
5. A: What _______ the doctor tell you to do?
B: He ________ me to take two aspirins and
call him in the morning.
13)Change the sentences according to the
example:
Example: Did
you buy a book?
Did you buy it?
1. We visited Monica
yesterday...........................................................................................
2. Do you drive a
car?.........................................................................................................
3. I saw Jane and Carlo at the
restaurant............................................................................
4. My family gave this present to you and me.
.................................................................
5. We have a meeting with Donovan
...............................................................................
14) Complete the sentences with can and the
subject.
1. ....................... go to the supermarket for
me?
2. Yes, ....................... .......................give me
some money?
3. I think ............................give you some money. But I
don’t have any change. ...............
........... bring me some change?
4. No, ......................... I’ll buy some cookies.
15) Write the words in this dialogue
in the correct order.
1) vacation to are
on
you go where going ?
..............................................................................................................................................
2) to go to going
beach I Pyramid am.
...............................................................................................................................................
3) going what you are
there to do ?
..............................................................................................................................................
4) surf to am going I.
..............................................................................................................................................
5) going am I to
abroad travel.
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