Five-Minute Tests
Make questions using the following words.
1. You/learn/English/only/at/school?
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2. You/take/English/courses/outside/of/school?
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3. You/use/only/textbooks/while/learning/English?
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4. You/use/your/dictionary/at/the/moment? I’d like to look up a word in it.
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5. What/you/find/the/most/difficult/about/learning/English?
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Key: 1. Do you learn English only at school? 2. Do you take English courses outside of school? 3. Do you use only textbooks while learning English? 4. Are you using your dictionary at the moment? 5. What do you find the most difficult about learning English?
Complete the tag questions.
1. You have been learning English for five years, _________?
2. It’s possible to know a second language as well as native speakers do, _______?
3. Julius Caesar landed in England nearly two thousand years ago,
_______?
4. The English language surrounds us like the sea, __________?
5. There are several ways to add
new words to the language, _____?
Key: 1. haven’t you; 2. isn’t it; 3. didn’t he;
4. doesn’t it; 5. aren’t there
Complete these sentences using the verbs in brackets. All the sentences are about the future.
1. I ____ (be) disappointed if I ____ (not get) the idea of the dialogue.
2. He _____ (give) a lecture if you _______ (invite) him.
3. If you ____ (read) English books in the original you_____ (keep) yourself up-to-date with idioms.
4. We ______ (use) computers in our English classes as soon as the new program______ (be) installed.
5. She___ (not learn) to speak English fluently if she ___ (not practise)
Key:
1. I will be disappointed if I don’t get the idea of the dialogue.
2. He’ll give a lecture if you invite him.
3. If you read English books in the original you will keep yourself up-to-date with idioms.
4. We’ll use computers in our English classes as soon as the new program is installed.
5. She won’t learn to speak English fluently if she doesn’t practices.
Are these sentences right or wrong? Correct the sentences that are wrong, please.
0 I’m speaking three languages. wrong: I speak…
1. Wait a minute! I don’t know how to spell this word. ______________
2. My friend is learning a few new words a day. ______________
3. He’s an interpreter. He is doing translations orally. _____________
4. The classes are beginning at half past eight. ______________
5. He is never pronouncing words correctly. ______________
Key: 1. right; 2. wrong: He learns…; 3. wrong: He does…; 4. wrong: begin; 5. He never pronounces…
By Youdif Boyarskaya,
School No. 814, Moscow
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