Questions & Auxiliaries
Perfect & Past Tenses
Adjectives & Adverbs
Future & Weather
Confusing & Comment Adverbs
100
Convert this direct question into an indirect one starting with Could you tell me...: "What time does the shop next door open?"
"Could you tell me what time the shop next door opens?"
100
Choose the correct option to complete this sentence: "We ________ Jack and Ann for years." (know)
"have known" (since know is a non-action verb)
100
Rewrite this phrase using the + adjective to describe a group of people: "The government needs to create more jobs for people without a job."
"the unemployed"
100
Choose the correct future tense: "The decorators will be finishing / will have finished painting by Tuesday, so we can move back in then."
"will have finished"
100
"He trains very hard / hardly — at least three hours a day."
"hard"
200
Spot the error and correct this subject question: "Who did write this story?"
"Who wrote this story?" (We do not use do/did in subject questions if who, what, or which is the subject).
200
Complete the sentence using the past simple and past continuous: "We ________ (have) dinner when the plane ________ (hit) some turbulence."
"were having / hit"
200
Put these descriptive adjectives in the correct order to modify the noun: "She has ________ hair." (long / fair)
"long fair hair" (Size -- Colour).
200
Complete the dialogue using the future continuous: "Don't phone between 7.00 and 8.00 as we ________ ________ having dinner then."
"will be"
200
Differentiate between these two items by filling the blanks: "I've ________ finished my book. I'm on the last chapter." vs. "Excuse me, is there a bank ________ here?"
"nearly" and "near"
300
Fill in the missing auxiliary verb to show agreement: "I don't like shopping online." — "Neither ________ I."
"do"
300
Choose the correct continuous form: "Lina was crying because she had read / had been reading a very sad book."
"had been reading"
300
Place the adverb in its proper position:
"James was injured in the accident" (seriously)
"James was seriously injured in the accident"
300
"blizzard"
300
Which comment adverb means "in a perfect world"?
"ideally"
400
Complete the response to show emphasis: "You didn't lock the door!" — "I ________ lock it, I remember it exactly!"
"did"
400
Identify the mistake in this sentence: "I have been knowing Miriam since I was a child."
"I have known Miriam" (non-action verbs are not normally used in the continuous form)
400
Correct the error in this sentence: "The government is welcoming the Frenches and the Japaneses to the cultural summit."
"The government is welcoming the French and the Japanese..."
400
Say a prediction about the future using the future perfect or the future continuous
Students' own answers
400
Correct the sentence, if you think it's wrong:
We luckily had taken an umbrella, because it started to just rain after we'd left.
Luckily, we had taken an umbrella, because it started to rain just after we'd left.
500
Fill in the blank to complete this question tag designed to check information you think is true: "She's a painter, ________ ________?"
"isn't she"
500
Fill in the blank with the correct past perfect simple or continuous form: "I was really fed up because we ________ (queue) for hours."
"had been queueing"
500
Choose the correct order:
"James has just bought a/an
Italian/ brand new/ expensive/ red/ little
"James has just bought an expensive little brand new red Italian car"
500
What kind of extreme weather condition is described here?
With temperatures exceeding 40 degrees in parts of the country, the chance of more rain is still a long way off. If the monsoon fails again, it could destroy harvests which millions of people in rely on.
"drought"
500
Say 5 sentences using each adverb
gradually, incredibly, fortunately, sadly, brilliantly
students' own answers