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1 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT EJERCICIOS DE REFUERZO EDUCATIVO 4º ESO GRAMMAR: DISTRIBUCIÓN DE CONTENIDOS 1. The passive. 2. Past simple and present perfect. 3. Present continuous for future reference. 4. Gerunds as nouns and after prepositions. 5. Will, going to. 6. Future perfect. 7. Phrasal verbs. 8. Conditionals. 9. Prepositions of time. 10. Phrasal verbs 11. Present perfect continuous. 12. Short answers. 13. Prepositions of place. 14. Reported speech. 15. Modals for probability. 16. Prefixes. 17. Question tags. 18. Third conditional. 19. Wish. 20. Present perfect passive. 21. Second conditional (revision). 22. Short and long questions. 23. Polite questions. 24. Reported speech. 25. Suffixes. 26. ing. Clauses. 27. Reported questions.

2 VOCABULARY: 1. Body language. 2. Adjectives describing character. 3. Sounds: verbs and nouns. 4. Adverbs. 5. Jobs. 6. Adjectives: qualities for jobs. 7. TV programmes. 8. Human achievement: verbs and nouns. 9. Romantic gifts. 10. Relationships. 10. Adjectives: describing pictures. 11. Art. 12. World issues. 13. Causes. 14. Body art. 15. Materials and patterns. 16. Newspapers. 17. Reporting verbs. 18. Geographical features. 1.Complete these sentences in passive voice with the correct form of the verb to be. a) Newspapers sold in that shop every day. b) Pictures painted on cave walls a long time ago. c) Tomorrow the pop concert held in Madrid. d) Many paintings sold at the moment in the art exhibition. e) While I was watching TV, all the dishes washed by my sister. 2.Write these sentences again without changing their original meaning. Ex.: You can clean this wall with soap and water. This wall can be cleaned with soap and water. a) They use computers to make pictures nowadays. Nowadays, computers. b) They were building that bridge when we left the city three years ago. That bridge. c) You must wash that fruit before you eat it. That fruit. d) The policeman arrested the child for writing on the subway wall. The child.

3 3.Fill in the blanks with the right form of the verbs in brackets, using passive or active voice. a) We sat (sit) in our car yesterday while it was being washed (wash). b) At the moment I (study) for a test. The test (give) tomorrow. c) Ruben usually (go) to the swimming pool in the holidays, but it (repair) this summer. d) A new film (show) every week at our local cinema. 4.Write these sentences into passive voice: a) They built this church in b) They are preparing the room for the meeting. c) You can take the food our of the fridge now. d) When will you finish your homework? e) They speak English in that hotel. 5.Complete these sentences with one of the following verbs (in the correct form: Presentperfect/Simple past). Visit/ Go, be/start /Do, write, read/ see / increase/ send/ a) Jack a lot today. He 3 letters and a book. b) We to the cinema last Thursday. The film very good. c) I never a ghost. d) They the price of the bus twice this year e) In 1997 Pathfinder pictures back from Mars. f) I in 3 different countries in my life. g) I school when I was 5 years old. 6. Read about what happened in 1938 and complete the text with the correct form of the verb. An Attack from Mars. On October 30 th 1938, a radio station in the United States (cause) millions of people to panic when they (hear) what they (think) was a news programme. The programme (say) that aliens from planet Mars were attacking New Jersey, USA and that buildings were on fire all over the state. In fact, the

4 programme was a radio play, a science fiction story based on the book The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Although the radio station (say) before the programme that it was fiction, millions of people (believe) it! Thousands of people (telephone) the police for instructions on what to do. Many people even (put) their things into their cars and (drive) from their homes to `escape the Martians. In the streets, people (start) screaming and running. Many people were taken to hospital in a state of shock. 7. Write these sentences again, using the words in brackets and without changing their meaning. a) He began working here in 1959 and he is still working here now. (since) He has been working here since b) I first met her in (know / since ). c) When did you get this car? (How long / have ). d) The last time I saw Isabel was ten years ago. (for). e) When did you arrive? (How long / wait ). 8. Put the verb into the most suitable form, present continuous or present simple. a) I am going (go) to the theatre this evening. b) Does the film begin (the film/ begin) at 3.30 or 4.30? c) We (have) a party next Saturday. Would you like to come? d) The art exhibition (open) on 3 May and (finish) on 15 July. e) I (not/go) out this evening. I (stay) at home. f) ` (you/do) anything tomorrow morning? `No, I m free. Why? g) We (go) to a concert tonight. It (begin) at 7.30 h) You are on the train to London and you ask another passenger: Excuse me. What time (this train / get) to London? 9. Complete the sentences using will or going to. a) Why are you turning on the television? I am going to watch the news. (I/watch). b) Oh, I ve just realised. I haven t got any money. Haven t you? Well, don t worry. you some. (I/lend). c) I have got a headache.

5 Have you? Wait there and an aspirin for you. (I/get) d) Why are you filling that bucket with water? the car. (I/wash). e) I ve decided to repaint this room. Oh, have you? What colour it? (you / paint). f) Where are you going? Are you going shopping? Yes, something for dinner. (I/buy). g) I don t know how to use this camera. It is quite easy. you. (I/show). h) What would you like to eat? a sandwich, please. (I/have). i) Did you post that letter for me? Oh, I am sorry. I completely forgot. it now. (I/do). j) The ceiling in this room doesn t look very safe, does it? No, it looks as if down. (it/fall). k) Has George decided what to do when he leaves school? Oh, yes. Everything is planned. a holiday for a few weeks and then a computer programming course. (he/have, he/do). 10. Put the verb into the correct form, will be (do)ing or will have (done). a) Don t phone me between 7 and 8. We ll be having (we/have) dinner then. b) Phone me after 8 o clock. (we/finish) dinner by then. c) Tomorrow afternoon we re going to play tennis from 3 o clock until So at 4 o clock, (we/play) tennis. d) Can we meet tomorrow afternoon? Not in the afternoon. (I/work). e) B has to go to a meeting which begins at 10 o clock. It will last about an hour. Will you be free at 11.30? Yes, (the meeting/ finish) by that time. f) Chuck came to Britain from the USA nearly three years ago. Next Monday it will be exactly three years. So on Monday, (he/be) in Britain for exactly three years. g) Do you think (you/ still/ do) the same job in ten years time? h) Jane is from New Zealand. She is travelling around Europe at the moment. So far she has travelled about 1,000 miles. By the end of the trip, (she/travel) more than 3,000 miles. 11. Fill in the blanks with the suitable form of the verbs in brackets. a) If you eat (eat) too much, you will get (get) fat. b) I (give) him the message as soon as he (come).

6 c) If they (not stop) this madness, young people (become) ill. d) Judy (organise) the club if everyone (pay) her. e) When she (change) her diet, she (be) healthier. 12. Rewrite these sentences using the words given below. a) If you don t hide the message, someone will steal it. Unless you hide the message, someone will steal it. b) Unless you eat more, you will be ill. If you. c) Unless John stops smoking, he ll never be healthy. If John. d) If they don t feed the cat, it will die. Unless they. e) If he doesn t come to the picnic, he won t see his friends again. Unless he. 13. Fill in the blanks with a suitable form of the second conditional type. a) If Sam tried (try) harder, he would pass (pass) the exam. b) If I (have) a car, I (give) you a lift. c) Your English (improve) if you (read) more books. d) If he (eat) less icecream, he (not/be) so fat. e) What (you /do ) if you (see) a ghost? 14. Complete the following sentences with the third conditional. a) If Gary hadn t eaten (not eat) so much, he would not have been (not be) sick. b) If you (come) to the party, you (see) Madonna. c) If her boss (pay) her more, she (not leave) her job. d) If Sandra (have) more money, she (buy) some new shoes. e) They (visit) him in hospital if he (want) them to.

7 15. Change these sentences using third conditional sentences. a) It is a pity he came so late. He missed the beginning of the film. If he hadn t come so late, he wouldn t have missed the beginning of the film. b) She didn t go on a diet, so she didn t lose weight.. c) He didn t have a job. That s why he became a burglar.. d) The business did not succeed, so they lost a lot of money.. e) My friends smoked cigarettes, so I started smoking too Put the verb into the correct form. a) If I knew his number, I would phone him. (know) b) I wouldn t buy that coat if I were you. (not/buy) c) I you if I could, but I m afraid I can t. (help) d) We would need a car if we in the country. (live) e) If we had the choice, we (live) in the country. f) This soup isn t very good. It better if it wasn t so salty. (taste) g) I wouldn t mind living in England if the weather better. (be) h) If I were you, I to bed so late every night, you wouldn t be tired all the time. (not/ go) i) I think there are too many cars. If there so many cars (not/be), there so much pollution. (not/be) 17. Complete the sentences with an appropriate form of the verb in brackets. a) He (pass) his exams, if he d worked harder. b) If someone had held the ladder for him, he (not fall) off. c) We would have met you at the station, if we (know) you were coming. d) What you do, if nobody had heard you calling for help?

8 18. Put the verb into the most suitable form, past continuous (I was doing), past perfect (I had done) or past perfect continuous (I had been doing) a) It was very noisy next door. Our neighbours were having (have) a party. b) We were good friends. We had known (know) each other for a long time. c) John and I went for a walk. I had difficulty keeping up with him because he (walk) so fast. d) Mary was sitting on the ground. She was out of breath. She (run). e) When I arrived, everybody was sitting round the table with their mouths full. They (eat) f) When I arrived, everybody was sitting round the table and talking. Their mouths were empty but their stomachs were full. They (eat). g) Jim was on his hands and knees on the floor. He (look) for his contact lens. h) When I arrived, Kate (wait) for me. She was rather annoyed with me because I was late and she (wait) for a very long time. i) I was sad when I sold my car. I (have) it for a very long time. j) We were extremely tired at the end of the journey. We (travel) for more than 24 hours. 19. Change these sentences into reported speech. a) The attacks have decreased by 90%, said the policeman. The policeman said that the attacks had decreased by 90%. b) Susan came to see me yesterday, she told me.. c) He said, I only drink coffee for breakfast.. d) The guide said, There will be a lecture about Indian customs tomorrow Rewrite these statements in reported speech. Make any other changes that are necessary. a) Peter said, I m trying to stop smoking.. b) Jill said, I ll do it tomorrow morning.. c) Tony said, I locked the front door before I went to school..

9 d) I ve passed my driving test, said Jill s boyfriend.. e) Dave said, I ve been waiting since six o clock.. f) It is my birthday, said Ann Put in can or could. Sometimes both words are possible. a) The phone is ringing. Who do you think it is? It be Tim. b) I m really hungry. I eat a horse! c) If you re very hungry, we have dinner now. d) It is so nice here. I stay here all day but unfortunately I have to go. e) I can t find my bag. Have you seen it? No, but it be in the car. f) Peter is a keen musician. He plays the flute and he also play the piano. g) What shall we do? There s a film on television. We watch that. h) The weather is nice now but it change later. 22. Put in must or can t. a) You ve been travelling all day. You must be very tired. b) That restaurant be very good. It s always full of people. c) That restaurant be very good. It is always empty. d) You re going on holiday next week. You be looking forward to it. e) It rained every day during their holiday, so they have had a very nice time. f) Congratulations on passing your exam. You be very pleased. g) You got here very quickly. You have walked very fast. h) Bill and Sue go away on holiday very often, so they be short of money. 23. Read the situations and use the words in brackets to write sentences with must have and can t have. a) The phone rang but I didn t hear it. (I / asleep) I must have been asleep. b) Jane walked past me without speaking. (she/ see/me) She can t have seen me. c) The jacket you bought is very good quality. (it/very expensive). d) I haven t seen the people next door for ages. (they/ go away)

10 e) I can t find my umbrella. (I / leave/ it in the restaurant last night) f) Don passed the exam without studying for it. (the exam/ very difficult) g) She knew everything about our plans. (she /listen/ to our conversation) h) Fiona did the opposite of what I asked her to do. (she / understand/ what I said). 24. Rewrite these sentences using the verb in brackets. a) Perhaps he knows her. (may) He may know her. b) Perhaps she didn t send it. (might). She might not have sent it. c) Perhaps they go out on Fridays. (may). d) Perhaps you dropped it in the street. (might). e) Perhaps he doesn t like holidays abroad. (might). f) Perhaps he caught a later train. (may). 25. Finish these sentences by adding an infinitive form and the rest of the sentence. We were in London last month. We liked it so much that we hope. Wendy is learning. The party was very boring so we decided. You are a liar. You promised. They were in big trouble because they had no money, so all of us agreed.

11 26. Complete these relative clauses with who or which. This is the little girl WHO came to John s party. This is the friend convinced me to visit Canada last summer. Let me show you the computer I have just bought. It s simply amazing This is the machine you have to repair. The film is about woman stayed in Africa for many years studying how the gorillas lived. The lady lives upstairs is a famous opera singer and we usually hear her rehearsing. 27. Join each pair of sentences with a relative pronoun and make a new one. He is a doctor / he visits me... He is THE doctor WHO visits me. She is my neighbour / She lent me a ladder. It is a dog / It followed me home yesterday. This is a car / It won the Car of the Year award. Those are thieves / They robbed the first bank. 28. Convert the questions below into reported speech. "Can they play the piano?" she asked. 1 "Has Sarah ever been to Siena?" he asked. 2 "Are they French or Canadian?," asked Charlie. 3 "Where do bears live?" asked George. 4 "Who wants some more yoghurt ice cream?" asked Mum. 5 "Are we going out tonight?" asked Bob.

12 6 "Can I use your mobile, John?" asked Sarah Fill the gaps with the verb in brackets in the appropriate form. 1 I can't stand in queues. ( to wait ) 2 I wouldn't like in his shoes. ( to be ) 3 Jim loves in Thailand. ( to work ) 4 I hate the shopping on Saturday. ( to do ) 5 Blast! I forgot milk. ( to buy ) 6 In the end we decided in. ( to stay ) 7 I need some information about Portugal. ( to find ) 8 My parents like for long walks at the weekend. ( to go ) 9 Tony gave up years ago. ( to smoke ) 10 I wanted and see Troy but no one else was interested. ( to go ) 30. Fill the gaps by choosing the most appropiate answer in brackets. 1 Did you know that Chrissie got (embarrassed/pregnant) on holiday in Ibiza? 2 The (signature/subject) I hate most is maths. 3 Begonia is a very (kind /sympathetic) person. 4 Keep (removing/stirring) the soup the whole time. 5 I couldn't agree more. That's a very (sensible/sensitive) idea. 6 The film The Quiet American was a box-office (exit/success).

13 7 How many (idioms/languages) can you speak? 8 (Actually/Nowadays) I'm living with my parents again. 9 The poor live in the (slums/suburbs). 10 The police came to my (assistance/attendance). 31. Fill the gaps with still, yet, already or just. 1 Jim sends his love. I've seen him in the high street. 2 We can't have chips again. We've had them three times this week. 3 I can't decide. I haven't made a decision. 4 I haven't phoned Begonia. I'll do it when I get back from work. 5 Billy: Do you know anything about Sally? Betty: Oh she's fine. I've spoken to her on the phone. 6 Monica says she's this minute caught the train so she'll be here in half an hour. 7 Betty: Have you cleaned the bathroom yet? Billy: I've done it. I did it an hour ago. 8 We're going to a concert on Friday, but we haven't bought the tickets. 9 Daphne hasn't bought the tickets. I hope she does it soon. 32. Have something done Complete the sentences and make clear that the people don't / didn't do it themselves. (The first sentence is given as an example.) 1. Yesterday, (I / cut / my hair) I had my hair cut.

14 2. Every Friday, (Joe / wash / his car) 3. Tomorrow, (she / repair / her shower) 4. Each Saturday, (we / deliver / a pizza) to our home. 5. Last year, (Bob / clean / his house) by a charwoman. 6. As Phil had a broken arm, (he / type / his texts) by his secretary. 7. (I / pick up / the goods) tomorrow in the afternoon. 8. (we / redecorate / our walls) last summer. 33. Order the words in the boxes to make questions. you have much do how money 1? mousse my chocolate did eat you 2? say you what did 3? car tonight borrow I your can 4?

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1 Family and friends. 1 Play the game with a partner. Throw a dice. Say. How to play 1 Family and friends 1 Play the game with a partner. Throw a dice. Say. How to play Scores Throw a dice. Move your counter to that You square and complete the sentence. You get three points if the sentence