8/12/2019 Revision Test 7,8
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INITIAL TEST REVISION
A. Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or present
continuous:
1. Debbie ................... (organize) all the timetables and
teaching schedules at the university.
2. She....................... (work) very long hours at the
moment because it's the start of the
academic year.. Simon and Sylvia.................... (stay) in a
cottage in the !orkshire this month.
". #he cottage .......................(belong) to a cousin of
Sylvia's but the cousin is away$
he..................... (cycle) around %orfolk for a few
weeks.
&. #he uroean languages........................(be) very
oular but aanese and
*ussian ...........................(get) more oular too.
. !ircle the correct "orm o" the verbs:
#+,-S D/S,% 1) started 0 was starting work on the railway when
he was twelve
selling newsaers and snacks. #here were long eriods with nothing
for him to do so he 2)
built 0 was building himself a little laboratory in the luggage
van where he could carry out
eeriments when he ) didn't sell 0 wasn't selling things to
assengers. ,ne day while he ")
waited 0 was waiting at a station he &) noticed 0 was
noticing a small boy who 3) layed 0 was
laying by the track unaware that a train 4) aroached 0 was
aroaching. +e grabbed the child
5ust in time and saved him. #he child's father was so grateful
that he 6)offered 0 was offering
to teach dison to be a telegrah oerator. dison acceted the offer
and soon he 7) had 0 was
having regular lessons. fter a year he was good enough to get a
5ob in the telegrah office. t
twenty8one he 19) left 0 was leaving the telegrah office to
devote all his time to being an
inventor. +e went on to invent the electric light bulb the
honograh and the movie camera.
!. !omplete the "ollo#in$ conversation #ith verbs "rom the bo%.
&se present per"ect simple
or continuous. be 'o 'rive "in' have
ane is being interviewed by -rs. :arr for a 5ob working with
young children.
-*S :**$ :ome in ane take a seat. ;ould you like a coffee
