Intermediate Grammar: Modal Verbs For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap

from the choices below. Can- could must should- will would- might ought to 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Are you going swimming? __________________ I come with you, please? I'm not going to pay five pounds for a coffee. You ________________ be joking! This is a hospital. People are resting, so you __________________ be quiet. It ______________ rain, so take an umbrella. ________________ I have a quick word with you? Something important has happened. You___________________ smoke here. It's a no-smoking area. You___________________ come and visit us when you are next in London. I'm sure you_________________ love this film. It's brilliant. I ___________ imagine why she married him. He's so stupid!

10. What_______________ you do in my situation? I need your advice. 11. This is the most important thing you______ forget to take the food out of the oven at seven o'clock. 12. They left London at three o'clock so they _____________ be here by now. Intermediate Grammar: Reported Speech For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Last week, our teacher told us that we __________________ a spelling test at the end of the week on Friday. Three days ago a friend told me that she was going to visit me____________________ but she didn't arrive. When I spoke to Belen, yesterday, she said that she________________ to a party the night before. The teacher asked us about our favourite sports and everybody said that they_____________ football. I spoke to Obedan on his mobile and asked him where he was. He told me that he______________ in the

airport, waiting for his flight. 6. On Tuesday, Abdul told the teacher that he had missed the lesson_______________ because he had gone to the

embassy in London. 7. Last week, David telephoned the school and said that he________________ to school because he had a

headache. 8. 9. Guilherme told us that he_________________ studying in England but that he didn't like English food. When we asked her, Jiang told us that she______________________ a ghost.

10. Maria told us that she was going to visit_________________ parents in Italy the next week and wouldn't come to class. 11. Emrah said that he_______________________ Brad Pitt on a street in Bristol the day before but nobody believed him.

12. I remember last month our teacher told us he would buy us chocolate__________________ but he forgot and he never bought us any. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. A A A A A A A A A can have tomorrow went liked sat yesterday didn't come likes never saw my saw next week B B B B B B B B B B B B did have next day had gone are liking was sitting before day couldn't come liked never seen her had saw the next week C C C C C C C C C C C C would have the day before was going were liking had sat the before day doesn't come had liked had never seen your seen the after week D D D D D D D D D D D D had had the next day did go had like has sat the day before wasn't come was liking did never see their had seen after week

10. A 11. A 12. A

Intermediate Grammar: Past Simple / Past Continuous For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. At six o'clock last night Ryoko______________________ television in her apartment. After the lesson, I ____________________ some lunch and then I went for a walk. When I was a child I________________ a toy that looked like a dragon. While Sonia________________ the film, somebody stole her jacket with her passport in it. At seven fifteen this morning, I_____________ down the High Street when I saw my teacher, David. I looked in the classroom and saw five students. They ___________ a magazine article on the wall. The robber quickly picked up the money, ran to the door and _______________ out onto the street. While I was doing my homework last night, the telephone___________ . It was my mother calling me with

some good news. 9. While the police were looking for the murderer, he _________________ the country with a false passport.

10. At the concert, all the parents ____________________ politely to the children trying to play their instruments.

11. When Samuel arrived home from work, just after midninght, his wife________ for him with an angry expression on her face. 12. Last night, between ten o'clock and midninght, I could clearly hear the couple in the flat next to mine. They _____________ an argument about what to watch on TV. Intermediate Grammar: Basic Verb Tenses For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. The school usually ______________ at six o'clock each day, but on Monday, it stayed open later. Last week we_______________ some snow in our city but it didn't stay on the ground for a long time. There________________ two accidents on this road so far this year and the one last night was quite serious. He is a very active child. Probably, when he grows up he_____________ very good at sports. Please call me back later. I can't speak right now because I____________ and English lesson. I bought this car in July, so now I_______________ it for six months. Jane isn't at work today. She's very sick so I don't think_________________ tomorrow. Two days ago I_________________ my keys in my local supermarket. This is the third time this week you ___________________ late for your class. Please don't do it again.

10. Every week we_______________ a spelling test on Friday morning with words we have learned in the week. 11. Emrah______________ Hazim for two months since he started studying in the same class last November. 12. When I was on holiday in the USA, every night we ________________ a different city.