REVIEW PRACTICE

LEVEL III

NAME: ________________________________________ DATE: ___________________________

A. Reading: (https://www.famouspeoplelessons.com/a/albert_einstein.html)

Albert Einstein was a German-born physicist, although most people probably know him as the most intelligent
person who ever lived. His name has become part of many languages when we want to say someone is a
genius, as in the phrase, “She’s a real Einstein”. He must have been pretty brainy to discover the Theory of
Relativity and the equation E=mc2.

In 1999, ‘Time’ magazine named Einstein as the Person of the Century. No one could have guessed this would
happen when he was at school. He was extremely interested in science but hated the system of learning by
heart. He said it destroyed learning and creativity. He had already done many experiments, but failed the
entrance exams to a technical college.

He didn’t let this setback stop him. When he was 16, he performed his famous experiment of imagining
traveling alongside a beam of light. He eventually graduated from university, in 1900, with a degree in physics.
Twelve years later he was a university professor and in 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for Physics. He went on to
publish over 300 scientific papers.

Einstein is the only scientist to become a cult figure, a household name, and part of everyday culture. He once
joked that when people stopped him in the street, he always replied: "Pardon me, sorry! Always I am mistaken
for Professor Einstein.” Today, he is seen as the typical mad, absent-minded professor, who just happened to
change our world.

B. Match the words from the article on the left with their synonyms on the right:

1. Genius _______ a. predicted

2. Brainy ________b. answered
3. Guessed ________c. intelligent
4. Papers ________d. forgetful
5. Alongside ________e. mastermind
6. Replied ________f. most likely
7. Absent-minded ________g. reports
8. Probably ________h. next to

C. Match the following phrases from the article:

1. the most intelligent person ________ a. this would happen

2 He must have been pretty ________ b. name
3. No one could have guessed ________ c. brainy
4. the system of learning ________ d. stop him
5. failed the entrance exams ________ e. who ever lived
6. He didn’t let this setback ________ f. over 300 scientific papers
7. traveling alongside a beam ________ g. by heart
8. He went on to publish ________ h. to a technical college
9. a household ________ i. absent-minded professor
10. the typical mad, ________ j. of light

D. Complete the following sentences about your life:

1. When I was a child ____________________________________________________________________
2. When I turned 18 _____________________________________________________________________
3. On my last birthday ___________________________________________________________________
4. I remember the year of ___________ because ______________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
 E. Write the Past Simple of the following verbs:

Verb Past Verb Past Verb Past

Listen Fall Go
Travel Have Keep
Decide Buy Read
Pretend Draw Ring
Dance Begin Run
Live Can See
Close Find Sing
Finish Feed Sleep
Die Fight Speak
Date Break Swim
Open Catch Take
Play Come Teach
Start Forget Tell
Visit Fly Think
Record Get Win
Release Do Write

F. Read about things that 3 young people did. Fill with the correct verb

*arrived *was *called *climbed *have

*helped *opened *rescued *talked *want

Rachel Ben Anya

A. Last year, I ___________ B. When our house was on C. When I __________ nine,

an old man who didn’t fire two years ago, I a woman fell off her bicycle and

_____________ his keys. _____________ our dog. He broke her leg outside our house. I

I ___________ through his didn’t _____________ to _____________ the ambulance and

bathroom window and jump out of the window! then I _____________ to the woman

____________ the front door. until the ambulance _____________.

G. Answer these questions in a long form:

1. What did you study last night? ___________________________________________________________

2. What did you do last weekend? __________________________________________________________
3. Where did you go on last holiday? ________________________________________________________
4. What did you have for breakfast this morning? ______________________________________________
5. When did you have your last party? _______________________________________________________
6. When were you born? __________________________________________________________________

H. How do you write the following dates?

Month – day – year (02-12-1998). On February twelfth nineteen ninety eight
1) 12 – 2 – 2001 __________________________________________________________________________
2) 05 – 6 – 1994 __________________________________________________________________________
3) 10 – 31 – 1999 _________________________________________________________________________
4) 03 – 5 – 2015 __________________________________________________________________________
5) 06 – 15 – 1980 __________________________________________________________________________