ENGLISH TEST DECEMBER 2019/FEBRUARY 2020

5TH YEAR
NAME AND SURNAME:
MY JOURNEY TO MANCHESTER
Task 1: Read the text and circle all the verbs you can recognise:

In May, I go to Manchester because my friend has a weddi ng

party. I s peak to my friend about the j our ney and she gives me
the dir ections. She says that I can tr avel ei ther by tr ain or by bus.
I choos e to go by tr ai n because I know that it is quicker and more
comfortabl e, even though I pay mor e money. I buy a return ticket
and I take a tr ain from the Stoke stati on. I spend about an hour
on the tr ain but it is a nice journey. I sit by the window and r ead
an i nter esting book. T he c onductor is very kind and tells me when
it is time to get off. The train comes on time and I get to
Manchester four hour s before the wedding. I go shopping and fi nd
a lovely pr esent for my friend. I think it is a very nice day.

Answer these questions: What verb form (tense) is used throughout the text? Is that the best choice? Why?
Task 2: Complete the table with the appropriate verb forms:
Present Past Present Past Options
buy know chose went
can pay said gave
choose read had spent
come say got could
find sit bought read
get speak was spoke
give spend sat knew
go take thought found
have tell came paid
is think told took
Task 3: Rewrite the text using the Past Simple forms of the verbs:

Task 4 present perfect: use for/since

a) She/ live in Brazil/ 1992 ……………………………………………………..

b) He/ be/ ill/ three days ……………………………………………………...
c) They/ not visit/ their parents/ last month …………………………………………………….
d) I/ be/ a policeman/ twenty years ……………………………………………………..
e) Karen/ not be/ home/ October ……………………………………………………..
f) He/ not travel/ by boat/ last summer ………………………………………………………
g) I/ not go/ to Paris/ six years …………………………………………………….
h) Jack/ work in Canada/ ten years ……………………………………………………..
i) She/ not fly abroad/ two years ……………………………………………………..
j) Jeff/ not call/ Monday