Quiz – Unit 5

Grammar
1 Complete the sentences with the Present perfect form of the verbs in
brackets and for or since.
1 I (not call) my parents I arrived at the hotel.
2 She (live) in her apartment six months.
3 Mrs. Paxman (be) a nurse at the hospital many years.
4 They (have) their computer January.
5 We (not eat) anything seven o’clock this morning.
6 They (work) in the same office a long time.
7 (you / hear) from Tom he went to college?
8 My sister (not send) me any emails she arrived in Mexico.

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2 Tick (✓) the correct sentences. Cross (✗) the incorrect sentences and correct
them.
1 He’s been in Brighton for ten days.

2 Paco and Jorge have been friends since a long time.

3 How long your father has worked for the newspaper?

4 We are on vacation in Portugal since August 5.

5 It hasn’t rained for almost a month!

6 I haven’t written any emails for last weekend.

7 She just finished her homework.

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3 Match the questions 1–5 to the answers a–e. Complete the answers with just
and the Present perfect form of the verbs in brackets.
a Because it (begin) to
1 Is Sandra at home? snow.
2 Can I have some orange juice? b No, I’m sorry. She
3 You look very happy today. (leave) the building.
4 Why don’t you want to go for a c She (find) out about her
walk? exam results.
5 Why is Joanna sad? d I’m afraid you can’t. Kevin
(drink) it all!
e I (have) some good
news.

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Vocabulary
4 Match the beginnings of the sentences 1–8 to the endings a–j. There are two
extra endings.
1 This year my family and I
booked a a tan in Cyprus.
2 I have never lost b a lot of souvenirs.
3 Adam and Lucy Smith stayed c a blog about my trip.
4 They looked forward to getting d into our hotel late at night.
e in a very good hotel in Paris.
5 Amanda went to town and f lost in the city.
bought g our tent in the backyard.
6 We checked h abroad on vacation.
7 Take a map with you, or i all my luggage on vacation.
you’ll get j our vacation online.
8 I love going

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5 Choose the correct answers.

1 Do you want to have dinner at home or out?
a eat b have c take
2 Do you want to camping this summer?
a do b put c go
3 Why haven’t you your bag?
a booked b packed c stayed
4 I can’t up a tent.
a get b boy c put
5 Let’s go into the city and the sights.
a see b watch c go
6 She wrote a blog when she was in Australia.
a trip b travel c journey

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6 Rewrite the sentences with the words in the box. There are two extra words.
arrive become buy come fetch receive run walk
1 Our parents hardly ever get angry.

2 What time will we get to our hotel?

3 The dog will get the paper for me.

4 What time did they get on the plane?

5 I get a lot of texts every day.

6 Where did you get your new

T-shirt?
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7 Choose the correct answers.
Mike Smith likes going 1 when he’s on vacation, but Michelle Smith prefers staying
in a 2 . She says it’s more comfortable, and she hates 3 up tents! Mike usually 4
their vacations, but Michelle 5 their bags!
1 a camping b checking c seeing
2 a luggage b hotel c souvenir
3 a getting b putting c going
4 a books b checks c gets
5 a goes b puts c packs
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Read the text again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?
Correct the false ones.
1 Joe and Barney are old Just The Two of Us is my favorite book. It is about
school friends. “different” people, and it has changed the way I
think about things.
T/F
2 Barney doesn’t have a The book tells the story of two American boys, Joe
lot of friends. and Barney. They live in Wyoming. Joe is tall,
T/F strong and confident. He plays baseball for the
3 One of his legs is longer school team and he has lots of friends. Barney’s
life is very different, and he is lonely. He was born
than the other.
with one leg shorter than the other, and he feels
T/F embarrassed because he has to wear special shoes.
4 He feels happier when he For this reason, he doesn’t want to play sports with
is alone in the woods. T/F the other boys – he is afraid they will laugh at him.
5 Joe goes hiking because He prefers spending his free time alone in the
woods, and he watches and listens to the animals
he wants to see a wolf.
and birds.
T/F
6 He breaks his leg when he One summer, Joe goes hiking alone in the woods.
falls in a river. When he sees a wolf in front of him, he is scared
T/F and he runs through the trees, but he falls and
breaks his leg. He lies there all night and all the
7 He can’t move and stays
next day, with no food or water. The noises around
in the woods for hours. him terrify him.
T/F
8 Barney walks to the woods Back in the town, Barney hears that Joe is missing
to look for Joe. and he decides to do something to help. He leaves
T/F his house in the middle of the night to find Joe, but
he doesn’t tell his parents. He cycles to the woods
9 The text doesn’t give and spends hours there, looking for Joe. It is dark,
details about what but he isn’t afraid because he knows the place very
happens after Joe well. Before morning he finds Joe, and their
finds Barney. summer of adventures continues. This exciting
T/F story, with its beautiful descriptions of Wyoming,
shows us that people can surprise us.

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