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WRITING TEST #1

QUESTION #1
Answer the questions according to you. Use full sentences.
a) What is your full name? Tell us your name and your surname.

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b) How old are you? Tell us your age.

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c) Where are you from? Tell us your neighbourhood.

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d) What is your profession? Tell us what you do in your work, or if you just study.
If you study, what grade or period are you in?

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e) What do you like to do in your free time? Tell us two things.

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QUESTION #2
For each item, complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb to be.
Example: The teachers’ room IS full of teachers that ARE NOT very professional:
they keep on laughing of their students.
a) Your brothers ____________ very loud. Why do they need to shout all the
time?
b) I ____________ at school right now because I am sick.
c) Your teacher is really angry and irritated. _________ she like that all the time?
d) My parents ____________ at home at the moment. Do you want to leave a
message?
e) Carla and Renato ____________ best friends since 5th grade.
f) The posters’ owner ____________ my brother José, who is a rock addict.
g) Alessandra and I ____________ Spanish teachers.
h) Her hair ____________ messy because it rained.
i) Gabriel ____________ a pop addict because he hates Michael Jackson.
j) What time ____________ your flights departing from Belo Horizonte?

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QUESTION #3
For each item, fill in with the right possessive adjectives.
Example: The children drink THEIR milk for breakfast every day.
a) We must wash ____________ hands before lunch.
b) Dr. Smith washes _________ car every morning.
c) The boys are going to clean _________ rooms today.
d) Bruno must talk with _________ coordinator.
e) Mary didn’t do _________ homeworks.
f) I saw you today in _________ car.
g) The bird always sleeps in _________ nest.
h) Tamires and Beatriz play with _________ sister.

QUESTION #4
For each item, fill in with the right possessive pronouns.
Example: Jim is a writer, and this book is HIS.
a) Paul and Mary went on vacations last week and these pictures are _________.
b) I am loving these books of ____________.
c) Laura always brings her own lunch. This spaghetti is ____________.
d) We are really good friends. I will never end this friendship of ____________.
e) I forgot my pencil. Can I borrow ____________, please?
f) You can’t have any of my chocolate! It’s all ____________!
g) I sold my bike, so the money is all ____________.
h) Those are the children’s toys. They are ____________.

QUESTION #5
For each item, choose the correct form of the pronoun or adjective.
Example: We are eating in (you/YOUR/yours) home.
a) Karen and Susan are waiting for (they/their/theirs) parents.
b) Everybody has problems. I have (my/mine/mines) and you have
(you/your/yours).
c) (You/Your/Yours) is an excellent car. How much did you pay?
d) Mrs. Helena and (she/her/hers) children are going to (we/our/ours) farm.
e) (We/Our/Ours) go to UFMG for (we/our/ours) English classes.

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QUESTION #6
Write the numbers in full in items a-d, and the years in full in items e-h.
Example: 2392034. Two million, three hundred ninety-two thousand, thirty-four.
a) 3223. ____________________________________________________________

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b) 53. _____________________________________________________________.

c) 40689. ___________________________________________________________

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d) 333. ____________________________________________________________.

e) 2018. ___________________________________________________________.

f) 1653. ___________________________________________________________.

g) 1994. ___________________________________________________________.

h) 2002. ___________________________________________________________.

QUESTION #7
Describe the two pictures below. Write at least two characteristics for each
picture. Consider the months according to the South Hemisphere.
Season: _______________________________.

Months: _______________________________

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Characteristics: ________________________

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Season: ______________________________.

Months: _______________________________

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Characteristics: ________________________

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