Transilvania University of Brasov

Faculty of Product Design and Environment

Seminar 1: revision

1. Write complete sentences using the prompts, using either the Past Simple or Present
Continuous

What / you / buy / at the supermarket?

What did you buy at the supermarket?

1 We / not sell / our old car last year

We didn't sell our old car last year.

2 I / see / a good film yesterday

I saw a good movie yesterday.

3 Sarah / teach / English / for twenty years

Sarah has been teaching English for twenty years.

4 Paul / be / a good ice hockey player

Paul will be a good ice hockey player.

5 When / you / leave / the US?

When you leave for the US.

6 you / play tennis / on Saturday

You will play tennis on Saturday.

7 We / go / to the new Indian restaurant tomorrow

We're going to the new Indian restaurant tomorrow.

8 Why / you / not / come to my party

Why don't you come to my party?

9 We / invite / our new neighbours / over this weekend

__________________________________________ .

10 Tom / not / go / to Australia now

Ton don't going to Australia now.

1
 2. Put the adverbs of frequency in the correct place.

We go to concerts. (never)
We never go to concerts.

1 Julia is late for work. (always)

Julia always is late for work.

2 My neighbours play tennis. (a couple of times a week)

A couple of times a week my neighbours play tennis.

3 I am busy on Tuesday evenings. (usually)

I am usually busy on Tuesday evenings.

4 You do any exercise. (never)

You never do any exercise.

5 Steve has a holiday in the sun. (at least once a year)

At least once a year Steve has a holiday in the sun.

3. Choose the correct words in italics.

1 I’ve always made/done a lot of work for charity.

2 I wanted to earn/take a lot of money when I was young.

3 I passed/did my driving test yesterday. I’m so pleased.

4 I did/won an award for journalism when I was a student.

5 When I was twenty-five I said/gave a speech at an international conference.

6 There are a lot of celebrity chefs/chiefs who have cookery programmes on TV now.

7 We hope to see/seeing you soon.

8 I suggest to take/taking some time off – things must be very stressful at the moment.

9 I always avoid to travel/travelling in the summer – it’s so busy.

10 Do you promise to help/helping me?

4. Complete the sentences with too, too much/many, (not) enough.

2
1 I’ve got __too much_____ work to do today – why don’t you ask Sarah to help you?

2 There aren’t not enough hours in the day!

3 I’ve got __too many_____ clothes. You can have some of them if they fit you.

4 Do you have ___enough____ money for your plane ticket?

5 As King Edward VIII’s wife once said, ‘you can never be ___too____ rich’.

5. Choose the correct word in italics:

1 This is the house that/where I was born.

2 Is that the Chinese restaurant where/which you had your birthday celebration?

3 Tina is the woman which/who works in the local café.

4 Did you enjoy the film that/who you watched yesterday?

5 I really liked the fish who/which you cooked for me.

6. Read the email. Are the statements true (T), false (F) or not given (NG)?

Hi Kate

It was good to hear from you the other day. I know you’ve been really busy with the move and getting
everything sorted out in your new home. I can’t wait to come and visit!

I’m so glad that you enjoyed reading The Lacuna. I thought you would, as you’ve been to Mexico and
the States and probably know some of the places mentioned. Whenever I read one of Barbara
Kingsolver’s novels I realise that I will never be as good a writer as she is! But I can dream, can’t I? As
the new school year is almost here I’ve decided to start doing some evening courses as I don’t want to
get into the habit of staying at home watching TV. I’ve signed up for a new course in creative writing
at the local college. The programme looks quite interesting as we will be covering different aspects of
writing like poetry, biography, fiction and screen writing. The only thing I’m not looking forward to is
reading my ‘work’ to the rest of the group but I suppose everyone will be feeling nervous about that.

3
I’ve also just discovered that someone is offering drumming lessons at the community centre down the
road. I was at a friend’s house recently and they had a huge drum kit in the music room. Of course I
had to have a go … you know me. I’ve always wanted to be in a rock band. Wow! It was so fantastic.
Luckily they don’t have any neighbours as I’m sure I made a terrible noise but at least I thought I was
good! It was such fun and then, the other day, I saw a poster advertising drumming workshops locally.
You pay for a course of six lessons and I guess after that you’ll know whether you want to continue or
not. I’m really excited. It’s such a good way to get rid of stress and it’s quite good exercise as well. I
read that they also do team-building sessions in companies so I might suggest it to my boss as morale is
pretty low at the moment and a lot of people are thinking of leaving. I think it would be great to get
together and just make as much noise as possible! You could suggest it to your boss too!

How about you? Have you had any more thoughts about joining that photography class you were
talking about? It would be a good way to meet people and I’m sure your tutor would take you out and
about so you’d get to know the local area a bit better. There’s so much you can do with digital
photography these days and you’ve certainly got a great camera. If we do all the courses we want to do,
we’ll have no time to see one another. Perhaps we should book a date in the diary now before we
become famous artists! How about next weekend?

Love

Alice x

Kate has just moved into a new house. _ NG_

1 The Lacuna is a work of fiction. ____F___

2 Alice has been to the USA. ___F____

3 Alice has read other books by Barbara Kingsolver. ____T___

4 Alice is doing a course in creative writing. ___NG____

5 Alice doesn’t want to read her work to other people. _____NG__

6 Alice has had drumming lessons. __T_____

7 Her friend’s house is detached. ___T____

4
8 Alice suffers from stress. ___T____

9 The atmosphere at work isn’t good. ___NG____

10 She wants to suggest drumming to Kate’s boss. ___T____

11 Kate has found a photography class. ___T____

12 Kate is a good photographer. ____NG___

13 Alice suggests meeting up. ____T___