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Essential Evaluation 8 Form Name_______________________Date ______

1. Choose the right verb form:

a) My trousers are/is too tight.
b) My jeans are/is old and holed.
c) Those glasses is/are his.
d) Scales is/are used for weighing things.
e) The police is/are coming.
f) Where are/is the money?
(6p)

2. Insert: either, either ... or ..., neither, neither ... nor ... .
a) __________ of you two will be engaged in our company.
b) My sister likes ______ embroidering ______ knitting.
c) When Nick was a child he wanted to be _______ a policeman ___a fireman. .
d) ________ of my grannies can fish.
e) ________experienced _______hardworking clerks will be dismissed.
f) My aunt is looking _______for a part-time _______a full-time job.
g) If you run after two hares, you will catch _______.
(7p)

3. Write questions using the prompts and the tenses in brackets.

a) What (you/do) school? (present simple) _______________________________
b) When (he/get) home? (present simple)_________________________________
c) Who (your sister/write) to? (present continuous)_________________________
d) What (you/do) when I saw them? (past continuous)______________________
e) (they/watch) a video last night? (past simple)___________________________
(5p)
4. Put the verbs in brackets in the past tense simple or continuous:
a) George and Harry________tennis yesterday when it ______to rain. (PLAY /START)
b) George went home, but Harry ________ to go out (DECIDE).
c) While Margaret ______ at a shop window, Harry ______ her name. (LOOK / CALL)
d) Margaret ________.into the car and they talked for a long time. (GET)
e) Just as the man ________.down the number, he________ a scream. (WRITE/ HEAR)
f) He looked up and________and old lady who________ the road. (SEE / CROSS)
(10p)

5. Open the brackets:

a) My mother (to be) ___________ a doctor for 10 years.
b) Look! They already (to pack) ___________ all the equipmment for his office.
c) Look! How attentively the children (to listen)_____________to their teacher’s story!
d) When___________ you(to decide) ___________ to become an architect?
e) What___________your (to do)____________ ___? - She is a lawyer.
f) _________your aunt (to work) ___________ at this hospital?
g) She (to gdaduate)____________ from the university by the end of June.
h) He (not to finish) ___________ school yet, so he can’t go to universaty.
i) My nephew (to study) ___________ law, before starting his job as a lawyer.
j) ___________ they(to speak) ___________ about their future jobs at the moment.
(10p)

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