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Progress test 1  Units 1–6 Elementary FOURTH EDITION

Exercise 1  Personal information 6 children How they do have many?

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Surname Clarke
7 up yesterday We got late morning
First name Karen
Country Britain ________________________________________
Age 28 8 holiday go We August never on in
Address 33 East St, Brighton ________________________________________
Job Teacher 9 Sue and Dave going the cinema like to
Place of work Language school in Oxford
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Married? No
Free time Sailing
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Read the information about Karen Clarke. Write the Exercise 3  Present Simple
questions.
Complete the text with the correct form of the verb in
1 What’s her first name? brackets.
Her first name’s Karen.
I (1) have (have) two brothers, Andy and Nick. Andy
2 ________________________________________
(2) ______ (be) a pilot and Nick (3) ______ (work) in
Her surname is Clarke.
an office. Nick and I (4) ______ (live) in London and we
3 ________________________________________
sometimes (5) ______ (have) dinner together at weekends.
She’s from Britain.
We (6) ______ (not see) Andy very often because he
4 ________________________________________
(7) ______ (travel) all the time. Nick (8) ______ (not
She’s 28.
like) flying so he never (9) ______ (go) by plane. I’m a
5 ________________________________________
student and so I (10) ______ (not have) a lot of money for
33 East St, Brighton.
holidays. It’s strange – there are two brothers who never
6 ________________________________________
(11) ______ (go) abroad and one who is never at home!
She’s a teacher.
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In a language school in Brighton.
8 ________________________________________ Exercise 4  some, any, a, or an
No, she isn’t. She’s single.
Complete the sentences with some, any, a, or an.
9 ________________________________________
1 There are some flowers in the garden.
She goes sailing.
2 There are _____ magazines on the coffee table.
1 point for each correct answer  8 3 Can I have _____ espresso, please?
4 Are there _____ pictures in your living room?
Exercise 2  Word order 5 There aren’t _____ good restaurants in our town.
Put the words in the correct order. 6 There’s _____ newsagent’s next to my flat.
7 Jack has _____ DVDs in his living room.
1 you from are Where?
8 Are there _____ Spanish students in your class?
Where are you from?
9 There’s _____ armchair in my bedroom.
2 do at What weekends you do?
10 There aren’t _____ photographs in my living room.
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11 There are _____ bookshelves in the dining room.
3 violin You well the play can really
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4 nice a wall There picture is the on
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5 Coke please I a Can have?
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Progress test 1  Continued Elementary FOURTH EDITION

Exercise 5  can/can’t Exercise 8  Past Simple and Present Simple

Read the information, then complete the sentences with Complete the text with the correct form of the verb in
can or can’t and a verb. brackets: the Past Simple or the Present Simple.

swim play speak speak My friend Jack (1) is (be) 40. He (2) ______ (leave)
tennis German Italian Britain when he was 20 and (3) ______ (go) to Italy.
He (4) ______ (work) in Naples for ten years, then he
Sylvia ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓
Linda ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ (5) ______ (move) to Rome. There he (6) ______ (meet)
Marianne ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ Antonella. They (7) ______ (get) married in 1982 and now
they (8) ______ (live) in Florence. Jack (9) ______ (teach)
1 Linda can swim and she can play tennis. English in a language school. And what (10) ______ (do)
2 Sylvia can swim, but she ____________ . Antonella do? She (11) ______ (sell) computer software.
3 Marianne ____________ and she ____________ .
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4 Linda _____________ , but Sylvia and Marianne can.
5 Everybody _____________ .
Exercise 9  Choose the correct sentence
6 Only Linda _____________ .
7 Sylvia and Linda ________ , but Marianne can’t. Tick (✓) the correct sentence.
1 a Can you swim?  ✓
1 point for each correct answer  6 b Can you to swim? 

Exercise 6  do, was, and did 2 a My brothers name is Jack. 

b My brother’s name is Jack. 
Complete the sentences with a verb from the box.
3 a Are there any Japanese students in your class? 
do / don’t  does / doesn’t  was / wasn’t  were / weren’t  b Are there some Japanese students in your class? 
did / didn’t
4 a There isn’t any shops near here. 
1 How do you travel to work every day? b There aren’t any shops near here. 
2 Where ______ you yesterday? I ______ see you at 5 a Can I have a ice cream, please? 
school. b Can I have an ice cream, please? 
3 What ______ you do last weekend?
6 a Look at that lovely house over there. 
4 I ______ like fast food. It’s horrible.
b Look at this lovely house over there. 
5 ______ James have two jobs?
6 Ben ______ like driving. He always walks to work. 7 a This photos of your holiday are great. 
7 ______ Emily at your party last week? No, she ______. b These photos of your holiday are great. 
8 There ______ any good films at the cinema last month. 8 a You can play very well the piano. 
b You can play the piano very well. 
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9 a Why aren’t you interested in classical music? 
Exercise 7  Past Simple b Why aren’t you interesting in classical music? 
Write the Past Simple of these verbs.
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Regular Irregular
1 like liked 6 have ______
2 study ______ 7 become ______
3 talk ______ 8 sing ______
4 decide ______ 9 sell ______
5 start ______ 10 make ______

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Exercise 10  Which one is different?

Underline the different word.
1 my  we his your
2 third five twentieth first
3 sister grandmother brother aunt
4 shower cooker washing machine fridge
5 pilot model architect teach
6 father sister mother man
7 flat bathroom kitchen living room
8 garden post office chemist’s bookshop

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Exercise 11  Adjectives

Match the opposites.

small cheap
horrible interesting
difficult big
expensive old
hot easy
slow fast
boring nice
rich poor
young cold

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Exercise 12  Words that go together

Match a verb in A with words in B.

A B
drive the guitar
play three languages
go dinner
send a car
live running
cook these jeans
speak a text message
try on on the third floor

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