BASIC GRAMMAR

1.1 THE PRESENT

1 Tick the correct question and correct the errors

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2 Are you staying in a hotel?
3 Do you like the food here?

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5✓
6 Are you having an interesting holiday?

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8 Do you understand much of our language ?
A Put the verb in the correct form
1 leave
2 am trying
3 eat
4 Do you understand
5 goes
6 Do you like
7 cost
8 don’t know
9 am doing
10 is/are playing
11 wears
12 are you being
13 don’t want
14 am waiting
15 Is anyone using
B Decide correct or incorrect. Correct the incorrect

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2 They don’t have a lot of fun at work.

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4✓

5✓

6✓
7We have lunch at about 1 pm every day.
8 Have they got any chill

1.2 HABITS AND NORMALITY

A Rewrite the sentence
1 I tend to have more energy in the morning.
2 You’re always criticizing other people.
3 My mother has a tendency to worry too much.
4 She would feel exhausted at the end of every day.
5 Ken wasn’t use to being so poor.
6 I’m not accustomed to driving this kind of car.
7 Frank doesn’t tend to tell lies.
8 Ian is used to sorting out other people’s problems for them
9 As a child, he would play some kind of sport every day.
10 Zoe has a habit of making jokes about her problems

B Read and underline the correct word

1 regular
2 ordinary
3 normal
4everyday
5 typical
6 usual
7 common
8 average
9 frequent
10 normal

C Complete the sentence

1 common for people to
2 has a habit of saying
3 have got used travelling
4 is it usual for people
5 get used to working
6 not normal for me
7 it is rare for Noel
8 is not used to working
9 has a tendency to panic
10 get used to giving

1.3 FREQUENCY
A Put in the correct place
Always : invariably
(too) many times : over and over again, time and again, time after time
Sometime: now and again, from time to time, once in a while
Almost never: seldom

B Read and underline the correct word

1 normally
2 As a rule
3 periodically
4 frequently
5 generally
6 constantly
7 regularly
8 occasionally
9 continually
10 rarely

C Fill the gap

1 all
2hardly
3 often
4 then
5 most
6 ever