Worksheet

Task I
Choose the answers.
1. Let’s go ran / running / runs in the park tomorrow.
2. Marvin wants living / to live alone. He likes his own space.
3. My friend keeps sending / to send me junk e-mails.
4. Lance is a good singer. He has a talent for singing / to sing / sing.
5. Andy’s cooking / to cook / cook is great. He makes excellent pizza.
6. I hope finishing reading / to finish reading / to finish to read this book tonight.
7. Kim promises buying / to buy me a new computer.

Task II
Use the correct form of the words to fill in the blanks.

enjoy refuse start prefer need miss quit learn

1. Joe’s wife lives in another country. He _____________ seeing her every day.
2. Do we _____________ to buy some bread?
3. Angela _____________ to work for a big company. She likes to know everybody in the office.
4. When do we _____________ eating? I’m hungry!
5. I feel terrible. I should _____________ drinking.
6. Where can you _____________ to drive a truck?
7. Max _____________ exercising. It makes him feel good.
8. Sandra doesn’t like to study on Sundays. She _____________ to go out with her friends.

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 Worksheet
Task I
Fill in the blanks.

teenager human treat wild anytime spend

1. This tiger is not just a large cat. It’s a(n) _____________ animal.
2. We have to learn more about the _____________ body.
3. Are you tired? We can go home _____________.
4. We _____________ the holidays at my parents’ house.
5. I always _____________ people with respect.
6. She’s not a little girl anymore. She’s a(n) _____________.

Task II
Choose the word that is not like the others.
1. understand, confuse, know
2. enjoy, hate, love
3. fix, break, repair
4. often, usually, seldom
5. wild, kind, gentle
6. safe, dangerous, bad

Fill in the blanks with the words in bold above.

Many people like animals. 1. _____________, this is a good thing, but some people want
to have wild animals in their homes. This is seldom a good idea. People need to
2. _____________ one important thing. The animals may look cute and 3. _____________,
but they are still wild. Even small wild animals can be 4. _____________. They can
5. _____________ furniture and hurt little children. Living in a city can also make animals
unhappy. If we 6. _____________ animals, we should visit them in the countryside. Or, we
can simply read about them in books.

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