EFL School Competition for 7th Grade Primary School Students

USE OF ENGLISH Student’s CODE____________

I. Put the verbs in brackets inPresent Simple or Past Simple Tense:

Mario and Pablo _____________ (be) friends. Mario ____________ (live) in London but Pablo
_______________ (do not). They both _____________ (share) same interests like swimming and
skiing. Last year Mario _____________ (be) a regional swimming champion. Pablo ____________
(travel) to London to see him competing. They _______________ (celebrate) the victory together.
They ____________ (stay) late in a disco where they ____________ (dance) and ______________
(munch) a lot of popcorn. They __________________ (not want) to say goodbye because they really
______________ (enjoy) the night. Pablo _________________ (promise) to text Mario twice a week
and Mario ________________ (agree). Now, every Tuesday and Thursday they ______________
(spend) some time on their computer chatting on FB. Mario ______________ (write) about how he
______________ (pracitse) swimming and Pablo ________________ (return) talking about his new
girlfriend whose name ____________ (to be) Lisa. She ____________ (love) Pablo a lot.

1 point for each correct answer _____/ 20

II. Complete the sentences using the correct form of the word in the box. Add any other
words if necessary. Be careful! There is 1 extra adjective! FAT / BUSY / EASY /
CHEAP / HIGH / GOOD / COLD / SMALL / FAST / LATE / PROUD

1. My driving test was much _________________________ I’d expected.

2. She always buys ______________________________ gowns.
3. Congratulations! That’s _________________________ news this year.
4. The Dutch recycled ________________________ percentage of glass in 1992.
5. Hurry up! We’ll miss the train. Can’t you run ________________________ ?
6. Do you know which is ________________________ planet in our solar system?
7. I promise to be home no _______________________ midnight.
8. This is ______________________________ street in my neighbourhood.
9. I think last winter was a far ____________________________ this one.
10. Goats aren’t ______________________________ cows.
2 points for each correct answer _____/ 20

III. Complete the sentences with the prepositions given below. You may use some more than once:
with / up / on / in / of / from / at
1. It’s the fifth ________ May.
2. I usually spend my summer holidays ________ Struga. I go __________ my friends ________
school.
3. She’s always _______ the phone.
4. The lesson started ________ 8 o’çlock.
5. Look at that man ________ the long fair hair.
6. Let’s walk ________ the hill to the top.
7. Are there any good films ________ this week?
1 point for each correct answer _____/
IV. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form:
Pizza
Pizza, as we (1) _________________ (know) it today, (oven-baked flatbread covered with tomato
sauce) (2) _________________ (originate) in 18th. century Naples, Italy. Food historians (3)
_________________ (agree) that there (4) _________________ (be) oven-baked flatbread dishes in
many Mediterranean countries long time ago, but it (5) _________________ (be) in Naples that
people first (6) _________________ (introduce) flatbread with tomatoes and modern pizza was
born!
The story of how people (7) _________________ (add) tomatoes to flatbread is an interesting one.
When tomatoes first (8) _________________ (arrive) in Europe during the 16th.century people (9)
_________________ (believe) that tomatoes (10) _________________ (not be) edible and (11)
_________________ (refuse) to eat them. Sometime in the 1700s, though, the inventive (and most
probably starving) poor citizens of Naples (12) _________________ (try) adding the “deadly”fruit to
their food. They (13) ______________________________ (not just discover) that tomatoes (14)
_________________ (not be) poisonous; they (15) _________________ (learn) they (16)
_________________ (taste) extremely good on flatbread!
Today, pizza is popular all around the globe. The people of Naples (17) _________________ (feel)
very proud of their world-famous dish. They also (18) _________________ (take) it extremely
seriously! Many Neapolitans (19) _________________ (consider) that there are two “real”pizzas-the
Marinara and the Margherita. In fact, many pizza restaurant in Naples (20) _________________
(serve) only these two pizzas, and no other.
1 point for each correct answer _____/ 20

V. Circle the correct answer:

1. My dad never goes to work _________ foot.

a) by b) on c) at
2. A: That’s $25, please.
a) Single, please. b) Hello. Can I help you? c) Here you are.
3. Helen has to do all the _________ around the house.
a) features b) chores c) appliances
4. Snakebites can sometimes be _________ if you don’t make it to the hospital in time.
a) innocent b) poisonous c) fatal
5. The Burj Khalifa is _____________ building in the world.
a) the most tallest b) tallest c) the tallest
1 point for each correct answer _____/5