Task 1. Choose the correct variant to complete the sentences.

1. How can Joe afford ___ a new laptop?

A buying B buy C buys D to buy
2. What were you doing when you ___ the text?
A were getting B got C get D getting
3. ___ your parents use to have mobile phones when they were younger?
A Were B Are C Did D Do
4. Is London ___ as Beijing?
A big B as big C more big D bigger
5. Jenny is only eighteen but she’s ___ written two plays.
A yet B ever C never D already
6. Can you help me? I’m not ___ to reach this shelf.
A too much tall B too tall C tall enough D enough tall
7. I ___ you later if you like.
A ’m helping B ’ll help C ’m going to help D help
8. I ___ that aliens have visited the Earth.
A haven’t believed B not believe C ’m not believing D don’t believe
9. I ___ three exercises. Can I have a rest now?
A am finishing B finish C finished D have finished
10. I ___ when I suddenly felt a pain in my leg.
A swam B swim C was swimming D have swum
11. I don’t mind ___ the party.
A missing B I missed C to miss D miss
12. I ___ camping when I was younger.
A would hate B used to hate C have hated D was hating

Task 2. Each sentence has one mistake. Find and correct it.
1. Henry managed finishing his homework before his dad came home.
2 Are you cold? I am closing the window if you want.
3 I have texted my friend yet. I’ll do it now.
4 The last film we saw wasn’t as funnier as this one.
5 I can’t stand to get up early in the morning!
6 We’ve been here for ten o’clock this morning.
7 My friend Ralph and I are passionate in making model cars,
8. Unfortunately, our new house is more further from my school than our old home was.
9. I can't write the test. I'm enough hungry to think!
10. I will sent you a message when I will get there.
11. I live in this house since I was born.
12. Have you ran in an important race before?

Task 3. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one.
1. Dad thought I was too young to go to the festival alone.
Dad thought I wasn’t … to go to the festival alone.
2. I’m better at Art than Science.
I’m not … at Science as I am at Art.
3. We arrived here three weeks ago.
We … here for three weeks.
4. Painting a room isn’t very difficult.
It’s … to paint a room.
5. Pete cycled home, but before he arrived, it began to rain.
It started to rain while Pete … home.
6. Our flight to the US is on 18 June.
We … to the US on 18 June.
7 Tom thinks chat shows and period dramas are both boring.
Tom thinks chat shows are … period dramas.
8. I’ve known my classmate Jordan for five years.
I first met my classmate Jordan … .
9. Hannah and I are going to decide soon what we’ll do at the weekend.
We haven’t … we’ll do at the weekend.
10. The books in the gift shop were too expensive for me to buy.
I … enough money to buy any of the books in the gift shop.