General Review

Read the following dialogue between Arlene and Yvonne.

Fill in the blanks using the modals: had to, didn’t have to, must, mustn’t.

Yvonne: Arlene, you (1) ________________ tell me how you got the idea of opening a T-shirt factory.
Arlene: Well, I (2) ________________ leave school at 16 to help my parents and I got a job in a clothing factory.
Yvonne: Really? Wow, working in a factory as a teenager (3) ________________ be hard!
Arlene: It was all right, actually. We (4) ________________ work too hard – only 6 hours a day. The only thing I
really didn’t like was the horrible brown uniform we (5) ________________ wear.
Yvonne: Brown? I like brown. By the way, we (6) ________________ decide on some rules for our factory workers.
Arlene: OK, but we (7) ________________ make them wear anything they don’t want to wear!

Past Progressive: Progressive vs. Simple

Complete Gore May’s restaurant review.
Hello, listeners! This is Gore May with another restaurant review!
Last week I made a reservation for the new French restaurant, Le Vieux Chalet. I was very disappointed. While I (1)
_________________ (wait) for my table, the manager of the restaurant (2) _________________ (crash) into me
and didn’t even apologize! Then while I (3) _________________ (read) the menu, a waiter accidentally (4)
_________________ (spill) soup all over me. And what about the food? Well, as (5) ________________ (eat) my
chicken, I suddenly (6) ________________ (damage) my tooth on a stone. Dessert was more successful. I had
delicious strawberries and cream, but as I (7) _________________ (have) my dessert, someone at the next table
(8) _________________ (smoke). Finally, when I (9) _________________ (pay) the bill, the manager (10)
_________________ (come over) to apologize. But by then it was too late!

Future Tenses: Will – Be going to – Future Continuous

1. My mom and I _________ to New York next month.
a. will travel b. are travelling c. are going to travel

2. I think, she _________ Spanish in Spain.

a. will study b. is studying c. is going to study

3. I’m not sure if they __________ tonight.

a. will come b. are coming c. are going to come

4. I’m so happy! We bought our plane tickets! We __________ to Switzerland on Monday.

a. are visiting b. will visit c. are going to visit

5. A: The students ___________ at Niel’s restaurant next week.

B: Do they have a reservation?
A: No, not yet.
a. are eating b. will eat c. are going to eat

Complete the conditional sentences. Choose from the sentence parts below.
When you save energy • take showers instead of baths
you waste electricity • you also save money • When you leave the heat on all day
1. If you leave the lights on all day, _____________________________________.

2. _________________________________________, you help the environment.

3. If you want to save water, __________________________________________.

4. ________________________________________________, you waste energy.

Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.

1. My / Yes. / parents / are / China. / from____________________________________________

2. do, / They / but / so / not / much. ____________________________________________

3. language / do / What / you / with / speak / and / brothers / sisters? /

your________________________________________________

4. mixture / guess / I / speak / we / a / English / Chinese. / of / and

___________________________________________________

5. languages?/ two / you / glad / you / Are / know ____________________________________________