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Test 3A
LESSONS 10–15
VOCABULARY
1 Correct the spellings.

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2 Read the sentence, then fill the gaps with words and phrases in the box. There is one extra
word or phrase.
last weekend / last Sunday / tomorrow / yesterday / last month / last Saturday / last year

Today is Tuesday 14th May 2008.

0 2007 was _last year_____

1 _______________ was Monday.

2 Saturday and Sunday were _______________

3 _______________ was April.

4 _______________ is Wednesday.

5 12th May was _______________

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3 Complete the dates.
0 13/07/1990 = The _thirteenth____ of July, nineteen ninety.

1 2/4/1993 = The _______________ of April, nineteen ninety-three.

2 5/11/1984 = The fifth of _______________, nineteen eighty-four.

3 31/3/1976 = The _______________ of March, nineteen seventy-six.

4 23/5/1963 = The _______________ of May, nineteen sixty-three.

5 15/9/2001 = The fifteenth of September, _______________.

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4 Complete the sentences. Choose from these words. There is one extra word.
the moon / the sun / the Earth / a planet / space module / astronaut / a rock

0 Men first went to _the moon______ in 1969.

1 The moon is 400,000 kilometres from _______________.

2 Venus is _______________.

3 . _______________ is very, very hot.

4 The Eagle _______________ landed on the moon.

5 Neil Armstrong was the first _______________ to walk on the moon.

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GRAMMAR
5 Underline the correct alternative.
0 Abba were / did / was Swedish.

1 The Beatles was / were / do English.

2 Elvis Presley does / was / were American.

3 Abba wasn’t / don’t / weren’t film stars.

4 Grace Kelly weren’t / doesn’t / wasn’t a singer.

5 Who were / was / does Marilyn Monroe?

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6 Complete the questions and short answers.
0 ._Were_____ the Wright Brothers American?

Yes, _they were_

1 __________ the Wright Brothers comedians?

No, __________

2 __________. they inventors?

Yes, __________.

3 __________ Pablo Picasso an artist?

Yes, __________.

4 __________ he English? No, __________.

5 __________ Shakespeare a composer?

No, __________.

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7 Complete the questions.
0 When/Neil Armstrong /land/on the moon? He landed on the moon in 1969.

_When did Neil Armstrong land on the moon?___

When did Neil Armstrong land on the moon?

1 When/Christopher Columbus/land/America? He landed in America in 1492.

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2 Which year/Princess Diana/die? She died in 1997.

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3 Which year/Yuri Gagarin/launch/into space? He launched into space in 1961.

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4 his flight/last/long? No, it didn’t. It only lasted for 108 minutes.

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5 How long/Dennis Tito/stay in space? He stayed in space for eight days.

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8 Fill the gaps with the verbs in the past simple.
I 0 _went_____ (go) shopping yesterday. My sister

Amy 1 __________ (come), too. We 2 __________ (see) two friends from school on the bus. I 3
__________ (buy) some new jeans. Then we 4 __________ (have) a pizza and we 5 __________ (get)
home at about 3 o’clock.

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9 Complete these sentences with verbs in the past tense. Choose from these verbs. There is one
extra verb.
sit / buy / come / find / take / steal / put

0 We _took_____ a picnic with us.

1 Someone __________ my wallet with £20 in it!

2 I __________. someone’s purse on the bus this morning.

3 Sophie __________. next to me in class.

4 I __________ two new T-shirts yesterday.

5 Tom __________ his laptop in his bag.

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10 Make these sentences negative.
0 My brother went to school yesterday.

_My brother didn’t go to school yesterday_______________

1 I did my homework yesterday.

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2 We bought a postcard.

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3 Susie got home late last night.

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4 I saw the match on TV yesterday evening.

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5 We had a coffee.

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Vocabulary 20

Grammar 30

Total 50

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