Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Welcome back to school. 2012

Dear students.
Here you will find the exercises of the lesson 1. Try to do all of them and if you have problems we can talk in our class.
These exercises are taken from the book " English in mind", written by Herbert Puchta and Jeff Stranks. Cambridge university. I hope you can learn and practice this new language.

LESSON 1. Explorers

VOCABULARY

1. Write the parts of the speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb or preposition) for each of the underlined words.

a. Dr. Ballard went to the Black Sea. _______________

b. The ocean is fascinating. _____________________

c. We can put cameras on that ship. ________________

d. It takes hours to get down. ______________________

e. The submarine moves slowly. ________________

f. The cameras send live pictures. ________________

2. Circle the correct words:

“This is mark Barns. He is a student at St George’s High School in Bromsgrove. He (studies/ is studying) for his Geography test today. Mark (likes/ is liking) listening to music and playing football. He ( plays/ is playing) football most evenings, and he usually (spends/ is spending) all his money on CDs. But at the moment, mark (doesn’t spend/ isn’t spending) any money. He (saves/ is saving) everything because he is also a serious mountain climber and he (has/ is having) a great ambition. He (wants/ is wanting) to climb Mount Everest next July. He (knows/ is knowing) it will be difficult and so he (trains/ is training) really hard at the moment.

3. Put the words in order to make questions.

a. Mark/ is / what/ today / doing/

b. does/ money/ mark/ on books / spend/ all / usually/ / his.

c. football/ does/ mark/ when/ play/

d. ambition/ what/ great/ mark’s/ is

e. at the moment/ Mark/ training hard/ why/ is/

4. Complete the sentences. Use the present simple or present continuous form of the verbs.

a. _______ you ______(want) something to eat?

b. My sister and I _______________ (not watch) TV very often. We _______ (not have) time.

c. Be quiet! The baby _______________ (sleep)

d. Robert’s in the bathroom. He ________________ (wash) his hair.

5. Visit the following website and solve the exercise.

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs1.htm

Good Luck! See you soon.

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