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Progress test 2  Units 6–10 Beginner THIRD EDITION

Exercise 1  Present Simple and frequency adverbs Exercise 3  there is/are and prepositions of place
Write complete sentences. Put the word in brackets in the
correct place.
1 I / go to bed late (usually)
  I usually go to bed late.
2 He / work late (never)

3 I / go to work by car (sometimes)

4 My son / have lunch at school (always)

5 She / see her friends after work (usually)

6 I / buy a newspaper (never)

7 Helen / go windsurfing (sometimes)
Write sentences about the picture.
1 point for each correct answer  6 1 a TV / the room
  There’s a TV in the room.
Exercise 2  Object pronouns 2 two books / the table
Circle the correct word.
1 My daughter visited  me / my last month. 3 a lamp / the sofa

2 My son lives near you. Do you know he / him?
4 three pictures / the walls
3 We bought a DVD, but we didn’t watch it / them.

4 My daughter is a doctor. This is a photo of him / her. 5 a cat / the table
5 Our homework is very difficult. Can you help we / us?
6 a magazine / the bag
6 We phoned Mum and Dad last week, but we didn’t see

them / they.
7 You are very nice. I like you / your. 2 points for each correct answer  10

1 point for each correct answer  6

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Exercise 4  The past tense of to be Exercise 7  Negatives

Complete the table with the past tense of to be. Write the sentences in the negative.
1 I work in an office.
Positive Negative
  I don’t work in an office.
1 I   was   wasn’t
2 The film is very good.
2 You
3 He/She/It
3 There’s a CD player in the car.
4 We

5 They
4 She goes to work by car.
2 points for each correct answer  8
5 We go shopping in town.
Exercise 5  do, was, and did
Complete the sentences with the verbs in the box. 6 There are a lot of hotels in this area.

do / does   was / were   did
7 The weather was very hot.
1 Where   does he work?
2 you like French food? 8 My children were born in the US.
3 Where you last night?
4 What you do last weekend?
9 I was born in 1989.
5 she live in New York now?

6 you go skiing last year?
1 0 David played rugby at school.
7 When he born?

8 We at home yesterday.
9 How many children they have now? 1 1 I had a big lunch.

1 point for each correct answer  8
1 point for each correct answer  10
Exercise 6  Past Simple
Exercise 8  Days of the week
Complete the sentences with the Past Simple form of the
verbs in brackets. There are regular and irregular verbs. Write the days in the correct order.
1 She   played (play) tennis yesterday.   Monday  ,  ,  ,  ,
2 I (not work) at my computer yesterday.  ,  ,
3 We (buy) a new DVD player last month. 1 point for each correct answer  6
4 Where you (go) on
holiday last year?
5 They (stay) at home last weekend.
6 He (see) his friends last night.
7 Why he (arrive) late?
8 you (eat) in the hotel?
9 The children (do) their homework.
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Exercise 9  Dates Exercise 12  Which one is different?

Write the dates in words. Circle the different word.
1 5 / 5   the fifth of May 1 newsagents  supermarket  park  chemists
2 1 / 2
2 lovely  awful  delicious  beautiful
3 19 / 6
3 shower  CD player  TV  DVD player
4 3 / 8
4 golf  swimming  sailing  skiing
5 31 / 12
6 12 / 10 5 twenty-second  twenty-nine  thirteenth  ninth

7 17 / 4 6 writer  artist  racing driver  singer

8 5 / 1 7 watched  ate  got  took
9 7 / 7 8 swimming  windsurfing  sailing  walking
1 point for each correct answer  8 9 floor  kitchen  wall  window

Exercise 10  Prepositions of time 1 point for each correct answer  8

Write the correct preposition, in, on, or at.
Exercise 13  Adjectives
1   in the evening
Match the opposites.
2 Monday
3 seven o’clock A B
4 Sunday morning fast big
5 the afternoon right old
6 five thirty small white
7 the weekend expensive slow
1 point for each correct answer  6 new hot 1 point for each
cold wrong correct answer
Exercise 11  Words that go together black cheap 6
Match a verb in A with a line in B.
Total 100
A B
get up in a hotel
go cards
watch coffee
listen to in restaurants
play music
stay in an office
work sailing
cook TV
eat a good time 1 point for each
have early correct answer
drink a meal 10

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