Facultad de Estudios Superiores Cuautitlán

Centro de Idiomas
Midterm review exercises – Level 3
Units 1 – 3

Name:________________________ Group:___________
Teacher:___________________________ Date:_________________

I GRAMMAR

1 Complete each sentence by choosing the correct word (a, b or c).

1 Where are you____________?

A go
B going
C gone

2 ____________she seen their new home?

A Has
B Is
C Was

3 What____________they eat last night?

A did
B were
C have

4____________you confident?
A Have
B Do
C Are

5 Who have they____________ to the party?

A invite
B invited
C inviting

2 For each sentence (1–5), find the error and correct it. If there is no error, put a check mark
(✔ ) next to the sentence.

1 He didn’t be at school yesterday. ___ __________________________

2 Did you eaten your breakfast this morning?___ __________________________
3 We often meet our neighbor in the store.___ __________________________
4 I didn’t go to the concert last week.___ __________________________
5 I did saw the new teacher on Friday.___ __________________________
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4 For each sentence (1–5), find the error and correct it.

1 No of my friends can drive. __________________________

2 I would like to learning how to swim. __________________________

3 I was seeing the doctor before I went to work this morning. __________________________

4 Most of people at my work travel by train. __________________________

5 I was talking on the phone while the boss spoke.__________________________

II VOCABULARY

1 Rearrange the letters in italics to form a word to complete the sentences.

1 Many of my cguloeales travel to work by bus. _______________

2 It’s easier to talk to angstrers than family sometimes. _______________
3 Her prenats are very kind to her friends. _______________
4 Lucy’s raagrendpnts pick her up from school every day. _______________
5 Our fenrids are coming to stay this weekend. _______________

2 Complete the sentences with a word beginning with the given letter.

1 A: Could you pass me your pen, please?

B: Of course. Here you g_________.
2 A: Where should we go next week?
B: How a_________going to the theater?
3 A: Should we have dinner in a restaurant tonight?
B: Yes! Why d_________we try that new one on Main Street?
4 He loves designing houses and so studied to become an a_________.
5 I love living here, it’s so l_________and full of people.
6 I love living away from the city – it’s so q_________.
7 Reusing glass and paper is an environmentally f_________way of protecting the world.
8 A: You look upset, what’s w_________?
B: I’ve just lost my keys.
9 I have decided to buy an apartment here because I want a p_________home.
10 My old neighbors never spoke to me and were very u_________.

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7 Choose the correct prefix (a, b or c) and write the negative form of the adjective.

1 possible___________
A in B un C im

2 honest___________
A dis B in C un
3 correct___________
A un B in C mis

4 lucky___________
A in B un C mis

5 patient___________
A un B in C im

III READING

1 Read the text about JK Rowling. For questions (1–5), decide whether each statement is true
(T ) or false (F).

JK Rowling is the author of the Harry Potter books. She is now rich and famous, but life wasn’t always
so easy for her. In fact her life has been full of ups and downs.

She was born in 1965 in Gloucestershire, England and started writing at the age of five. She loved
writing stories but left home to study French in college and graduated in 1986. One day in 1990, while
she was traveling from Manchester to London by train, she created the character of a boy with
glasses who was interested in magic. She decided to move to Portugal the same year to teach
English. In the day she taught and in the evenings she wrote the first part of Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer’s Stone. When she was in Portugal she fell in love with a Portuguese journalist and had a
baby. But the marriage ended when her daughter was very young and she moved back to the UK to
live near her sister. She found it hard to get a job and was extremely poor. It was very hard as a
single mother, but she kept writing and finished her book in 1995. In the beginning she had no luck:
12 publishers weren’t interested in it. Then the company Bloomsbury finally took her book and sent
500 copies to libraries all over Scotland showing that readers loved it.

Today she has won many awards and is famous all over the world. She remarried in 2001 and had a
son and daughter with her second husband, a Scottish doctor. She now has more money than she
ever dreamed of but gives a lot of it away to charity.

1 She first thought of the Harry Potter character on a train. T /F

2 She worked as an English teacher in Portugal. T /F
3 Her first husband worked for a newspaper. T /F
4 When her daughter was young, she stopped writing. T /F
5 When she first sent the book to publishers they loved it. T /F

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IV WRITING

1 Write an “About me” section for a blog, website or social media page about someone you
know. Think about:
• The type of person he/she is.
• His/her likes and dislikes.
• His/her job.

Write it in 100 words.

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V LISTENING
1 Listen to five people talking about how they like to travel. Match each of the speakers (1–5)
to one of the statements (a–g). There is an extra statement you do not need. An example (a)
has been done for you.

A I enjoy being around a lot of people. Speaker 1 ____

B I don’t mind who I travel with. Speaker 2 A and ____
C I always travel with different friends.
D I prefer to go on vacation alone. Speaker 3 ____
E I never go away on vacation. Speaker 4____
F I like going away with family. Speaker 5____
G I prefer to travel with a friend.