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Family Name:…………………………...

Telephone – Mobile:…………………….

Office:…………………………………..

Date:…………………………………….

ENGLISH PLACEMENT TEST

A. Write the plural forms of the nouns.

Example: One knife, two knives

1. One car, two _____________________________

2. One family, two __________________________

3. One woman, two _________________________

4. One class, two ___________________________

B. Complete the sentences with one of these verbs:

do/don’t does/doesn’t is/isn’t are/aren’t

5. __________the museum close at 5.00?

6. _________know where they _______ from, but they ________ English.

7. She ______ want a pizza. She ________hungry.

C. Complete the sentences with these words: this these it they

8. a. Is _____________ book John’s?

b. Yes, ___________ is.

9. a. Are ____________ books Mary’s?

b. Yes, ___________ are.

D. Put the verbs into the correct tense, present or past.

Example: I usually work (work) eight hours a day, but yesterday I started

(start) work at 9.00 a.m. and finished (finish) at 9.00 p.m.

10. Anne usually ______ (drive) to work, but yesterday she____________ (walk).

11. Anne and Max usually ______(go) sailing at the weekends, but last weekend they ___________________ (play) tennis.

E. Put the verbs into the Past Simple.

Example: Last week we drove (drive) to Edinburgh and visited (visit) our grandparents.

12. She ________(sell) her old car and _______(buy) a new one.

13. I ______ (lose) my umbrella last week _____ (leave) it in the bank and somebody

______ (steal) it.

F. Make the verbs negative:

Example: He went to Thailand. He didn’t go to Thailand.

14. We were at home yesterday……………………………….

15. I brought you a present……………………………………

G. Complete the questions in the Past Simple.

Example: Where / stay? Where did you stay?

16. When / come back?..............................................................

17. Enjoy the holiday?...............................................................

H. Write the comparative and superlative forms of the adjectives.

Example :

cheap cheaper the cheapest

expensive more expensive the most expensive

18. happy _____________ _______________

19. intelligent _____________ _______________

20. good _____________ _______________

I. Underline the correct form of the verb.

2I. have / am having a shower every morning.

22. What are you doing / do you do tonight? Are you going / do you go out?

J. Complete the sentences with one of these prepositions:

from like in at for on

23. Come and see me ___________ seven o’clock.

24. ______________ Saturday night we went to a party.

25. We went shopping _____________ the morning.

K. Read about Marco and underline the correct verb form.

26. Marco Santos is a chef. He started/has started cooking when he has been/was 15

years old. He has studied/studied in a cookery school for the next three years and then

he got/has got his first job in a restaurant in Lyons. Now 33, he worked/has worked all

over France and he just decided/has just decided to open a restaurant in London. He

hasn’t thought/didn’t think of a name for it yet.

L. Complete the questions with the following question words:

What? Where? Whose? Why?

33. _________________ is this money? I’m sure it’s mine.

34. _________________ do you do? I’m a teacher.

35. _________________ are you wearing a suit?

36. _________________ do you live?

M. Underline the correct form of the verbs.

Example: I met/was meeting a friend while I did/was doing the shopping.

37. I paid/was paying for my things when I heard/was hearing someone call my name.

38. While we had/were having a coffee, a waiter dropped/was dropping a pile of plates.

N. Complete the sentences with some or any.

39. I bought ___________ fruit but they didn’t have ______________ vegetables.

40. I don’t have _______________ free time today, sorry.

O. Complete the text with a, an, the, or leave the gap blank.

41. John Smith is _____ bank manager. He works in _____bank in ________ centre of London. Every morning he gets up at seven o’clock, has ________breakfast and ___________ cup of ______________ coffee and reads___________ Times.

P. Underline the correct form for each sentence.

48. I want seeing/to see a film on TV tonight.

49. I have bought some eggs because I will/am going to make a cake.

50. “Have you seen Anne’s boyfriend?” “No. How is he /what is he like?

51. You don’t have to/mustn’t queue if you’ve got a ticket. You can go straight in.

52. If the earth gets/will get warmer, the sea gets/will get warmer.

53. I wait/I’ll wait by the phone until you ring/you’ll ring.

54. I’d like going/to go somewhere different for a change.

55. My family had some lovely glasses. We were going/used to go camping all over Europe.

56. The TV programme was so boring/bored that I fell asleep.

57. They live/have been living here for three years.

Q Change the following into passive form.

Example: They built the bridge in 1998: The bridge was built in 1998.

58. They don’t pay school teachers very well.

59. They have decorated the house recently.

60. They are developing a new network.

R. Change the following into direct speech.

Example: He said it was getting late: It’s getting late.

61. They said they’d already visited Mombasa.

62. She asked if she could borrow a book.

63. She told her son to go and wash his hands.

S. Change the following into indirect speech.

Example: “Where are you going?” : He asked me where I was going.

64. “I’ll pay you back as soon as I can”, he said to Peter.

65. “Don’t use the office phone for personal calls.”

66. “What can you tell me about this incident?” the police officer asked him.

T. Put the verbs into the correct tenses.

67. A “What time ……………..the plane……………..(leave) tomorrow?

68. B “Not until 7 o’clock in the evening, but of course we have to be at the

airport 3 hours before that, so I ………(order) a taxi to pick us up at 4 o’clock. I can’t wait! Tomorrow night we ………………….(sleep) in the Plaza Hotel with the moonlight shining through our bedroom window.”

69. A “I …………(pack) until tomorrow morning then. …….your mother come round to say goodbye”?

B “No, she can’t.”

S. Make sentences with these phrasal verbs.

70. To come across.………………………………………………………

71. To get on with………………….……………………………………..

72. To give up……………………………………………………………

T. Complete these conditional sentences.

73. If I’d known you were in hospital…………………………………………..

74. If you had obeyed the instructions…………………………………………

75. I would have applied for the job if …………………………………………

Write a short letter (100-150 words) to a friend back home telling him/her about your new life in Kenya. Set out your letter with an address, date, greeting etc.

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