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Look at these examples.The correct answer is ticked.

a ln warm climates people [il("Ik=;Fltki"glsirting ourside in rhe sun.

b lf t is very hot, they sit f-|-( |"-ru;;lthe shade.

Now the test will begin.Tick the correct answers.

wut.t E to- ooirfit llmnglb;ilsl at a rernperature of 100"C

In some countries lth"r" itFljl-lvery hor ail the trme.

for keeping I to keep for to keep warm

a weather the weather weather

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ln descrts rhere isn'tltl'"Tso-_*tln,u*Placcs near the Equator have the warm warm lweather even in t.he cold seasor

1n Engiand time of year is usually from December to February

people don't know what it's really like in other countrjes

v"ry E*Tttttt*.]r"*l peopte can travet abroad

Mohammedo,'@hisfirstwor|dtitlefightinl96OAfter hc b4ul!1]!ryrydry an olympic gold medal he became a professionat boxer

His religious be iefs

became chanrpion

have made him change his name when he

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l-1e is very well known all in lall over I in all the world

Many people is believing lare believingl believe

To be the rr"rt fr..fd orlthe world is not easy.

Like any top sportsman Ali had to lmust lshould

he was the greatest boxer of all

train very hard.

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The history ot IS

quite lshort one. For many cenluries men

are trvinq I trv I had tried to fiy, but with

success. ln the 1 gth century a few people

succeeded to fly j in flying I into flying in balloons. But iI wasnt until

the beginning of century that anybody

f;{iilwaslable to fly in a machine

@Eh[hFht-l we now call a'planelThe f rst people to achieve

'powered flight'were the Wright brothers

was the machine which was the forerunner of the jumbo jets

that are [9{r*rl i ]* .onr*on sight today

They couldnll hardly have imagined that in 1969,

a man will be had beeniwould be walking on the moon

Already trq j@li* rn*]is taking the first steps towards the stars

S pace satell ites have now .*,rr"d [rir,." Td*ingTfoil around

half a century and we are dependent F"rl "il*lthem for all

kinds of Not only

@ being used forscientiflc research in

space, but also to see what kind of weather lis coming

By 2008 there must willi nave been satel'ites in space for fifty

years and the'space superpowers'will be

massive space stations built.When these

having lmaking I letting

will be I are lwill have been

completed it wrll be the first time when lwhere lthat astronauts will be

able to work in space in large numbers Apartl For I Except all that,

in many ways the mosl remarkable fiight all was

tiiltl*ithatorlelof the flying bicycle, which the world saw on television,

l=nv'sl;rr]lrlbry{'qld

was heavier than air, in other words, in

across the Channel from England to France,with nothing

a man to power it. As the bicycle-flyer said,

not much I not many I no much lmore than half a century later

'lt's the flrst time hard work it is to be a bird!'

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Grammar Test PART 2

5l Many teachers [rv t"l.vl t"ril their studenrs should learn a foreign ranguage

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is quite ditticult because ol all the exceptlons who which what

learn the basic structures of a language quite quickly, but only if you

are wanting I will to I are willing to make an effort.

A otof peopearen'tused to the study to study I to studying gramrnar in their own anguage

Many adu t students of Eng ish wish they I

their language studies earlicr.

ln some countries students have to spend a lot of time working

There aren't E4"ltll""*l easy ways of learning a foreign language in your own country.

SomepeopletrytoimproVetheirEnglishou@theBBCWorldServiceLife ] Living lwith a foreign family can be a good way to learn a language

,tu Lto tryltryinn['n ,ry, d to tearn a language just by studying a dictionary

students of English tr;d r.th"r *i take tests

65Somepcoplethinkit,stimewe.l||@asingleinternationallanguage

Charles Wa ker is a teacher at a comprehensive school in Norwich He has joined llolned- ----lorns

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thc staff of the school in t99B and [ha; Gen *orL,ing lhere ever since

eefore EweTto mwe [moving]to Norwich, he taugbt in tta{y and in Wales,

as he was in Wales, but he likes the city a lor and lsf'oufOl*oufOlioufA I

|iketostaylhereforatlea5tanothertWoyearS,o'l@!n.

puts it, until his two children thave grown

abroad for a while, and they qot marrled in 1996.

Their two chi dren, Mark and Srtun, p*Tuuer"Thu* b""n-l both born in Norwich

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It rakes long time llong a long time to learn any language

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language to master

have to be learnt.

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because she is near y two years I Vorng"@

than him Charles and Kate Walker are usedluse used to live in the

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Nobody else has been told he's coming,

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r.non |ino'.q d ger ro work easily.Unfortunately

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f4l i@ Charles and Kate hope wilt be in Norwich,the

wa kers !q@ iving rhere for ar least fifteen years

Ihey can't be :ure if they stay I do stay lwill stay , but if they

don't didn't won't their friends won't be too surprised.

Look at the following examples of question tags in English.The correct form of the tag is ticked.

a He's getting the 9 1 5 truin, Fnt f'"Ttlrtnt f'" f"urnt hel ib She works in a library isn't she ldoesdt she doesn't he

c Tom didn'ttell you, hasn'the didn'theldidffei?

d someone's forgotten to switch offthe gas, @;""T tr"vl i

Now tick the correct question tag in the following 10 items:

J9hp5 6sr pg ro (ee yoJ. hasn't helwasn't helisn't hel ?

t s been a long time since you've seen him,] f,urrft it]irni it

He's due to arrivc tomorrow,[wo1tl*ri,ntl.'"|*il@ tlle won't be gettinq in till about 10.30, l isn't he

You met him while you were on holiday, didn't you lweren't you haven't you

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