Reading and Grammar Exercises - 1st ESO
Reading and Grammar Exercises - 1st ESO
Reading and Grammar Exercises - 1st ESO
UNIT 1
Read the text and answer the questions.
LARA CROFT is a famous computer game character. She’s from London and she’s about 34 years
old. She’s 1 metre 75 centimetres tall and she’s got long, brown hair, dark skin and brown eyes.
She’s got a big mouth and a small nose.
Lara’s interested in cars, classical music, and photography. She’s got a big collection of photos
from many different countries. She’s good at sports (especially skiing) and she likes languages, but
she’s not very good at French or Italian. She likes animals and she’s got two dogs and a cat. She’s
also got a website and three computer games.
Next week Lara’s got a film shoot on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. On Wednesday she’s got a
TV interview. On Friday and Saturday she’s got a karate class at three o’clock. On Sunday she
hasn’t got classes. She’s got a great job, but she’s very busy!
Complete the text with the correct form of the verb TO BE in positive or negative.
I (1) _____________ from London. My best friend, Mike, and I (2) ____________ 12 years old, but
my friend Paul (3) ________________ (not) 12, he’s 13 years old. They (4) _____________ (not)
interested in computers, they like sport. We like school. It (5) _________________ interesting.
Write questions using the verb TO BE and answer with short answers.
1. you / English?
______________________________________________ _____________________
2. Antonio Banderas / from Spain?
______________________________________________ _____________________
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3. Rivaldo and Ronaldo / famous for football?
______________________________________________ _____________________
4. Chinese / an important subject in Spain?
______________________________________________ _____________________
5. your teachers / nineteen years old?
______________________________________________ _____________________
Complete the questions with a Question Word and then answer them.
Complete the table. Write the questions using Have Got and answer them with short answers.
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2. Sarah / a website?
________________________________________________________________
____________________________________
3. you / a history book?
________________________________________________________________
____________________________________
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UNIT 2
Hi!
My name’s Alexander. I’m 12 years old and I’m a student at Thornleigh School in Manchester,
England. My favourite subjects are Art and Information Technology. What are your favourite
subjects? I’m good at Maths and sports (especially football and tennis), but I’m not very good at
languages. We study French – it’s difficult. What about you?
I like martial arts (I’m in the karate club at school) and I like music. My favourite pop singer is
Robbie Williams. He’s British. He’s really cool! What are your interests? Who’s your favourite pop
singer?
_____________________________
Hello.
I’m Sarah. My best friends are Janice and Chris. Janice and I are Australian, but Chris is British.
They’re 12 and 13 years old. Chris is good at Music. He plays the violin in the school orchestra.
Janice is a chess expert and she’s president of the photography club. She isn’t very good at
Geography. What about your friends? How old are they? What are they good at? What are their
interests?
Look at the information and write sentences about the city. Use the correct form of There is or
There are.
restaurant? , 8
games arcade?
Internet café?
swimming pool? , 2
hotel? , 3
museum ? , 1
1. _________________________________________________________________________?
2. _________________________________________________________________________?
3. _________________________________________________________________________?
4. _________________________________________________________________________?
5. _________________________________________________________________________?
6. _________________________________________________________________________?
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UNIT 3
Kate and Phil live in Melbourne in Australia. They’re teachers and they’ve got a very active and healthy
lifestyle. They walk to school every day. After school Kate goes to a karate class and then she goes
home by bus. Phil likes sports and he exercises every day. He cycles and swims, but he doesn’t do
karate.
At the weekend Kate and Phil relax together. They read books and listen to music. Phil likes pop music
and jazz, but Kate prefers classical music. She’s very musical – she plays the guitar and the violin. They
don’t watch much TV, but they like films and documentaries.
Kate and Phil aren’t vegetarians, but they don’t eat much meat. They eat a lot of fish, vegetables and
fruit. Kate eats a lot of chocolate, too!
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Look at the table and write sentences with the adverbs of frequency.
Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in the box.
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5. your cat / eat meat?
_____________________________________________________________________
6. you / eat in a restaurant every weekend?
_____________________________________________________________________
Answer the questions from the above exercise with short answers.
1. () ____________________________________________________________________
2. () ____________________________________________________________________
3. () ____________________________________________________________________
4. () ____________________________________________________________________
5. () ____________________________________________________________________
6. () ____________________________________________________________________
Complete the sentences with the corret form of the verbs in the box.
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UNIT 4
Read the interview and answer the questions
Complete the text with the Present Continuous using the verbs in the box.
It’s my birthday and I (1) _____________________________ a party. All my friends are here, it’s
great. We (2) ____________________________________ special costumes. Jane (3) ____________
________________________ the song on the CD – she knows all the words! Peter (4) ___________
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________________________ pizza – he loves Italian food. Jenny (5) ________________________
____________ to her friend, Sam, but Sam (6) __________________________________ to her – he
(7)
________________________________________ at Tom and Liz. They (8) _________________
_____________________ together – they’re very good at salsa. Simon (9) ____________________
________________ my new computer game, he thinks it’s fantastic. My parents (10) ____________
_________________________ in the garden. I love birthdays!
Write questions about the previous text and answer the questions.
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4. I usually (relax) ____________________________________ in my bedroom after school.
5. ‘Where’s Emma?’ ‘She (play) ____________________________________ table tennis.’
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UNIT 5
Read the letter. Decide if the information given is True or False. If the sentence is incorrect
write why.
Dear Alex,
How are things with you? My new school is fantastic. As you know, it’s a special sports school and
I’m having a great time here. I love it! We start at 8 o’clock, so I usually get up at 6.30! In the
morning we have normal classes and in the afternoon we do different sports. The school has got
three big gyms and there are two swimming pools, a lot of tennis courts and a sports centre with
special areas for football and other sports. I can play volleyball and I’m good at hockey. I’m
learning basketball, karate and tennis. There’s an important tennis competion in April so we’re
preparing for that. I’m also in the swimming club and we have practice before school. I can swim 2
kilometres now, but I can’t run 10 kilometres. My teacher says I must train more, but I haven’t got
any free time!
What about you? Are you in the school football team this year?
Write soon,
Love
Helen
Ask questions and answer with short answers. Look at the previous exercise for information.
1. Tim / sing?
_______________________________________________________________________
2. Tim and Colin / play the guitar?
_______________________________________________________________________
3. you / swim 1 kilometre?
_______________________________________________________________________
Complete the Rules of Survival using Must or Mustn’t and the following verbs.
Complete the sentences. Use Can, Can’t, Must or Mustn’t and the following verbs.
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Choose the correct answer and complete the text about a famous athlete.
Do you know / You know / Have you got the athlete in the picture. He is strong and fast. He jumps
good / very / high like a superhero and he can / must / mustn’t do amazing things with a
basketball. His name is Kobe Bryant, and he is one of the best players in a / the / some history of
the NBA. It has got / haven’t got / isn’t surprising, because Kobe have got / has got / hasn’t got
basketball in his genes. His father is an ex-basketball player and ex-coach for US and Italian team’s
teams’ / teams. So, Kobe speak / speaks / is speaking Italian (and he also speaks Spanish). He has
got / love / loves football, too. He is a big fan of FC Barcelona.
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UNIT 6
STEVEN BOYLE
Steven Boyle has got a very special job. He designs and makes creatures for films. He also puts
make-up on the actors and gives them a completely new and frightening look. You can see Boyle’s
work in many famous films, including King Kong, Star Wars and Under the Mountain.
In Under the Mountain, there are creatures from another planet. These creatures – the Wilberforces
– look like humans in the beginning, but later they change into ugly creatures. Boyle’s make-up and
designs are very unusual. He makes the creatures look very frightening and realistic.
Sometimes, putting make-up on the actors is more difficult than designing the creatures. One actor
Oliver Driver plays the head of the Wilberforce family. Driver’s make-up is more complicated than
the make-up on the other actors. He has got a silicone face and make-up all over his body. He has
also got false ears, hair and teeth and special contact lenses in his eyes. You can’t recognise him at
all! The transformation is amazing and Boyle is happy with the results. He loves his job!
Choose the correct adjective to complete the sentences. Write the Comparative form.
Complete the sentences with the information from the above text.
Complete the sentences with the correct comparative form of the adjectives and then join the
correct endings a-j
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3. I think reading is _____________________ (interesting) __
4. Jack thinks Luis Garcia is a _________________ (good) __
5. Villages are _____________________ (peaceful) __
6. Hamsters are ____________ (quiet) and __________ (clean) __
7. I think that maths is __________________ (easy) __
8. The brachiosaurous was _____________________ (big) __
9. My brother is much ___________________ (fast) __
10. My teacher is ________________________ (old) __
a. than a bus.
b. than cities.
c. than watching TV.
d. than the first.
e. footballer than Ronaldo.
f. than Helen’s.
g. in the morning than I am.
h. pets than lots of other animals.
i. than my mum
j. than English.
Complete the sentences with the correct form of the Object Pronouns.
Complete the sentences with the adjective and AS ... AS / NOT AS ... AS.
1. It was 35ºC yesterday and it’s 35ºC again today. Today is __________________________
(hot) yesterday.
2. My dog weighs 25 kilos. My cat weighs 30 kilos. My dog is _________________________
(heavy) my cat.
3. Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen have got the same birthday – 13th June, 1986. Ashley is
____________________________ (old) Mary-Kate.
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4. We get two weeks holiday for Christmas, but one week for Easter. The Easter holiday is
_______________________________ (long) the Christmas holiday.
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UNIT 7
GUY’S BLOG
Hi everyone!
I’m home in London now, but last week, I was at a friend’s house in Illinois, USA. There’s an
amazing building in the area – a big, gold pyramid. That’s something you rarely see in the USA!
The pyramid is really a house. It was the idea of a man called Jim Onan. Onan’s pyramid isn’t as
big as some of the pyramids in Egypt, but it’s real gold.
Onan loves Egyptian antiques, and the pyramid house is full of old Egyptian paintings, furniture
and statues. There are three living rooms, a dining room, five bedrooms and a kitchen. The rooms
aren’t cold and dark like the real pyramids because there are some windows for light. There are
three small pyramids in the garden for the family’s cars, and there’s a tall statue of the ancient
Egyptian king, Ramses. There’s also a model of King Tutankhamun’s tomb. A few years ago, the
house was open to the public. The rooms were often full of people and there was a shop with
ancient Egyptian art and models.
The pyramid house is rarely open to the public now, but you can see it from the street. You can also
see satellite pictures of the pyramids and statues on the Internet. They’re amazing!
Complete the sentences with Present or Past of To Be, There is, There are, There was or There
were.
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3. How many bedrooms are there?
__________________________________________________________________
4. Where can the family put their cars?
__________________________________________________________________
5. What items were there in the shop?
__________________________________________________________________
Complete the dialogue with the correct form of WAS o WERE; positive – negative – or
question.
Complete the questions and answers. Use the Past Simple with the verb To Be.
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4. ________________ it cold yesterday?
Yes, _____________________.
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UNIT 8
Philip Pullman is a British writer who was born in Norwich, in England. His father was a pilot, so
when Philip was a child he lived all over the world. He loved the Superman comics and read them
all. He spent a lot of his time reading literature and so when he was older, he decided to study
English at university. After he graduated, he became a teacher. But then after several years he
stopped teaching and became a writer instead. More than ten years ago, he wrote three very
successful books. He called them His Dark Materials. The book’s main characters are two children,
Will and Lyra.
His Dark Materials is a fantasy and an adventure story. In the first book, Lyra lives in Oxford, but
she leaves and travels to the Arctic. In the second book, she meets Will and they travel to many
different places around the world. They have many adventures together. His Dark Materials is
exciting and scary. Sometimes it’s horrible, but it’s never boring. Once you start reading these
stories you just can’t stop!
Find the words from the text which mean the same as 1-5.
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Complete the text. Use Past Simple with the following verbs.
Complete the sentences. Use the Past Simple with the following verbs.
1. Where _________________________________________________________________?
I went to my friend’s house yesterday.
2. Who ___________________________________________________________________?
I was with Jamie last night.
3. What __________________________________________________________________?
They saw some stars in space.
4. What time ______________________________________________________________?
He got up at 8 o’clock.
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5. How many ______________________________________________________________?
There were 15 students in the class.
6. Why ___________________________________________________________________?
I wore a costume because it was Halloween.
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UNIT 9
Dear Rachel,
How are things with you? I’m OK, but I’m sharing a bedroom with my brother at the moment
because I’m going to decorate my room next week. I’m going to paint it light blue. It’s my favourite
colour. I think I’m going to move my desk. I’m going to put it under the window because I want to
see the garden when I’m working. I’m not going to buy any new posters because I haven’t got any
money.
In August I’m going to go to Italy with my family. We’re going to stay in a hotel near the beach for
a week and after that we’re going to travel to Rome, Pisa and Milan. We’re going to visit the
museums and art galleries. We’re going to see the Coliseum, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and some
other famous historic sites, too. I’m going to take a lot of photos! What about you?
Write soon,
Love Simon
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10. Is Simon going to take any photos?
__________________________________________________________________
now
the future
Complete the sentences with Going To and one of the following verbs.
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4. your brother / help you decorate your room?
__________________________________________________________________________
5. you / eat in a restaurant tonight?
__________________________________________________________________________
1. No, ________________________________________
2. Yes, _______________________________________
3. No, ________________________________________
4. Yes, _______________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
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