Exercise 1 Modal verbs of probability and deduction

1. Sarah is in her room. She is crying about something. She ……………….(get) a bad mark at
school.
2. Nonsense. She never cries about her marks she …………………… (split) up with her boyfriend.
3. No, you are wrong, I saw them today. They were smiling at each other. They ………………
(split) up. They …………………. (have) a raw, but nothing more.
4. Then she …………………. (have) a headache. Or she ………………….. (think) about something
sad. I’d better go and ask her.
5. You …………………….. (do) it at once. She ………………… (really/need) help.
6. Yeah, you know last time when I asked her I regretted it right away. She told me that I
………………….. (not/put) my nose in other people’s business.
7. She ……………….. (think) it differently, not the way you understood. You ………………
(misunderstand)her.
8. You ………………….. (go) there yourself. She ………………….. (listen) to you better.

Exercise 2 Idioms
1. You should not have said by saying this you have made many people angry, to put it in
other way you have sent the …………..among the pigeons.
2. I am so angry! My …………….. is up.
3. I really think that you should not keep it to yourself. You should give Tim an ………………….
4. Even knowing what they have done does not give you the right to throw a ………………….
5. Your words just ……………… me up the wall.
6. I have tried absolutely everything. I at my ………………. end.
7. We have not heard from our cousin for more than a week since he went on that wretched
trip. We simply go off the ……………….. end.
8. I am trying not to ……………….. a fuse, but believe me, it is hardly possible.

Exercise 3 Have smth done/ have smb do/ get smb to do

1. The students of our school always ……………………. (a cook/prepare) their meals.
2. But some of the students sometimes ……………………… (their mother/make) some
sandwiches for them instead.
3. I never …………………………. (my mother/make) the sandwiches for me I prefer to ……………
(my dinner/make) at the time of the meal.
4. Last time I ………………………. (my brother/cut) my hair and I must admit that I regretted it
right afterwards. I will never …………………… (anybody/cut) my hair again. I will always
…………………… (it/cut) in future.
5. I ………………………. (a mechanic/repair) the tire of my car. I always ………………….
(them/repair) as I cannot do it myself and I do not know where I can …………………
(someone/repair) it so I better entrust this task to a specialist.
6. You know our neighbors ………………………… (an architect/plan) their garden. I wonder how
they can afford to …………………….. (a specialist/do) it. Even in the best case I can afford
………………….. (my cousin/do) it for me.

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 7. It is very expensive to ……………………….. (someone/do) work for you. If you want
………………… (the work/do) then it is cheaper to ………………….. (a friend of yours/do) it.
8. They …………………… (builders/build) an extension to their house last year, but the quality
of the material was so poor that now they …………………. (it/knock) down.

Exercise 4 Perfect infinitive

1. They suggested …………………… (do) it long before the accident.
2. We suggest …………………… (do) it as soon as possible.
3. I want …………………. (finish) the work on time to avoid misunderstandings.
4. I wish I ……………….. (finish) the work on time, I would not have had this misunderstanding!
5. They can ………………… (revise) the topic before this lesson.
6. They can …………………. (revise) the topic before that lesson that was why they knew
everything.
7. I recommend you ……………….. (read) this book. It is very interesting.
8. I mentioned …………………. (visit) Tom before I came there.

Exercise 5 Tenses Active/Passive/Gerunds

1. After we ……………………… (listen) to the song we ………………… (discuss) it all together
and some of my classmates …………………. (tell) that they ……………….. (never/hear) it
before.
2. The song …………………… (originally/write) in Spanish in 2008 but then it ……………….
(translate) into English.
3. Everybody …………………. (like) it because it is funny. We wish we ………………… (hear) it
before. We also wish we …………………….. (know) the words.
4. I ………………… (must)……………….. (admit) …………….. (be) full of prejudices before
listening to it but now I ………………….. (think) it is rather good.
5. Some of my classmates ………………………. (just/announce) that they ………………
(download) it from the Internet.
6. As soon as the lesson ……………………. (be) over, I …………………… (go) to the computer
class and ………………. (try) ……………….. (find) some more information about the singer.
7. We usually ……………………. (inform) about the latest hits by radio and our friends, but
sometimes we ………………….. (miss) really good tunes. I ………………… (always/
remember) ……………….. (listen) this song for the first time and ……………….. (be)
surprised that I ………………….. (never/hear) it before.
8. I ………………….. (like) ………………. (inform) on time I ……………….. (not/feel) comfortable if
I …………………. (know) that I ………………….. (lack) information about music or fashion.

Exercise 6 Relative clauses

Look at the picture of my relatives. You do not know any of them. Here are 9 people. There are 2
men, 2 women, 2 teenagers, 2 toddlers and a baby.

1. The man who/that is standing at the tall tree is my uncle Tim

2. Uncle Tim who/that I have just mentioned is my father’s brother.
3. Uncle Tim who/that lives next to us is not only my uncle, he is also my God father.
4. The woman who/that is standing next to uncle Tim is his wife.
5. The name of Uncle Tim’s wife who/that he has known since he was five is Judith.
6. Aunt Judith who/that is holding a baby in her arms is five years younger than Uncle Tim.

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 7. The baby who/that Aunt Judith is holding is only 6 month old.
8. The teenage boy who/that is standing behind Aunt Judith is my cousin Mark.
9. Mark who/that is two years older than me goes to the same school where I do.
10. Mark who/that helps me with my homework also has a sister Jennifer.
11. Jennifer who/that goes to the same form where I do never helps me with anything.
12. A good-looking toddler who/that is smiling like an angel is my stepsister.
13. Another toddler who/that is sitting in a highchair is my cousin George.
14. A man who/that is standing behind the highchair is my dad.
15. A woman who/that is smiling happily is my stepmother.
16. My stepmother who/that looks rather kind sometimes is mean to me.
17. My father who/that is by all means a kind person always protects me.

Exercise 7 Articles

1. James was found guilty and he was sent to …………….. prison. His bride sometimes goes to
visit him to ……………. prison, but his parents have never been in …………… prison. They wait
for James …………….elderly home in Santa Monica.
2. Although children do not like to go to ………………. school, they know that it is necessary for
their future. If they do not listen to their teachers, then sometimes their parents are called
to ……………… school to try to find a solution.
3. When you are ill you must stay at ……………… in……………..bed. You must not go to …………..
school or to …………… work because then you can get complications and you can even be
sent to …………….. hospital.
4. When my friends are ill I usually visit them at …………….. hospital.
5. When I am in despair. I always go to ………………. church. I consider that when a person
goes to ……………… church to talk to God, God will always help. Some people go to ………..
church to meet their friends, but friends do not know all the answers it is no use going to
………… church then.
6. I go to ……………… work five days a week. My husband sometimes meets me at …………….
work and then we sometimes go to do the shopping together.
7. The town is not big but there is …………….. school, …………… church, ……………. a prison and
………….. hospital.
8. When a person is ill he or she goes to …………….. hospital.
9. When a person has been found guilty of committing a crime, then he or she goes to …………
prison.
10. When you are ill you stay ……………… home in ……………. bed.
11. When you clean your wardrobe, you just put your clothes onto ……………. bed.

Exercise 8 Rephrase

1. Did she announce the date of the wedding?

ANNOUNCED .

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 2. The mechanic will repair the car for us.
HAVE .
3. I will ask Tim to help us.
FOR .
4. Tina told me that you would come at once.
TO .
5. I will let you make your own decision.
TO .
6. The box is broken. It was brought by you last week.
THAT .
7. You will buy three packages and you will get a discount.
IF .
8. I do not speak to him anymore.
TERMS .

Exercise 9 Vocabulary booster

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ENGLISH Your Mother Tongue
1. accuse of
2. announce
3. carry on
4. complete
5. draft
6. estimate
7. further
8. make a conclusion
9. misinform
10. party
11. process
12. properly
13. requirement
14. resume
15. schedule
16. state
17. submit
18. supplier
19. supply

Exercise 11 Make your own sentences using conditionals 1-4

Exercise 12 would/used to

1. They ……………….. tell a lie sometime.

2. We ………………. drive an old Volvo.
3. She ……………….. work very hard all the time I also …………….. help her when I had free time.
4. I ………………. buy fancy cakes when I had pocket money.
5. We ……………… play different games in the childhood.

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 6. This place ………………. be a cinema long time ago. We also ………………. come here now and
then. We ………………. buy tickets only in the back row.
7. The tickets ………………. be expensive and we ………………. borrow the money from our
friends if we did not have enough.
8. The girls ……………….. wear beautiful flowers in their hair as it was fashionable, boys also
……………… sometimes wear a flower in their shirts, but I did not like it.

Exercise 13 used to/get used to

1. They have already …………………………. (speak) a foreign language every day.

2. I ………………… (speak) only Russian but then I started to learn two foreign languages.
3. They ……………………. (meet) each other every day but since Mark went to London they do
not see much of each other very often. I think that they …………………. (live) separately now.
4. They ……………………. (cook) themselves once they live at a campus.
5. I …………………….. (take) pictures using my camera but now I have a video camera and I
………………….. (already/use) it and I do not use the camera anymore.
6. I really doubt that he ……………………. (live) without his family. He never …………………. (stay)
at home on his own and now you are trying to tell me that he …………………………
(already/live) completely on his own.
7. We …………………………… (plant) different vegetables in our garden but when we moved to
the city we could not do it. Now we ………………………….. (buy) vegetables on the market.
8. I ……………………. (watch) this film at every Christmas I think that I cannot even imagine
Christmas without it anymore.

Exercise 14 Odd one out if necessary

They are trying to avoid from all the misunderstandings but they do not know that it isn’t from

possible as people will always have different opinions and they precept things differently. V

I always try to ask one more time if I do not understand or I presume that I might have ………

misunderstood. My sister on the other hand has never asks to repeat as she thinks that it ………

is not impolite to ask people to repeat. We have also had some quarrels about this topic ………

as none of us wants to change her mind. Unless she will agree with me I will not speak to ………

her about this matter anymore. I look forward to her failing one day due to her being ………

stub born. Then I will tell her that I have told her about it some time ago and I know that ………

she will have nothing to contradict me. It is not easy to wait till the day will comes but ………

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I know it is worth it. Once I have experienced the same one of my friends kept stealing ………

chewing gums from shops. I told him that he would be sent to the prison if he did not ………

stop. But he did not listen to me as he thought that he was too clever to be caught. Now ………

he is in the prison for theft. You might think that I am evil, no you are wrong. I just like ………

when it proves that I was right for every price. And I know that a someday it will happen ………

again. And I am being ready to wait for it. ………

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