Revision module 1

Underline the correct alternative in each sentence.

I feel /am feeling that I understand the process very well.
I’d prefer to make/making an appointment now.
I don’t think/am not thinking you should invite him to your wedding.
She’d love to help/helping you but she is very busy at the moment.
I can’t stand to wait/waiting for latecomers.
My brother hates to wear/wearing formal clothes.
You look/are looking absolutely terrific today!

Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple, the Present Continuous or the Present Perfect.


We regularly ______ (meet) to play the guitar together.
I __________ (visit) three natural history museums so far.
We __________ (move) to a bigger flat. Could you help us transport our furniture?
I can’t make a cake because Tom __________ (forget) to buy eggs.
You shouldn’t wear this old-fashioned hat, you __________ (need) a new one.
The crime rate in New York __________ (go down) in the past ten years.
Professor Brown is an expert on Greek philosophy. At the moment he __________ (write) an article on the life of Socrates.
It __________ (not snow) here a lot at this time of year.

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the word in brackets.


He is a ___________________ (success) writer.
He talked about his friend’s accident with great __________ (sad).
Bad grades at school have a __________ (disaster) effect on her motivation.
My sister is a very __________ (ambition) student. She always wants to be the best.
My grandfather got a medal for his __________ (brave) during World War II.

Ana has great __________ (difficult) in understanding her Italian friend.

Read the text below and use one word to fit each space.

I am a good mixer, so I tend to (0) ___make___ friends quite easily and have a lot of people around. Many of them are very interesting, but nobody really compares with Alice. She is fifty-three years old and still very active. She can’t (1) __________ leading a boring life and (2) __________ up a new activity every year. She has already tried diving and bungee (3) __________ and now she is very much (4) __________ car racing. But one of her greatest dreams is to get into The Guinness Book of Records for spending the longest time on a (5) __________ island. I seriously doubt if she will ever succeed because she is a very sociable person and needs people to live.

Reported Speech

Choose the best reporting verb:
http://www.english-test.net/esl/learn/english/grammar/ii178/esl-test.php

Finish these sentences using reporting verbs:
http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/reported1.htm

Fill in the blanks to report the dialogues:
http://odl.vwv.at/english/odlres/res8/Grammar/grammar_exercises/reported_speech/repspeech.htm

Conditionals and wishes

Complete the sentences using conditional II:
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/if2.htm

Complete the sentences using conditional III:
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/if3.htm

Choose the best alternative:
http://www.better-english.com/grammar/wish2.htm

ING or TO INFINITIVE?

Complete using a verb in the gerund or the infinitive
http://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_1.htm

present perfect simple or continuous

Complete the sentences using present perfect simple or present perfect continuous
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs8.htm

Tenses

Complete the sentences with the verb in the right form:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs29practicetest.htm

Passive voice

Read this table with examples using passive in different verb tenses
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/activepassive.html

Complete the sentences using passive or active voice:
http://gocsm.net/sevas/esl/gramcheck/passive_ex3.html


Change into the passive
http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_passive1.htm

The street lawyer

Read the story and solve these tasks:
http://www.penguinreaders.com/pdf/downloads/par/level4/AW-StreetLawyer.pdf