Name:…………………………………………………… 4.

Write the words

1. c_ _k_ _ g
2. r_c_ m_s_c
CUTTING ENGE STARTER 3. sh_p_ _ _g
4. f_ _ tb_ _ _
5. re_ d _n_
6. f_ _d
1. Write the family words.
 Antonio and Maria are married. They have two 5. Write the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
children, Marco (25) and Ana (16). Marco has two
1. Sandy likes (like) cooking.
children, a girl, Sonia and a boy, Juan.
2. My mother ………….. (watch) a lot of tennis.
3. Mehmet ………………..(use) a car park at work.
e.g. Marco is Ana’s brother. 4. They ……………… (study) at the university.
5. My son ………………………..(play) a lot of football.
1. Ana is Marco’s ………………….. 6. My sister …………………….. (have) two children.
2. Antonio is Maria’s ………………. 7. My parents …………………….(live) in Chicago.
3. Maria is Antonio’s ………………. 8. We …………………………(eat) pasta on Sundays.
4. Antonio and Maria are Ana’s ………………. 9. Jack ……………… (go) to Jala School.
5. Antonio is Marco’s ……………………..
6. Maria is Marco’s …………………. 6. Which word is NOT correct.
7. Ana is Maria’s …………………….
8. Marco is Maria’s ……………………. e.g. eat - pasta rice water
9. Sonia and Juan are Antonio’s ……………………….
10.Antonio and Maria are Sonia’s ……………………… 1. read – newspaper / a video / a magazine
2. play - tennis / computer games / a computer
3. have – a stamp / 23 years old / parents
2. Put a word in the sentences. 4. use – school / a computer / the Internet
5. watch television / a book / football
Do / much / in / sorry / Bye / have / there’s / any / /Can / /lot 6. live – alone / parents / in a flat
/ don’t / near / of / They’re
7. Make these sentences negative.
A: ……….. you have ……… postcards of London?
B: No, ……….. We only ………. Postcards of Edinburgh. e.g. We eat meat. We don’t eat meat.
A: Oh, OK. How …………. Are they?
B: ……………… 45 p each. 1. She lives in Madrid.
A: ………. I have four please? And some stamps. ………………………………………………………..
B: We……….. have stamps here but …………………. A 2. I have a television.
post office ……………. Silver Street. ………………………………………………………….
A: Where’s that? 3. He studies a lot.
B: It’s …………. Here, on the right ……. The cinema. …………………………………………………………
A: Okay. Thanks a ………………. Goodbye. 4. My cat drinks milk.
B: ……………. …………………………………………………………
5. They go to school .
…………………………………………………………
3. Write the correct pronoun. 6. You’re Turkish.
…………………………………………………………
e.g. Do you like Johnny Depp?
Yes, I love him. 8. Write the times.
1. Do you like cooking? ……………. is okay. 1. 9.00
2. Mrs. Merkhel? I like …………..
………………………………………………………….
3. Do you like mobile phones? No, I hate ………….
4. George Clooney? …………..’s great. 2. 10.30
5. Cats? I don’t like ………….. ……………….…………………………………………
6. Do you live in a flat? Yes, I do. ……….’s in the 3. 12.45
centre of the city. …………………………….……………………………
7. Do you have a brother? Yes, but I don’t like 4. 6.15
………….
…………………………………………………………..
8. I like coffee. ………… too.
9. Put one word in each gap. 8. Stella likes listening ……………classical music.
9. Chris and I usually stay ……………at the
e.g. I don’t sleep very well in hotels. weekend.
10. It’s 9.30, half ……………nine.
My wife and I are very different . I ………….. up at 6.00
11. Jack works ………………..a big company.
o’clock. in the morning and she sleeps until ten. She
12. Do you phone your grandmother ……………day?
…………….breakfast and then she ………………….work.
13. What do you do ……………..the evening?
She’s a writer and she …………… at home. I
………………to work in the centre of the city but I don’t
…………………………breakfast. My lunch is usually a 13. Write the verbs.
pizza in a café near my company. My wife
………………………..have lunch. She usually eats only two 1. ……………….a car
meals every meals every day: breakfast and dinner. I 2. ………………chess
3. ………………dinner
usually ……………………work at five o’clock and I
4. ……………..a bicycle
…………home about six. She usually ……………dinner 5. ……………..very fast
and we eat together and ……………………television or 6. ……………..Spanish
……………..our books. I sometimes ……………………a 7. …………….a computer
computer game and then we go to bed early. 8. ……………the guitar
9. …………..without water
10. Write the days of the week. 10. …………..food
11. …………..my name
e.g. S unday
14. Write sentences with can in the positive (+), negative
1. M…………………………….. (-) or question form (?)
2. T……………………………….
3. W………………………………. 1. She / swim (?)
4. T………………………………….. …………………………………………………………
5. F………………………………….. 2. Tommy / read (+) ………….
6. S…………………………………… ………………………………………………
3. Liz / hear you (-)
…………………………………………………………
4. you / stand (?)
…………………………………………………………..
11. Put the adverbs in the correct place.
5. I / eat this (-) .
…………………………………………………………..
e.g. In Britain banks close at five. (usually) 6. We / walk to your house. (+)
In Britain banks usually close at five. …………………………………………………………..
7. you / spell your name (?)
1. Ron eats meat. (never) …………………………………………………………
2. My grandmother uses my computer. (sometimes)
3. Arnie studies a lot. (always) 15. Write the numbers.
4. What time do lessons start?(usually)
5. I play football with my father.(don’t usually) 1. 600 ……..
6. Do you speak English at home? (always) ………………………………………
2. 500 .
12. Put the correct preposition from the box in sentences ……………………………………………..
3. 12000
……………………………………………….
with / to / every / for / at / in / to / every / on / past / in / 4. 100 ..
at / in …………………………………………….
5. 3,000,000
1. I live …………………..my parents. ………………………………………………
2. I go shopping ………………….week. 6. 19,000
………………………………………………
3. I usually sleep …………the afternoon.
4. I go ……….the supermarket for most of my food.
5. We eat …………..half past seven.
6. I clean the house ………….Sundays.
7. The shop opens …………..ten o’clock.
16. Put a question word from below in the sentences. 7. see ………………..
8. watch ………………..
What / How many / Why / How much / Who / How old / 9. meet ………………..
When / How / Where 10. do ……………….

1. ………………’s your name?

My name’s Elinor. 15. Write the verb.
2. …………..’s that woman over there?
That’s my mother. 1. ………….French / a lot of languages / fast
3. ………….. do you live? 2. ………….three children / dinner / a lot of money
In Colorado. 3. ……….….in a hotel / in / with friends
4. …….………bananas are there? 4. ……..…….up / married / home late
Ten. 5. ……...…...shopping / home / for a walk
5. …………….do you spell daughter? 6. ………….. basketball / the guitar / computer games
d,a,u,g,h,t,e,r. 7. ………..….born / 35 years old / cold
6. ……………. do you like Paris? 8. …………..skiing / for a cup of coffee / to museum
Because it is very beautiful. 9. ……….….a new job / work at 9 o’clock / university
7. ……………do banks open in your country? 10. ……….….breakfast / two cars / a daughter
At half past ten. 11. ………..…the violin / chess / football
8. …………...is your brother?
He’s fourteen.
9. …………..is this CD? 16. Write the full numbers.
It’s £9.99.
1. 55 cm fifty-five centimetres
2. 21st May ………………………….
13. Write ONE word in each gap 3. 2010 …………………………..
4. 33 % …………………………
Sarah talks to Ben James about his job as a radio 5. 100 km …………………………
presenter. 6. 7.45 a.m. …………………………
7. 1997 ………………………..
B: Ben S:Sarah 8. 45 % ………………………..
9. 8.15 p.m. ………………………..
S: Hello, Ben. How …………you today? 10. 3000 ………………………..
B: Very well, thanks. 11. 23rd April ………………………..
S: Ben, when …………..you start in radio?
B: Well, when I ……………..young, I always …………..to
the radio at home and at school I started a radio station. 17. Write about your weekends (5 sentences).
Then when I ……………. School I got a job with Radio
ABC. Write about what you usually do in the morning afternoons
S: And then in 2005 you moved to Radio One and evenings at the weekend.
B: That’s right.
S: Your programme, Night Songs goes from eleven at  You can start: On…day I usually…and then I…
night to three in the morning. …………..you like working
at night? ..............................................................................................
B: Yes, I ……….. but I don’t get home until about five ..............................................................................................
o’clock and it’s difficult to go to bed then. ..............................................................................................
S: And what …………..you going to do in the future? ..............................................................................................
B: Well, next year I’m ……………….to be on television in a
..............................................................................................
show called Celebrity Favourite Songs.
S: Congratulations! ..............................................................................................
B: Thanks. And I want ……………….. write a book about .............................................................................................
radio.
S: Well, good luck and thank you for talking to me today.

14. Write the past form of the verbs.

1. study …………………
2. take …………………
3. arrive …………………
4. buy …………………
5. write …………………
6. be …………………
Write about you r life (10 sentences) 21. Correct the mistakes.
1. Does she can cook well?
You can write about: …………………………………………………….
2. John work at the post office
 Where and when you were born
…………………………………………………….
 Your family 3. He didn’t went to the football match last night.
 Your school and/or university …………………………………………………….
 Your job or the job that you want to do in the future 4. Do your sister work?
……………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………
5. What is your favourite football player?
……………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………
22. Read about three famous women and answer
……………………………………………………………………
questions 1-10.
……………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………
1. What was Bessie Smith’s job?
……………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………………………
2. Did people like Down Hearted Blues?
……………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………………………
3. Was she poor?
18. Write the words ……………………………………………………….
4. Why did Eva Peron leave home?
1. Millions of y……… men died in the 1914-18 War. …………………………………………………………
2. That cat’s beautiful but this one is very u………. 5. When did she marry Juan Peron?
3. 50% of your bones are in your feet and h……… …………………………………………………………
4. Do you have these bo….. in a size 38? 6. What did her Foundation do?
5. I’m going to see Tessa next W……………….
…………………………………………………………
6. This ch……..is very comfortable.
7. We s……… our old car last month. 7. Where was Maria Montessori born?
8. There’s a l…….. on that small table. ………………………………………………………..
9. My money’s in my black ha……….. 8. Was she a good student?
10. My grandparents didn’t have a lot of money. They ,……………………………………………………….
were very p……… 9. It wasn’t easy for her to become a doctor. Why?
11. I usually cl……… my house on Saturdays.
………………………………………………………..
19. Insert prepositions. 10. When did she start her first Montessori school?
……………………………………………………….
1. He never works ……… night.
2. Danny is out ……. her sister. FAMOUS WOMEN
3. I always go out ….. the weekend.
4. We usually play tennis …… Sundays. Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee, in the USA in 1895.
5. He got up ……. 6 o’clock this morning. When she was young she loved singing and dancing and
she made her first record Down Hearted Blues in 1923. It
was very successful and sold more than 750.000 copies
20. Put the sentences in the correct order. that year. She travelled all round the USA, appearing in
1. car / colour / is / what / your many cities and she became the highest paid black singer
……………………………………………………….. in the USA on $1500 a week. She worked with many
2. many / how / family / his / were / kids / there / in famous singers including Louis Armstrong. She died in
………………………………………………………. 1933 in a car accident. She was a great jazz and blues
3. wife / his / was / what / ‘s / first / name singer and millions of people still buy her music today.
………………………………………………………
4. do / much / sugar / how / need / you / this / for / Eva Peron was born in Los Toldos, Argentina in 1919. She
cake was very poor and her mother and sisters worked as cooks
……………………………………………………… for rich people. She was not a good student at school and
5. from / where / parents / his / were left home at the age of fifteen when she decided to
…………………………………………………….. become a famous actress. In 1944 she met the politician
Juan Peron and they were married a year later. When
Juan became President she became the First Lady. Eva
started the Eva Peron Foundation and built hospitals,
houses and schools for poor people and helped women in
different ways. Not everybody liked her but she was very
popular with working people. After her death in 1952, she
became famous all round the world when Andrew Lloyd
Webber and Tim Rice wrote their musical Evita about her
life.

Maria Montessori was born in Chiaravalle, Italy in 1870. As

a young girl, she loved reading and she did well at school
and in games. She left school and went to College. At that
time there were no female medical students and Maria
became the first Italian woman to study to become a
doctor. In 1896 she finished College and became a doctor.
Later she was a teacher in Rome University but then she
left to work with 60 children of working families. She
opened a school in Rome in 1907 and started the
Montessori Method of teaching. She travelled a lot and in
the USA and Holland her ideas about teaching became
popular. Now there are many Montessori schools all round
the world. Maria died in Holland in 1952.