Revision Exercises - 7th grade

1. Answer the questions:

1. What’s your name?
2. How old are you?
3. What is your favourite book? Why?
4. Describe your best friend!
5. Where did you spend your holiday?

2. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Continuous or Present Simple.
1. The children _________________________ (play) football in the courtyard every weekend.
2. My friend __________________________ (work) in the office right now.
3. Listen! The baby ________________________ (cry).
4. They _______________________ (not read) a book at the moment.
5. John sometimes ____________________ (drive) to work.
6. Our parents _______________________ (not go) on holiday every summer.
7. You never ________________________ (drink) coffee.
8. We ____________________________ (swim) in the ocean now.
9. Many people ________________________ (visit) New York every year.
10. Mother ____________________________ (cook) dinner at the moment.

3. Complete the sentences. Use the comparative or superlative.

1. This year it’s…………………………………..(hot) than it was last year.
2. What’s…………………………………(good) way to get to the centre?
3. The library’s…………………………...(quiet) place in the university for studying.
4. Books are…………………………………..(entertaining) than computer games.
5. What does……………………………….(early) flight to London leave?
6. A computer is………………………………..(useful) than a typewriter.
7. That’s………………………………..(bad) excuse I’ve ever heard!
8. The first story she told was………………………….(funny) than the second one.
9. This book is………………………(interesting) that that one.
10. It’s …………………………….(heavy) weight I’ve ever lifted!

4. Fill in the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

1.Matt .................... (never/go) abroad for his holidays. It’s too expensive.
2.The Titanic was travelling to New York when it ................ (hit) an iceberg and .................... (sink) in the Atlantic.
3.It’s autumn. The days ...................... (get) shorter and shorter.
4.My parents are in America on holiday. They ........................ (stay) near San Francisco.
5. I ....................... (never/eat) Chinese food in my life.
6.Shakespeare ................... (write) more than 36 plays.
7.If the weather .................. (stay) fine, we will go for a walk.
8.Look at those clouds! It ................... (rain).
9.They ..................... (rehearse) for more than an hour now
10. I ……………………(get) in time if I take a taxi.

5. Fill in the blanks with the following words: adventure , autobiography , historical fiction , non- fiction, short
story
1.It’s a ________________________ about a man whose life changes when he meets someone at the airport. It’s only 25
pages long .
2 He mostly reads___________________________. He especially likes books about art.
3 The last __________________________ story I read was about a man who is in a plane crash in the Brazilian jungle.
He gets bitten by a snake and nearly dies.
4 My favourite _____________________________ is by a famous singer. She writes about her life really well.
5 This ___________________________ novel is set in 1492 and tells the story of a young boy working on Columbus’s
ship the Pinta .