Grammar Tasks for Your Exam
You are welcome to do some more grammar to improve your writing skills! You can do it at home and then send or bring it for checking.

1. Complete the sentences with one of the prepositions: at; since; in; during; on; until; by; for; into

1. He arrived ___ one o'clock___ the afternoon __ Sunday.

2 . I stopped___ his shop for a while ___ Thursday.

3. We arrived ___ the airport___ Kyiv ___ about two o'clock.

4. We took a taxi which was parked ___ the side of a road.

5. Jason threw his net ___ the river and pulled some fish out.

6. You may visit me ___ the school holidays.

7. Jane has not seen her parents ___ she moved to Canada.

8. I’ll be here ___ five p.m. so take your time.

2. Fill in the correct preposition or -  no preposition.

1. We usually arrive ___ the bus-stop at 8.00.

2. ‘Have you lost anything?’ I’m looking____ my pen.’

3. ‘You look happy.’ ‘Yes, I’m thinking ____ my trip .'

4. Karina had to wait ___ the bus for twenty minutes this morning.

5. Could you look _______ my flowers while I’m away?

6. I always look _______ new words in the dictionary.

7. Parents usually don’t like it when their children ask them ___ money.

8. I got_______ the bus and sat down.

9. Do you get to school____ car or ___ foot?

10. Your test results always depend ___ your work.

3. Choose the most appropriate answer from the options (A-D) for each gap in the text. There is one example (0) at the beginning.

One of the concerns (0) many parents (1 )___ about home education is that children (2 )____ become isolated, without the chances for social interaction a school provides.

Educational psychologists (3) ____ parents to do all they can to make sure their children

have adequate opportunities for socialising with all sorts of children of all different ages. It (4 )____children confidence and security, (5 )____ an ability to think (6)

___ themselves.

0  A many   B a lot        C a lots of      D a plenty of

1  A rise     B have risen C arouse      D raise

2  A are able to B could    C might have  D manage to

3  A insist    B suggest    C will make      D advise

4  A gets     B makes     C gives      D has

5  A as soon as B as long as C as well as D as much as

6  A to       B fo r     C on         D after

4. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.

A Last month, Julie (1) ___went__(go) on holiday to France with her husband, Rob.

They (2) ______ (stay) in a small country hotel. They

(3) _____ (have) such a wonderful time that they (4)_____  (already/decide) to go back again next year. Julie (5 )_____ (look forward) to it.

B Yesterday, while I (6) ____(shop), I (7) ____ (leave) my purse in the supermarket. I really thought I (8) ____ (put) it in my bag because I (9 )____ (be) always careful. Luckily a man found my purse while he was doing his shopping and (10) ____ (give) it back to me. I must try to be more careful in future.

5. Read the text below and choose the correct word (A>D) for each gap.

Scientists believe that rainforests (0) may be home to more than ten million different forms of wildlife. The largest group (1) _____ of insects, which climb or fly easily from

tree to tree. Most people arc familiar (2 )_____ colourful parrots, but they are only one part of the total bird (3) _____ which goes from tiny humming-birds to huge toucans.

Many rainforest animals have developed for living in the tree tops. Some monkeys have thin webs of skin between their legs that (4)_____them to almost fly between (5 )____ .

Others have long, strong tails, like an (6 ) _____ arm.

0 A may B can C should D would

1 A keeps B consists C holds D claims

2 A with B to C o f D by

3 A set B company C population D society

4 A let B allow C make D admit

5 A branches B leaves C flowers D plants

6 A accurate B equal C extra D alive