LEVEL 3 – LINKS TO GRAMMAR EXERCISES

 

 

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Narrative tenses

 

Past simple and continuous

 

Complete the stories

Drag and drop the items to complete a text. Life anecdotes.

 

Simple past or past progressive

Complete the sentences. Life anecdotes.

 

Present perfect simple and continuous

 

Present Perfect Simple – Present Perfect Progressive

 

 

Complete a text cut up into sentences.

Past simple and past perfect

 

Simple past and past perfect simple Exercise 1 Exercise 2

 

Choose the right option.

 

Simple past and past perfect (The Visitor)

Complete a text cut up into sentences. Life anecdotes.

 

Past perfect continuous

 

Mix and match

Match the sentences.

 

The passive

 

Active or passive? (Present simple and past simple)

 

The Statue of Liberty

Complete a text cut up into sentences. Landmarks.

 

Active or passive? (various tenses)

 

Active or Passive Voice

Choose the right option.

 

Passive with all sorts of verb forms

 

Quiz: Passive

Choose the right option.

 

Modal verbs

 

“Have to”; subject-verb agreement

 

Obligation with subject agreement

 

Choose the right option.

 

“Must” and “can” for deduction (but not only)

 

Must & can

 

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Expressing deduction in the past

 

Must have, might have, can’t have

 

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Contrast (meaning)

 

Quiz: Mixed modals

 

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Conditionals

 

Types 1, 2 and 3

 

 

Exercises on Conditional Sentences (Mix)

 

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“The Cat and the Mouse”, Part 1 and Part 2

Complete the text.

 

Types 0, 1, 2 and 3

 

 

 

Which conditional should I use?

 

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If…  (part 2)

 

Choose the right option.

 

Reported speech (and indirect questions)

Reporting verb in the past: statements

Exercise on reported speech – Back shift

Write the given sentences in reported speech. Warning: Insert the necessary punctuation!

 

Reporting verb in the past: requests

Exercise on reported speech - Requests

Write the requests in reported speech. Warning: Insert the necessary punctuation!

 

Reporting verb in the past: questions

 

Exercise on reported speech – Questions

 

Write the questions in reported speech. Warning: Insert the necessary punctuation!

 

Indirect questions

 

Quiz: Indirect questions

Choose the right option.

 

Reporting verb in the past: All sorts of sentences.

 

Exercise on reported speech – Mixed exercise 1

Write the given sentences in reported speech. Warning: Insert the necessary punctuation!

 

Relative clauses

 

Is the relative pronoun necessary?

 

Relative pronouns – necessary or not? (and another one)

Decide whether the relative pronoun can be omitted or not.

 

Relative pronouns

 

Who, which, whose or no pronoun?

 

Complete the sentences.

 

The relative “what” (= the thing that)

 

Quiz: That & What

Choose the right option.

 

Non-defining relative clauses

 

Non-defining relative clauses

Combine the sentences using non-defining relative clauses. Warning: Insert the necessary punctuation! Biography.

 

Defining, or non-defining?

Relative clauses – defining or non-defining?

 

Decide whether the relative clause is defining (necessary for the meaning of the sentence) or non-defining (it just adds more information).

 

General practice (Defining and non-defining clauses)

 

A holiday in Scotland

Combine sentences using relative clauses. Warning: Write the relative pronoun only when necessary; insert the necessary punctuation. Scotland.

 

Connectors

Connectors of contrast

 

Quiz: Although, Though, Despite and However

 

Choose the right option.

 

Conjunctions

 

Quiz: Conjunctions; also, Basic Subordinating Conjunctions 1 and Connecting words.

 

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Prepositions

 

Adjective + preposition; verbs and prepositions

 

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“-ingvs “-ed” adjectives

 

 

 

Adjectives with –ing/-ed

 

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A Good Job: Interest-ing/Interest-ed

 

Choose the right option. Work

 

Infinitives and gerunds

 

Infinitive or –ing?

 

 

Gerunds and Infinitives 1

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Complete the sentences with the verb in brackets

 

Complete the sentences.

Infinitive with “to”, without “to” or –ing?

 

Infinitive or gerund: Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3

 

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The unreal past

 

(Also, see “Conditionals”)

 

“I wish” and auxiliary verbs

 

Mix and match

Match the sentences.

“I wish”

Wish 1

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Wish + past simple/past perfect/would + infinitive

 

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