LEVEL 5 – LINKS TO GRAMMAR EXERCISES

 

 

TOPIC

TOPIC

 

SUB-TOPIC

ACTIVITY

DESCRIPTION

Avoiding repetition

Using auxiliary verbs

 

Avoiding repetition

Complete the sentences.

 

“To” representing an infinitive

 

Reduced infinitives

 

 

Complete the sentences. Use contractions whenever possible.

 

The two sub-topics above

 

Ellipsis

Choose the right option.

Eliminating the subject and auxiliary in colloquial language

 

Colloquial omissions

Complete the sentences.

Talking about the future

 

Plans and arrangements

 

Expressing future plans and arrangements

Choose the right option.

Future in the past

Future in the past

 

Choose the right option.

Modal verbs

The meaning of modal verbs

 

Modal verbs and what they express

Match sentences containing modal verbs with the meaning of the verbs.

“Didn’t need to” vs “needn’t have”

 

“Needn’t have” or “didn’t need to”

Complete the sentences

 

Modal verbs of deduction

 

Speculation and deduction

 

Choose the right option.

Expressing probability and possibility (not just with modals)

 

Possibility and probability

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Unreal past constructions (It’s time, I’d rather)

“Would rather” and “had better” + infinitive or past simple

 

Had better / would rather

Choose the right option.

“It’s time” + past simple

It’s Time!

Match the sentences with their responses.

 

It’s time

Rewrite the given sentences.

Active and passive

 

Infinitive after reporting verbs (“he was said…”) and verbs of thinking (“she was thought”…)

 

Distancing the facts

Transformations. Do not use contractions.

 

 

Passives: advanced structures

 

Choose the right option.

 

Tenses, including passives

 

Complete the text. Art

 

Participle clauses

 

 

Participles

 

Complete the sentences. Use capital letters where necessary.

 

Participle constructions in sentences

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Participial phrases

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Participle clauses

 

Transformations.

Connectors

Use of the article after “such”

 

Such a hard quiz!

Put the nouns in the right category.

 

Linking devices 1

Complete the sentences. Use capital letters where necessary.

 

 

Linking devices 2

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Adverbial connectors

Discourse markers (2): Adverbs and adverbial expressions

 

Complete with the missing word.

Adverbs (colloquial speech)

Discourse markers

Complete the sentences with the given connectors.

 

Expressing emphasis

 

Inversion

Subject-verb inversion

 

Choose the right option

 

Negative inversion

Complete the sentences with the given negative adverbials.

 

Emphatic “do”

Emphatic use of do

Complete the sentences with the emphatic form of the verbs.

Assorted emphatic structures

 

Adding emphasis

Choose the right option.

The anticipatory “it”

 

Impersonal or anticipatory “it”

Choose the right option.

 

With -ing

-ing forms after preparatory it

Complete the sentences.

Comparing

 

 

Comparison

Find and correct the mistakes.

 

 

Comparisons

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Noun + noun combinations

 

 

Nouns: compound and possessive forms

Choose the right option.

Nouns in groups

Correct the mistakes.