Pre-Intermediate Placement and Revision Test

1. Questions and verb forms

Put the words in the right order to make a question.

Example

job / learning / for / English / your / you / are?

Are you learning English for your job?

1. English/you/start/did/learning/when? ________________________________________

2. tennis/often/play/how/does/she? ________________________________________

3. do/doing/what/at/you/like/weekend/the? ________________________________________

4. weekend/do/what/you/would/to/this/like? ________________________________________

5. dictionary/why/got/you/haven't/a? ________________________________________

6. much/put/my/coffee/sugar/how/did/in/you? ________________________________________

7. phoned/doing/John/when/what/you/were? ________________________________________

8. sandwiches/make/is/who/to/going/the? ________________________________________

9. radio/listening/does/enjoy/to/mother/the/ your? ________________________________________

10. live/Anna/where/was/child/a/did/when/ she? ________________________________________

2. Tenses and verb forms

In the following conversation put the verb in brackets into the correct tense or verb form.

Example

A Why did you go (go) to the seaside last weekend?

B Because we like sailing (sail).

A (1)________ you ________ (know) Brian Bailey?

B Yes, I (2)________ (meet) him two years ago while I (3)________ (work) in Germany. (4)________ he still ________ (live) there?

A Yes. He does. He (5) ________ (live) in Frankfurt. He (6) ________ (have got) a good job there but at the moment he (7) ________ (work) in London. He's here for a few days and I'd like (8) ________ (invite) him and you for dinner. Can you (9) ________ (come)?

B Yes, I hope so. I'd love (10) ________ (see) Brian again! When I was in Germany we (11) ________ (see) each other quite often because his office was near the school where I (12) ________ (teach) and so we sometimes (13)________ (have) lunch together. I always enjoyed (14) ________ (talk) to him. I wanted  (15) ________ (write) to him but he moved and I (16) ________ (not have) his new address.

A Well, what about dinner on Friday?

B That's fine. What time?

A Is 8 o'clock OK? I (17) ________ (ring) Brian yesterday to check the day, and I (18) ________ (ring) him again tomorrow to check the time.

B Well 8 o'clock is fine for me. I (19) ________ (come) at about 8 and I (20) ________ (bring) a bottle of wine.

A See you on Friday then!

3. Countable and uncountable nouns

Underline the uncountable noun in the following pairs of words.

Example cheese/egg

money/pound	meat/hamburger
rice/potato	flower/flour
loaf/bread	song/music
job/homework	luggage/suitcase
food/meal	furniture/desk

4. Articles

Put a, an, the or nothing into each gap in the story.

Example

I had  dinner with the Queen.

My Aunt Vanessa is (1) _________ artist. She lives in (2) _________ beautiful old cottage by (3) _________ sea and she paints (4) _________ small pictures of wild flowers and birds. She doesn't like leaving (5) _________ cottage, but once (6) _________ year she travels by (7) _________ train to London and has (8) _________ tea with me at (9) _________ Savoy Hotel. At the moment I'm quite worried about her because she's in (10) _________ hospital, but I'm sure she'll be better soon. I'm going to visit her next week.