ENGLISH EXERCISES

I.Pronunciation.

Question 1: A. bird                B. thirty          C. must          D. girl

Question 2: A. birthday          B. early           C. learn          D. heart   

Question 3: A. born               B. learn            C. nurse         D. hurt  

Question 4: A. carrot                B. hobby        C. boy          D. short 

Question 5: A. Thursday          B. but            C. turn          D. curtain 

Question 6: A. occur              B. born            C. boy          D. long

 Question 7: A. search             B. early         C. hear          D. learn

Question 8: A. burn                 B. burglar       C. lunch         D. nurse 

 Question 9: A. work                B. hot           C. world         D. word

Question 11: A. fur                  B. burst          C. burden          D. lunch

Question 10: A. head               B. wet                C. were          D. best

VI. Fill in each blank with one suitable preposition if necessary.

VII. Rewrite each sentence so that the meaning stays the same.

1. I last wore that shirt in May.

=> I haven't.............................................................................................................

2. Success depends on hard work.

=> The harder ………………….....................................................................

3. I’m quite happy to look after the baby for you.

=> I don’t...................................................................................................................

4. The man was not able to go on an expedition to the Middle East because of his age.

=> The man was  ...........................................................................................................

5. Driving on the left feels strange to me.

=> I don’t  .....................................................................................................................

6. I would prefer you not to phone me at work.

=> I’d rather ..................................................................................................................

7. I can’t repair the lamp, so I’ll ask Mr. Nam to repair it.

=> I’ll have.....................................................................................................................

8. We can't afford to buy this car.

=> The car is ..................................................................................................................

9. He often makes his children work hard.

=> His children ……………………………………………………………………….

10. She has never visited Paris before.

=> This is her ……………………………………….……………………..………….

11. The concert was not as good as we had expected.

 => The concert didn’t come............................................................................................

12.  She and I have never been there before.

=>Neither..... .....................................................................................................................

III. Provide the correct form of the words in brackets.

6. I can’t stand the…………..........…smell of bad fish.                          PLEASE

IV. There is one mistake in each sentence below. Find out, underline and correct it. The first one is done for you as an example.

Example: 0. I haven’t saw you for two months                                                       0 - >  seen

1. My teacher makes me to do all these exercise.                                       2._______________

2. He didn’t used to behave like that, but now he’s rude.                          3._______________

3. Wearing uniform helps students feel equally in many ways.                4._______________

4. Doing the same things every day give me no pleasure.                          6._______________

5. Thank you very much about your letter that you sent me last week.   10.______________

V. Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

1. HaLong bay in VietNam ( be ) …………..…. a world heritage site. It ( visit)…..………. by millions of people every year.

2. Physics( be ) ……………..…….. my favorite subject.

3. Two  days ( not be) ………………….. long enough for me to finish the project.

4. The poor ( have ) ……………..….. little money and few posserrions.

5. While my sister and I ( watch ) …………………. a movie on TV lastnight, our uncle in the USA  (

I . Circle the word that has the underlined parts pronounced differently from the others

1. A. southern                       B. sunbathing                        C. breathe                  D. thunder

2. A. island                            B. rescue                                C. institute                 D. limestone

3. A.jungle                             B.gist                                      C.grind                       D.emigrate

4. A. stretcher                       B. chimney                            C. charity                   D. champagne

5. A. heritage                         B. shortage                            C. teenage                  D. luggage

II.  Circle the word or phrase which best completes each sentence

1.  The teacher gave her ............................

A. some advices                  B. some advice                     C. an advice              D. many advice

2.  Mr. White told me he would stay at home.................... two days.

A. other                                   B. the other                           C. others                    D. another

3. They hardly believe him and .....................

A. so do I                              B. neither do I                     C. I do, too                    D. I believe him

4. Normally he is rather ……………………… but sometimes he talks freely about himself

A. sociable                              B. reserved                            C. serious                 D. peaceful   

5. They kept  …………………  about the performing monkeys that they liked most of a

 A. to talk                                B.  talking                 C.  talk                     D. talked         

6. He was seen crying, and his face  ………………… red with shame.

A. caught                               B. broke                                 C. turned                    D. suffered   

7. The boy   …………………… the flowers in the garden is my brother.

A. watering                            B. watered                             C. is watered             D. is watering

8. Jane really enjoys  ……………………… to dinner parties.

A. inviting                             B. being inviting                   C. being invited        D. be invited

9. You can stay here ……….. … you don’t make a loud noise.          

A. as much as                        B. as long as                          C. as soon as             D. as far as

10. Which girl is Hoa? She is the one with ___________ .

A. long curly black hair                                                      B. curly long black hair     

C. long black curly hair                                                       D. curly long black hair