Elementary Progress Test 5
Grammar
1 there is/there are
Complete the sentences with the correct form of there is/there are.
Is there a park near your house?
1 _______ any chairs in the kitchen.
2 In the living room _______ a TV and a music system.
3 _______ a lot of bookshelves in your study.
4 A: Is there any air conditioning?
B: No, _______.
5 _______ any shops near your house?
____/10
2 have got
Use the words to write positive sentences (+), negative sentences (-), or
questions (?).
Peter / a big house (+)
Peter’s got a big house.
1 Giulia / a DVD recorder (-)
___________________________________________
2 You / a dishwasher (?)
3 We / a garden (-)
4 I / a very small apartment (+)
5 They / double glazing in their house (?)
___/10
3 modifiers: (not) very, quite, really
Underline the correct words in italics.
Tokyo is a quite / really busy city. There are millions of people there.
1 The Sahara Desert in Egypt is really / not very hot during the day.
2 My apartment is not very / quite small. It’s only forty-five metres squared.
3 This car isn’t very / really expensive – it’s old.
4 I’m always not very / really hungry because I do a lot of sport every day.
5 Mount Everest is a very / quite high mountain.
Vocabulary
4 rooms
Write the missing letters to complete the rooms in a house.
bedroom
1 a_ti_
2 ce_ _ar
3 d_n_n_ r_ _m
4 s_o_er r_ _m
5 _tu_y
5 equipment
Put the letters in the correct order to make words for kitchen equipment.
effceo aeimchn coffee machine
1 okrcoe _____________
2 hswhresdai _____________
3 gfdrie _____________
4 iacowmvre _____________
5 iwsnhag meciahn _____________
6 landscapes
Complete the landscape words.
Our house is on a lovely beach by the sea.
1 We often go swimming in a cold l_ _ _ in the summer.
2 There are a lot of very old trees in the f_ _ _ _ _ behind our house.
3 The Amazon and the Nile are really long r_ _ _ _ _.
4 There are hundreds of beautiful i_ _ _ _ _ _ in Indonesia; for example, Java, Bali and Lombok.
5 My favourite c_ _ _ is Barcelona, in Spain.
Pronunciation
7 /æ/ and /ɒ/
Put the words in the box into the correct column.
attic cat cottage dishwasher forest hat lamp packet pocket tap top watch
/æ/ /ɒ/
cat watch
_______ _______
8 main stress
Underline the syllable with the main stress.
mountain
1 detached
2 beautiful
3 competition
4 remember
5 dishwasher
6 luxurious
7 forest
8 cupboard
9 double glazing
10 shower room
How to …
9 talk about where you come from
Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
apartment beautiful city from mountains wide
I’m from Italy.
1 I live in a small _______ in Rome.
2 Rome is a busy, noisy _______.
3 There is a long _______ river and a lot of hills in Rome.
4 In the north of Italy there are high ...
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