Testing work on lexics for English learners

Use the verbs to complete the sentences: founded, believed, appeared, decorated, went, hugged, had, prepared, shouted, wished, celebrated, struck, hung, waited

1. A strange old woman with a basket of berries ______ near our house that day in the morning.

2. M.V. Lomonosov ______ the first university in the capital of our country many years ago.

3. We _____ out last night and _____ a lot of fun in the park and in the central square.

4. Nelly and Bob ______ the living-room wonderfully before the New Year Eve.

5. They _______ their daughter’s birthday party with musical balloons and several clowns.

6. Before going to bed, I ______ my parents and ______ them good night as usual.

7. My brother _____ a beautiful and modern picture on our hall wall last week.

8. Her elder sister ______ a wonderful round cake for the guests last Saturday.

9. I ______ for you yesterday in the afternoon to play together, but you didn’t come.

10. Ann ______ his cousin’s name loudly across the yard to tell him something very important.

11. The Kremlin clock and the Big Ben clock ______ all the last centuries.

12. When my son was little, he ______ in Father Frost. Put the verbs in proper forms:

1. While they (make) _____ the voyage, they (see) _____ a lot of interesting places.

2. Bob (fight) ______ with his friend last evening.

3. They always (hope)______ for the better future.

4. If my brother (bring)_____ the book in the afternoon, I (read)_____ it till the end of the week.

5. When he (arrive)_____, he (hug)_____ me as usual yesterday after his trip.

6. Only an hour ago Amanda (remember)______ about the parents’ school meeting.

7. I (sail)_____ west of the region with some of my friends tomorrow.

8. The bike (belong)_____ to those children playing in the garden.

9. When we (come)_____ home, we (call)_____ you.

10. What (make)_____ New York interesting?

Put the following words to complete the sentences: “Discovery”, still, skyscrapers, round, space, voyage, through, seashore, land, nearly, poor, gold

1. Susan is fond of holidays on the ______ and always spends summer in Greece or Turkey.

2. There is small _______ in my room that’s why I cannot put my bike here inside.

3. There are a lot of _____ in modern cities such as New-York, it is really the city of the highest buildings.

4. My brother _____ missed his train, because he arrived at the railway station rather late as we wanted to come.

5. It is 7 o’clock in the evening, are they ____ watching their favorite cartoon in the living-room?

6. The narrow village road ran _____ the thick and dark forest to the lake.

7. There are a lot of __ people in this part of this abroad country, you must be careful when you travel here.

8. The pirates with their ships wanted to find the island in that sea with _____ very much.

9. Christopher Columbus knew that our planet was ______ and that’s why he sailed west to India.

10. Our family had a pleasant wonderful _____ to Spain last year summer holiday.

11. Crocodiles, turtles and lizards can live both on ____ and in water.

12. The name of the ship on which they set off to new the New Land was _______.

Write shore or bank:

1. Some lakes are so large and deep that you can’t see the other ______ of them.

2. My dad likes to jump off the river _______.

3. I would like to go fishing to our river ______ on my weekends with my family.

4. The ______s of the Pacific Ocean are really icy in the north.

5. We usually spend our summer evenings on the ______ of the river Volga.

6. There are a lot of resting people on the ______ of the Black Sea during summer every year.

7. It is fairly windy on the ______ of the Baltic Sea in St. Petersburg.

8. This _____ of the Atlantic Ocean is very sandy and sunny the whole year.

9. The other _____ of that river is very high and rocky with stony hills.

10. Our cottage stands on the ______ of the pleasant pond.