Grammar extension worksheet - Unit 1

Enjoy, like, love, want, hate + to do / doing

1.- Fill in the blanks with the correct form: -ing or to + infinitive.

1 George loves playing (play) tennis, but he hates running (run).

2 Did you enjoy .................................. (go) to Disneyland?

3 When I go to the cinema I like .................................. (get) there early so I can buy some sweets.

4 Mary would love .................................. (learn) to ice-skate.

5 Would you like .................................. (come) to the theatre with us tonight?

6 Would you want .................................. (stay ) at school if you won the lottery?

2.- Put the words into the correct order and translate them into your mother tongue.

1 weekend / I / at / the / get up / early (hate)

I hate getting up early at the weekend.

2 we / theatre / go / the / to (enjoy)

3 anybody / hamburgers / day / every / eat / does ? (like)

4 be / lawyer / parents / my / me (want)

5 he / play / with / friends / his / chess (love)

6 sister / my / spiders / see (hate)

3.- Make sentences about you and your friends using hate, love, like, enjoy and want.

 1 I love horror films but my friends hate them.

 2 My friend Peter likes classical music. I like jazz.

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Grammar reinforcement worksheet - Unit 1

1.- Complete the sentences with the present simple or the present continuous. You will need to use the auxiliary verb do in the questions and negative sentences.

1 We are not going (not go) on holiday this summer because we are doing up (do up) our house.

2 I always .......................... (wake up) at 7 o'clock on school days, but only because the alarm clock .......................... (buzz) so loudly I can't ignore it.

3 Some nights I .......................... (not finish) my homework until really late and then I have trouble to fall asleep.

4 How much money .......................... (you usually spend) at the weekend? I …........................... (not go) out this week at all because I'm broke!

5 I'm afraid I .......................... (not speak) French very well, but I'm .......................... (learn).

6 I .......................... (not like) cooking very much, but I .......................... (love) eating.

2.- Use three verbs from the box in either the present simple or the present continuous to complete the sentences below. (Pay attention to spelling.)

1 Please stop making so much noise. I …am…trying…to study.

2 Peter says he doesn't .......................... in ghosts.

3 I always ......................... to do my best at school, but sometimes it's just not good enough!

4 We .......................... a party on Saturday night. Do you want to come?

3.- Underline the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.

1 Sam isn't having a birthday party this year / usually.

2 My mother always telling / tells me to tidy my room on Sunday evenings.

3 Are you listening to the radio every day / or can I turn it off?

4 In autumn the leaves fall / are falling from the trees.

5 It hardly ever snows/snowing in the city. I think it's because of the pollution.

6 My parents like to go to the theatre to see a Shakespeare play / when they can find the time.

4.- What is the third person present simple form of these verbs?

 1 go goes

 2 play

 3 do

 4 study

 5 reach

 6 try

 7 achieve ………..

 8 fix

 9 wish

10 have

11 love

12 kiss

Skills worksheet - Unit 1

Reading

“Who, Sir? Me, Sir?”

K. M. Peyton

“It was Sam Sylvester, a teacher at Hawkwood School, who started the trouble. Just along the road from Hawkwood there was another school called Greycoats. Parents paid a lot of money to send their children to Greycoats, and the children were clean and tidy, wore expensive clothes, and did well in examinations.

At Hawkwood the parents did not pay any money and the children were much better at fighting than passing examinations. They were happy about that. Passing examinations meant hard work, and who wanted to study every evening?

But Sam Sylvester was worried about the difference between the two schools. He wanted Hawkwood to be as good as Greycoats, and he was always telling his class to work harder, to try and make a better life for themselves.

“That's the trouble with you lot,” he said to his class one day. “You don't care about anything.( ) I want you to have ambition. To do things. To want things.”( )

But Mr Sylvester's class don't really know what they want except for one boy who wants to go to a football match and one girl who wants to ride a horse in the Olympic Games.

So Mr Sylvester devises a plan to show the children at Hawkwood that they can have the same ambitions as the boys and girls at Greycoats.

On Monday morning Sam's class listened with open mouths as Sam told them his news.

“Now listen carefully, because this is very important. I want to show everybody that Hawkwood School is just as good as Greycoats. Some people think that my plan is impossible, but I know we can do it. We're going to enter a tetrathlon * team against the Greatcoat's team, and I've promised we will beat them. The competition is next summer so we have got almost a year to get ready. It just needs hard work. And four people in the team -” Sam said the parents liked the idea.

*tetrathlon = running, swimming, shooting and riding

1.- What is the main difference between Hawkwood School and Greycoats?

2.- What, according to the extract, is the difference between the pupils?

3.- What does the teacher, Mr Sylvester, consider to be the one defining fact that separates the two schools? Do you think he is right? (Give your reasons.)

4.- This novel is set in a multi-racial, inner-city school where many of the pupils come from relatively poor families. Do you think ambition alone will help them?

5.- What difficulties do you think the Hawkwood pupils encounter in their training?

6.- Why do you think the parents like the idea?

7.- Who do you think eventually wins, and why?

8.- In your opinion, are inter-school competitions a good idea? (Give reasons.)

Listening and speaking

1.- Listen. Who do you think is the more successful student, John or Sam? Can you say why?

2.- What do you think it means to pass an exam “with flying colours”?

3.- Which was the phrasal verb that John used to mean “become involved in the plot of a novel”.

4.- Listen to the extract from the novel again. This was written in the 19th century. Do you think it is good advice for teachers today?

5.- Why do you think the teacher, Mrs Smith, sets this extract for homework?

Vocabulary worksheet - Unit 1

Life at school

 1 teachers 10 chemistry

 2 science 11 classroom

 3 physical education 12 name tag

 4 geography 13 drama club

 5 maths 14 athletics track

 6 blackboard 15 public

 7 chalk 16 art room

 8 caretaker 17 gym

 9 physics 18 pupil

1.- How many of these are compound words?