Do the quiz below on Phone Conversations expressions and click on the button to check your answers.

(Before doing the quiz you may want to read the lesson on phone conversation) Choose the right answer 1. Which question the person answering the phone may ask you when you call a company.

2. You say 'hang on':

3. Please ... and Ill put you through.

4. What is the expression used to connect two people on the telephone?

5. Hang on for...

6. Just a second. I... if he is in!

7. Please hold and I'll ... you through

8. Who ... I say is calling?

9. You 've ... the Finance Department.

10. ... I speak to Mrs O'Neil?

Choose the right answer 1. Which question the person answering the phone may ask you when you call a company. Who's calling please? 2. You say hang on: To keep a telephone connection open 3. Please ... and I'll put you through. hold 4. What is the expression used to connect two people on the telephone? I'm putting you through 5. Hang on for... a second 6. Just a second. I... if he is in! 'll see 7. Please hold and I'll ... you through put 8. Who ... I say is calling? shall 9. You 've ... the Finance Department. reached 10. ... I speak to Mrs O'Neil? Can

Choose the correct form of the following verbs: wake(s) up - open(s) - speak(s) - take(s) - do(es) - cause(s) - live(s) - play(s) - close(s) - live(s)

1. Ann 2. I never

hand ball very well. coffee. at 7:00 in the morning.

3. The swimming pool 4. It

at 9:00 in the evening. many accidents. in a very small flat. place every four years. their homework.

5. Bad driving 6. My parents

7. The Olympic Games

8. They are good students. They always 9. My students 10. I always a little English. early in the morning.

Put the verbs between brackets in the correct form: 1. Jane (not/drink) 2. What time (the banks/open) 3. Where (John/come) 4. It (take) 5. She (not/wake) from? me an hour to get to work. up early on Sundays. tea very often. in Britain?

Choose the right verbs to complete the sentences. Sometimes you need the negative: write - turn - eat - tell - rise

1. The earth 2. The sun 3. Vegetarians

around the sun. in the east. meat. the truth.

4. A liar is someone who 5. A novelist novels.

Choose the correct form of the follwing verbs: wake(s) up - open(s) - speak(s) - take(s) - do(es) - cause(s) - live(s) - play(s) - close(s) - live(s) 1. Ann plays 2. I never drink hand ball very well. coffee. at 7:00 in the morning.

3. The swimming pool opens 4. It closes

at 9:00 in the evening. many accidents. in a very small flat. place every four years. their homework.

5. Bad driving causes 6. My parents live

7. The Olympic Games take

8. They are good students. They always do 9. My students speak 10. I always wake up a little English. early in the morning.

Put the verbs between brackets in the correct form: 1. Jane (not/drink) does not drink / doesn't drink 2. What time (the banks/open) do the banks open 3. Where (John/come) does John come 4. It (take) takes from? tea very often. in Britain?

me an hour to get to work. up early on Sundays.

5. She (not/wake up) does not wake up / doesn't wake

Choose the right verbs to complete the sentences. Sometimes you need the negative: write - turn - eat - tell - rise 1. The earth turns 2. The sun rises around the sun. in the east. meat. the truth.

3. Vegetarians do not eat / don't eat

4. A liar is someone who does not tell / doesn't tell 5. A novelist writes novels.

Action Verbs
Action verbs express action and are the most common verbs. Action verbs need s at the end with third-person, singular subjects.

He eats bread. She walks to the station. It floats on the sea. Negative sentences need do not, does not, or did not.

I do not eat bread. He does not eat bread. You did not walk to the station. It does not float on the sea. Interrogative sentences begin with do, does, or did.

Do you eat bread? Does he eat bread? Does she walk to the station? Did they finish it? Do not can be shortened to don't, does not to doesn't, and did not to didn't.

I don't eat bread. She doesn't walk to the station. It doesn't float on the sea. They didn't finish it.

Remember the variations of action verbs:

Affirmative Sentence I sing a song. You sing a song. He (she) sings a song. We sing a song. They sang a song.

Negative Sentence

Interrogative Sentence

I do not (don't) sing a song. Do I sing a song? You do not (don't) sing a song. Do you sing a song?

He (she) does not (doesn't) Does he (she) sing a sing a song. song? We do not (don't) sing a song. They did not (didn't) sing a song. Do we sing a song?

Did they sing a song?

[Quiz 6.1]
Correct the verb errors in the sentences below. Some sentences may be correct as is. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) I runs a marathon. You look sleepy. She do not dance. Does you leave today? We don't stay here. It come with rice.

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[6.1] 1) runs -> run 3) do -> does 4) Does -> Do 6) come -> comes