INSTITUCIÓN EDUCATIVA SAN LUIS GONZAGA

WORKSHOP _______ DATE:_____________________________

NAME : _____________________________________________________ GRADE________

VII. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES

I. CHECK ❏✓ WHO IS DOING EACH ACTIVITY ON SATURDAY. USING THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

17. Look! Andy____________________________ in

the garden. He has a hammock.
18. I_________________________________ TV at
the moment. I am studying.
19. We___________________________ the piano,
now. Maybe later.
20. Listen! Sue and John________________________
next month. They
____________________________their honeymoon
in Cuba.
21. My sister
________________________________the
bathroom. She is a tidy person.
22. Look! They_____________________________
cards inside.
23. I_______________________________ in the car
now.
24. Mrs Miller________________________________
to some new CDs.
25. We _______________________________ English
at the moment. We are in math class.
26. His brother_______________________________ a
test at the moment.
27. They_____________________________________
in the pool. We are in the tennis court.
28. Look! David and Max
____________________________________home.
29. My dog Charlie__________________________ to
the park.
30. I ________________________________breakfast
now. I am doing this urgent report.
31. Sandra __________________________________
in the park right now.
32. Jim and his wife ____________________________
in the living room. They just got a new sofa.
33. At the moment Paul and Sue
_____________________________________golf
with her friends at the club.
34. Mark _____________________________________
a very important experiment in his laboratory.
35. Lisa ____________________________________a
nice cup of tea at the moment.
36. Alan__________________________________ the
birds with his binoculars.
37. John, who is a magician,
___________________________ a trick with a
rabbit.
38. Tina ______________________________ off her
favourite doll.
39. Dave ___________________________ to work.
40. Jane________________________ to quit her job.
1. go to the movies with her sister ❏ ❏
2. make breakfast for some friends ❏ ❏
3. do laundry ❏ ❏
4. exercise with a friend ❏ ❏
5. take an art class ❏ ❏

II. USE THE CUES FROM EXERCISE A TO WRITE WHAT MARIE AND CHERYL ARE DOING
ON SATURDAY. USE THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS.
6. On Saturday
________________________________________________________________ .
7. On Saturday, ________________________________________________________________
8. On Saturday,
________________________________________________________________
9. On Saturday,
________________________________________________________________
10. On Saturday,
________________________________________________________________
III. WHAT ARE THEY PLANNING TO DO THIS EVENING?

11. Joe:___________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________
12. Martin:_________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________

IV. WHAT ARE THEY PLANNING TO DO THIS WEEK-END?

13. San:___________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________
14. Martin:_________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________

V. WHAT IS STEPHAN PLANNING TO DO NEXT MONTH?

15._______________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________

VI. WHAT IS SAN PLANNING TO DO NEXT MONDAY ?

16._______________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________
VIII. MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
The Alaska pipeline starts at the frozen edge of the Arctic
Ocean. It stretches southward across the largest and
northernmost state in the United States, ending at a remote
ice-free seaport village nearly 800 miles from where it begins.
It is massive in size and extremely complicated to operate.
The steel pipe crosses windswept plains and endless miles of
delicate tundra that tops the frozen ground. It weaves through
crooked canyons, climbs sheer mountains, plunges over
rocky crags, makes its way through thick forests, and
passes over or under hundreds of rivers and streams. The
pipe is 4 feet in diameter, and up to 2 million barrels (or 84
million gallons) of crude oil can be pumped through it daily.
Resting on H-shaped steel racks called "bents," long sections
of the pipeline follow a zigzag course high above the frozen
earth. Other long sections drop out of sight beneath spongy
or rocky ground and return to the surface later on. The
pattern of the pipeline's up-and- down route is determined by
the often harsh demands of the arctic and subarctic climate,
the tortuous lay of the land, and the varied compositions of
soil, rock, or permafrost (permanently frozen ground). A little
more than half of the pipeline is elevated above the
ground.
The remainder is buried anywhere from 3 to 12 feet,
depending largely upon the type of terrain and the properties
of the soil.
One of the largest in the world, the pipeline cost
approximately $8 billion and is by far the biggest and most
expensive construction project ever undertaken by private
industry. In fact, no single business could raise that much
money, so eight major oil companies formed a consortium in
order to share the costs. Each company controlled oil
rights to particular shares of land in the oil fields and paid
into the pipeline-construction fund according to the size of its
holdings. Today, despite enormous problems of climate,
supply shortages, equipment breakdowns, labor
disagreements, treacherous terrain, a certain amount of
mismanagement, and even theft, the Alaska pipeline has
been completed and is operating.
IX. FORM SENTENCES IN THE PRESENT
PROGRESSIVE
51. call / dinner /mom / hate / his /he /for / when(+)
_________________________________________
52. do/ homework/ their/ they (?)
_________________________________________
53. go/ park/ Linda/ the / to (+)
_________________________________________
54. in/ he/garden/hop/ the (-)
_________________________________________
55. questions/ too/ class/ many/ ask/ he(?)
_________________________________________
56. read / Frank/ comics (-)
_________________________________________
57. ride / her / she / learn / to /how / bike (+)
_________________________________________
58. where/ know/ she /live /they (-)
_________________________________________
59. you /walk/ school / to (?)
_________________________________________
60. Joan / think/ he/ about / what (+)
_________________________________________
61. next / Spain / my / brother / go / year / to / (+)
_________________________________________
62. anything / do / you / later / (-)
_________________________________________
63. tomorrow / shopping // I / go (?)
_________________________________________
64. rain / outside / a / it / lot (-)
_________________________________________
65. football / her / She / friends / play / with / you
(+)
________________________________________
41. The passage primarily D. protected with B. specific
discusses the pipeline's 45. The author mentions all of the C. exceptional
A. operating costs following as important in determining D. equal
B. employees the pipeline's route EXCEPT the 49. Which of the following
C. consumers A. climate determined what percentage of the
D. construction B. lay of the land itself construction costs each member of the
42. The word "it" in line 5 refers to C. local vegetation consortium would pay?
A. pipeline C. state D. kind of soil and rock A. How much oil field land each
B. ocean D. village 46. The word "undertaken" in company owned
closest in meaning to B. How long each company had
43. According to the passage, 84 owned land in the oil fields
A. removed C. transported C. How many people worked for
million gallons of oil can travel through B. selected D. attempted
the pipeline each each company
47. How many companies shared D. How many oil wells were located
A. day C. month the costs of constructing the pipeline? on the company's land
B. week D. year
A. three C. eight 50. Where in the passage does
44. The phrase "Resting on" in is B. four D. twelve the author provide a term for an earth
closest in meaning to covering that always remains frozen?
48. The word "particular" is
A. consisting of closest in meaning to A. Line 4 C. Line 23
B. supported by B. Line 15 D. Line 3
C. passing under A. peculiar
Answer Key for Reading Comprehension
41. D
42. A
43. A
44. B
45. C
46. D
47. C
48. B
49. A
50. C