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Read The Text and Fill in The Blanks With The Appropriate Form of The Verb (20p.)
Read The Text and Fill in The Blanks With The Appropriate Form of The Verb (20p.)
DATE_______________ CLASS_____________
1. Read the text and fill in the blanks with the appropriate form of the verb (20p.)
Dear Cindy,
My name ______________ (to be) Peter. I ______________ ( live) in the suburbs of Boston with
my family. Most people _________________ (believe) we _____________ (to be) rich because we
_________________ (to live) in a big house. But our family ______________ (seem) to be like any
other one. Have a look:
Maggy, my wife, _______________ ( like) cooking. She _______________ ( enjoy) being in the
kitchen with her friends. At the moment she ________________ ( make) a cake and you ___________
(can not) talk to her.
What really _________________ (worry) her is our daughter who ________________ ( prefer) to
chat in front of her computer instead of cooking with her. Like many teenagers, Jenny
_________________ ( think) it __________________ (to be) easier to get advice from someone you
_________________ (not + go to) see later. It's 5 pm. now, and Paul, my son, _______________ (play)
basketball in the garden and I ________________ (watch) TV, and I __________________ (wait) for
this delicious cake that Maggy _______________ (cook) . I told you, a family as yours. '
2. Answer the questions about the text with TRUE or FALSE (5p.)
Peter’s family is very rich. _________
They live in a building. _________
Peter’s wife loves cooking. __________
Peter’s daughter likes helping her mother in the kitchen. __________
At the moment his son is playing football. ___________
3. Look, read and write using IS/ISN’T or ARE/AREN’T and WAS/WASN’T or
WERE/WEREN’T (13p.)
This is Newtown seventy years ago! There ___________ a butcher’s and greengrocer’s, but there
______________ a supermarket. There ____________ a library, but there _____________, but there
________________ a police station. There____________ a baker’s too! There _____________ many
cars then!
This is Newtown now! There ___________ a restaurant, but there _________ a post office. There
_____________ a circus and there ________ a station, but there _____________ a library. There
____________ a lot of cars now!
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