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Date

INITIAL TEST
8th grade

I.Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form of Present Simple or Present Continuous to
complete the postcard: (10x1p=10p)

Hi,everyone!

News from Newquay!Everyone............................... (wait) for the surfing championships to

begin.They...................... (be) a very popular event and thousands of people........................( come) to
Cornwall every summer to watch them.The weather........................... (be) just fine.
I've already got some good friends here.One is an Italian guy called Gianni.He's a lifeguard on the
beach and he …...............( stay) at the same guesthouse as I am.Then there's a girl called Nicola.She's
here for the summer holidays.She ….............................. ( work) for her aunt, who has a hotel here.The
rest of the year she............................... (not/ live) in Newquay but in London with her parents.I............
( like) her very much.
I …...................... (write) this postcard at a café on the beach , where I ….................( have)
breakfast right now.
See you soon!

Alan

II.Complete the text by putting the verbs in brackets in the correct past tense form:
(10x2p=20p)

1500 Leonardo da Vinci......................... (design) a helicopter.

1620 Cornelius van Drebbel …................( build) a submarine.
1783 Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d' Arlandes................ ( make) the first flight in ahot air balloon.
1791 Comte Mede de Sivrac....................... ( design) a bicycle without pedals.
1829 George Stephenson's locomotive The Rocket...................( win) a competition.
1837 Steam trams....................... ( begin) to operate in New York City.
1843 The Great Britain steamship …........................ ( sail) across the Atlantic Ocean.
1863 The first underground railway........................... ( open) in London.
1885 Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler …................... ( invent) the petrol engine.
1909 Louis Blériot …........... ( fly) from France to England in a monoplane.

III.Write the plurals for these words:

(10x1p=10p)

Boy-
Mouse-
Half-
Tooth-
Radio-
Tomato-
Brush-
Woman-
Child-
Apple-

V.Fill in the blanks with what, which,who,where:

(10px2=20p)

Here is the bar …............ they usually meet.

This is the girl …........... won the first prize.
Mangoes ….......... are over- ripe should be thrown away.
I have an axe with.............. I cut wood.
A child …............ does not play games will never be healthy.
The horse................ won the race is called Furious.
We live ….............. the sun rises.
I think George was the one ….......... first suggested the idea.
We have a ranch …........... we go at weekends.
This is John Peters …....... is my childhood friend.

VI. Write about your summer holiday (at least 100 words). – 30 p

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