Advanced English Language Skills Assessment

1. Complete these sentences

• If you get paid badly, you earn too little money.
• A dead-end job offers no opportunities for promotion.
• A stressed worker will probably have mental health problems.
• If you’re out of work, you have lost your job.
• When you plan your work, you accomplish your tasks.
• When a person gets fired, his or her job has come to an end.

2. Correct form of the words in brackets

• I’m sorry, but I don’t feel you’ve got the proper qualifications for this position.
• I need someone reliable. I couldn’t depend on the last few workers.
• They announced her resignation. We’re all going to miss her.
• It’s just seasonal work during the summer months.
• He hopes to work his way up to a managerial position.

3. Complete with the most suitable word

• I’m going to ask my boss for a raise.
• This week, I’m only going to be working on the morning shift.
• She’s new in the company, but she’s got a senior position.
• That’s nothing. It’s not even worth thinking about.
• I’m not a freelancer. I don’t work for free.
• You can’t do this on your own. It requires teamwork.
• She is on sick leave due to her back operation.
• The deadline is tomorrow, not a day later!
• He first started working here with paperwork as a clerk.
• The perks include a company car.

4. Reflexive or reciprocal pronouns

1. each other, 2. themselves, 3. ourselves, 4. each other, 5. himself, 6. myself, 7. itself, 8. yourselves.

5. Combine using a relative pronoun

• That woman who you are talking about is my boss.
• The exam which you had studied a lot for was difficult.
• The manager whose staff didn’t like him was fired.
• Mr. Jones, who is a regular customer at our restaurant, always leaves a generous tip.
• I prefer not to think about that time when I was unhappy at my job.
• The Cave is my favourite online shop, where I order all my shirts.
• She’s a new employee who I can rely on.
• I work in a start-up company which has got lots of room for advancement.

6. Rewrite the sentences

• a. I could talk to the author whose book I bought yesterday.
• b. I wish I had the money to buy the scooter.
• c. Boys with very long hair are expected to have left-wing politics.
• d. These “street styles,” which are not the creation of the big fashion designers, come and go.
• e. Marcus had his suit dry-cleaned last week.
• f. If only Sue hadn’t lifted a heavy table on her own.
• g. Godtfred, who saw the immense potential in Lego bricks, created the idea of a toy system.
• h. Although the modern brick design was developed in 1958, it took another five years to find the right material.

7. Phonetics

• a. calm, walk
• b. phone – blown, kite – kit
• c. finance
• d. heart
• e. though, father