English Language Exercises: Vocabulary and Grammar Practice

Vocabulary

1. Complete the words

• 1. A matter of life and death
• 2. Work part-time
• 3. Scholarship
• 4. Laughing
• 5. Matter
• 6. Field
• 7. Immerse
• 8. Get around to

2. Choose the correct answer

1. Encourages
2. Open-air
3. Host
4. Accustomed
5. Fact
6. Deals
7. Long-lasting
8. Like-minded

3. Complete the text (A School)

1. Compulsory
2. Punishment
3. Look back
4. Expects
5. Stubborn
6. Half-hearted
7. Kind-hearted
8. Matter of time

4. Match the phrasal verbs

• 1. I hope you don't drop out of school.
• 2. A lot of people look up to Simon.
• 3. You should think over the decision.
• 4. I hope my friend backs me up.
• 5. A good friend is someone you can count on at all times.
• 6. Remember to hand in the homework tomorrow.
• 7. It isn't easy, but I'll get by on my own.
• 8. People came to look at the school from near and far.

5. Complete the text (In 1945)

1. Housing
2. Lack of
3. Abandoned
4. Suburbs
5. Neighbourhoods
6. Built-up
7. Risk of
8. Solution to

Grammar

1. Complete the second sentence

1. By the time she arrived, we had been waiting for over three hours.
2. Unless he apologises to me, I won't speak to him.
3. I wish she didn't talk so much in class.
4. If they hadn't cheated in the exam, they might have passed the course.
5. If I had put on suncream, I wouldn't be sunburned now.
6. If only I hadn't posted these photos.

2. Write: Used to, Be used to, or Get used to

1. At first I was really nervous about driving in Vancouver, but now I am used to it.
2. When I was a teenager, I used to dress up for Halloween.
3. Mike is Chinese. He isn't used to speaking English in the office.
4. I don't think I'll ever get used to the rain in Vancouver.

3. Complete the short text

1. Not be | Reach | Rest

If I hadn't been with a group, I don't think I would have reached it. We rested at the top for about...

2. Be | Catch | Never | See

...I had never seen it. If there had been a bus leaving at the time, I would have gotten on it.

3. Be | See | Take | Upload

If your friends see it, they will be really jealous. If I were you, I would upload it immediately.

4. Complete the text (The UKROC)

1. Breaks
2. Don't win
3. Had talked
4. Had already built
5. Had been working
6. Had been
7. Had been checking
8. Had won

5. Rewrite the sentences

1. A pool has been installed in our neighbour's garden by a company.
2. They got the house painted before they moved in.