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English Grammar Practice Test

The document contains an English language exercise with multiple parts: 1) A fill-in-the-blank exercise with verbs in past tense about a boy named Paul visiting the zoo on the weekend. 2) A exercise completing sentences with must or can about school rules and activities. 3) A fill-in-the-blank exercise with past simple verbs telling a story from the perspective of "Past Simple Guy" about his school days and experiences as a student. 4) A prompt to write a short paragraph in 60-70 words about one's own weekend activities.

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English Grammar Practice Test

The document contains an English language exercise with multiple parts: 1) A fill-in-the-blank exercise with verbs in past tense about a boy named Paul visiting the zoo on the weekend. 2) A exercise completing sentences with must or can about school rules and activities. 3) A fill-in-the-blank exercise with past simple verbs telling a story from the perspective of "Past Simple Guy" about his school days and experiences as a student. 4) A prompt to write a short paragraph in 60-70 words about one's own weekend activities.

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Test

Test
Name:
Name: _____________________________________________ No.:
_____________________________________________ No.: ___
___ Class:
Class: ___
___

Date:
Date: _____________,
_____________, ______
______ ______________________________
______________________________

A. Complete with was/were:

Paul 1. _________________ at the zoo last weekend. He 2. _________________


there all day on Saturday. At the zoo, there 3. _________________ elephants,
lions, giraffes and hippos. There 4. _________________ no tigers, kangaroos or
snakes, but there 5. _________________ an aquarium with lots of fish. Paul likes
horses and monkeys. The monkeys 6. _________________ very sad because they
7. _________________ in cages. The horses 8. _________________ (neg.) in cages.
Where 9. _________________ they? They 10. _________________ running. He
saw the seals. They 11. _________________ in a big pool. They 12.
_________________ happy because it 13._________________ time to eat. Paul
14. _________________ very happy too because he 15. _________________ (neg.)
at school.

B – Complete the sentences with MUST or CAN.


1. You _________________ not smoke in schools.
2. In many British schools you _________________ wear a school uniform.
3. Students _________________ study music if they want in some schools
4. In most Portuguese schools you _________________ wear whatever clothes
you want to.
5. You _________________ always treat everyone with respect.

C- Fill in the gaps with the Past Simple of the verbs in brackets. Use the affirmative
and negative forms.
Hello, everybody! My name is Past Simple Guy because I am very nostalgic and I
always talk about the Past. This is an old picture of me. I 1.___________ (be) six
when I 2. ___________ (come to school. It 3. ___________ (be) 18 years ago. I 4.
___________ (study) in Porto. I 5 ___________ (live) there with my pets and my
family in a big flat. I 6. ___________ (study neg.) much and I 7. ___________
(enjoy) my life. Every weekend I. 8. ___________ (go) to the shopping centre and
9. ___________ (meet) new girls. I remember I 10. ___________ (have) a girlfriend
called Margarida. But then things 11. ___________ (get) bad. I 12. ___________
(have) bad marks and I 13. ___________ (begin) studying much more. My parents
14. ___________ (be) very sad with me. That time 15. ___________ (pass). I 16.
___________ (finish) my studies in 2004. A year later I 17. ___________ (start) to
work as a language teacher in a secondary school.

D – COMPOSITION (60/70 words)


Write a paragraph about your weekend. What did you do? Where did you go ?

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