2025. Ready for exams. Use of English. Test 47

Transform the word in brackets so that it fits the text grammatically. Write the answer in capitals without spaces as in the example. Example: WILLNOTBE I come from England but now I live permanently in Québec, Canada. When my parents _______________ me to Canada, I was fifteen. It was the winter and I ______________ by the amount of snow there. I asked my new friends what they usually ____________for entertainment in such a cold climate. Their answer was simple, “In winter ______________ and adults go skiing and skating.” Before arriving in Canada I had never tried skating and my Canadian ice experience was really painful. To start with, it took ____________ half an hour to put on the skates. I _____________ (NOT/KNOW) how to move so my new friends showed me some basic techniques. However, when I was left alone on the ice, I ______________ over immediately. When I opened my eyes, my new friends were standing around. They weren’t laughing, they looked worried. “Are you OK?” they asked. “Fine,” I said, “I wish I _____________ skate as easily as you do.” “You definitely will,” they smiled. And they were right. By the end of my _____________ winter in Canada, I felt confident on the ice. More than that, I found out that skating was a really exciting activity.

Transform the word in brackets so that it fits the text grammatically. Write the answer in capitals without spaces as in the example. Example: WILLNOTBE I come from England but now I live permanently in Québec, Canada. When my parents _______________ me to Canada, I was fifteen. It was the winter and I ______________ by the amount of snow there. I asked my new friends what they usually ____________for entertainment in such a cold climate. Their answer was simple, “In winter ______________ and adults go skiing and skating.” Before arriving in Canada I had never tried skating and my Canadian ice experience was really painful. To start with, it took ____________ (I) half an hour to put on the skates. I _____________ how to move so my new friends showed me some basic techniques. However, when I was left alone on the ice, I ______________ over immediately. When I opened my eyes, my new friends were standing around. They weren’t laughing, they looked worried. “Are you OK?” they asked. “Fine,” I said, “I wish I _____________ skate as easily as you do.” “You definitely will,” they smiled. And they were right. By the end of my _____________ winter in Canada, I felt confident on the ice. More than that, I found out that skating was a really exciting activity.

Transform the word in brackets so that it fits the text grammatically. Write the answer in capitals without spaces as in the example. Example: WILLNOTBE I come from England but now I live permanently in Québec, Canada. When my parents _______________ me to Canada, I was fifteen. It was the winter and I ______________ by the amount of snow there. I asked my new friends what they usually ____________for entertainment in such a cold climate. Their answer was simple, “In winter ______________ and adults go skiing and skating.” Before arriving in Canada I had never tried skating and my Canadian ice experience was really painful. To start with, it took ____________ half an hour to put on the skates. I _____________ how to move so my new friends showed me some basic techniques. However, when I was left alone on the ice, I ______________ (FALL) over immediately. When I opened my eyes, my new friends were standing around. They weren’t laughing, they looked worried. “Are you OK?” they asked. “Fine,” I said, “I wish I _____________ skate as easily as you do.” “You definitely will,” they smiled. And they were right. By the end of my _____________ winter in Canada, I felt confident on the ice. More than that, I found out that skating was a really exciting activity.

Transform the word in brackets so that it fits the text grammatically. Write the answer in capitals without spaces as in the example. Example: WILLNOTBE I come from England but now I live permanently in Québec, Canada. When my parents _______________ me to Canada, I was fifteen. It was the winter and I ______________ (IMPRESS) by the amount of snow there. I asked my new friends what they usually ____________for entertainment in such a cold climate. Their answer was simple, “In winter ______________ and adults go skiing and skating.” Before arriving in Canada I had never tried skating and my Canadian ice experience was really painful. To start with, it took ____________ half an hour to put on the skates. I _____________ how to move so my new friends showed me some basic techniques. However, when I was left alone on the ice, I ______________ over immediately. When I opened my eyes, my new friends were standing around. They weren’t laughing, they looked worried. “Are you OK?” they asked. “Fine,” I said, “I wish I _____________ skate as easily as you do.” “You definitely will,” they smiled. And they were right. By the end of my _____________ winter in Canada, I felt confident on the ice. More than that, I found out that skating was a really exciting activity.

Transform the word in brackets so that it fits the text grammatically. Write the answer in capitals without spaces as in the example. Example: WILLNOTBE I come from England but now I live permanently in Québec, Canada. When my parents _______________ me to Canada, I was fifteen. It was the winter and I ______________ by the amount of snow there. I asked my new friends what they usually ____________for entertainment in such a cold climate. Their answer was simple, “In winter ______________ and adults go skiing and skating.” Before arriving in Canada I had never tried skating and my Canadian ice experience was really painful. To start with, it took ____________ half an hour to put on the skates. I _____________ how to move so my new friends showed me some basic techniques. However, when I was left alone on the ice, I ______________ over immediately. When I opened my eyes, my new friends were standing around. They weren’t laughing, they looked worried. “Are you OK?” they asked. “Fine,” I said, “I wish I _____________ (CAN) skate as easily as you do.” “You definitely will,” they smiled. And they were right. By the end of my _____________ winter in Canada, I felt confident on the ice. More than that, I found out that skating was a really exciting activity.

Transform the word in brackets so that it fits the text grammatically. Write the answer in capitals without spaces as in the example. Example: WILLNOTBE I come from England but now I live permanently in Québec, Canada. When my parents _______________ me to Canada, I was fifteen. It was the winter and I ______________ by the amount of snow there. I asked my new friends what they usually ____________ (DO) for entertainment in such a cold climate. Their answer was simple, “In winter ______________ and adults go skiing and skating.” Before arriving in Canada I had never tried skating and my Canadian ice experience was really painful. To start with, it took ____________ half an hour to put on the skates. I _____________ how to move so my new friends showed me some basic techniques. However, when I was left alone on the ice, I ______________ over immediately. When I opened my eyes, my new friends were standing around. They weren’t laughing, they looked worried. “Are you OK?” they asked. “Fine,” I said, “I wish I _____________ skate as easily as you do.” “You definitely will,” they smiled. And they were right. By the end of my _____________ winter in Canada, I felt confident on the ice. More than that, I found out that skating was a really exciting activity.

Transform the word in brackets so that it fits the text grammatically. Write the answer in capitals without spaces as in the example. Example: WILLNOTBE I come from England but now I live permanently in Québec, Canada. When my parents _______________ me to Canada, I was fifteen. It was the winter and I ______________ by the amount of snow there. I asked my new friends what they usually ____________for entertainment in such a cold climate. Their answer was simple, “In winter ______________ (CHILD) and adults go skiing and skating.” Before arriving in Canada I had never tried skating and my Canadian ice experience was really painful. To start with, it took ____________ half an hour to put on the skates. I _____________ how to move so my new friends showed me some basic techniques. However, when I was left alone on the ice, I ______________ over immediately. When I opened my eyes, my new friends were standing around. They weren’t laughing, they looked worried. “Are you OK?” they asked. “Fine,” I said, “I wish I _____________ skate as easily as you do.” “You definitely will,” they smiled. And they were right. By the end of my _____________ winter in Canada, I felt confident on the ice. More than that, I found out that skating was a really exciting activity.

Transform the word in brackets so that it fits the text grammatically. Write the answer in capitals without spaces as in the example. Example: WILLNOTBE I come from England but now I live permanently in Québec, Canada. When my parents _______________ me to Canada, I was fifteen. It was the winter and I ______________ by the amount of snow there. I asked my new friends what they usually ____________for entertainment in such a cold climate. Their answer was simple, “In winter ______________ and adults go skiing and skating.” Before arriving in Canada I had never tried skating and my Canadian ice experience was really painful. To start with, it took ____________ half an hour to put on the skates. I _____________ how to move so my new friends showed me some basic techniques. However, when I was left alone on the ice, I ______________ over immediately. When I opened my eyes, my new friends were standing around. They weren’t laughing, they looked worried. “Are you OK?” they asked. “Fine,” I said, “I wish I _____________ skate as easily as you do.” “You definitely will,” they smiled. And they were right. By the end of my _____________ (ONE) winter in Canada, I felt confident on the ice. More than that, I found out that skating was a really exciting activity.

Transform the word in brackets so that it fits the text grammatically. Write the answer in capitals without spaces as in the example. Example: WILLNOTBE I come from England but now I live permanently in Québec, Canada. When my parents _______________ (BRING) me to Canada, I was fifteen. It was the winter and I ______________ by the amount of snow there. I asked my new friends what they usually ____________for entertainment in such a cold climate. Their answer was simple, “In winter ______________ and adults go skiing and skating.” Before arriving in Canada I had never tried skating and my Canadian ice experience was really painful. To start with, it took ____________ half an hour to put on the skates. I _____________ how to move so my new friends showed me some basic techniques. However, when I was left alone on the ice, I ______________ over immediately. When I opened my eyes, my new friends were standing around. They weren’t laughing, they looked worried. “Are you OK?” they asked. “Fine,” I said, “I wish I _____________ skate as easily as you do.” “You definitely will,” they smiled. And they were right. By the end of my _____________ winter in Canada, I felt confident on the ice. More than that, I found out that skating was a really exciting activity.

Transform the highlighted word in brackets so that it fits the text lexically and grammatically. Write the answer in capitals. Last year I learnt Spanish in Barcelona. Spain is an _____________ country and I enjoyed my time there very much. My flatmates were two girls from Germany. They were nice but _____________ was a real problem for us because I didn’t speak German and they didn’t speak English, my first language. Sometimes we felt absolutely ______________ (HELP) because we were not able to understand each other. However, it gave us additional motivation to learn Spanish! Very soon my teacher told me that I was speaking it __________. He was happy with my progress. My flatmates’ grades were ___________ too! It proved that practice is very important and if you want to speak a foreign language like a native __________, you should practise it a lot.

Transform the highlighted word in brackets so that it fits the text lexically and grammatically. Write the answer in capitals. Last year I learnt Spanish in Barcelona. Spain is an _____________ country and I enjoyed my time there very much. My flatmates were two girls from Germany. They were nice but _____________ (COMMUNICATE) was a real problem for us because I didn’t speak German and they didn’t speak English, my first language. Sometimes we felt absolutely ______________ because we were not able to understand each other. However, it gave us additional motivation to learn Spanish! Very soon my teacher told me that I was speaking it __________. He was happy with my progress. My flatmates’ grades were ___________ too! It proved that practice is very important and if you want to speak a foreign language like a native __________, you should practise it a lot.

Transform the highlighted word in brackets so that it fits the text lexically and grammatically. Write the answer in capitals. Last year I learnt Spanish in Barcelona. Spain is an _____________ (AMAZE) country and I enjoyed my time there very much. My flatmates were two girls from Germany. They were nice but _____________ was a real problem for us because I didn’t speak German and they didn’t speak English, my first language. Sometimes we felt absolutely ______________ because we were not able to understand each other. However, it gave us additional motivation to learn Spanish! Very soon my teacher told me that I was speaking it __________. He was happy with my progress. My flatmates’ grades were ___________ too! It proved that practice is very important and if you want to speak a foreign language like a native __________, you should practise it a lot.

Transform the highlighted word in brackets so that it fits the text lexically and grammatically. Write the answer in capitals. Last year I learnt Spanish in Barcelona. Spain is an _____________ country and I enjoyed my time there very much. My flatmates were two girls from Germany. They were nice but _____________ was a real problem for us because I didn’t speak German and they didn’t speak English, my first language. Sometimes we felt absolutely ______________ because we were not able to understand each other. However, it gave us additional motivation to learn Spanish! Very soon my teacher told me that I was speaking it __________. He was happy with my progress. My flatmates’ grades were ___________ (IMPRESS) too! It proved that practice is very important and if you want to speak a foreign language like a native __________, you should practise it a lot.

Transform the highlighted word in brackets so that it fits the text lexically and grammatically. Write the answer in capitals. Last year I learnt Spanish in Barcelona. Spain is an _____________ country and I enjoyed my time there very much. My flatmates were two girls from Germany. They were nice but _____________ was a real problem for us because I didn’t speak German and they didn’t speak English, my first language. Sometimes we felt absolutely ______________ because we were not able to understand each other. However, it gave us additional motivation to learn Spanish! Very soon my teacher told me that I was speaking it __________. He was happy with my progress. My flatmates’ grades were ___________ too! It proved that practice is very important and if you want to speak a foreign language like a native __________, (SPEAK) you should practise it a lot.

Transform the highlighted word in brackets so that it fits the text lexically and grammatically. Write the answer in capitals. Last year I learnt Spanish in Barcelona. Spain is an _____________ country and I enjoyed my time there very much. My flatmates were two girls from Germany. They were nice but _____________ was a real problem for us because I didn’t speak German and they didn’t speak English, my first language. Sometimes we felt absolutely ______________ because we were not able to understand each other. However, it gave us additional motivation to learn Spanish! Very soon my teacher told me that I was speaking it __________ (FLUENT). He was happy with my progress. My flatmates’ grades were ___________ too! It proved that practice is very important and if you want to speak a foreign language like a native __________, you should practise it a lot.