Excursions grammar and practice book 2

Margherita Cumino

Grammar and Practice
Book 2

Oxford University Press

1997


Unit 1

3

Consolidation
e

the verb be - past simple — positive,

@

prepositions of time — in, on, at

8

negative, questions, short answers
Why ? ~ Because
ordinal numbers, days, months,
dates, nationalities

10

seasons,

11-12

past simple, regular and irregular
verbs — positive, negative, questions,
short answers

15-19

sequencers - first, then, after that,

e

finally
e@ compounds,
activities

19-20

opposites, free time

21

Unit 4

e@

the verb have - past simple — positive,

23-24
- negative, questions, short answers
24
question words - How much?
present continuous - positive, negative,
25-27
questions, short answers
25
spelling of the -ing form
27
modal verb — can — requests
28-29
opinions
food and drink, expressing

e
®

e
@
e

Unit 5

31

Consolidation

Unit 6

®

Would like ~ I'd rather ~ I'd love to
Like ~ Would like
countable and uncountable nouns with
a/an, some, How much?, How many?
imperative - negative form

e@

technology, school subjects

â
e
đ

e@

Unit 7

e
e

Some ~ Any
too + adjective

e
đ

One ~ Ones

modal verb — can - for permission

e

®

e

comparative adjectives

clothes, shopping

.

Unit 9
e

®
@

questions, short apswers
past continuous and past simple
reported speech — instructions,

e

adverbs of manner

e

45
45

46

48-49

56-58
58
59

adjectives and adverbs

61

survival kit

60

e

adverbs of manner

63

®

countable and uncountable nouns

64

comment tags
comparative adjectives

63
64

demonstratives
I'd love to

65
65

e
e

imperative - negative form
the -ing form

65
66

@
@
e
@
@

modal verb — could
modal verb -— must

nationality adjectives
no+noun~ no+ -ing form
one ~ ones

@
e@
e
e

e

I'd rather

modal verb - can

e®

ordinal numbers
past continuous

38-39
39-40

44-45

54

requests, invitations

Grammar

@

43
43-44

51-53
53

ỹ

past continuous — positive, negative,

e
®

41

50

adjectives

36-37
37-38

40

modal verb — must

demonstratives — these, those

questions, short answers
modal verb — could
pets, describing people — opposites,

e@
©

10

Unit 3

e

past participle — regular and irregular
verbs
present perfect — positive, negative,

e

Unit 2

e
e

Unit 8

®

67

68
68
69
69

69
70
71

[past simple

plural nouns
possessives
prepositions of time
present continuous
present perfect
question words

®
®
®@

sequencers
some ~ any
†oo + adjective

reported speech - instructions, requests,
invitations

@ The verb be- past simple

e@ The verb have - past simple
e would like

Irregular verb

66

70

past participle

e
@
®
e
®
e

e

65

list

72
72
72
73
74
74

75

75
78
76

76
77
78

79


does Peter do?

Test your English

He’s a computer programmer.

1

‘s your telephone

Look at the plan of David's class. FiH in

number?

behind

It's 357 892.

the blanks. Use.

|_

Kevin

|_

David

between

|
|

|

|]

Alice

next to

|

|

Penny |

[_ Peter

Rob

|

airports are there
in London?

[Karen]

|

[|Sharon

=

[| Deborah

in front of

Alice is

2

David is

Kevin.

3

Penny is

David and Karen.

4

Rob is

5

Deborah

behind

Fill in the blanks with the correct form
of be. Then answer the questions with
short answers.
‘

Penny.

1

Karen.
is

There are four.

|

A

Are_—

Tom and Kathy from

Galaxia?

Peter.

Yes, they

are.
Buckingham

museum?

‘Fill in the blanks. Use
Where

What

How

Where

Pb

No, it

many

001 the country code for

are you from?

Australia?

I'm from Australia.

No, it

got two

British penfriends.

in

Yes, they
you

FF

about you?
in Canada.
old are you?

British?

il

BD

Ứve got a penfriend

Madras

India?
@

ve

Delhi and

>

British penfriends

have you got?

>

How

>wm

2

Palace a

_

you and your partner 11

years old?

Vm 15.

, we

's Wellington?
It’s in New Zealand.

*|

UNIT

‘|


4

T
1

You hate snakes.
I don’t, hi bi
Ont

Write questions for these answers.

5

Tick (/) these statements T (true) or F
(false). Then correct any false statements.

1

F

What's the matter?

B

I've got a headache.

B

I've got two brothers and a sister.

B_

Swimming

LÌ
k

Nabe SNaKee

2A

;

3A

them
| love love them.
You are ten years old.

2

A

L]

L]

4

A
He usually goes to bed at ten o’clock.

B
You've got a cold.

3

LI

5

L]

and vollayball.

A

B

She lives at 15 Elm Street.

B

They're from Istanbul.

B

There’s a film on BBC2.

6A

Your dad's got a red car.

4

Your friend can swim

5

O

LỊ

7A

oO

LÌ

500 metres.

6
:

How often do you do these things? Write
sentences. Use
always
rarely

6

You can ride a horse.

cl

often

sometimes

never

wear a uniform at school

1

Cl

usually

| never wear a uniform at school.

7

There are six people in

L]

You write postcards to

L]

Your friend usually gets

L]

3

have a headache

4

go to school in the afternoon

5

read a newspaper

6

watch films on TV

7

go†oammuseum

L]

your penfriend.

9

watch TV in the morning

LI

your family.

8

2

LÌ

up at 5.30 am.

UNIT 7

[|


7

Fillin the blanks with a negative form of
the verb in brackets.

MrJones

1
2

doesn’t work

he works in an office. (work)

Sheila
she goes to school

3

]

English. (speak)
4

9

What have they got? Look at the
pictures. Write sentences.

1

in a factory,

to school at 8.30,
at 9.00. (go)

Gaelic, but | can speak

Paul and Jane

tea, they

like coffee. (/ike)

5

Janet
a sister. (have got)

6

7

He
play the guitar, he can
play the piano. (can)

My schoolbag
green, it’s blue and

8

a brother, she’s got

blue and
red, (be}

Read these timetables and write

sentences.

1

plane

Istanbul
6.20

—¬

Milan
13.50

The plane leaves Istanbul at twenty past
six and it arrives in Milan at ten to two.

2

plane

Bangkok

—

16.05

12.45

3

train

London
9.00

Singapore

—

Edinburgh
13.12
6

4

boat

Calais

—

Lisbon

>

14.40

5

plane

12.25

7

Dover

16.15

Barcelona

14.05

5

UNIT 7]


10 Complete Ms Thomas's routine. Use
be finish getup go(x 4) have (x3)
read (x 2) start teach watch

Ms Thomas (3).

is

11b Write a description of Brighton in your
exercise book. Use the information from
this table and exercise lla as a model.

live

Name of town

a teacher. She

big

Size

in Bristol and (3).

(2)

Brighton
holiday resort

English at a Junio®School in the city centre.

Type of town
Location

south coast of England

morning, at about half past six. She

Population
này
P

150,000

{6)____ breakfast and then (6)

Facilities

antique shops, hotels,

She always (4)

very early in the

ve

Famous building | the Royal Pavilion

s, beautiful

the newspaper. At about eight 0’ clock she
(7)________ to school. School
at nine o’ clock and (9)

ings

(8)

Other attractions | conference

at four

centre,

aquarium
4

o’ clock, Ms Thomas usually (10)
lunch at school. After school Ms Thomas
TV or (12)__

(Wy
At six o’ clock she usually (13)

fora walk.

Complete these conversations.

12

dinner and after dinner she (14)
.
.

1

magazines or books and sometimes

to the cinema. She

(18)

to bed at about ten o’ clock.

2

small British town. Use be or have.

5

7

|

time ____

half

B

A

we meet?

six.

TV tonight?

What's
a game

show on BBC2.

it on?

What time

a quarter to eight.
What_s

are you

at?

a

B

swimming pool and other sports facilities.

UNIT

Good

B

a lot of

beautiful shops and many hotels and

restaurants. The town also (5)

B

A

public school, Eton College. In the streets

around the college there (4)

for a walk.

B

It

4,500 inhabitants and a famous

(3)

Let's

4 A.

a smal! town in the south of
on the River Thames.

A

3A

11a Complete this description of Eton, a

England. It (2)

,
What__time_ is it?

B __lé _'s ten o'clock.

(18)

Eton (1)_/$

A

6

Swimming and skateboarding.


13 Answer these questions about your
school,
1

15 Write a conversation in your exercise
book. Follow these guidelines.

What time do classes usually start at

Ben

your school?

Mary

Asks what time
Mary has lunch.

V

What time do they usually finish?

Answers

(1.00).

Asks what Ben
does after lunch.

Says he

`ử

watches TV.

Is your school

Haw

Asks what she

big?

does,

many classes are there?

Answers
Has your school got a swimming

pool?

V

Says she does her
homework. Asks
when he does his
homework.

Vy

(after dinner).
Asks if she
watches TV in

Is there a football team in your school?

the afternoon.

Vv

Says she watches
TV before dinner.

14 Who works in these places? Write a job
next to each place.
1

in an office

2

in a school
in a hospital
in a garage

—

in a factory
in a shop

—————.

in a house
in a salon

UNIT 4


ql
erb be- past simple = positive, negative,
]
‘prepositions of time =/n, on, ai ` ø@ Why? ~

. Vocabulary: e ordinai numbers
@ nationalities ©

Let's practise
The verb

|

.e

ở

4

The

ns, da

grammar!

be - past simple

American. They

Beatles

British.
5 Picasso

a Spanish painter.

6

you

When

born?

Rewrite these sentences in the past simple.
1

I'm hungry

now.

| was hungry

this morning.

Today's Sunday.
1

Filin the blanks.

was
1

wasn't

Yesterday

Use

were

weren't

What day of the week

There's a fun fair in Green Park.
was

it

Last week there

yesterday?

2

The Skybuggy and Max
the cave, they

3

outside.

Yesterday

the 27th, it

the 26th.

UNIT

2

in

We're in London now.
Last month

we

They're not at school.
Yesterday


3.

Match the people, their nationalities and their jobs. Write sentences
as in the example.
People

Nationalities

Jane Austen
Ludwig van

Jobs

German
Beethoven

actor

Russian

scientist

Salvador Dali

Swedish

Elvis Presley

painter

French

Yves Montand

dancer

Spanish

Alfred Nobel

composer

American

Anna

English

Pavlova

1

Jane Austen was an English writer.

writer
singer

5

Answer the questions. Use short

answers.
1

Was Agatha

Christie a British writer?

Yes, she was.
Was the Skybuggy’s
October?

birthday on 10th

Were the Skybuggy and Max dead?
4

Write questions with these words. Use
was

were

Were

Shakespeare

and Jane Austen

English?
1

the Skybuggy / green

Was the Skybuggy green
2

yesterday / 7th March

Was the Skybuggy
scared?

3

the Lumiére

Was

4

he/an explorer

Were you born in January?

you/ late for school / yesterday

Were your parents in London last
summer?

_ 5

6

Brothers / American

Helen / at the rock concert

pink when

he was

Mozart a composer?

Were you

late for school this morning?

UNIT 2

at

on

of time - in

Prepositions

_ Preposition.

6

| always have a skiing holiday
December.

7.

They play tennis
afternoon every week.

8

Winter in Europe: starts

cin May.

in 19970

_ in summer

|

Wednesday
21st

December.

in the. morning. :

in the.afternoon ©

_ div the.

evening

Why?

~ Because

Use Why in questions and Because in
answers.

A
B

>

6

8a

Fill in the blanks. Use
in

7T

on

Fill in the blanks. Use
Why

at

Why haven't you got a pentriend?
Because | don’t like writing letters.

Because

1

_in_

1994

1

was.the Skybuggy

2

____

12th November 1997

2

| don’t like horror films.

3

___

August

3

it’s late, it's 10 pm.

4_____— Tuesday afternoon

4

is Paul so happy?

5

_

7.30

5

he was scared.

6

___

the morning

6

don't you play tennis?

7

____

winter

7

are you so tired?

8

___—

night

8

| haven't got a tennis racket.

9

today is his birthday.

10

Filin the blianks. Use
in

on

1

lsyour birthday party
afternoon?
the morning,

_

Saturday

| usually go to

school.

3

The concert starts

4

He was

5

Jill usually gets up

born

Sunday morning.

2

don’t we go to the cinema?

at

2

UNIT

green?

9.00.
1972.

11.00

8b

Use the questions and answers in
exercise 8a to write mini dialogues in
your exercise books.


Vocabulary
Ordinal

1.

numbers

Complete the table.

Ist
2nd

first

thirteenth

,

14th

mm

third

_

fourth

50th
fifteenth

54th

16th

fifth

sixtieth

17th

6th

65th

18th

7th

19th

70th

8th

20th

ninth

twentieth

_

twelfth

months,

seasons,

-

80th

ninetieth

30th

11th

Days,

78th

21st

10th

2a

43rd

93rd

_

thirty-second

—_

ninety-ninth

——

fortieth

—_

a hundredth

dates

Write the days of the week.

2c

Complete the rhyme with the names

the months.

of

Thirty days has September,
and November.

All the rest have thirty-one,

Excepting

alone,

And that has twenty-eight days clear,
And twenty-nine in each leap year.

2d Complete this rhyme with the names of
the seasons.

2b

Write a list of months with thirty-one
days.

In

there are birds and flowers,

In

we swim

In

all the leaves are red,

in the sea for

everything

is dead.

‘UNIT 2


3

Complete the sentences with information
about yourself.
1

My favourite month

is

2

My favourite season

is

The season
! was

| don’t like is

born in

My birthday is on

This year, my birthday is on a

My favourite day at school

is

My favourite date is
because

Nationalities

5

Write these people's nationalities.
1

Write the dates.

Andy

is from

Britain.

He's British.
Marie-Claire and Pierre are from

It's the tenth of
November.

Haluk is from Turkey.

Jodo is from

Portugal.

Heidi is from Germany.

Pia and Raoul are from

Marysha

is from Poland.

Brad is from the USA.

UNIT 2

12

Spain.

France.


2

Let’s revise!

Look at the pictures and write a short

biography of these people.
1

Ta

Abraham

You want to go out with your friends,

1809

with them. Put the conversation in the

president

Jim and Helen.

16th - American

You have a conversation

correct order.

L]

Not the disco. No, let's go

swimming

instead.

Abraham

Helen The funfair? That's a good idea!
You

Lets go to the cinema.

You

No, Jim. | don’t like swimming.

Lincoln was born in 1809.

He was the sixteenth American
President.

Let's go to the funfair.

Charlie Chaplin
1889

OO

2

Jim

Yes. It's a very good idea.

English actor and

dim

No, not to the cinema. What
about the disco?

director

UO

Of

Helen

Lincoin

Jim

All right. I'd tike a swim.

1b

Write the conversation from

1

You

exercise

la.

Let’s go to the cinema.

3

Elvis Presley
1935

2

American singer

3

4

5

4

Mahatma Gandhi
1869

Indian statesman

6

7

13

UNIT. 2


5

What language or languages do they
speak in these countries?

George Stephenson

1781
Robert Stephenson

1803
British engineers

6

Napoleon Bonaparte

1

Sweden

2

Austria

3

France

4

Brazil

5

the USA

6

Argentina

7

Canada

Swedish

Last Saturday it was your English
penfriend’s birthday. There was a
birthday party for him/her but you

1769
French general

weren't there. Write a letter in your

exercise book, asking what the party was
like and how many people were there.
Wish him/her Happy birthday again and
close the letter.

7

Greta Garbo

1905
Swedish film star

UNIT 2

14


_questions,

( past simple, regular and irregular verbs
short answers

; -@ sequencers - = first

1a

Let's practise grammar!

Copy and complete the table with the
past simple of these regular verbs.
arrive
ask call
close
dance
finish
hate
invent
invite
like
live
look

Past simple - positive form

Open

paint

play

reply

study

swap

talk

try

double
consonant
+ed

asked

arrived

replied

stopped

Fill in the blanks.
la.
Guglielmo

Use verbs from the list

Marconi

radio.

Spelling

- regular

2

1

3

Leonardo

4

My football team
England

verbs

work

y¬i
+ed

1

Last night | watched TV.
Yesterday | played football.

visit

stop

+d

in exercise

»

stay

+ed

1b

Use the past simple for actions that started
and finished in the past.

positive, negative,

then, after. that, fi

5

He

6

George

invented __

at home

the

last night.
Mona

Lisa.

in

last week.

very hard for the test.
a lot of friends to

his party last week.

7

Anne

in London

at 10.00

last night.

“stopped

7

15

UNIT &


an interesting book last

1

3

,

Past simple — irregular verbs

weekend.

to London

and Jean

Ann

4

on Monday.
some

They

5

in

shopping

town yesterday afternoon.

See list of irregular verbs on page 79.

6

The Skybuggy and Max
lot of gold coins in the Black Cave.

7

our friends Tom
We
Katy at the café on Monday.

8

The

a

and

to Ireland first

plane

and then to America.
2a

Match base forms and past simple
fi
orms.

8_

Base form

Past simple

10

blow

a

1

— to see me
Myfriends all.: ___
B

when

| was in hospital.

an old film on TV last

|
night.

gotup

11

the spelling of all

Fatma

-

the words

in her English book,

build

2

b

saw

buy

3

¢

wrote

come

4

dread

out
d

5

6

@
f

went
th

eat

7

g

blew

find

8

9

h

i

gave

came

start

getup
give

10
T1

j_
k=

bought
met

Yesterday Lucy__got up __ at half past

go

12

1

seven. She

13

m_

found

meet

14

o

cut

15

n

flew

at nine o’clock and

see

16

p

knew

at three o'clock in the

think
write

17

18

q
rẻ

ate
díd

°

fly

kno

w

read

ong

3

ht

the blanks. Use these verbs in the past
simple.

do

built

getup

walk

go

goout

write

watch

afternoon. After school she
her

back home and
and

2a.

a letter to my English
wrote
penfriend yesterday.

2

Sheila

penfriend in Spain.

at 8.30 this

morning.

UNIT

&

16

ss

VV.

her friend Sue. Atter

dinner she

11

phone

to school. School

and

Fill in the blanks. Use verbs from the list
in exercise

finish

at half past eight

homework. Thenshe

2b

Fill
Fil in

terd: y.
did yesterda
what Li Lucy did
is what
This s is

a letter to her


Look at Andy's diary
for last week. Then
write what he did
each day.

5

Rewrite these sentences in the past
simple. Use
yesterday {afternoon}

last summer
1.

last weekend

last Sunday

Mrs Taylor usually finishes work at 5.30.

Mrs Taylor finished work at 5.30 yesterday.
Sunday

2.30: meet John outside
school
3.00: basketball match

Monday

afternoon: go shopping with
Gina

Tuesday

afternoon: study for English
test

Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

2

John usually plays tennis at weekends.

3

She usually gets up at 9.00 on Sunday.

4

They usually go to the seaside In

4.00: play tennis
swimming pool with Jim
and Mark
5.00: see dentist

summer.

cinema with Gina

Last Sunday Andy went to the basketball

5

| do my

homework

from 3.00 to 5.00 in

the afternoon.

match with John. They met at ..

6

We

usually watch TV on Sunday

mornings.

7

They usually fly to Spain in the summer.

UNIT 3


Past

simple

- negative

form,
:

questions,

short

answers

‘Negative

Shortform

‘Questions We

¿Full form

`
=

you

“you:
“|

_ didn't walk /'see

she.

2

a

it

didsnot walk/ see

she |

Did

,

a

tế

/ see...?°
walk

8

we.
“YOU.

|

_ Short answers

7
6

Correct these statements.

Ộ
1

The Kellogg

Brothers

4

Walt Disney created

5

Shakespeare lived in the USA.

Fill in the blanks. Use the past simple of
the verbs in brackets.

2

The Kellogg Brothers didn’t invent

(be) cold.

(not/go} to the cinema last

|

interesting

and Max found gald

coins in the Black Cave.

3

3 Thomas Edison built the first film studio

4

in Hollywood.

programme

(be) an

his computer but he

They

{not/get) an answer,

because it
5

|

she.

18

on TV.

(call) the Sky Gang

Max
through

UNIT 3

(notplay) footbali last

night because there

ice-cream. They invented cornflakes.
The Skybuggy

X

weekend because it__WƠ45__

ice-cream.

2

didnt pla

ơ

invented

The Jazz Singer.

(not/visit) the museum
(be} closed.

(not/phone} Jill because

(ntot/be} at home.


8

Write questions with these words.
1

5

did

lastweekend

go

where

you

the ballpoint
pen

who

?

invented

you

tothecinema

go

?

B
6

?
3

last

A

Where did you go last weekend
2

Sheila didn't go to London
weekend.

Last summer

Sue and Kim went on
holiday to Brighton.

A

did

last night

?

B

?
4

invent

Laszlo Biro

did

when

Sequencers -~ first, then, after that, finally

the ballpoint pen

?
5

you

visit

did

the MOMI

ft 4
?

6

didn’t

Joan

last Sunday

play

tennis

?
7

toaparty

they

go

did

Firet the Lumiére

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wh i ME

a

š

IR

Brothers invented the
first movie projector.

|

ee c=

ea

|

last night

?

Then Thomas Edison
perfected the movie
camera.

Write conversations.
i didn’t watch TV last night.

1

2

A

Did you watch TV last night

B

No, I didn't,

The Skybuggy

?
After that the film
industry started in
Hollywood with silent

black and white films,

and Max didn’t find much

in the Black Cave.

A

BoLTŒ,ãÃãÃ1....
3)

John

met his friends last night.

A
B
4

Samuel

A

Morse didn’t invent the alphabet.

Finally the Golden Age
of cinema came with
the addition of sound
and colour to films.

?

B

UNIT &


10a

10c

These are the pictures of Mike's
birthday party, but they are not in
order. Number

them

in the correct

Write a paragraph about Mike's
birthday. Use the sentences from
exercise 10b and join them with the
appropriate

order. Then write the correct sequencer

under each of them.

sequencers.

Mike's friends arrived at the party at
about three o’clock, First Mike invited...

11a

Number

10b

L] L1 LI LÌ

time

Read these sentences about Mike's
birthday. They are out of order.
Number them in the correct order.

LÌ

Mike invited them in and opened

LÌ

Mike cut his birthday cake and they

LÌ

UNIT 3

in the correct

finish school
have breakfast
do homework
go to school

get up

CJ
L]

CT

go home
have lunch
start school

11b Write a paragraph using the sequence

Mike blew out the candles of his
birthday cake.

LÌ

these actions

order.

of actions in exercise lla. Link the
sentences with appropriate sequencers.

| usually get up at half past seven.

his birthday presents.

First Le

all ate it. It was very good.
Mike's friends arrived at the party at
about three o'clock.

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