Pre-intermediate and Intermediate Placement test

1________ at school yesterday.

Was you Were you Did you Is you

2Is your family large?

Yes, it is. Yes, they are. No, it not. No, they isn’t.

3What ____ he want?

does do have was

4____ do you have dinner?

When time What time What kind of What for

5He ____ to go home.

want did didn’t want didn’t wanted

6Where ____ to school?

did you go went you did you went did go

7Latin ____ compulsory in Irish schools.

used to be would be has has been

8The boy ____ cake when his mother came into the room.

was eat eats was eating has eating

9There ____ milk for my breakfast.

isn’t some isn’t any any ─

10____ people from Poland went to Scotland in the 20th century.

Many of Many Some of ─

11There are __________ French speakers in Montreal.

too much a lot of a little not much

12She ____ with her friends on Facebook™ everyday

is communicating communicates will communicating ─

13More and more people ____ divorced every year.

are wanting wanting getting are getting

14Many, but not all, people ____ get married in a church.

want to are wanting to wanting to used to want

15Would you like ____ to the theatre tonight?

go to go going to going

16I ____ to Peru on holiday next month.

am flying flying am go flying will flying

17Oh! It ____. I’ll take an umbrella with me.

raining will raining rains ’s raining

18Do you have any plans for tonight? Yes, we ____ to the cinema.

will go going go are going

19I plan to ____ two weeks by the beach.

bring spend spending making

20The fast food restaurant was _____ dirty. We didn’t eat there.

extreme extremely bit very much

21This restaurant is ____ the one over there.

traditional traditionaler more traditional than traditionaler than

22My coffee was ____ yours. I almost burned by mouth.

hotter than more hot than hotter as as hot

23The ____ coffee in the world comes from Indonesia.

expensive expensivest more expensive most expensive

24I ____ sushi.

eaten have eat have ever eaten have never eaten

25She has ____ finished this week’s report.

yet already ever never

26I don’t think you ____ them.

should to email should email should emailing ─

27In the future there ____ cures to the world’s worst diseases.

might be is going to being will being might have

28The space tourists ___ certainly need to be very fit.

won’t will ─ going to

29If my new company is successful, I ____ employ people to help me.

will be able to will be able to will able to

30The first reality TV show ____ in Sweden in 1997.

showed shown is shown was shown

31The film Avatar was directed ____ James Cameron.

by from for with

32I’ve had my cat ____ 4 years.

since for with it

33Her horse is lovely. She _____ it since she was a teenager.

had has had had is had

34I’ve received 33 emails ____ .

on Friday yesterday two days ago this week

35How often have you been to the doctor ______

one year ago? in the last twelve months? yesterday? last week?

36I was saving up ____ a new computer.

for buying to buy to buying ─

37You ____ wear a suit to work, but you can if you want.

must mustn’t could don’t have to

38I had to ____ a uniform to school when I was younger.

have wearing wear having

39Cecilia knows someone ____ went to the carnival in Rio de Janeiro.

who which she where

40Oxfam is a charity ____ tries to find lasting solutions to poverty.

who which it ─

1A lot of ____ came to Ireland in the 1990s.

immigrants emigrants invaders colonies

2There was a nice meal and a band at the wedding ____

ceremony reception speech group

3I mostly ____ my friends via email.

get on well with have in common keep in touch with see each other

4Bob has had a very interesting ___ . He has had jobs in many countries and industries.

carrier job career work

5She’s very successful. Her ___ has risen a lot in the past few years.

money salary job earnings

6I am very ___ in old cars.

keen interesting interested fond

7He ____ his exam because he didn’t study.

failed passed missed fell

8The house will look cleaner when you have finished the ____.

home housewife housework homework

9Stress is not an illness, but it can ____ to many illnesses.

get celebrate contribute affect

10He ____ off his holiday until after the winter.

took put called logged