Upper-intermediate Exam Review

Midterm Exam Review

Relative clauses, noun endings and Landmarks.

Relative Defining Clauses

• No commas

• We can omit the relative pronoun

Non-defining Relative Clauses

• We always use commas

• We do not use "that"

• We cannot omit the relative pronoun

Noun - endings

-sis, -ity, -al, -ance, -th, -ation, -ure, -ness

Noun-endings

• We must know the difference when using verbs, nouns or adjectives.

Multiple Choice

They were doing important ______ work on the roads, which made our journey very slow.

• maintain

• maintening

• maintenance

Multiple Choice

The Statue of Liberty has that color due to the metal _________.

• deteriore

• deterioration

• deteriorate

Multiple Choice

Are you waiting for the PS5 _______?

• arrival

• arriving

• arrive

Multiple Choice

My sister's ______ doesn't depend on a man.

• happy

• happiness

• happily

Describing Landmarks

• When you are doing a description of a place that you have already visited you may use some of the expressions from the right column.

• When you want to visit a place you might ask the questions from the left column to get information before you travel.

How do you describe a place / landmark / landscape?

• It's easy! first you need some basic vocabulary and an example of how to do it! That's it!

• This reading works great to have a clear idea of how to do it.

Open Ended

Where is your favorite landmark or place? How does it look like? What people can do there? Why is it your favorite place?

Try to write some ideas about it in just 5 minutes. Then we are going to share them with our classmates.