Final Review

Review of grammar topics units 8,9, and 10

Remember and practice the knowledge obtained during the last few weeks in Advanced English I.
Book: Summit 1

Comparative Forms & Speculating Past

• Repeated and double comparatives.

• Perfect modals for speculating about the past: active and passive voice.

• Be supposed to.

• Would, past continuous with always, and used to.

Double comparatives express a change and cause-effect relationship.

The harder the job became, the less interested I was.

Double comparatives

• The more you earn, the more you can spend.

• The harder you work, the more successful you will be.

• The less you eat, the more quickly you will lose weight.

• The more participants take part in the study, the more reliable the study is.

Multiple Choice

What is the function of the underlined phrase?

The harder the job became, the less interested I was.

• cause

• effect

Multiple Choice

What is the function of the underlined phrase?

The harder the job became, the less interested I was.

• cause

• effect

Multiple Choice

Choose the best interpretation.

"The better the quality of health care (is), the higher the life expectancy (is)."

• a. If the quality of health care is better, the life expectancy is higher.

• b. The quality of health care is better because the life expectancy is higher.

Multiple Choice

My neighbour is driving me mad! It seems that………….it is at night , ……………he plays his music!

• the less / the more loud

• the less / less

• the more late / the more loudlier

• the later / the louder

Repeated Comparatives

• Repeated comparatives are used to describe actions or things that are increasing or decreasing.

• We use them when we want to emphasize and make our language stronger.

Multiple Choice

(+ people) speak English.

• More and more people

• Fewer and fewer people

• Less and less people

• Little and little people

Multiple Choice

We work (+fast).

• more and more fast

• faster and faster

• less and less fast

• fewer and fewer fast

Multiple Choice

There is (+ noise).

• more and more noise

• less and less noise

• fewer and fewer noise

• noiser and noiser

Multiple Choice

(- people) learn German nowadays.

• More and more people

• Less and less people

• Little and little

• Fewer and fewer people

Multiple Choice

This exercise is getting (- difficult)

• fewer anf fewer difficult

• less and less difficult

• more and more difficult

• little and little difficult

Open Ended

Describe the picture with repeated comparative

Perfect modals for speculating about the past: active voice.

• Examples: 'She might have gone to the party.' 'He could have finished the project.'

• You can form perfect modals using may, might, could, must, or had to to speculate with different degrees of certainty about the past.

• Form: Subject + modal verb + have + past participle.

Multiple Choice

What do perfect modals express about past events?

• Certainty

• Possibility

• Probability

• Impossibility

Multiple Choice

I am not sure where Sally is. She _____________(go) to the movies.

• could have went
• can't have gone
• might have gone
• must have went

Multiple Choice

Which movie did you watch? You ________________(see) the new Tom Cruise movie. You always watch his movies!

• could have saw
• must have saw
• can't have seen
• must have seen

Multiple Choice

When we arrived home, we noticed a window was broken. Someone __________________(break in.)

• might have broke
• must have broken
• could have broke
• can't have broken

Multiple Choice

Impossible! That _________________ (be) John, he was with me when the robbery happened.

• must have been
• might have be
• can't have been
• could have be

Perfect Modals for Speculating: passive voice.

• Use perfect modals to speculate about the past in passive voice.

• Form: modal + have + been + past participle.

• Examples: could have been done, might have been received, must have been made.

• Expresses uncertainty or speculation about past events.

Multiple Choice

The stone figures ______________ moved using ropes and logs.

• must been

• must have

• must have been

Multiple Choice

The secrets of Rapa Nui _____________ if their writing system had survived

• might not have been lost

• might not have been lose

• might not have been lost

Multiple Choice

The island ______________ originally by people from South America.

• couldn’t been inhabited

• couldn’t have been inhabited

• couldn’t have inhabited

Be supposed to

• Use be supposed to + a base form to express expectation. Use a present form of be for a present or future expectation. Use a past form of be for an expectation in the past.

• Examples:

• Marcy is supposed to bringsnacks tomorrow. (Someone will expect it.)

• You were supposed to comeyesterday. (Someone expected it.)

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of 'be supposed to'?

• To be forbidden from doing something

• To be unsure about doing something

• To be allowed to do something

• The meaning of 'be supposed to' is to be expected or required to do something.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a negative form of 'be supposed to'?

• supposed to

• not supposed to

• can supposed to

• might supposed to

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences uses 'be supposed to' correctly?

• She is supposed to be here by now.

• He suppose to be here by now.

• They are supposed to leave early.

• I am supposed to not go to the party.

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct negative form of 'be supposed to' in the sentence: 'You ________ smoke in this area.'

• You are not supposed to smoke in this area.

• You isn't supposed to smoke in this area.

• You don't supposed to smoke in this area.

• You aren't suppose to smoke in this area.

Multiple Choice

When are you supposed to finish your career?

• I supposed to finish it in 5 years.

• I'm suppose to finish it in 3 years.

• I am supposed to finish it by 2026.

• I am not supposed to finish it.

Describing past repeated or habitual actions

• You can use would + a base form to describe past repeated or habitual actions.
  When I was a kid, my mom would sew pieces of cloth together to make quilts

Describing past repeated or habitual actions

• You can also use the past continuous with the frequency adverb always to describe a past habitual action.

• Our grandfather was always fixing things in his garage

Describing past repeated or habitual actions

• Remember: You can also use used to + a base form to describe past habitual actions that are no longer true.

• My mom used to make quilts. [But she doesn’t anymore.]

• I used to love assembling model cars. [But I don’t have the time now.]

Multiple Choice

Which tense is used for ongoing actions in the past?

• Would

• Past Continuous

• Used To

• Present Perfect

Multiple Select

Before Tom had children she ___________ a motorbike.

• used to have

• would have

• had

Multiple Select

I moved out of Alfred and Tina's house, they _______ when I was around.

• were always arguing

• would argued

• will argue

Multiple Select

We ________ in New York.

• used to live

• lived

• were living

Multiple Choice

When I was little, I _______ about builing a house for my grandparents to live with me.

• would dream

• was always dreaming

• used to dream

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

On Sundays, they ______ go to the zoo.

• use to

• would

• were

• none of the above

Multiple Choice

When he was younger, he ________ soccer in the stadium.

• used to play

• was always playing

• would play

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

On weekends, my boss __________ me.

• would calling

• use to call

• was always calling

• none of the above

Multiple Choice

Some students ________ late to online classes.

• come

• were always coming

• use to come

Multiple Choice

Some students ________ late to online classes.

• come

• were always coming

• use to come