Past tenses, ing/to & materials vocab. (unit 1)

It's a beautiful old ______ ring.

• cotton

• silver

• glass

It ______ my grandmother

• owned

• belonged

• belonged to

They are my favourite pair of ______ jeans.

• diamond

• wooden

• denim

They are quite ______ but I would never throw them away.

• leather

• denim

• damaged

It is a lovely ______ vase that a friend gave me as a birthday present.

• rubber

• plastic

• stone

It's ______ but I love it!

• cool

• awesome

• not worth a lot

It's a ______ Italian suitcase, made of ______ that belonged to my father.

• steel / leather

• genuine / leather

• genuine / stone

When Elizabeth finally saw the house, it ______ part of her family legend for 200 years.

• was being

• had been

• had

It had been built by J. Phillip, her distant ancestor who ______ Scotland for America aged sixteen with nothing but the clothes on his back.

• had been leaving

• was leaving

• had left

Five years after arriving, he discovered a hidden treasure in California: a seam of gold, which he later mined. He had succeeded in ______ his fortunes.

• changing

• to change

• change