Half Year Quiz for Year 8

Which is the correct order of the three divisions of time in English?

• past, present, future
• present, past, future
• present, future, past
• future, past, present

We use the PAST SIMPLE tense (DID, TRAVELLED, BROUGHT etc.) ...

• to talk about habits and routines that were true in the past but are not true any more.

• to describe completed actions in the past in the same order as they happened.

• to indicate that one past action finished before another past action.

• to describe an incomplete action or event.

When we use PERFECT TENSES the obligatory beginning word of this tense form is ...

The instructions reads:

"Use the past simple, present perfect simple and  

      present perfect continuous" .

How many different alternatives can you use?

• 2

• 3

• 5

• 8

The title is "PAST SIMPLE and PRESENT PERFECT".

In which of these sentences a student has ignored the suggestion given by the title?

• It's about a project she participated (participate) in last month.

• Mum, have you seen (you / see) my glasses?

• I've known (know) her since primary school.

• She describes what she is spending (spend) her money on during those four weeks.

LOYALTY, RESPECT, SUPPORT.

Which of the verbs does not make a collocation with any of these nouns?

• make

• give

• show

• get

"My parent's supported me in all my struggles which I'm really grateful for."

Which answer is wrong?

• I'm grateful only to my mum.

• I'm grateful to my dad only.

• I'm grateful to either my mum or dad.

• I'm grateful to both of my parents.

It's a linking word.

Its function is to show a contrast between two ideas.

It must be followed by a comma.

Choose all of the categories which must be capitalized according to the spelling rules in English.

• Geographical names of specific objects (cities, countries, lakes, mountains, deserts etc.)

• Days of the week

• Seasons of the year

• Months of the year

• The first word of a sentence

Choose all the functions of an apostrophe (') in English!

• to form the genitive (ģenitīvs) case of a noun

• to form plurals

• to indicate omitted letters in shortened forms

• to indicate which part of a word should be pronounced more loudly