Midterm Test Review

Try doing these exercises before the test!

Vocabulary

• What’s the meaning of these words? Can you put them in sentences?
  Geek
  Gadget
  Tar
  Screen
  Fortnight
  Text messaging

• Create a sentence with: to devote less time to
  to be classed as
  to draw the line at
  to lose yourself in
  to kill time
  to shut yourself away
  to have a row
  to flirt with
  to put one’s foot down
  to have a nap
  to nip
  
• What idea do these LINKERS convey?

Add information Show contrasting ideas Show cause and effect

• In fact
• Even so
• Also
• On the other hand
• Moreover
• Nevertheless
• Consequently
• However
• Yet
• Because of this
• As a result
• Although
• But

Grammar:

• Stative X Dynamic verbs

Stative Verbs – describe a state (knowledge, emotion, perception). Nothing happens.

Dynamic Verbs – describe an action, activity or process. Something happens.

There are some verbs which are both Stative and Dynamic, however, their meanings change considerably. These are some :

• Taste (D) = the action of eating
• Taste (S) = the perception, one of the 5 senses
• Have (D) = a figurative meaning - eg. have breakfast
• Have (S) = idea of possession
• Think (D) = the mental process of thinking, considering
• Think (S) = idea of opinion
• See (D) = visiting, meeting, working on something
• See (S) = the perception, one of the 5 senses

• Present Perfect Simple X Present Perfect Continuous

Formation: Have/ Has + been + V + ing (cont.) or Have/ Has + V (3rd. Column) (simp.)

Present Perfect Continuous + Dynamic verb (action) – describes an action which is incomplete or ongoing

Present Perfect Simple + Dynamic verb – describes an action which is complete

Present Perfect Simple + Stative verb – describes a situation which is incomplete or ongoing

Can you think of examples for each situation?

• Reporting Verbs

Are these verbs say or tell? What are their meanings?
Confirm
Assure
Declare
Convince
Announce
Mention
Insist
Reassure
Admit
Inform
Claim
Persuade
Complain
Advise
Suggest
Explain

• Prefixes and Suffixes
  

Negative prefixes:

• Un
• Dis
• Ir – used for words beginning with r
• Il -used for words beginning with
• In
• Im – used for words begining with “b”, “m” and “p”

Suffixes:

• Less (without)
• Ful (quantity / feeling)
• Ish (kind of)
• Ment – nouns
• Ly – adverbs
• Ness – nouns
• Ed - adjectives
• Able - adjectives

Complete the sentences with a suitable form of the word given:

a) Because of a ___ half the class went to a differerent classroom. (understand)

b) Maria is really ___. She’s always there when I need a hand. (help)

c)Don’t be ___, I’m sure she didn’t mean it. (fool)

d)I can’t say Alice is ___. She is always locked up in her room. (adventure)

e)We didn’t find any ___ in finding your house. (difficult)

f)Turn the TV off. What I have to say is important and I need your __ attention. (divide)

g)My brothers always ___ when it’s time to do the washing up. (appear)

h)___ of what I had said, he went to the beach anyway. (regard)

i)Kim looks repulsive. That dress she’s wearing is absolutely ___. (taste)

j)I was positively surprised by the ___ of the people from Italy. (friend)

k)I don’t believe you’ve broken it! That piece is __ (replace)

l)You are such a scheming person! What are you up, you ___ girl? (devil)

m)The govern is going to build houses for the ___ people. (home)

n)I find chocolate cakes simply __ (resist)

o)New York streets at night vcan be quite ___.(danger)

p)It was a ___ trip – everything went wrong. (hell)

Extra work: Look up the words in brackets in a dictionary and find as many possibilities of word transformation as you can.

Eg. Understand-Understandable-Misunderstand-Misunderstanding-Understood-Understanding-Etc...

Key:

a)Misunderstanding

b)Helpful

c)Foolish

d)Adventurous

e)Difficulty

f)Undivided

g)Disappear

h)Regardless

i)Tasteless

j)Friendliness

k)Devilish

l)Irreplaceable

m)Irresistable

n)Homeless

o)Hellish

p)Dangerous