Outdoor activities: hiking, camping, rock climbing, hunting, jogging

Note: When we start a hobby for the first time we often use the phrasal verb take up, and when we stop doing the hobby for the final time, we often use the phrasal verb give up.

Cooking: boil: in water, fry: in oil or butter above the heat, grill: under the heat, roast: in the oven using oil, bake: in the oven without oil……

Note: Food, which is not cooked, is raw.

Food: to have breakfast / lunch / dinner / a snack at, to cook, have to feed cats….

Note: With breakfast, lunch or dinner in general, there is no definite article (the).

Describing food: Tasty, tasteless, bland, neutral in flavor, sweet, bitter, salty, hot/spicy, fresh: recently produced, recently picked…..

Eating in restaurants: three courses: a starter, a main course, a dessert, also have an aperitif, coffee, to pay the bill, to leave a tip, to book = to reserve a table……

Things people collect: stamps, coins, antiques, photos

Shops and shopping: shop assistant, sales assistant, shop window, shopping centre, window shopping, shopping list, department store, supermarket, newsagent('s), butcher('s), greengrocer('s), boutique, chemist('s),

Note: Most other shops are just '+ shop', e.g. shoe shop, record shop, camera shop..

Using the land: the ground, the soil, to grow, parks and gardens, trees and plants, flowers, roots and leaves, to plant the tree or plant, to water, agriculture / farming, to pick the fruit, to harvest crops

Also check important lexis for: readng books & magasines, travelling & sightseeing, theatre & cinema, organizing a party……..

 

 

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Grammar

1. She suggested ____ go skating and ____ take Henry with them as he had nothing to do at the moment.

1) to, to

2) that they should, -

3) -, -

4) that they will, to

 

2. I like to stand on the quay and watch the steamers ____ their landing.

1) make

2) to make

3) to have made       

4) made

 

3. ____ the news he hurried____ home.

1) Listening, -

2) Hearing, -

3) Having heard, at

4) On hearing, into

 

4. He ____ to our place every Sunday, rain or shine.

1) was used to come

2) used to coming

3) used to come

4) was used to come

 

5. The ship ____ the radar. This accounts for the accident, ____?

1) has no, hasn’t it

2) doesn’t have, isn’t it

3) didn’t have, doesn’t it

4) don’t have, doesn’t it

 

6. It was ____ early morning. It ____ impossible to take a taxi, so I ____ to take him to the airport in my car.

1) an, would be, agreed           

2) -, would have been, offered

3) -, was, suggested

4) a, will be, proposed

 

7. The building in the middle of the village is a supermarket, but it ____ a cinema.

1) used to being

2) was used to be

3) used to be

4) was used being

 

 

8. ____ I stood hesitating, I saw a fishing boat ____ slowly into the little bay below me.

1) As, come

2) During, coming

3) When, to come

4) While, to have come

 

9. I heard patter of rain upon the glass of the window, I heard rain ____ upon the parched earth and ____ grain and river.

1) beat, fill

2) to beat, to fill

3) beating, to fill

4) to beat, filling      

 

10. Then I saw a dark box which he ____ on the deck. One look at it was enough to make me ____ to my feet in horror.

1) laid, to jump

2) lay, jumping

3) laid, jump

4) lain, to have jumped

 

11. Miss Lemon said: “The letter is from a man who wants ____ the disappearance of his ____ Pekinese dog.”

1) you investigate, wife’s

2) investigation of, wife

3) you to investigate, wife’s

4) your investigating, wives

 

12. ____ other novelists, Walter Streeter ____ to getting letters from strangers.

1) Like, used

2) As, was accustomed

3) Unlike, didn’t use

4) Like, was used

 

13. We suggested ____ in hotels but the children were anxious ____ out.

1) to sleep, to camp

2) sleeping, to camp

3) to stay, camping

4) staying, camping

 

14. He opened the door ____ inches. The landing was deserted. He remembered ____ the door handle with his handkerchief and then he closed the door after him.

1) a little, to wipe

2) a few, to wipe

3) several, wiping

4) some, to have been wiped

 

15. ____ to accept his sister’s ____ Marcellus was anxious to perform his unpleasant duty.

1) On deciding, advices

2) Having decided, advice

3) After decided, piece of advice

4) While deciding, piece of advices

16. Minnie, ____ the door ____, ran in alarm to the window.

1) listening, slamming

2) heard, to slam

3) hearing, slam

4) listening, to be slammed

 

17. “Before we start ____ the plan, I want ____ our position.”

1) discussion of, you understand

2) discussing, you to understand

3) discuss, understanding of

4) to discuss, we understand

 

18. He ____ to country life, ____ twenty years in town.

1) did not used, after spending

2) is not used, having been spent

3) is not using, spending

4) was not used, having spent

 

19. ____, she said to her brother in a loud whisper: “You ____! ”

1) Irritating, are always showing off

2) Having irritated, mustn’t show off

3) Feeling irritated, shouldn’t to show off

4) Irritated, are always showing off

 

20. Remember ____ carefully. If you ____ him, he will fly into a passion.

1) speaking, contradict

2) to speak, contradict

3) having spoken, have contradicted

4) to speak, will contradict

 

21. I suppose one thing that made you ____ him was that he was so small and frail. You felt that he ____ hurt a fly.

1) to like, could not

2) liking, will not

3) to accept, did not

4) like, would not

 

22. He ____ to come into ____ Palace Hotel at Guatemala City every day at cocktail time and tried to sell lottery tickets.

1) used, the

2) was used, the

3) was using, -

4) had used, a

 

23. He waited, ____, and after a moment or so he ____ footsteps.

1) hearing, listened

2) having listened, was hearing

3) listening, heard

4) hearing, could hear

 

 

24. Then he turned away and ____ his tickets to the men ____ around.

1) suggested, who were standing

2) proposed, who have been

3) has given, -

4) offered, standing

 

 

25. She was talkative, but since she seemed ____ to talk about my novel I was prepared to be ____ attentive listener.

1) inclining, a

2) inclined, an

3) to incline, the

4) being inclined, -

 

26. I never saw anyone ____ his lottery tickets, but now and then I saw ____ offered a drink.

1) to buy, him

2) buying, his

3) buy, him

4) has been bought, he

27. I won’t give her a penny more. She always ____ from me and she never remembers ____ me back.

1) is borrowing, paying

2) borrows, to pay

3) lends, to pay

4) takes money, paying

28. ____ you there, by the door, made me ____ what I had to do.

1) To see, to remember

2) On seeing, remember

3) Having seen, to remember

4) Seeing, remember

 

29. She ____ to being miserable without ____ something about it.

1) wasn’t used, doing

2) didn’t used, doing

3) wasn’t using, having done

4) didn’t use, trying to do

 

30. There seems ____ a fight here some time ago. Every thing is smashed to bits.

1) to be        

2) being

3) to have been

4) has been

 

31. “Do you hear the dog ____? There ____ a stranger outside the house.”

1) to bark, is

2) barking, must be

3) barks, may be

4) to be barking, should to be

 

 

32. She ____ down to my cabin at intervals and tell me of her progress.

1) kept coming

2) used to come

3) was used to come

4) came

 

33. She saw ____ leave the house with his overcoat and ____ without it, though the day was chill and raw.

1) he, returned

2) him, return

3) his, returning

4) him, to return

 

34. The little woman in the gloomy passage seemed ____ her.

1) not hearing

2) did not hear

3) to have listened

4) not to have heard

 

35. And as she made her way along the street she recollected ____ that his hour of consultation began at noon.

1) have heard

2) having been heard

3) having heard

4) to hear

36. The busy railway station was an island in the night, ____ with life, ____ with the sound of voices of agitated passengers ____ for seats.

1) bustled, filled, looked

2) bustling, filling, to look

3) bustling, filled, looking

4) being bustled, filling, who looked

 

37. Bart stretched out on the floor of the corridor, his head ____ on his kit-bag, his great-coat ____ across his shoulders.

1) lying, flinging

2) pillowed, flung

3) pillowing, flung

4) putting, flinging

 

38. She stood ____ for the trolley-bus ____ her down to the city, where she was meeting Michael for lunch.

1) waited, taking

2) to wait, having taken

3) waiting, to take

4) waiting, taking

 

39. ____ her raincoat up to her throat she went through the lane to ____ steps that led down from Victoria Station.

1) Having buttoned, -

2) On buttoning, that

3) To have buttoned, those

4) Buttoning, the

 

40. He watched the doctor ____ down ____ steps, trim and neat in slacks and sweater, and his heart sank even lower.

1) coming, -

2) come, the

3) to come, a few

4) has come, those

41. I rely ____  you to remind me ____  Jack for the books he bought for me.

1) to, paying

2) for, to have paid

3) on, to pay

4) upon, to be paying

42. He couldn't help ___  this book.

1) to read

2) to be read

3) reading

4) to be reading

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