Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Motril

DEPARTAMENTO DE INGLÉS

C1Consejería de Educación

Junta de Andalucía

ASSORTED USE OF ENGLISH EXERCISES

Prepositions. Fill in the gaps with the correct preposition.

a) Could you please refrain ____ smoking in the lecture hall ?b) Have you accounted _____ the wind speed in your calculations ?c) Everyone tried to blame Mary _____ the mistaked) The Prime Minister refused to elaborate _____ what he had said earliere) Our plan doesn’t allow _____ changes in the weatherf) We really marvelled _____ Helen’s conjuring tricksg) The company is committed _____ raising salariesh) The police suspects John _____ being the murdereri) She insisted _____ going to Morocco as the best solutionj) They congratulated me _____ the first prize

Word formation. Complete each sentence with a word made from the word in capitals

a) Do you like my latest .............. for my collection? ACQUIREb) The judge decided that the police was not entirely ........ BLAMEc) Helen is very ............ She always says what she thinks. SPEAKd) It wasn’t Jean who had the accident, you know.

It was all a terrible ............. UNDERSTANDe) The rate of ............ is very high in Africa. Very few people can read or write. LITERATE

Phrasal Verbs and Verbal expressions Fill in the gaps with the appropriate particle in order to get a phrasal verb with the same meaning as in brackets. In some cases, you’ll also need to put the object specified in brackets

1) I couldn’t do ................. (manage if I didn’t have it) my computer. 2) Four different countries make ................. Great Britain. (constitute)3) There is a little house on the other side or the river. Can you make .................

(see it)?4) In six months, he got ................. (use it all up) all the money she had inherited. 5) He is lying. Can’t you see ................. (not be decieved by) his nice words?6) I ran ................. (met by chance) my old friend Alan at the park. 7) Frank told me he would come to the party but he never turned ............... (made

an appearance)8) John and Rita have broken ................. (ended) their engagement.9) The soup’s colour really puts ................. (discourages me) my dinner.10) I’m trying to set ................. (ignore) my prejudices about India, before my visit.