NEGATIVE STRUCTURE

Exercise 1: Complete the following sentences using the passive voice

1. Has been conducted 6. Are enforced
2. Will have been inaugurated 7. Will be directed
3. Was presented 8. Have been researched
4. Will be restored 9. Was delivered
5. Will have been inplemented 10. Will have been made

Exercise 2: Choose the correct answer

1. will be implemented
2. have been developed
3. will have been submitted
4. are published
5. are being analyzed
6. will have been completed
7. is being restored
8. was announced
9. will be made
10. is being reviewed

Exercise 3: Choose the correct answer to complete the following sentences

1. B 6. B
2. C 7. B
3. A 8. A
4. C 9. B
5. B 10. B

Exercise 4: Change the following sentences into passive sentences

1. Complex data had been being analyzed for over a month before a conclusion was
reached.
2. All the necessary documents will have been prepared by the time the conference begins.
3. A new vaccine was being developed when the unexpected side effects were discovered.
4. The findings were published in a renowned journal after the experiment was conducted.
5. The impact of climate change on marine life has been being studied for the past decade.
6. The proposal will be reviewed before a final decision is made.
7. The new software had been being tested for several months before its release.
8. The construction of the new laboratory will have been completed by the end of the year.
9. The cause of the mysterious illness that affected the village is being investigated.
10. The findings will be announced to the public once the results are confirmed.
11. The final report was handed to the manager yesterday. // Homework was given to the
students every day.
12. The manager was handed the final report yesterday // The students were given
homework every day.
13. A delicious meal was cooked for the guests. // The guests were cooked a delicious meal.
14. He is believed to be an excellent leader.
15. The company is said to be launching a new product soon.
16. The conference room was booked by her assistant.
17. Their move to a new house was helped by their friends.
18. The office has been cleaned.
19. The ancient ruins were shown to the tourists. // The tourists were shown the ancient
ruins.
20. The missing child was reported to have been found safe.

ARTICLES
Task 1. Chọn mạo từ đúng trong mỗi câu bên dưới
1. an 6. an
2. a 7. the
3. the 8. the
4. a 9. a
5. a 10. the

Task 2. Chọn đáp án đúng để điền vào chỗ trống (chú ý: ký hiệu “x” có nghĩa là không cần
mạo từ)
1. B. a/the 6. B. an
2. A. the/the 7. B. x/the
3. D. x 8. C. an/an
4. B. the 9. D. the/x
5. A. the/the 10. A. the

Task 3. Điền a/an hoặc the

1. a….newspaper // a...magazine. // .The…newspaper is in my bag but I don’t know where I
put…the ..magazine.
2. an…accident // a…car // a..tree. // a…car // the..car was badly damaged.
3. There are two cars parked outside:…a…..blue one and …a….grey one. …the…..blue one
belongs to my neighbors. I don’t know who …the.. owner of…the..grey one is.
4. My friends live in…an….old house in…a…small village. There is …a….beautiful garden
behind …the…..house. I would like to have…a…garden like this.
5. This house is very nice. Has it got …a….garden?

Task 4. Điền a/an hoặc the

1. It’s a beautiful day. Let’s sit in…the…..garden.
2. Can you recommend …a…..good restaurant?
3. We had dinner in…the….most expensive restaurant in town.
4. There isn’t …an…….airport near where I live. …the….nearest airport is 70 miles away.
5. “Are you going away next week?” - “No, .. the…..week after next”

Task 5. Chọn đáp án đúng

1. dogs 6. tea
2. the salt 7. the vegetables
3. apples 8. life
4. the apples 9. skiing
5. women, men 10. the people

Task 6. Điền mạo từ thích hợp “a/an/the hoặc x (không cần mạo từ)” vào chỗ trống.
1. x - x - x - x
2. The - the - the - the - the
3. the - the - x - the - x - the – x - x
4. a
5. a - the - a - a

Task 7. Chọn đáp án đúng để điền vào chỗ trống

Câu hỏi 1 2 3 4 5

Đáp án B A D B A

Task 8. Hoàn thành các câu dưới đây sử dụng một giới từ phù hợp
1. Two people were injured in the accident and were taken to hospital.
2. In Britain, children from the age of five have to go to school.
3. Mark didn’t go out last night. He stayed at home.
4. I’ll have to hurry. I don’t want to be late for school.
5. There is a lot of traffic in the morning when everybody is going to work.
6. Cathy’s mother has just had an operation. She is still in hospital.
7. When Julia leaves school, she wants to study economics at university.
8. Bill never gets up before 9 o’clock. It’s 8.30 now, so he is still in bed
9. If you commit a serious crime, you could be sent to prison.

Task 9. Chọn đáp án đúng.

1. people, aggression
2. All the books
3. The first world war
4. unemployment

Task 10. Điền mạo từ thích hợp để hoàn thành bức thư.
Hi John,
I arrived in the USA last Monday. We left x Rome, flew over the Alps and made a quick stop
in xLondon. There we went shopping in x Harrods, visited the Tower and enjoyed a sunny
afternoon in x Hyde Park. On the following day we left for x New York. The time on board
wasn't boring as there were two films to watch on the monitor. The people on the plane
were all x Italian. Before we landed at x JFK airport, we saw the Statue of Liberty, x Ellis
Island andthe Empire State Building. The hotel I stayed in was on the corner of x 42nd Street
and x 5th Avenue. I don't like x hotels very much, but I didn't have x time to rent an
apartment.
Please say hello to Peter and Mandy.
Yours,
Peter

TENSE
Exercise 2. Chia động từ trong ngoặc.
1. wants 6. Are ... watching .... are listening
2. Is ... planting 7. are playing

3. are ... doing 8. are

4. is knocking 9. are seeing

5. is writing 10. want

Exercise 3. Cho dạng đúng của động từ trong ngoặc

1. is running 6. aren’t going

2. aren’t drinking 7. are waiting

3. are climbing 8. doing

4. is crying 9. isn’t listening

5. are you doing 10. are driving

Exercise 4. Put the verb in brackets into the present simple or the present continuous.
1. remembers 6. Do you know

2. works 7. never go

3. am working 8. usually stay

4. is snowing 9. is – doesn’t eat

5. are they talking 10. is – is not working

Exercise 5. Give the correct form of these verbs
1. sets 6. circles

2. rains 7. flow

3. are building 8. am giving – see

4. make 9. is playing

5. are getting 10. am talking

Exercise 6. Give the correct form of these verbs
1. are reading 6. go

2. are not coming 7. find

3. is playing 8. is coming
4. goes 9. studies

5. are …doing 10. fix

Bài tập bổ sung
Exercise 1. Put the verbs in brackets into the present continuous tense.
1. are meeting 2. are visiting
3. is not reading 4. are…doing
5. is not listening 6. is sitting
7. is…making 8. is your husband
9. are – are playing 10. is coming
11. is not painting 12. are not planting
13. Are … making 14. is repairing
15. is taking 16. is explaining
17. is studying 18. are having
19. am watching 20. are not drinking
Exercise 2. Put the verbs in brackets into the present continuous tense.
1. are going 2. are having
3. is reading 4. are doing
5. are brushing 6. are travelling
7. is not doing 8. are not working – are doing
9. is not doing – is watching 10. Is Nga reading
11. Are they playing 12. Are the children washing
13. Is your mother travelling 14. is Mr. Hung reading – is listening
15. Is she travelling
Exercise 3. Using the suggested words, write complete sentences in the Present
Continuous tense.
1. They are playing soccer at present.
2. She is listening to music in the room.
3. My sister is reading books in her room.
4. My mother is working in the garden now.
5. Nga and Phuong are watching TV now.
6. What is she doing at the moment? - She is cooking dinner.
7. Where are you going now? - I am going to the post office.
8. What are the students doing in the class now? - They are talking.
9. Is he doing his homework now?
Exercise 4. Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
1. is seeing 2. is not studying/ am not thinking
3. are taking 4. are cooking
5. is travelling 6. is lying
7. are playing 8. is reading
9. are not drinking 10. is having
Exercise 5. Find and correct the mistakes.
1. have been buying → is buying 6. is jump → is jumping
2. did not drinking → am not drinking 7. improving → is improving
3. having → are having 8. is cook → is cooking
4. play → are playing 9. are children wear → are children wearing
5. are fight → are fighting 10. are try → are trying
Exercise 6. Complete the sentences below with suggested words below.
1. is swimming 6. are travelling
2. relax 7. Are they making
3. is instructing 8. am cleaning
4. are rising 9. are learning
5. is taking 10. is having
Exercise 7. Complete the following sentences using Affirmative or Negative sentences.
1. Their students are not trying hard enough in the competition.
2. My son is not practicing the piano every day.
3. Nhung is not studying French in her room. She’s at coffee with her classmates.
4. I always play badminton in the morning, but today I am playing volleyball instead.
5. While I am doing my homework, my mother is reading newspapers.
6. Tony is always borrowing me cash and never giving it back.
7. She is on vacation in London. She is having a great time and doesn’t want to come back.
8. Mary wasn’t happy with her new job at first, but she is beginning to like it now.
9. I am looking for Sophie. Do you know where she is?
10. My brother is not here. He is doing the shopping.
Exercise 8. Choose the correct answer (A, B, C, or D).
1. A 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. B 6. D
7. B 8. A 9. A 10. B 11. A 12. B
Exercise 9. Rewrite the sentences using the present continuous tense based on the words
given.
1. My mother is watering some plants in the garden.
2. My brother is cleaning the floor.
3. Tam and Trung are playing in the street at the moment.
4. The sun is shining and they are sunbathing.
5. I am learning English in Hastings this winter.
Exercise 10. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form in the present continuous
tense.
1. is going 2. is crying 3. Is…sitting 4. is trying 5. is cooking
6. are talking 7. isn’t staying 8. is lying 9. are travelling 10. isn’t working
INFINITIVES AND -ING FORMS
Exercise 1. Choose the underlined part among A, B, C, or D that needs correcting.
1. C 2. C 3. C 4. B 5. C
Exercise 2. Complete the sentences with the to-infinitive or -ing form of the verbs in
brackets.
1. to concentrate/ wandering 2. to go
3. staying/ playing 4. spending
5. to have 6. to get
7. making/ to make 8. waiting
9. to seeing 10. going
Exercise 3. Rewrite the following sentences without changing their meaning.
1. Would you mind giving me a hand?
2. What about going for a bike?
3. He left the room without saying goodbye to anyone.
4. He prefers reading books to watching television.
5. She’s interested in hanging out with friends on Saturday evening.

Exercise 4. Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

1. going 2. to buy 3. to answer 4. to get
5. seeing 6. visiting 7. to run 8. to study
9. working 10. to ride 11. to buy 12. to do
13. smoking 14. to fly 15. writing 16. to do
17. watching/reading 18. making 19. to be 20. building
21. to see 22. watching/reading 23. playing/doing 24. to go
25. Have…seen 26. to dream/were 27. showing/to send 28. going
29. doing 30. reading 31. seeing 32. preparing
33. working/finishing 34. to give up/ 35. talking/to eat 36. arguing/to work
smoking
37. to think/making 38. to come/standing 39. solving 40. to lock/going
Bài 1: Complete each sentence with one of the following verbs:
2. making
3. listening
4. applying
5. reading
6. living
7. using
8. forgetting
9. writing
10. being
11. trying
12. losing
Bài 2: Complete the sentence for each situation using –ing.
2. palying tennis
3. driving too fast
4. going for a swim
5. breaking the CD player
6. waiting a few minutes
Bài 3: Complete the sentences so that they mean the same as the first sentences. Use –ing.
2. travelling during the rush hours
3. painting the kitchen until next weekends
4. turning the radion down
5. not interrupting me all the time.
Bài 4: Use your own ideas to complete these sentences. Use –ing.
2. going out
3. sitting on the floor
4. having a picnic
5. laughing
6. breaking down
Bài tập bổ sung
Exercise 1. Choose the best answer.
1. A 2. C 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. C 7. B 8. B 9. A

Exercise 2. Choose the best answer.

1. A 2. C 3. C 4. C 5. B
6. C 7. C 8. B 9. B 10. C
11. C 12. B 13. B 14. C 15. B

Exercise 3. Give the correct form of the word in brackets.

1. learning 2. to meeting
3. being 4. to be
5. coming 6. to bring
7. spending 8. inviting
9. making 10. travelling
Bài tập bổ sung
Exercise 1. Choose the best answer.
1. C 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. A
6. C 7. C 8. B 9. C 10. A
11. B 12. A 13. C 14. A 15. C
Exercise 2. Choose the underlined part among A, B, C, or D that needs correcting.
1. C (run → running)
2. C (doing → to do)
3. C (to see → to seeing)
4. B (climb → to climb)
5. C (about → on)
Exercise 3. Complete the sentences with the to-infinitive or -ing form of the verbs in
brackets.
1. to concentrate – wandering 2. to go
3. staying – playing 4. spending
5. to have 6. to get
7. making / to make 8. waiting
9. to seeing 10. going

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