English Exercises: Vocabulary and Grammar Practice

English Exercises

Exercise 1

  1. Blink
  2. Catalogued
  3. Fund
  4. Neat
  5. b
  6. d
  7. c
  8. c
  9. b
  10. b
  11. b
  12. a
  13. d
  14. a

Exercise 2

  1. Accumulated
  2. Anthology
  3. Privileged
  4. Biography
  5. Best sellers
  6. Audio books
  7. Bibliography

Exercise 3

  • Inconsistencies: Something that contradicts
  • Painstaking: Discover something that is difficult to see
  • Beam: To smile
  • Blink: To open and close your eyes quickly
  • Dishevelled: Untidy, disordered
  • Engraved: Carved into wood or stone
  • Stagnation: To stop and not develop
  • Flourished: To develop correctly
  • Bookworm: A person who likes reading very much
  • Acknowledgements: Part of a book where writers thank the collaborators

Exercise 4

  1. Facial expressions
  2. Aimless
  3. Keep a straight face
  4. Look out
  5. Lead to

Exercise 5

  1. Meeting you last year
  2. Turning down the job
  3. Reading the book
  4. Counting sheep
  5. To call my cousin yesterday
  6. To tell you this, but your train is delayed
  7. Driving when he retired
  8. To do his homework last night
  9. To open her own chemist’s
  10. To lift my suitcase, but it was too heavy

Exercise 6

  1. Switching
  2. To do
  3. To have
  4. To ask (me)
  5. To move

Exercise 7

  1. Writing
  2. Playing
  3. To turn on
  4. Stealing
  5. Taking off
  6. To give
  7. Complaining
  8. Meeting
  9. Doing
  10. Studying
  11. To tell
  12. Visiting
  13. To send
  14. To lift
  15. To make
  16. To visit
  17. To be
  18. To make
  19. To give
  20. To work