Essential English Language Skills Practice

Posted on May 29, 2025 in Administration and Management

English Grammar Practice: Verb Tenses

Exercise 1: Present Tenses

  1. is teaching
  2. remember
  3. are leaving
  4. Does give
  5. don’t need
  6. are doing
  7. isn’t studying
  8. plays

Exercise 2: Past Tenses

  1. had eaten
  2. was Thomas wearing
  3. laughed
  4. Did you speak
  5. hadn’t heard
  6. were driving
  7. had left
  8. wasn’t listening

Exercise 3: Connecting Clauses

  1. while she was touring Italy.
  2. after she had saved enough money.
  3. and she wore them the next day.
  4. and now she is wearing them.
  5. but she never wears them.
  6. although they were expensive.

Exercise 4: Mixed Verb Forms

  1. am considering
  2. want
  3. was looking after
  4. didn’t panic
  5. had done
  6. managed
  7. recommends
  8. had happened

Exercise 5: Present Perfect and Simple Past

  1. started
  2. Have seen
  3. has just left
  4. Did go out
  5. didn’t mean
  6. haven’t done

Exercise 6: Future Forms (Will vs. Going To)

  1. I’ll move it.
  2. Is he going to have one this year?
  3. I’m sure she won’t like this sweater.
  4. You are going to lose it!
  5. I’ll be fine!

Exercise 7: Future Perfect and Future Continuous

  1. will have finished
  2. will be having
  3. Will have prepared
  4. won’t be waiting
  5. will have returned

Exercise 8: Advanced Tense Review

  1. have always carried
  2. will soon make
  3. has already begun
  4. gave
  5. will be using
  6. have criticised
  7. aren’t going to stop
  8. will have replaced

English Vocabulary Building

Exercise 1: Multiple Choice Answers

  1. a
  2. b
  3. b
  4. a

Exercise 2: Word Definitions

  1. fiancée
  2. crowd
  3. emerged
  4. passer-by
  5. pursued
  6. crew

Exercise 3: Contextual Vocabulary

  1. surrounded
  2. bodyguards
  3. in the spotlight
  4. infatuation
  5. overwhelmed
  6. pressure
  7. fool

Exercise 4: Common Collocations and Phrasal Verbs

  1. catch: sight of, a bus, a cold, someone’s eye, fire, one’s breath
  2. take: a photo, for granted, one’s time, pride in, charge, someone by surprise
  3. go: wild, mad, abroad, missing, blind, bald

Exercise 5: Applying Collocations

  1. went mad
  2. caught fire
  3. take your time
  4. had gone missing
  5. takes pride in
  6. catch bus

Reading & Comprehension Practice

Exercise 1: Matching

  1. g
  2. a
  3. c
  4. h
  5. e
  6. d
  7. b
  8. f

Exercise 2: Short Answers

  1. money, property
  2. celebrities, their neighbours
  3. model, singer
  4. attacking paparazzi, being arrogant
  5. ambitious, determined
  6. selfish, inconsiderate
  7. high salary, rude remarks
  8. sensational news, scandals

Advanced English Grammar: Perfect Tenses, Gerunds & Infinitives

Exercise 1: Present and Past Perfect Continuous

  1. have been following
  2. haven’t been waiting
  3. had been raining
  4. Has been crying
  5. had been calling
  6. have been looking
  7. has been having
  8. had been discussing

Exercise 2: Mixed Perfect Tenses

  1. haven’t seen
  2. had been crying
  3. had been practising
  4. have been doing
  5. had lost
  6. haven’t had

Exercise 3: Tense Review in Context

  1. has become
  2. have been fighting
  3. occurred
  4. ordered
  5. had taken
  6. had been using
  7. had claimed
  8. had been hiding

Exercise 4: Gerunds and Infinitives

  1. making
  2. to get
  3. to earn
  4. paying
  5. entertaining
  6. to use
  7. complaining
  8. Being
  9. to give up

Exercise 5: Gerunds and Infinitives in Sentences

  1. Charles has stopped playing tennis.
  2. We tried to move / moving the bookcase, but it was too heavy.
  3. I regret asking Thomas to come with me.
  4. Susan doesn’t remember borrowing your book.
  5. We stopped to have lunch.
  6. I tried swimming, but I found it boring.
  7. We regret to inform you that you have not been accepted.
  8. I’m glad you remembered to leave me a note.

Exercise 7: Sentence Transformations and Corrections

  1. I have known Rachel for two years.
  2. He had been singing for five minutes when the judges told him to stop.
  3. I’m looking forward to meeting you.
  4. The boy will have grown (taller) by the end of the summer.
  5. Sue broke her arm while she was hiking.