Five-Minute Tests

I. Study the examples, and then decide where to put both in each sentence.

ONE-WORD VERBS
We both like classical music.

TWO-WORD VERBS
They can both swim well.

AM/ARE/WAS/WERE
They were both very tired.

1. They speak Spanish well.

2. My friend and I were born in May.

3. My parents are fair haired.

4. They have done this course.

5. Alice and Judy look like their mother.

6. My brothers are very intelligent.

7. My parents work in the same trvel agency.

8. They have been to the USA recently.

9. They have failed the driving test.

10. John and Helen are going to study in the USA.

Key:

1. They both speak Spanish well.

2. My friend and I were both born in May.

3. My parents are both fair haired.

4. They have both done this course.

5. Alice and Judy both look like their mother.

6. My brothers are both very intelligent.

7. My parents both work in the same travel agency.

8. They have both been to the USA recently.

9. They have both failed the driving test.

10. John and Helen are both going to study in the USA.

II. Write the full forms.

Example:
0. Pat’s not telephoned.
has not

1. Stephen’s six feet tall.

__________________________

2. She’s very upset.

__________________________

3. I won’t go out.

__________________________

4. He’s never met her.

__________________________

5. I’d like a book about horses.

__________________________

Key: 1. is; 2. is; 3. will not; 4. has; 5. would

III. Put in which or what.

1. __________ colour is her hair?

2. __________ colour do you prefer, yellow or red?

3. __________ time is your flight?

4. __________ train are we getting, the 3.15 or the 4.45?

5. __________ sort of films do you prefer?

6. You can come at three o’clock, half past three or four o’clock. __________ time would suit you?

7. __________ languages does he speak?

8. “__________ door goes to the study?” “That one.”

Key: 1. What; 2. Which; 3. What; 4. Which; 5. What; 6. Which; 7. What; 8. Which

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