This document contains an English proficiency test for beginner level A1 students. It covers a range of basic grammar, vocabulary and language skills including:
1) Completing missing letters in times and dates
2) Singular and plural forms of common nouns
3) Using possessive adjectives
4) Writing times
5) Translating common nouns into English
6) Answering simple questions about dates and places
7) Identifying places
8) Choosing correct verb forms and answers
9) Reading a short passage and answering comprehension questions
10) Forming questions based on statements
11) Using simple past tense verbs
1. BEGINNER TEST A1
I Complete the missing letters:
13 th_r_e_ _ 19 n_ _et_ en
11 e_e_ _n 18 ei_ _te_ n
14 f_ _rt_en 15 f_f_ee_
12 t_el_ _ 20 t_e_t_
16 s_x_ e_ n 17 s_v_n_e_n
II VOCABULARY-PEOPLE AND
FAMILY
Singular Plural
Boy boys
__________ girls
Man __________
__________ women
Child ____________
__________ friends
Person ____________
III Complete the chart: his, your
,her, their, its, my, our
I__________
we________
You________
you________
He_________
they_______
She________
It__________
IV WRITE THE TIME:
11:00_______________________
10:30_______________________
5:40________________________
2:25________________________
8:15________________________
V TRANSLATE INTO ENGLISH:
Salad___________
Fruit____________
Sugar___________
Vegetables____________
Pasta_________________
Tea__________________
Cereal________________
Cake_________________
Bread_________________
VI Write the answers:
1.What`s the date today?
The twenty-second of June.
2.When is your birthday?
________________________________
3. When is Valentine`s Day?
________________________________
VII Write the places:
1.It`s a place where doctors and nurses
work.________________________
2.It`s the place where there is a lot of
water._________________________
3.It`s a place where yoy can buy stamps
and send letters.__________________
4.It`s a place where you can watch
films.____________________________
5.It`s a place where people go in the
summer._________________________
VIII Circle the correct answer:
1. Are they in Class 4b?
a) No,they aren`t. b) No,they not.
2. We`re on holiday.____hotel is
fantastic!
a) Their b) Our
3. Li is from Beijing.She`s ________.
a) China b) Chinese
4. Jack is my sister`s____________.
a) husband b) wife
5. My brother __________a car.
a) dont have b) doesn`t have
6. Do you like pop music?
a) Yes, I like. b) Yes, I do.
7. We________at home last weekend.
a) were b) was
8. What_____________to buy?
a) is she going b) she is going
9. It`s dark.Can you ________the light?
a) turn off b) turn on
10. Where do you like______on holiday?
a) go b) going
IX Read the text and answer the
questions:
Pompeii-a town with difference
2. In the past, twenty thousand people
lived in Pompeii in big houses with big
gardens.The Romams built roads in the
town, and there were many public places
like baths, amphitheatres, banks and
markets.There wasn`t any electricity and
people got up with the sun.For breakfast
they had bread and cheese.People
started work very early and stopped at
twelve o`clock for a lunch of fish,bread,
cake and fruit.In the afternoon people
went to watch the gladiators or to the
public baths to wash and meet friends.In
the evenings they often had dinner
parties-they were an important part of
Roman life.But life in Pompeii stopped in
79 AD when the volcano Vesuvius
erupted.Today you can see the town
exactly as it was nearly two thousand
years ago.
1. Where is Pompeii?________________
2. How many people lived there?
___________________________
3. When did people get up?
______________________________
4. What did they have for breakfast?
________________________
5. What time did they have lunch?
___________________________
6. Where did they wash?
___________________________
7. What did they often do in the
evenings?________________________
8. Why did life in Pompeii stop?
________________________________
X Write the questions:
1. ______________________________
Jack works in a factory.
2.______________________________
I go to work by train.
3.______________________________
I go to bed at half past seven.
4.______________________________
I`m 20.
5. ______________________________
Nicole has fruit for breakfast.
6._______________________________
They play football on Saturday.
7._______________________________
My teacher`s from the United States.
XI Complete with:
was/were/wasn`t/weren`t
1. Where_____you last night?
I_______at the cinema.
2. ____your brother at home yesterday?
No, he__________.
3. ______your children at school last
week? No, they__________.
4. When _____your birthday?
It____yesterday.
5. Who ____with you yesterday
afternoon? I_____with a friend.
XII Put the verbs into the simple
past:
1. You finished (finish) work very late
last night.
2. He _________(watch) TV yesterday
morning.
3. I______(go) to university by bus.
4. After class I ______(have) coffee with
my friends.
5. Yesterday I_______(get up) early.
6. The train_________(leave) the station
at 9pm.
XIII Match:
Live a story
Speak the internet
Read in a bank
Listen the piano
Work to the cinema
Go in a flat
Play football
Play English
Use magazines
Tell to the radio
XIII Complete with: some, any, a(n)
1.There aren`t________cars in the car
park.
2. Is there ________airport?
3. There are________pillows in the
cupboard.
4. There isn`t _____table in the
bedroom.
5. There aren`t ________windows in my
room.
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