This document contains exercises for English practice for Senior 4 students at Colegio Las Cumbres Nivel Medio. It includes tasks such as paraphrasing sentences from a text using different conjunctions, listing arguments for and against banning child labor, completing sentences with relative clauses, and choosing the correct option to complete sentences. The exercises are meant to help students practice their English grammar and language skills.

1. Colegio Las Cumbres Nivel Medio English
Senior 4
Ejercitación para el período de orientación
Diciembre 2015
2do Trimestre
1) Choose a fragment from The Village by the Sea which contains at least 5 coordinating or
subordinating conjunctions. Paraphrase the sentences from that fragment using other linking
devices (equivalent in meaning, of course).
2) a. Read the following statement. Think of at least 5(five) arguments either to support it or not.
“Child labour should be banned in all countries.”
FOR AGAINST
b. Make a list of 5 words / phrases you would use to express your opinion on child labour.
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2. 3) Relative clauses: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first
using the word given.
a. I waited for him until 6.30 and then gave up.
which
I waited for him until 6.30,………………………………………………………………. I gave up.
b. If anyone understands this book, they are cleverer than I am.
is
Anyone………………………………………………………………………………………..……… cleverer than I am.
c. I have read all of her books but one.
that
There is only………………………………………………………………………………. I have not read.
d. Do you get on with your next-door neighbour?
Who
Do you get on with …………………………………………………………………………….lives next door?
4) Choose the best option.
1. _________ should children be allowed to drive.
No sooner
Under no circumstances
2. _________ after months of planning were they ready for the conference.
Rarely
Only
3. _________ had I left than I heard them laughing.
No sooner
Only when
4. Now _________ to escape and she jumped from the window.
was the time
the time was

3. 5. Many a time _________ plan to divorce her husband, but she never did.
she did
did she