This document contains an English grammar and vocabulary test for pre-intermediate students with 6 sections: 1. Students must complete sentences using the past simple or past continuous form of verbs provided in brackets. 2. Students must underline the correct alternative verb form between an infinitive (-ing form) and base form. 3. Students must rearrange letters to form words for modes of transportation to complete sentences. 4. Students must complete sentences using vocabulary words from a provided box relating to travel. 5. Students must complete sentences using tourism-related words. 6. Students must complete a conversation about directions to a bus station, using words from a provided box.

1. Pre-intermediate Unit test 5
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Grammar
1 Complete the sentences with the past simple or
past continuous form of the verbs in brackets.
1 He was playing tennis when he hurt his arm.
(play/hurt)
2 While we , we a lot of
new friends. (travel/make)
3 Who you to when
I you? (talk/see)
4 Nina me while I dinner.
(call/eat)
5 He a bath when the doctor .
(have/arrive)
6 While I in the garden,
I someone call my name. (sit/heard)
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2 Underline the correct alternative.
1 They want to climb/climbing the mountains
tomorrow.
2 Can I have that magazine when you finish to
read/reading it?
3 They don’t enjoy to swim/swimming in the sea.
4 I hope to go/going to Malaysia next year.
5 He decided to visit/visiting Belize.
6 Who did you need to call/calling tonight?
7 Did you want to book/booking an island tour?
8 I can imagine to spend/spending a year abroad.
9 In the end, we chose to travel/travelling by boat.
10 Our tour guide didn’t seem to know/knowing
where we were going.
11 Would you like to take/taking a train to Cadiz
this afternoon?
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Vocabulary
3 Rearrange the letters to make forms of
transport to complete the sentences.
1 It’s easy to move around London on
the underground . (ugrnoddreun)
2 When my father was a young man, he always rode
a . (bokemirot)
3 It’s such a long distance. The easiest way to travel
there is by . (penal)
4 His uncle is like James Bond. He lives in Monte
Carlo and loves being on the water in his
. (sebdaetop)
5 The people here use (sbelicyc) to travel
to town, so they are very fit and healthy.
6 Sarah uses the (bessu)to travel to work
but they are often very crowded.
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4 Complete the sentences with the words in the
box.
backpack binoculars clothes digital
map money notebook souvenirs sunhat
umbrella walking
1 You need to wear a sunhat to the beach.
2 My son never uses a suitcase or a wallet. He puts
his clothes in a and wears a belt.
3 Look! Can you see that ship with these ?
4 It’s very wet outside so wear
waterproof and boots.
5 She rarely brings back from her holidays.
6 He always travels with his camera.
7 They always take a so they never get lost.
8 I take a with me when I travel so I can write
down the places I visit and ones I really like.
9 It’s useful to have an in case it rains.
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5 Complete the sentences with tourism words.
1 Our tour guide was excellent and told us all
about the history of the city.
2 The Eiffel Tower is popular with
t and visitors to Paris always want to
see it.
3 Mount Everest is one of the seven n
w of the world.
4 I cross the border for t - f s .
5 He didn’t come on the b t to the
Island of the Sun as he is afraid of water.
6 Now they are older, they prefer to go on
c t when they go on holiday.
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Function
6 Complete the conversation with the words in
the box.
end go keep miss need on see
take to get turn way
A: Excuse me. We want 1 to get to the bus station.
Is this the right 2 ?
B: Yes, 3 past that supermarket and
4 the first right. Then 5 going
until you reach the 6 of the road.
7 left, then take the first – no, third –
right.
A: So I 8 to turn left and then third right.
B: Yes, you’ll 9 the bus station
10 the right. You can’t 11 it.
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Total: 50

2. Pre-intermediate Unit test 5
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