This document provides an overview and review of topics for an upcoming evaluation test in a Basic English for Translators course. It outlines grammar concepts like future tenses, quantity expressions, and phrasal verbs to revise. Vocabulary topics focus on parties, disasters, and optimistic/pessimistic phrases. Review questions, exercises and references are included to help students prepare for the evaluation.

1. Course: Basic English for Translators 1
IRIM, Chisinau, Moldova
Instructor: Irina Pomazanovschi
ROUND UP
GETTING READY FOR EVALUATION TEST 1

2. TOPICS TO REVISE:
1. Grammar:
a) Ways of expressing future in English (to be going to +
infinitive; Future Simple [will / shall+ V1]; Present
Continuous [be + V-ing]; Present Simple [V1(-s)]; Future
Continuous [will be + V-ing]; Future Perfect [will have + V3])
b) Some, Any, No, Every and their Derivatives
c) Phrasal Verbs (especially “TAKE”)
d) Make vs. Do
2. Vocabulary:
a) Parties and Holidays
b) Disasters
c) Optimist‟s and Pessimist‟s Phrases

3. MATCH A LINE OF DIALOGUE TO A
CARTOON:
a. I'll see you tomorrow. Bye!
b. The train to Dover leaves at ten past
ten.
c. We're having a party next Saturday.
Can you come?
d. Tomorrow's weather will be warm and
sunny.
e. Where shall we go on holiday this year?
f. I'm going to lead an honest life from
now on.
g. In a hundred years' time, we'll all be
driving solar-powered cars.
h. The builders say they'll have finished by
the end of the month.
Underline the future forms.

4. LANGUAGE REVIEW
Future Forms

5. GRAMMAR QUESTIONS
Do these sentences refer to the present or the future?
1. I‟m waiting for my exam results.
2. We‟re all moving to Hawaii.
3. The train leaves at 9:30
4. We move every couple of years.
What’s the difference between these sentences?
-- What do you do in the evenings?
What are you doing this evening?
-- Give me your bags. I’ll help you to carry them.
Sorry, I can‟t come out tonight. I’m going to help Jack fix his car.
-- We’ll have supper at 8 o‟clock.
We’ll be having supper at 8 o‟clock.
-- I will write the report tonight.
I will have written the report by tonight.

6. EXPRESSING QUANTITY: SOME OR ANY?
1. I did exercise 10 without ________ help.
2. Would you like ________ more mineral water? – I don‟t
want ________more.
3. _________ people don‟t have ________ problems
learning foreign languages.
4. Why don‟t you ask your father to lend you _____
money? I haven‟t got _______ .
5. My teenage sister never has _______ trouble learning
the words of the latest pop songs. There are hardly
________ she doesn‟t know by heart.
6. I didn‟t realize that there were still ________ sandwiches
left. I‟ve made ________ more.

7. Compounds with some, any, no, every
+
One
Some
Any Body
No Thing
Every
Where

8. FILL IN WITH SOME, ANY, NO, EVERY DERIVATIVES
1. I don‟t care where we go on holiday as long as it is ________________ hot.
2. Does _______________ want a cup of tea?
3. I‟ve looked everywhere for my contact lens, but I can‟t find it
___________________ .
4. What do you want for dinner, Harry? - Oh, _______, I don‟t care.
5. This sale is fantastic. There‟s 50% off _____________ in the shop.
6. It‟s really boring at auntie Martha‟s, there‟s absolutely _________________
to do.
7. I‟m a very sensitive person. _____________ understands me.
8. I‟ll go ________________ as long as I‟m with you.
9. Jane‟s getting married to ______________ she met on holiday.
10. Sue is such a chatterbox, she‟s always got _______________ to say, but she
never says _______________ interesting.
11. Our dog will go for a walk with _______________ .
12. Tommy‟s so nice. _________________ likes him.

9. SOME, ANY, NO, EVERY
AND THEIR DERIVATIVES
1. ……………….. who came to his place, was shocked with the
mode of his life.
2. Could you tell us………………. exciting about your travelling?
3. Did you learn ……………... topics on political item?
4. I can see………………….. foodstuff in your fridge. It is empty.
5. I have visited……………….. libraries in looking for more
information for my report.
6. There are…………………... reception rooms in the White House.
7. Have you seen…………….. in his study? ………….. precious things
have missed.
8. …………….. must know the constitution of the country you live in.
9. Is there ………………... in your report which is worth of our
attention?
10. There are ………………………….… difficult tasks in this test.

10. READ THE DEFINITIONS AND COMPLETE THE WORDS. ALL THE
EXAMPLES ARE TO DO WITH WEATHER AND TEMPERATURES.
EXAMPLE: THE ADJECTIVE FROM ‘WIND’ IS W I N D Y.
1 The opposite of „boiling‟ is f — — — z — — g.
2 A period of violent weather with rain, thunder, and
lightning is called a s — — — m.
3 Rain and snow fall from c — — — d s.
4 The noun from „sun‟ is s — — s — — — e.
5 Information about the weather over the next few days is
called a weather f — — — c — — t.
6 A brief period of rain or snow is called a s — o — — r.
7 The adjective from „fog‟ is f — — — y.
8 A word meaning cold but not very cold is c — — — l y.
9 The adjective from „sun‟ is s — — — y.
10 A light fog is called a m — — t.

12. REFERENCES:
• New Headway Upper-Intermediate SB + WB, Unit 5
• http://www.native-english.ru/forum/topic/31902
• http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/enviro
nment/natural-disasters/
• New Headway Intermediate Tests, Unit 5
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSgB1IWr6O4