Level 3 Writing: Capital Letters and Punctuation- Practice#1

Instructions: Correct the mistakes in capitalization and punctuation in the following paragraph. 

       jim is a very good student he sits in the front of the class and takes careful notes he also asks questions if he does not understand what the teacher is saying every day after school he goes to the library in  brentwood and studies and does homework for at least two hours when he goes home he has dinner and goes to bed early so that he does not fall asleep in class when jim graduates he wants to teach spanish because he thinks that it is a beautiful language jim has a bright future ahead of him

Level 3 Grammar Verb Tenses Practice#1

Instructions: Fill in the blanks with a verb in the appropriate tense.

1. Everyday John (play)_________________ basketball in the gym.
2. John (play) _________________ basketball in the gym now.
3. John (play) _________________basketball in the gym yesterday.
4. Yesterday while John (play)________________ basketball in the gym, his sister (study) ___________ in the library.
5. John (play) ____________________ basketball tomorrow.
6. John (play) _________________ basketball, when he (come) __________________ home tomorrow.
7. John (play) _________________basketball for five years.
8. John (play) _________________basketball in the gym for five hours.
9. John's sister does not need to study for the test. She (study,already) __________________ for the test.
10. John's sister did not need to study for the test. She (study,already) __________________ for the test.

If vs Even If

Instructions: Change the following sentences with if  to sentences with even if to reflect unexpected result.

1. If I had another week to work on the project, I could finish it (but I do not have another week to work on the project).

2.  If you have surgery, you will not die.

3.  If you get a loan from the bank, you can afford to buy that house.

4.  If I get more training in kung fu, I can defeat my opponent.

5.  If a guard had been placed at the gate, the robbery would not have taken place (but a guard was not placed at the gate).

6. If the aircraft had been checked prior to take off, the plane would not have crashed (but the aircraft was not checked prior to take off).

7. If the economy picks up next year, the government will not raise interest rates.

8. If the bank closes later, we can solve the problem with your account.

9. If you buy your girlfriend flowers, she will forgive you for cheating on her.

10. If there is in excess of three inches of snow on the ground tomorrow morning, classes will be canceled.

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Word Form Exercise- Advanced Vocabulary Chapter 3 and 4

A. Word Form (Error Correction)

Instructions: Correct the underlined word form mistakes in the following sentences.

1. John had a previously sports injury.
2. The legislate are meeting to review the camera traffic light laws.
3. In the regional between both countries many refugees have set up camp.
4. We need to final our plans before Monday.
5. That is an administer problem; teachers can't really do anything about that.


B. Word Form (Sentence Construction)

Instructions: Create your own sentences using the underlined words in Exercise A.

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Advanced Academic Vocabulary Chapters 1 and 2 Word Forms

A. Word Form Change

Instructions: Change the word forms of the underlined words in the following sentences so as to make each sentence grammatical.

1. It will take some time to analysis the problem.

2. Before the article can be published, many edit changes will have to be made.

3. Please check the system periodic to see if there are any glitches.

4. We will need to see some form of identify before you can withdraw money from the bank.

5. The first occur of the scientific anomaly took place in July.

6. The alien create attacked the scientists and ate them alive.

7. That is not my area of expertise; you will have to hire a consult for this project.

8. I emailed our boss, but I did not get a respond.

9. Please item the deductions on the form.

10. That university has so many require; I am going to apply to another university.


B. Sentence Structure Change

Instructions: Change the sentences in Exercise A so that the underlined words do not have to be changed. Write the corrected sentences below.

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Listening Comprehension: My Escape From North Korea

Instructions: Listen to the TED talk and answer the questions that follow.

Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/hyeonseo_lee_my_escape_from_north_korea?language=en#t-31973

Questions

1. What did the speaker learn in school in North Korea?
2. What did the speaker see when she was seven years old?
3. What did the speaker find shocking in the letter that her mother brought home?
4. What terrible experience can the speaker not erase from memory?
5. What was the impact of the famine in North Korea in the mid- 1990s?
6. How did many North Koreans cross into China?
7. What happened to many of these Koreans as they crossed?
8. After the speaker escaped to China, how long did it take her to see her family again?
9. How did the speaker manage to satisfy her Chinese interrogators?
10. What is life like for illegal North Korean immigrants in China?

Listening Comprehension Advanced: How Schools Kill Creativity

Instructions: Listen to the TED talk and answer the questions that follow.

Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?language=en

Questions

1. When will children starting school “this year” be retiring?
2. According to the speaker, what is unpredictable?
3. The speaker mentions a child named Serena. How does she relate to the topic of his talk?
4. According to the speaker, how should we treat creativity?
5. What advantage is there of not being frightened of being wrong?
6. What did Picasso say about children?
7. According to the speaker, how do we lose our creativity?
8. What, according to the speaker, is common to all education systems on Earth?
9. What does it mean to “educate children from the waist up”?
10. According to the speaker, what is the purpose of university education?