English exam n2 Course: First Juniors (A1)
Contents assessed: units 2 Open World Key.Present simple tense- unit 2: vocabulario
relacionado a las estaciones, meses, clima, present continuous tense, verbos, vocabulario
sobre geografía y naturaleza.
Name and surname:
1) Complete the sentences with the name of the month.
1____JANUARY__ is the first month of the year.
2 August is the month before _____________
3________________ is the seventh month of the year.
4_________________ is between February and April.
5 The month after May is ______________
6 _____________is between September and November.
7 The last month of the year is ______________
2) Complete the sentences with the words in the box. You need to change some words into adjectives.
Cloud- fog- ice- lightning –rain- snow -storm –sun- temperature
1 In very cold winters, you can walk on the___ICE____ on the lake.
2 It will be a __________night tonight, with thunder and____________
3 The_________________ in summer is usually between 20 and 28 °C.
4 It’s hot but there’s a large grey _______________in the sky, so we’ll have some__________ later, I think.
5 On _________days in the summer, we don’t go outside because it’s too hot.
6 It’s warm today but it was_______________ this morning, so it was difficult to see across the street.
7 People like_____________ weather because the white trees and countryside look beautiful.
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4) Complete the text with the present continuous form of the verbs in brackets. Make the verb negative if
necessary.
Today it’s really cold so I 1__AM WEARING_ (wear) lots of warm clothes. It’s icy outside and it
2 __________________________(snow), too.
I’m sitting in the library at college with some friends, but we 3__________________
(not/study) we 4____________________ (talk) about going home early in case the buses stop
because of the snow! My friends Freddie and Lena live in the hills so they
5_______________________ (leave) now, but Karin and Graham 6______________________
(not/go) home now because they live very near and can easily walk home in the snow.
5) Write the questions and answers in the present continuous tense to make a conversation.
Mike: Hi Laurence, I can’t come to tennis practice tonight – I’m not at home. I’m in Birmingham.
Laurence: What / do / there?
1__What are you doing there?__
Mike: I’m here with my team. We / work here /this week. 2__________________________
Laurence: Stay / in a hotel? 3_________________________________
Mike: Yes, a really nice one. I / have / a great week! 4_____________________________
How about you?
Laurence: I’m on holiday this week. So I / not work. 5____________________________
Mike: Great! Where / stay? 6____________________________________
Laurence: At home. Some friends / visit us / at the moment. 7__________________________
Mike: That’s nice. Have a good week!
6) Complete the sentences with the present continuous or present simple form of the verbs in brackets.
1 It is 7.30 am, and I _am having__breakfast. I usually____have___ it at 7.00, but I’m late today. (have)
2 Cathy always______________ family parties, so she ___________________her grandmother’s birthday meal this afternoon very
much. (enjoy)
3 Usually, Harry ____________________only with his parents, but at the moment his cousin ____________________with them
because she has a summer job in their town. (live)
4 Ali and his friends___________________ football in the park this morning. They _____________there three or four times a week.
(play)
5 Gregorio is a taxi driver. He___________ a taxi in London. But this week he _____________________across France because he is
on holiday. (drive)
6 In the summer it_______________ a lot in my country, and it’s very hot. It _____________________today. (rain)
7) Choose the correct adjectives to complete the sentences.
1 We had strong/heavy snow yesterday morning, and the children had lots of fun playing in it in the afternoon.
2 The winds are really strong/hard this morning so our plane can’t leave.
3 When the fog is thick/heavy on the coast, the fishing boats do not go out to sea.
4 We had a great walk up the mountain in high/bright sunshine all the way to the top.
There were clear/empty skies all day.
5 We have a lot of hard/strong frosts in winter in the north of the country.
