Writing 9th form (II Term)

Greenpeace is an international environmental organization. It...(to found) in 1969 by a group of Canadian environmantalists.

Members of Greenpeace ...(to appear) in the places where the environment is endangered.

The activity of Greenpeace often ...(to annoy) governments, companies and people who ...(not to care) about the future of the world.

Greenpeace members are often referred to as "greens". The "greens" ...(to be) groups of people whose aim is the protection of natural things.

Choose the correct verb form.

John _______ tennis on Sundays.

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I ____ already ____ my homework.

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Where is Jim? - He _____ dinner.

Choose the correct verb form.

Tom ..... breakfast this morning because he didn’t have any time.

Choose the correct verb form.

While I ..... the dishes last night, I dropped a plate on the floor.

Choose the correct verb form.

By the time we got home the film ... .

Choose the correct passive form of the verb.

The houses ... in 1996.

Choose the correct passive form of the verb.

Many questions ... often .... at the end of the meeting.

Complete the text with the correct words.

Although the prototype of the Internet 1)            [appeared, invention, Internet, link, scientist, impossible] in the 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, for the Internet we know today we should be thankful to a British 2)            [impossible, appeared, invention, Internet, link, scientist], Sir Timothy Berners-Lee who introduced the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee chose the name «World Wide Web» because he wanted to point out that, in this global hypertext system, anything could 3)             [scientist, invention, Internet  , link, impossible, appeared] to anything else. Other possible names were: «Mine of Information» (Moi); «The Information Mine» (Tim), and «Information Mesh» (which was criticised as it looked too much like «Information Mess»). He has been at the head of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1994 trying to lead the 4)             [appeared, invention, Internet, link, scientist, impossible] to its full potential. Queen Elizabeth II granted him the Knight title for his 5)             [appeared, invention, Internet, link, scientist, impossible], and Time Magazine called him the world’s greatest living genius. Today, we use the Internet for almost everything, and for many people it would be 6)             [appeared, invention, Internet, link, scientist, impossible] to imagine life without it.

Match the halves of the sentences.

Complete the text with the correct words.

I LOVE MY SMARTPHONE!

I simply love my smartphone and (1)            [spend, spent, will spend] a lot of time every day texting my friends and chatting online. My parents think l (2)       [enjoy, use, waste] time playing around on my phone while l should be doing more (3)           [popular, important, busy] things like (4)           [housework, homework, hobby]. But I often go (5)          [online, Internet, offline]to look things up and it is really helpful to discuss with my friends what we learned at school. My parents do not agree (6)       [at, with, about] me, though.

My favourite app is the music app. I have my favourite tracks on my phone so l can always listen (7)    [on, to, in] them. I also love taking pictures on my smartphone, which I share (8)      [with, for, at] all my friends on Facebook. I have so many photos now - I just can't seem to have enough!