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DIAGNOSTIC WORKSHOP LEVEL IV 2018-1 GRADE: ______/ 5.0

NAME: __________________________________

TALKING ABOUT THE PAST: Use the simple past tense to talk about actions that have already finished. It doesn't
matter when in the past they happened or how long they happened for. We often use phrases with “ago” or “last”
with the past tense.

REGULAR VERBS: are those verbs that end in –ed.

Exercise 1. Check the pronunciation of the –ED Ending. (6 points, 0,5 each)

REGULAR VERBS (-ED) pronunciation

Base form Simple past /t / /d/ /id /

1. arrive arrived arrived

2. work worked worked
3. visit
4. like
5. stay
6. want
7. watch
8. love
Exercise 2: Complete the following conversation. Use the information from the chart. Write the verb in the Simple
Past. (18 points / 1 each)

VISIT x 2 LEARN x 2 HAVE MEET LIKE DO NOT GO

STAY TRY NOT BE BE x 4 SHOW EAT

LEISURE TIME
Mark: I (1) _____________________ to call you last weekend. I (2)_____________________worried about you.
Julia: I (3)_____________________ home. I (4) _____________________ out of town.
Mark: Where (5)_________________________?
Julia: In New York.
Mark: (6)________________________________ the American Museum of Natural History?
Julia: No, I didn’t.
Mark: Oh! (7)_________________________________ at the hotel?
Julia: No. I (8)_________________________________ the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
Mark: Really? That’s interesting. (9)______________________________ a lot there?
Julia: Yes. I (10)________________________________ about Jewish life before, during and after the Holocaust.
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Mark: (11)________________________________ the museum?
Julia: Yes. I did. I (12)________________________________ an interesting experience.
Mark: What else (13) ________________________________ ?
Julia: I also (14)________________________________ some friends. They (15)______________________________
me a lot of beautiful places in New York. We (16) ______________________ lobster rolls, Greek fries and
pretzels. Unfortunately, I (17)______________________________ clothes shopping.
Mark: How long (18)______________________________ your flight to New York?
Julia: It was only 2 hours and 30 minutes from here.

PRONOUNS

Exercise 3: Complete the conversations with possessive adjectives and pronouns. (5 points / 1.0 each)
1. A: Is this your bag?
B: Yes, it’s _________________
2. A: Is this Lisa’s phone?
B: No, _________________ is a smartphone.
3. A: Are these _________________ bags?
B: No, ours are blue not black.
4. A: This is not _______________ ticket. It’s hers.
B: Maybe she has ________________.

Exercise 4: Answer the questions using “belong to” and an object pronoun and a sentence with a possessive
pronoun. Both answers must be correct to get the points. (3 points / 1.0 each)
1. Whose bag is this? (Claire) It belongs to __________. It’s __________.
2. Whose ticket is this? (me) ________________________________________
3. Whose sunglasses are these? (Cristina) _________________________________________

Exercise 5: Complete the following sentences using either the simple present or the present continuous.
(8 points / 1.0 each)
1. Mary ____________________ (HATE) carrots. She has never liked them.
2. Adrian ____________________(NEED) a lot of equipment to go rock climbing and it ____________________
(COST) a lot of money.
3. Diana ____________________(LIKE) onion soup. That’s why she ____________________(EAT) it now with a smile
on her face. In my opinion, it ____________________(TASTE) and ____________________(SMELL) awful.
4. Bill ____________________(WALK) too quickly. He’s going to get tired.

Exercise 6: Read the following article and answer the questions below.

A YouTuber
Jessii Vee makes videos of herself and puts them on YouTube. Millions of people watch them. Here, she tells us about her life as a
YouTuber.

Do funny or interesting things happen to you a lot? Do you think hundreds of thousands of people will want to listen to you tell
stories about your life?
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That’s what life is like for YouTube star, Jessii Vee. More than 150 million people watch her videos of funny stories about herself,
and subscribers to her channel grow every day.

Twenty-three-year-old Jessii from Ontario, Canada, turns her life into her work, six days a week. ‘I spend all of Sunday having ideas
for videos to film that week,’ says Jessii. ‘Then, on Monday, I wake up early to start making the videos. Usually, a video takes just
over an hour to make. I try to make around five, so it takes most of my day. Then, from Tuesday to Friday, I edit them.’

Jessii also spends a few hours a week writing to her fans. Sometimes she meets fans because people recognize her when she goes
out. ‘The other day I went to buy coffee,’ she says, ‘and the girl serving me almost dropped my coffee when she saw it was me. She
left the coffee shop to meet me outside to take pictures. It always makes me happy to see my fans are happy.’

Online life isn’t all good. In the past, Jessii felt bad when people said negative things about her. ‘Some people online are so quick to
write hate comments,’ she says. Some people said that she has really big cheeks and a really thin mouth. It made her feel bad until
she found a different way to think. ‘People were negative about things that I can’t change. So I decided to love those things and I
became more confident in myself. Only people who don’t feel good about themselves make hate comments.’

If you want to start a YouTube channel, there are some things to think about. One thing you might want to do is turn off the
comments. Then you won’t get any negative ones. Being safe is very important, so don’t show your face or real name and don’t tell
people where you live. One of the most famous YouTubers, DanTDM, a 26-year-old English man, didn’t show his face in the beginning
and now his videos have over 10 billion views (5 billion people all over the world watched the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics).

Jessii has some advice about what kind of videos to make. ‘Be yourself. Don’t change to try to make people like you. They will love
YOU! When I first started YouTube, I wanted to look good and do things in ways that people would like. In my old videos, I don’t
look comfortable because I'm not being myself. But in my videos now, you can see that I’m 100 per cent myself. I’m crazy and
strange, and I don’t care what people think.’

Jessii also says you should make your channel about something you really care about because that will inspire people. People know
when you’re not being the real you because you just want to be popular. ‘Make videos about something you love and your channel
will grow much faster, believe me!’

Nicola Prentis

Answer the following questions based on text. (5 points / 1.0 each)

1. How old is Jessii?

2. How many people saw the Beijing Olympics?

3. How many videos does Jessii make in a week?

4. How many days a week does Jessii work?

5. What should you do if you want to start a YouTube channel according to Jessii? Are the sentences true or false?

Are the sentences true or false? (5 points / 1.0 each)

1. Jessii was so surprised when a fan recognized her that she dropped her coffee. T F
2. When Jessii got hate comments, she changed the way she looks. T F
3. It’s better to stop comments on your videos if you’re a YouTube beginner. T F
4. If you want to be a big YouTube star, people need to see your face in your videos. T F
5. She says you should make videos you think other people will like. T F
Bibliography: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org
NGL.Cengage.com/ELT
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