ENGLISH EXERCISES 2º ESO.

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1º Label the pictures.

2º Match the definitions to the natural disasters.

1 There’s no water and the land is dry. a) volcano

2 A huge sea wave comes onto the land. b) famine

3 Hot liquid erupts from this. c) tornado

4 The land moves. Buildings sometimes fall down. d) wildfire

5 People are hungry because there isn’t any food. e) tsunami

6 Lots of rocks fall down the side of a mountain. f) flor

7 There’s a storm with rain and strong winds g) drought

8 The land is very hot and dry. The land burns. h) landslide

9 There was too much rain and now there’s water in the streets. i) earthqua

10 The wind goes round and round. It can pick up cars and houses. j) hurricane

3º Circle the correct words.

1 It was a lovely day. The sun was shining / were shining in the sky.

2 Sara and Dan was travelling / were travelling to Paris on the train.

3 Alex wasn’t listening / weren’t listening to me at all.

4 Ruby and Michael was waiting / were waiting for the rain to stop.

5 The ground was moving / were moving all around me.

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6 The boys wasn’t riding / weren’t riding their bikes.

4º Complete the questions and answers with the correct form of was and were.

1 __________ you doing your homework? No, we ______________.

2 __________ Sam driving home? Yes, he ______________.

3 __________ the twins enjoying the film? Yes, they ______________.

4 __________ it raining outside? No, it ______________.

5º Circle the correct words.

I was driving home one afternoon when a storm started. It started raining (1) hard / hardly and the
wind became very strong. I realised it was a hurricane. I couldn’t see (2) good / well so I drove my
car very (3) careful / carefully. Out of the window, I saw my friend, Nuria lying on the ground. I got
out and carried her into the car. She wasn’t hurt (4) bad / badly but she was scared. I drove (5) slow
/ slowly in the direction of my house. Eventually, we arrived

6º Choose the correct answers.

1 While we were walking home, we ____________________ an accident.

a) saw b) were seeing

2 Millie ____________________ her homework when Jack phoned her.

a) did b) was doing

3 Rosie ____________________ her bag when she heard the news.

a) dropped b) was dropping

4 I found an old coin while I ____________________ my mum with the gardening.

a) helped b) was helping

5 Jenny had an accident when she ____________________ a ladder.

a) used b) was using

6 What ____________________ when you looked into the microscope?

a) did you see b) were you seeing

7 When I first ____________________ Oliver, he was living in a small village.

a) met b) was meeting

8 Jasmine and David____________________ kind to me while I was growing up.

a) were b) were being

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9 While I was eating my breakfast, Tim ____________________.

a) arrived b) was arriving

10 We ____________________ in the countryside when it started to snow.

a) walked b) were walking

7º Read the text and choose the correct answers.

The Abominable Snowman

In 1921, the explorer Charles Howard-Bury found some unusual footprints while he was
leading an expedition up Mount Everest. He asked his local Tibetan guides to look at the
footprints. ‘Metoh-kangmi!’ they shouted, ‘Metoh-kangmi!’

Howard-Bury didn’t understand. Later the expedition returned to Darjeeling in northern India
and a journalist interviewed the guides. The journalist translated their words into the
‘abominable’ (which means ‘very horrible’) snowman.

In the countries of Tibet and Bhutan, people already believed in the ‘snowman’. They called it
‘metoh-kangmi’ or the ‘yeti’ and they told stories about meeting the ‘snowman’ while they
were hunting.

In the 1950s, western explorers went into the mountains to find an ‘abominable snowman’.
They saw strange footprints and sometimes saw an unusual-looking creature in the distance,
but they never caught one. The ‘snowman’ remains a mystery.

1 Charles Howard-Bury was the leader of the Mount Everest expedition.

T/F

2 The local guides didn’t recognise the footprints.

T/F

3 Howard-Bury invented the name ‘the abominable snowman’.

T/F

4 The ‘yeti’ is another name for the abominable snowman.

T/F

5 Expeditions in the 1950s didn’t find an ‘abominable snowman’.

T/F

8º Read the text again and choose the correct answers.

1 Howard-Bury was climbing ____ the mountain when he found the footprints.

a) up b) down

2 Howard-Bury probably ____ the Tibetan language.

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 a) spoke b) didn’t speak

3 The name ‘abominable snowman’ ____ a translation from the Tibetan language. a) was b)
wasn’t

4 Tibetans believed in the ‘abominable snowman’ ____ the 1921 expedition.

a) before b) only after

5 In the 1950s, explorers ____ saw an ‘abominable snowman’.

a) possibly b) certainly