Revision worksheet

2ND BACHILLERATO REVISION WORKSHEET 1. Change the following phrases into reported speech: a) The police officer to us: ‘Where are you going?’ b) John to Mary: ‘I have stayed here the whole day’ c) The mother to her son:‘Stay in your room the whole night!’ d) My friend to me: ‘Why did you apply for the job?’ e) Mary to John: ‘I will be back tonight’. f) The thief to the victim: ‘Don’t move!’ g) The child to the father: ‘Can you lend me some money?’ h) The mother to her son: ‘Are you glad to be back?’

2. Join the sentences using a relative pronoun: Defining: a) Where are the people? They promised to visit you. b) I met a man. His sister knows you. c) Ann brought a dress. This dress doesn’t fit her very well. d) This is the station. You can get the train to Madrid there. e) I’m sure I know the man. Sue is talking to him.

Non-defining: a) My car has finally been sold. It has been causing me many problems. b) She is a good pianist. Her father is a composer. c) Madrid is the capital of Spain. It is in the centre of the country. d) William has been released from hospital. He recently broke his leg.

3. Complete the conditionals: a) If I _______________(be)you, I _______________ (stop) telling lies. b) We _______________ (finish) our work much sooner if you _______________ (help) us. Why didn’t you? c) There _______________ (be) fewer accidents if people _______________ (drive) more carefully, but no one seems to care. d) If you _______________ (listen) more carefully, you _______________ (learn) something. e) I _______________ (eat) more if I _______________ (be) hungry. f) I _______________ (tell) her if she _______________ (ask) me.

4. Put the sentences into the passive voice: 1) Somebody built this house in 1930.

2) This company employs two hundred people.

3) They stole a lot of money in the robbery.

4) They will clean the room later.

5) Somebody was cleaning the room when I arrived.

6) Somebody is using the computer at the moment.

7) They have sent the letter to a wrong address.

8) They have built a new hospital near the airport.

9) The police would stop the car immediately.

10)They should have known the problem one week before.

5. Make two possible sentences into the passive: 1) We gave the police the information.

2) They offered me the job but I refused it.

3) We are going to give you plenty of time to decide.

4) Somebody would have paid the men 200€ for the job.

5) He will tell the children the story next week.

6. Rewrite the sentences so that the sentence below means exactly the same as the sentence above.

1) Somebody washes his car every Friday.

Joe ________________________________________ 2) The secretary typed Andrew’s mails.

Andrew _____________________________________ 3) A company will organise our party next month.

Our party __________________________________ 4) Somebody is delivering a pizza to our home in half an hour.

We _________________________________________ 5) The painter is going to paint my walls tomorrow.

I __________________________________________