Writing – revise the Writing sections in English File B1/B1+, pages 115-124
Grammar
Present and Future tenses
https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_present_progressive2.htm
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-present-continuous-1.html
https://www.english-4u.de/en/tenses-exercises/present-simple-progressive2.htm
http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/2g21-present-continuous-simple-for-future.php
http://www.autoenglish.org/tenses/presentcontinuousgoingto.pdf
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/future-1-will/exercises
https://www.e-grammar.org/be-going-to/
https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/going_to_will_prediction.htm
https://www.englishgrammar.org/grammar-exercise-7/
https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-96373.php
http://www.better-english.com/vocabulary/offerssuggestions.htm
Past Simple or Present Perfect?
https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_past_present_perfect.htm
https://www.english-4u.de/en/tenses-exercises/perfect-past-simple.htm
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-present-perfect-1.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-present-perfect-2.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-present-perfect-3.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-present-perfect-4.html
https://agendaweb.org/verbs/present-perfect-simple-past-simple-exercises.html
https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/int/grammar/grammar_04_012e?cc=it&selLanguage=it
https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_presentperfect_pastsimple.htm
Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous?
rules: https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepersim-preperpro
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-perfect-present-perfect-continuous-1.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-perfect-present-perfect-continuous-2.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-perfect-present-perfect-continuous-3.html
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepersim-preperpro/exercises
https://www.e-grammar.org/present-perfect-simple-continuous/test1-exercise5/
Comparative and Superlative
https://agendaweb.org/grammar/comparative-superlative-exercises.html (1-12)
https://agendaweb.org/grammar/comparison-intermediate-level-exercises.html (1-4 and 6)
https://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-grammar-comparatives-superlatives.php
https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/preint/grammar/grammar_04_012e?cc=it&selLanguage=it
https://www.english-in-chester.co.uk/e-learning/lesson/superlatives-comparatives/
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/adjectives-adverbs/adjectives/exercises
https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-48433.php
Second comparative / as.....as
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/adjectives-adverbs/adjectives/exercises?02
https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/adjectives_adverbs/adjectives_comparison_as_as.htm
http://s.mound.free.fr/skyblues67/comparing/trig&family3.htm
https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/116_01.htm
as or like
https://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/257.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/as-and-like-exercise-1.html
http://www.autoenglish.org/gr.as.i.htm
articles, a/an, the, no article
https://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/english-article-no-article1.html
https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/a1/a-an-the-no-article/
https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/a1/a-an-the-no-article/2/
https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/a1/a-an-the-no-article/3/
https://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/mixed-english-articles1.html
https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-7871.php
https://agendaweb.org/grammar/articles-a-an-the-exercises.html all
https://agendaweb.org/grammar/articles-a-an-exercises.html (1-8)
must, have to, don't have to, mustn't, should
https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/elementary/grammar/grammar_03_022e?cc=it&selLanguage=it
https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_have_to.htm
https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_ShouldOught.htm
and then all the pages listed here
https://agendaweb.org/verbs/modals-must-have-to-exercises.html
https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/a2/have-to-dont-have-to-must-mustnt/
should
https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/a2/should-shouldnt/
https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/elementary/grammar/grammar_05_022e?cc=it&selLanguage=it
http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/Should1B.html
can / able to
https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/can-could-be-able
https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/can-could-be-able-to/
https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/3g1-can-be-able.php
https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-5491.php
and for general revision:
https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/tenses_index.htm
Narrative tenses
https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/narrative-tenses/
https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/narrative-tenses/2/
https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1-b2/narrative-tenses/3/
https://elt.oup.com/student/result/engupp/a_grammar/unit02/2c?cc=it&selLanguage=it
https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_01.htm
https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_02.htm
https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_04.htm
https://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_05.htm
present and past habits and states
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/used-to-exercise-1.html
https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-17482.php
https://agendaweb.org/verbs/to-be-used-to.html All the pages!
https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/used-to-be-used-to-get-used-to
Passive
https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_simple_passives.htm
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive
https://agendaweb.org/verbs/passive-worksheets-lessons
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?05
Modal verbs
https://elt.oup.com/student/result/engint/a_grammar/unit07/7c_1?cc=it&selLanguage=it
https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-10201.php
http://usefulenglish.ru/grammar/modal-verbs-exercise-five
http://www.autoenglish.org/gr.may3.i.htm
First conditional and future time clauses
https://www.e-grammar.org/time-clauses/test1-exercise1
https://agendaweb.org/verbs/conditional-first-exercises.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/first-conditional-exercise-1.html /
https://lfatuzzo.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/future_time_clauses.pdf
https://elt.oup.com/student/project/level4/unit06/grammar/exercise2?cc=it&selLanguage=it
https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=11992
https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-13727.php
https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_First_Conditional.htm
Second conditional sentences, choosing between first and second conditional
https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_second_conditional.htm
http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/3g18-first-second-conditional-exercise.php
https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/first-and-second-conditionals/
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/conditional-sentences-2
https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/first-versus-second-conditional
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/second-conditional-exercise-1.html
https://agendaweb.org/verbs/conditional-second-exercises.html
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences/type-2/exercises?02
Gerunds and Infinitves
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/infinitive-gerund/exercises?20 https://www.engvid.com/english-resource/verbs-followed-by-gerunds-and-infinitives/
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-exercise-1.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-exercise-2.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-exercise-3.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-exercise-4.html
https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/part_1.htm
https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_1.htm
https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_2.htm
https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_3.htm
https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_4.htm
https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_5.htm
https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_6.htm
https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_7.htm
https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_8.htm
https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_9.htm
https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_10.htm
https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_21.htm
Reported Speech
https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/reported.htm
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-12.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-10.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-9.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-11.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-8.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-1.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/say-or-tell-exercise-1.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-7.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-6.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-2.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-3.htmlù
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-4.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-5.html
https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_reported_speech.htm
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech/exercises?10
Third Conditional
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/third-conditional-exercise-1.html
http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/4g8-third-conditional-exercise.php https://agendaweb.org/verbs/conditional-third-exercises.html
https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/mixed_conditionals.htm
https://agendaweb.org/verbs/conditional-third-exercises.html
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences/type-3/exercises?02
Gapped text (cloze) with multiple choice options:
https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/preliminaryenglish/reading/pet_reading_practise_test_part_5.htm
text just with gaps (open cloze):
https://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_reading_part5.htm
https://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_for_schools_reading_part5.htm
https://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_reading_part5_test2.htm
https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/open-cloze/oc019-new-york.htm
https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/open-cloze/oc004-moving-house.htm
https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/open-cloze/oc003-gap-year.htm
https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/open-cloze/oc023-visitors-from-space.htm
https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/open-cloze/oc022-brighton.htm
and other texts at intermediate level by clicking on the links on this page:
https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/open-cloze/open-cloze-index.htm
click on the PDFs:
http://www.autoenglish.org/PET/PETReadingPart5.htm
Practice with error correction sentences
the exercise on this page and then the exercises on the other pages through the links near the beginning of the page:
https://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/97.html
https://s3.amazonaws.com/Giflinguaresources/mistakes.pdf
https://www.englishjet.com/english_courses_files/test_intermediate.asp
https://www.learnclick.com/cloze/show/771
see all the links here:
https://www.englishforeveryone.org/Topics/Sentence-Correction.htm
Then this:
Error identification – Extra practice exercises. Decide which part of the sentence is grammatically incorrect. Then look at the answers below.
1. I enjoyed study geography at school and now I’ve enrolled at the Economics Faculty.
2. I used to be keen of all scientific subjects but now I would prefer to study art.
3. I want meet your sister when she comes to see you – she sounds very nice.
4. My friends tell the English exam is quite difficult but I’m not worried.
5. The tickets, which are extremely good value, can be buy from large supermarkets.
6. The number of people which asked for the discount was low but grew during the summer period.
7. He wanted always to be a doctor and after doing medicine he now works in a hospital.
8. The informations they gave us was not very helpful so I consulted the website instead.
9. There isn’t many time, do you think we should get a taxi to the exhibition centre?
10. He graduated in languages in June and is now thinking of do a second degree in psychology.
11. The policeman showed us an identikit picture of the man who steal the car.
12. How long does it take to get the station on foot from your house
13. I was so angry that I took the watch broken to the jewellers to get my money back.
14. He rang me this morning for tell me that he had passed his driving test.
15. I won’t be able to go on holiday this year unless I will get a part-time job.
16. It was so nice day that they decided to have a picnic in the field.
17. I haven’t never seen anybody who rides a horse so well before.
18. My boyfriend always takes me to see horror films, but I don’t like very much.
19. We went to Guatemala last year so we were tired of the usual beach holiday.
20. I’ve gone to Marbella. I remember it well. A busy town with a nice modern promenade and picturesque ‘piazze’.
ANSWERS WITH EXPLANATIONS
1. I enjoyed studying (‘enjoy’ + ing)
2. keen on (keen + on = essere appassionato di)
3. want to (‘want’+ to + verb)
4. tell me (‘tell’ + person (me/you/him/her etc); nb. ‘say’non è seguito dalla persona)
5. can be bought (to be + past participle = passive)
6. who (relative pronoun ‘who’ = people)
7. always wanted (frequency adverb goes before the main verb)
8. the informations (information = uncountable noun)
9. much time (‘much’ with uncountable nouns, ‘many’ with countable nouns)
10. doing (‘ing’after a preposition)
11. stole (past tense of steal = steal stole stolen)
12. get to (preposition necessary; get to /go to /come to the station, BUT. arrive at/ reach the station)
13. broken watch (adjective before noun)
14. to tell me (to+base form = per/a scopo di)
15. unless I will get (1° conditional = if/unless/when + present)
16. such a (such a + noun; so + adjective)
17. I haven’t never (double negative)
18. l don’t like them (‘like’ + direct object)
19. as (as = siccome; so = quindi)
20. I’ve been to Madrid (use ‘been’ not ‘gone’ se sei stato e tornato)
