V5B

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Get out your laptop

Put away your phone

Put your bag on the floor

Enter the lesson up code 

Goal: 

I can avoid common mistakes while writing sentences

Choose the correct answer:
The report showed that overall prices are up 3.1 percent _________ 12 months.

1. since the last
2. during the last
3. in the following
4. periodically over

All the orders got _________ on schedule.

1. delivering
2. delivered
3. to deliver
4. to be deliver

My line manager wants the meeting __________ immediately.

1. arrange
2. arranged
3. to arrange
4. be arranged

Commercial builders downplayed __________ a bust in the superheated housing market.

1. concerning
2. the concern of
3. concerned that
4. concerns about

While the stock ________ the staff worked in the evenings.

1. was checked
2. check
3. has been checked
4. was being checked

The software developers __________ investigated the latest problem.

1. are just
2. have already
3. still
4. have yet

The executives pointed to immigration __________ the biggest drivers of the domestic market.

1. rather than
2. as one of
3. resulting in
4. as leading

He is excited about the new promotion and looking forward to ________ more responsibilities.

1. taking in
2. taking on
3. take on
4. getting up

Property taxes ________ about 40 percent of the overall tax revenue the state collects.

1. make
2. are at least
3. account for
4. are raised by

________ the end of year results were published, the managers got their bonuses.

1. Because
2. When
3. While
4. If

The new service was expected to be a success; __________ very few customers upgraded their accounts.

1. yet
2. just
3. although
4. moreover

Correct the mistake in each text.

The increase population, and rapid economic growth in recent years, have put a large and increasing stress on the water resources and environment in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

In 2004, a team led by the government environment ministry say that chemicals from the factory had contaminated sediment in the bay and entered the food chain.

Education should emphasize our interdependence with peoples, with other species and with the planet as a whole.

Public opinion polls have consistently demonstrated the public’s willingness for 'tradeoff' economic growth for environmental protection.

Advocacy for child war victims, children in hazardous work, abused children and those variously exploited or handicapped has attracted the attention and commitment of legislators and policy-makers through the world.

The economy is heavy dependent on industry, and economic growth has always been of greater concern than environmental preservation.

Should we really speak of the “breakdown” of families when we are perhaps witnessing new family forms and a new social structure arising late capitalism?

Most of the large industries in the country are well organised and structured and are sometimes backed up internationally reputable mother companies.

The technology, developed in coal-rich Germany in the 1920s, involves partly burning coal to turn it into a gas, then using a catalyst, usually a metal, make it a liquid.

The minimum wage bill provides for a gradual reduction of the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour over two years.

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