Anglia Pre-Intermediate

• Eng
• Middelbare school
• vmbo b, k, g
• Leerjaar 2

Anglia Pre-Intermediate

9 sections

W1: Composition

W2: Message

W3: Change the sentences 

W4: Word order

R1: reading

R2: multiple choice

R3: Grammar

R4: multiple choice 

R5: Prepositions

Succes criteria for a composition 

• 120 - 150 words
• A title
• An introduction: use a hook!
• Main body: 1 - 2 paragraphs 
• A conclusion
• No contractions -> do no instead of don't, I am instead of I'm
• No informal or spoken language -> no 'gonna' , 'wanna' etc.
• Check your spelling
• Check you punctuation
• Check use of capital letters 

Narrative (vertellend) 

Possible titles:

1. Write a story which begins with …
   
2. Write a story which ends with …
   
3. The best / worst / day / week / year / holiday of my life.
4. The robbery.
5. The accident.

Useful tenses:

• The present perfect
• ‘used to’
• The past continuous

Your writing has to be structured. There must be a beginning, a middle part and an ending in your composition. 

You can use words like these:

• First, after that, finally

• One day, the next day, a week later

• One morning, suddenly, then, that afternoon, in the evening

Imaginative composition (fantasie)

Possible titles:

1. A day in the life of an animal such as cat / bird / crocodile.
2. A day in the life of a film star / sports personality.
3. A day in the life of a prisoner / teacher.
4. An amazing day.
5. A bad day.

Useful tenses:

• if + would

• Present Simple of Past Simple

Descriptive Composition (beschrijvend)

Possible titles:

1. My favourite food / summer activity / television programme
2. The most useful thing I own.
3. The most interesting place I have ever visited. 
4. My country.
5. A local / national festival.

Useful tenses:

• The Present Simple

• There is/there are

• Has got/hasn’t got en have got/haven’t got

• Adjectives zoals nice, friendly, pretty, bit, tall, blue, clever, scary, etc.

• Trappen van vergelijking, taller than, the best, etc

• Prepositions of place, bv. Near, next to, behind

• Adverbs zoals quietly, slowly, a lot

• Voegwoorden als and, but, because

As a writer of a descriptive composition you need to know the difference between a fact and an opinion.

Beginning

• What is being described

• Basic facts about it

Middle

• Your opinion: say why you like or dislike something and what you like or dislike about it.

• Something especially interesting about it.

End

• A summary of what you wrote about, bv. To sum up, my favourite television programme is … because ….

Grammar 

Conditionals

2nd Conditional

First, we can use it to talk about things in the future that are probably not going to be true. Maybe I'm imagining some dream for example.

If I won the lottery, I would buy a big house.

If I met the Queen of England, I would say hello.

She would travel all over the world if she were rich.

Second, we can use it to talk about something in the present which is impossible, because it's not true. 

 Have a look at the examples:

If I had his number, I would call him. 

If I were you, I wouldn't go out with that man.

1st Conditional

How is this different from the first conditional?

Tee second conditional is different from the first conditional because the first conditional is more likely to happen and the second is a lot more unlikely.

For example (second conditional): If I had enough money I would buy a house with twenty bedrooms and a swimming pool (I'm probably not going to have this much money, it's just a dream, not very real)

But (first conditional): If I have enough money, I'll buy some new shoes (It's much more likely that I'll have enough money to buy some shoes)

1st Conditional

if + present simple / will + present simple

If the weather is good tomorrow, I will go to the beach.

2nd Conditional

if + past simple / would + present simple

If I won the lottery, I would buy a house.

If you _______ well tonight, you will not be tired tomorrow.

1. sleep
2. will sleep
3. slept
4. would sleep

If I were you, I _______ an umbrella.

1. will take
2. would take
3. take
4. took

If you heat up water to 100 degrees celcius, it ________ .

1. will boil
2. would boil
3. boils
4. would have boiled

If Dad drove me to school, I _______ late.

1. won't be
2. be
3. wasn't
4. wouldn't be

If I were taller, I ... (try) to join the basketball team.

They will go to the cinema if they ... (like) the film.

Gayle won't help if you ... ( do not ask) her.

Anglia study guide 2

Exercise 5 & 6

It's learning see powerpoint Preparation Anglia Pre intermediate

Slide 80 -84

The cat bites the man.

The man is bitten (by the cat)

We often use the passive

when we prefer not to mention who or what does the action (for example, it's not known, it's obvious or we don't want to say) so that we can start a sentence with the most important or most logical information

in more formal or scientific writing.

I read a book

A book was read 

How we make the passive

We make the passive using the verb be + past participle. We start the sentence with the object.

Avatar was directed by James Cameron.

↓ ↓ ↓

Object + be + past participle

It is not always necessary to add who or what did the action.

My flight is cancelled.

↓ ↓ ↓

Object + be + past participle

Tense Example Structure

Present simple 

Alioli is made from oil, garlic and salt. --> is/are + past participle

Past simple

John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. --> was/were + past participle

We use the passive voice to change the focus of the sentence.

My bike was stolen. (passive – focus on my bike)

Someone stole my bike. (active – focus on someone)

Only the form of be changes to make the tense. The past participle stays the same. Here are examples of the passive in its most common tenses.

Present Simple 

Active voice: She makes a cake

Passive voice: A cake is made (by her)

Active voice: The teacher tells a story

Passive voice: A story is told (by the teacher)

Past Simple

Active voice: She made a cake

Passive voice: A cake was made (by her)

Active voice: The teacher told a story

Passive voice: A story was told (by the teacher)

What is the subject in this sentence?

The lion bit the man.

(Onderwerp)

The lion bit the man.

What is the object in this sentence?

(Leidend voorwerp)

The lion bit the man.

How to recognize a passive sentence...

- check if there is a form of 'to be' used (am, are, is, was, were, been)

- is it followed by a participle (voltooid deelwoord)?

- is it followed by 'by + noun or pronoun? If not, can it be followed by 'by zombies'?

Are all answers 'yes'? Congratulations, you have a passive sentence.

Passive exercises

Decide whether the sentence is active or passive.

The Government discussed a new road near my house.

1. passive
2. active

She read the newspaper yesterday

1. passive
2. active

These cars are produced in Japan.

1. passive
2. active

Boys like to play soccer.

1. passive
2. active

Cricket is played in Australia.

1. passive
2. active

Passive exercises

Fill in the correct form of the verb.

Mr Alan ________ Geography at school.

1. teaches
2. teacher
3. were taught
4. was taught

German __________ in Austria.

1. speaks
2. is spoken
3. were spoken
4. speaketh

A lot of houses ___________ by the earthquake in 1906.

1. are destroyed
2. destroy
3. have destroyed
4. were destroyed

The bus driver ________ yesterday.

1. hurts
2. were hurt
3. was hurt
4. is hurt

Houses ________________ last year .

1. broke down
2. were broken down
3. is broken down
4. are broken down

The cleaners clean the classroom everyday 

The classroom __________________________________________________

Monja checked our Anglia exams

Our Anglia exams _______________________________________________

The students did their homework really good

The homework __________________________________________________

The father brings the children to school on his day off

The children _____________________________________________________

Anglia study guide 1

Preliminary and elementary level booklet

Make sure you undestand the tenses 

Exercise 1 - 14

It's learning see powerpoint Preparation Anglia Pre intermediate for passive 

Slide 85 - 88

See slide 7 - 26 for extra practice: tenses