Workshoop

INTERMEDIATE I WORKSHOP

OBJECTIVE: The following workshop is presented in order to provide Intermediate I students with the most relevant information about grammar items that had been included during their course. It also includes some of the topics that are still to cover and will be useful to complete the level in an appropriate way.

In order to work on the exercises, students have to read and study the topics. At the end of the document you’ll find useful links for reference.

CONDITIONALS Type II.

Janine is a daydreamer. She imagines what would happen if she won the lottery. Complete the Conditional Sentences Type II.

a. If I the lottery, I a chance to hit the jackpot.

b. If I the jackpot, I rich.

c. If I rich, my life completely.

d. I a lonely island, if I a nice one.

e. If I a lonely island, I a huge house by the beach.

f. I all my friends if I a house by the beach.

g. I my friends up in my yacht if they to spend their holidays on my island.

h. We great parties if my friends to my island.

i. If we to go shopping in a big city, we a helicopter.

j. But if my friends' holidays over, I very lonely on my lonely island.

II. REPORTED SPEECH

Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note whether the sentence is a request, a statement or a question.

He said, "I like this song." → He said that he liked that song.

"Where Is your sister?" she asked me. → She asked me where my sister was.

"I don't speak Italian," she said. → She said that she didn't speak Italian.

"Say hello to Jim," they said. → They asked me to say hello to Jim.

"The film began at seven o'clock," he said. → He said that the film had begun at seven o'clock.

"Don't play on the grass, boys," she said. → She told the boys not to play on the grass.

"Where have you spent your money?" she asked him. → She asked him where he had spent his money.

"I never make mistakes," he said. → He said that he never made mistakes.

"Does she know Robert?" he wanted to know. → He wanted to know if she knew Robert.

"Don't try this at home," the stuntman told the audience. → The stuntman advised the audience not to try that at home.

III. ARTICLES

Complete the following exercise with a / an or the articles. Leave blank if no article is needed.

According to National Weather Service, cyclones are areas of circulating winds that rotate counterclockwise in Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in Southern Hemisphere. They are generally accompanied by some kind of precipitation and by stormy weather. tornadoes and hurricanes are types of cyclones, as are typhoons, which are storms that occur in western Pacific Ocean. hurricane is cyclone that forms over tropical oceans and seas and has winds of at least seventy-four miles hour. hurricane rotates in shape of oval or circle. hurricanes

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