ENGLISH TEST

The purpose of this Paper is to establish your level of competence in English in order to enable us to place you in an appropriate group.  It is therefore important that you work on your own and without a dictionary.  Stop when you find the Paper becoming too difficult.  The Paper should not take you more than 30 minutes to answer.
 

PERSONAL DETAILS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTACT DETAILS

 

Family Name

Home Telephone

First Name

Mobile No

Date of Birth

Fax No

Sex (Male/Female)

Other Nos

Nationality

e-mail address

Have you ever studied English before?  When and for how long?


Which course are you interested in and for how many weeks?


For Special English courses only :  Specify topic indicating area of interest:


  1. Fill in the blanks:

    1. Excuse me, is your name?

    2. Daniela and  sister Jane are learning English

    3. They go to school nine o’clock.

    4. There     some water in the bottle.

    5. There     a lot of students in our school.

    6. Is there  food left?

    7. What colour  your eyes?

    8. My teacher lives Britain.

    9. Mary and Joan live 13, Regent Street, London.

    10. Do you have any pets? No, I       .
  1. Example:         Bad      good

1.always

2. worse

3. bitter

4. near

5. short

6. wet

7. less

8. easy

9. awake

10. high

  1. Example:         I sing    I don’t sing

    1. John went                                              John    

    2. Louise has jumped                                 She     

    3. Tom dances                                          Tom    

    4. I will eat                                                I          

    5. Paul had to pay a fine                             Paul     

 

  1. Example: big , bigger, biggest
    small
    bright
    good
    beautiful

  1. Fill in the correct preposition:
    1. The class worked out all of the exercises the book. (in, with, after, for)
    1. The teacher asked the class to do the exercise the bottom of page 2. (on, at, in, to)
    1. I was always very good  English at school. (in, at, with, on)
    1. I have been waiting  over an hour. (to, on, for, after)
    1. There was a lot of noise  the performance. (during, by, under, with)
    1. We have been studying  4 o’clock. (since, during, under, after)
  1. Fill in one of the following: had, being, be, has, to be, having, been, have, to have, has
    1. He is  his breakfast at the moment.

    2. I would like some money in the bank.

    3. My sister  quite a few friends.

    4. Have you anything to eat since breakfast?

    5. I think people should more holidays.

    6. The old man is  taken to hospital.

    7. I will  back home tomorrow morning.

    8. Have you ever  to Britain?

    9. She would like more beautiful.

    10. Sandra  more money than she needs.

 

  1. Put in the correct missing word(s):
    1. My mother normally to France in summer. (goes, is going)
    2. She  the housework at the moment. (does, is doing)
    3. They lived in Spain since 1982. (have, having, are, do)
    4. If I  a million dollars I would be very rich. (find, found, finding, will find)
    5. If you’re not feeling well you stay at home. (would, have, should)

 

  1. Make questions for these answers using where, when, what and how.

Example:         Q. When did you arrive?

  1. I arrived yesterday.
    1. Q:

A: I start work at 8 o’clock

    1. Q:

A: She went hone on foot

    1. Q:

A: I’ll be staying for a night

    1. Q:

A: The price of the ticket is nearly Lm3.00.

    1. Q:

A: John and Mary go to the pictures every Sunday.

  1. Read the text below. Try to fill in the missing words. There are six prepositions and four words that are forms of the verb be.

 

(1)  July and August, there (2)  forest fires all (3)  the Cote d’Azur and the French now use water bombers, specially adapted flying boats which take sea water (4)  the Mediterranean and drop it (5)  the blazing hillsides. Afterwards, rescue workers go out to see if anyone has (6)  killed in the fires. On one occasion, searching        (7)  the ashes and picnic baskets in the forest, they came across the body of an Englishman. The coroner reported that he had fallen (8)  a great height before he (9) burnt. The report also noted that he (10) wearing trunks, a mask and pair of fins.

  1. Answer fully in about 80 – 100 words:

Why did you choose to come to Malta? How did you get to know about the Academy?