Basic classroom tests OEGCB test21

• TEST 21 • prepositions Level Oxford English Grammar Course Basic Name  ● Time Put in by or until In my country you can’t drive you’re 18 I’m working here the end of the month You must come home o’clock as we’re eating at The front door of the hotel is unlocked midnight Then you have to ring the bell to get in She isn’t starting school next September You must leave your hotel room 11 o’clock ● Time Put in for, during or while Please don’t talk the film Please don’t make a noise I’m asleep Can you wait five minutes? I’ve only known Sue and Joe a short time, but I really like them I saw the Eiffel Tower I was on holiday in Paris Eddie is going to work in a café the summer Grandma usually sleeps an hour the afternoon ● Place Put in at, in or on It’s very cold my bedroom I’m standing the bus stop Can you see me? I didn’t see Mary work Is she ill? The clock the kitchen wall is showing the wrong time Something very sad happens the end of the film I got the bus and sat down The answer is page 140 Look the top of the page Do you think this dress looks good me? I couldn’t find any paper my pockets so I wrote her phone number my hand ● Place Choose the correct prepositions  on ▲ the table (above, behind, on) There were lots of plates I don’t drive, so I’d like to live in a flat a bus stop (against, near, under) The teacher stood Marianne and looked at the answers she was writing (above, against, behind) This bed is too big to go in the middle of the room - let’s put it the wall (against, behind, under) It was raining, so we sat a tree (behind, near, under) My flat is very noisy because I live a railway station (above, by, between) ‘Where’s the supermarket?’ ‘It’s the bank and the café.’ (above, against, between) She lives in a small flat a restaurant (above, against, between) You can park in the car park the school (against, behind, between) I’ll be waiting for you the ticket office Don’t be late! (against, by, under) 10 I think my keys are the armchair Can we move it? (between, by, under)  ➔ Oxford English Grammar Course • Basic   TEST 21 • prepositions  © Michael Swan and Catherine Walter  PHOTOCOPIABLE ▲   out of his house and got  into his car (across, into, out of, off, round) He walked Mary got the taxi and walked the bank (along, off, out of, into, up) 2 You can’t cross the road here Go the steps and walk the bridge (down, over, up, through) 3 Go the railway bridge, then turn left New Street The supermarket is on your right (from, into, off, round, under) The dog ran the hill, jumped the water and swam the river (across, along, down, into, through) 5 As soon as we arrived in London, we got the train and walked the main entrance the station (off, out of, round, past, through) 6 We were going too fast, so we drove the cinema and went the corner into Gordon Street How we get back to the cinema from here? (across, along, past, round, under) ● Mixed structures Put in for, from, to, at, in, off, on, through or under I often go to Paris  at the weekend It takes two hours and fifteen minutes to get London Paris by train If you leave London o’clock the morning, you will arrive Paris 12.20 (This includes a one-hour time-difference between the United Kingdom and France.) You get the Eurostar train at St Pancras Station, which is central London The train goes very fast and travels the tunnel that goes 10 the Channel 11 only 12 13 thirty minutes The train arrives the Gare du Nord, which is a big station the city centre When you get 14 the train, you can have lunch 15 one of the restaurants near the station 16 there, it’s easy to get 17 the métro (subway) You can be at the Louvre, the Champs Elysées, or the Eiffel Tower 18 less than thirty minutes 19 winter, the last 20 train leaves Paris 9.15 p.m., so there’s lots of time for shopping and eating! ● Mixed structures Put in suitable prepositions (More than one may be possible.) ▲  at/near Oxford Station? Does this bus stop I couldn’t see the screen at the cinema because the person me was very tall I put a chair the door to stop it from opening Let’s meet the main entrance It’s the one with a big clock the door I don’t like walking the park at night I never have coffee night, but I drink three or four cups the day 6 It isn’t far to the bank You need to drive this road ten minutes and you’ll see it your left 7 Wait the traffic lights turn green Then drive the post office and park the car next to the café I stood Julie and the man who was shouting at her ‘Leave her alone!’, I said I’m arriving the 15.30 flight from Berlin I’ll phone you as soon as I get the plane 10 ‘I’m in a hurry Can we leave o’clock?’  ‘OK, I’ll be ready five minutes.’ ● Mixed structures: All these sentences are wrong Correct them  to ▲ I have to get in the station by o’clock or I’ll miss my train.  Are you playing football in the park on the weekend?  There’s an engagement ring on my finger because Greg and I got engaged on last Tuesday.  I can talk to you in half an hour; meet me to the café behind the library.  Go into the door on your right; Mr Brown’s office is at the top of the stairs on the second floor.  You need to get out of the pool now as it closes by o’clock on Saturdays.  I got off of the train at the wrong stop and had to wait for an hour on the platform.  Take those plates off from the table and put them on the shelf above the fridge.  / 75 Oxford English Grammar Course • Basic   TEST 21 • prepositions  © Michael Swan and Catherine Walter  PHOTOCOPIABLE Level ● Movement Choose the correct prepositions and put them in the correct places  ... from the table and put them on the shelf above the fridge.  / 75 Oxford English Grammar Course • Basic   TEST 21 • prepositions  © Michael Swan and Catherine Walter  PHOTOCOPIABLE Level ● Movement