Planning the School Fair

Study the questions and tasks

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Practice level

A2. Try this level if you can follow the instructions and understand most of the language; choose an earlier level if you need more support.

Question formats

Single choice, Multiple choice, Fill in the blank (text), Fill in the blank (dropdown), Cloze (text), Cloze (dropdown), Matching, Error correction, Sentence transformation, Sentence reordering

How to approach this practice

Read the complete context. Check both the meaning and the grammar, including word forms, collocations and links between sentences.

1. Question 1 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Choose the best completion. We are putting … posters on the classroom walls to tell people about the school fair.

   1. away
   2. off
   3. out
   4. up
   Check answers and explanations

   Answer

   up

   Put up posters means display them.

2. Question 2 · Multiple choice

   Choose all the correct answers.

   Choose TWO correct statements based on the information given. You offer to help carry some tables.

   1. Shall I to help you carry the tables?
   2. Would you like me to help carry the tables?
   3. Would you like that I help carry the tables?
   4. Shall I help you carry the tables?
   Check answers and explanations

   Answer

   Would you like me to help carry the tables?; Shall I help you carry the tables?

   Shall I plus base verb and would you like me to are correct offer patterns.

3. Question 3 · Fill in the blank (text)

   Complete each blank with the missing word or phrase.

   Use the past simple of bring. Ahmed ___ some old books for the school stall.

   Check answers and explanations

   Blank 1

   brought

   Brought is the past-simple form of bring.

4. Question 4 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   The fair is ___ Saturday afternoon, from two until five.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. in
   2. on
   3. at
   4. to
   Check answers and explanations

   Blank 1

   on

   Use on for a specific day or part of that day.

5. Question 5 · Cloze (text)

   Complete each blank with the missing word or phrase.

   Use the present simple. Our fair 1___ (start) at two, and the music 2___ (finish) at half past four.

   Check answers and explanations

   Blank 1

   starts

   Blank 2

   finishes

   The singular subjects fair and music take starts and finishes.

6. Question 6 · Cloze (dropdown)

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   We need 1___ chairs for the visitors. Please arrive early 2___ help us put them out.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. an
   2. some
   3. a
   4. much

   Choices for blank 2

   1. to
   2. because
   3. for
   4. so
   Check answers and explanations

   Blank 1

   some

   Blank 2

   to

   Chairs takes some; to plus verb expresses purpose.

7. Question 7 · Matching

   Match each item to the correct choice.

   Match each beginning to its only suitable ending. Asking about fair activities.

   Answer choices

   • The parents in Class 4.
   • At the school office.
   • About twenty minutes.

   Items

   • Where can I buy a ticket?
   • How long is the puppet show?
   • Who is making the cakes?
   Check answers and explanations

   1. Where can I buy a ticket?

   At the school office.

   2. How long is the puppet show?

   About twenty minutes.

   3. Who is making the cakes?

   The parents in Class 4.

   The answers provide a location, a duration and the people responsible.

8. Question 8 · Error correction

   Rewrite the sentence, correcting the grammatical error.

   Correct the one language error. Write the complete corrected sentence. There will be many fun game at the fair.

   Check answers and explanations

   Accepted answers

   There will be many fun games at the fair.

   Many requires a plural countable noun.

9. Question 9 · Sentence transformation

   Rewrite or complete the second sentence as instructed, keeping the same meaning unless the task asks you to change it.

   Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first. Use the word help without changing it. Please help us carry the chairs. Could ___ us carry the chairs, please?

   Check answers and explanations

   Accepted answers

   you help

   Could you help is a polite request.

10. Question 10 · Sentence reordering

    Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

    Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

    Sentence parts

    • The children
    • are going to sell
    • at the school fair.
    • their old toys
    Check answers and explanations

    Correct order

    The children are going to sell their old toys at the school fair.

    The planned future action uses are going to sell before its object.

What to review next

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