Learn English Writing, Quiz 1

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Intermediate English writing students can prepare for quiz 1 by reviewing and answering these questions.

The quiz will use some of the questions, not all of them. The questions on the quiz will be random so I suggest you study all of these questions.

Quiz # 1 Questions – Study Guide (pdf file)

Part 1. Vocabulary. Write a few words to show the meaning of each word or phrase:

  • ailment    attitude    belief    bundle
  • celebrate    coincidence    courage    creative
  • emerge    emotions    endurance    luck
  • misfortune    omit    persist    psychologist
  • shovel    stimulating    subconsciously    superstition
  • symbolize    thesis statement    traditional

 

Part 2. Synonyms. Write a synonym for each word or phrase.

  • Around    Proposed    Effect    Cheap
  • Discount    Quantity of    Consumers    Decade
  • To rise    Cool    To switch    Wife

 

Part 3. Paragraph Editing. Find the mistakes (mostly punctuation and spelling; about 10 mistakes per paragraph) and rewrite the paragraph.

Paragraph A

Do you know wear the longest rode on Earth can be found. The Pan-American Highway begins in Alaska. It passes through Canada United States and Mexico. Than it continues down the west coast of South America all the way to the Chile. Altogether, the highway passes through 12 countrys. It passes through jungles and mountains the road is about 16,000 miles long.

Paragraph B

Are you familiar with the work of marie curie. Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Curie was a Chemist and physicist. She and her husband Pierre won the Nobel Prize in 1903 for there discovery of the element radium. In 1911, Marie becomes the first person to win the nobel Prize twice she won the second award for her study of radioactivity. Marie died in 1934 from cancer cause by her contact with radiation.

 

Part 4. Sentence Patterns. Look at the pictures. Write three sentences (not a story or paragraph) for each picture:

  1. one sentence with a prepositional phrase;
  2. one with an appositive;
  3. one sentence with a dependent clause and independent clause.

One of the pictures will be used for the quiz. You can see the pictures in the pdf file.