Ejercicios de inglés: relative clauses, vocabulario y expresiones con preposición

Ejercicios de inglés: expresiones, cláusulas de relativo y vocabulario

1. Expresiones con preposición

1. Have you any idea why she tried to cover up the truth?

2. Pat spoke to her teacher about the problem but wouldn’t confide in her parents.

3. Martha never understood how her son got mixed up with criminals.

4. She never takes friends back to her house: I think she’s ashamed of it.

5. We forgot to take the chairs so we ended up sitting on the floor.

6. I hadn’t seen him for years, then out of the blue, he turned up on my doorstep.

7. I gave her the wrong change by mistake and she complained.

8. I don’t know how you put up with that noise. It would drive me mad.

2. Ejercicio: adjetivos de personalidad

1. If you’re kind hearted, you’re caring and generous.

2. If you’re understanding, you should sympathize with other people’s feelings.

3. If you’re vulnerable, you’re easily hurt emotionally or physically.

4. If you’re brave, you don’t show that you are afraid when facing danger.

5. If you’re full of remorse, you feel very sorry for what you’ve done.

6. If you’re easily led, your actions are often influenced by others.

7. If you’re trustworthy, people think you’re honest and dependable.

8. If you’re open-minded, you’re happy to listen to and accept people’s ideas.

9. If you’re wise, you have experience of life and make good judgments.

10. If you’re sincere, you genuinely believe what you say.

11. If you’re reckless, you don’t care about danger and its consequences.

12. If you’re naïve, you have little experience and believe people are kind and honest when they aren’t.

3. Ejercicio: cláusulas de relativo

1. Miriam, whose mother had the operation, refused to comment.

2. Jean, who is in her mid-forties, feels better and more positive.

3. The decision, which came as a surprise to everyone, was Jean’s alone.

4. The husband, whose friends were younger, didn’t understand.

5. She spent the money which / that they had been saving.

6. Bernie was the person who / that she should have asked first.

7. The surgeon whom she phoned was the one who performed the operation.

8. People whose confidence is low shouldn’t automatically opt for cosmetic surgery.

4. Formación de palabras: sustantivos y adjetivos

5. Vocabulario de referencia

• BELL – campana
• VAGUE – vago
• BY HEART – de memoria
• ABSENT-MINDED – distraído
• BLANK – en blanco
• TONGUE – lengua
• DRUGS – drogas
• SEX EDUCATION – educación sexual
• SPENDING ON THE ARTS – gasto en las artes
• STREET CRIME – delincuencia callejera
• AID FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES – ayuda a los países en desarrollo