Level 2 NEF Pre- Intermediate, Files 1 and 2 Exercises1

Sentence Transformations Rewrite the sentences, using the beginning given. The meaning of the original sentence must not change.

1. Tom’s father gave him permission to go camping with his friends.Tom’s father let …him go camping with his friends.

2. Joanne went to a seafood restaurant on her own.Joanne went to a seafood restaurant by …. herself.

3. I went to New York on holiday for 8 days.I had a/n…. 8-day holiday in New York.

4. Gabriela argued with her husband, and her husband argued with her.Gabriela and her husband … argued with each other.

5. I have to have a mobile phone.I can’t live… without a mobile phone.

6. Susan has a good relationship with everyone in her family.

Susan gets … on (well) with everyone in her family.

7. Why are you visiting the UK?What’s the purpose… of your visit to the U.K.?

8. John finds Rowan Atkinson very funny.Rowan Atkinson makes…John laugh.

9. That’s the student. His composition was really good.That’s the student… whose composition was really good.

10.Kurt Cobain and Antonio Flores committed suicide.Kurt Cobain and Antonio Flores killed … themselves.

Read the following text and fill in the spaces with ONE word only.

I was working for an international advertising agency at the time and I was on holiday (1) in

New York. While I was looking/waiting (2) for a cab to get to the company meeting, a tall dark

man went past and looked at me. When he heard (3) me speaking to my boss on (4) the phone

in Spanish, he stopped and came up to (5) me. “You’re Spanish,” he said. We started/began

(6) talking and, to our surprise, we found out (7) that we were from the same (8) city in the

north of Spain. While I was in New York, we went out every evening after work. Just imagine! I

went on a 3,000- kilometre (9) trip to fall in love (10) with the boy next door.