More Grammar Review Quizzes

Some more easy grammar & vocabulary review quizzes to help you prepare your exams. Best of luck!

Conditionals and modals
Futures
Future hopes and plans
Word formation
Relative clauses
Past participles

Valentine's Gift: We'll Always Have Paris

As you know, Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14. Here's my Valentine's Gift for you: one of the best love scenes ever filmed (from the movie Casablanca).

What if Ilsa had stayed with Rick? That's what many of us hope everytime we watch this movie. But sometimes love has to transcend desire...

RICK Louis, have your man go with Mr.Laszlo and take care of his luggage.
RENAULT Certainly Rick, anything you say. Find Mr. Laszlo's luggage and put it on the plane.
ORDERLY Yes, sir. This way please.
RICK If you don't mind, you fill in the names. That will make it even more official.
RENAULT You think of everything, don't you?
RICK (quietly) And the names are Mr. and Mrs. Victor Laszlo.
ILSA But why my name, Richard?
RICK Because you're getting on that plane.
ILSA (confused) I don't understand. What about you?
RICK I'm staying here with him 'til the plane gets safely away.
ILSA No, Richard, no. What has happened to you? Last night we said --
RICK -- Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then and it all adds up to one thing. You're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.
ILSA (protesting) But Richard, no, I, I --
RICK -- You've got to listen to me. Do you have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louis?
RENAULT I'm afraid Major Strasser would insist.
ILSA You're saying this only to make me go.
RICK I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it.
ILSA No.
RICK Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.
ILSA But what about us?
RICK We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we'd lost it, until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
ILSA And I said I would never leave you.
RICK And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going you can't follow. What I've got to do you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you, kid.

Fractured Words Quiz

Are you done practising grammar? Ready for the fun stuff?

In the following quizzes the solutions (names or words belonging to a given category) have been fractured into several words of similar pronunciation. Your task is to find out the right names or words by pronouncing those fractured words into which they have been divided. For example, in the category "Astrological Signs", if the clue was "Auk Coo Airie Is", the answer would be "Aquarius". Best of luck!

Fractured Instruments
Fractured World Countries
Fractured Dictators
Fractured Disney Characters
Fractured Solo Musicians

Grammar Review Quizzes

Your first exams are around the corner and you want to be well prepared for them. These short grammar & vocabulary review quizzes will help you. Remember, we are at advanced level!

How long Verb+preposition Multiword verbs Common collocations Binomials Expressions with 'would' Uses of 'get' Prepositional phrases 1 Confusing words

Adjective and noun collocations Prepositional phrases 2 Verb and preposition agreement Phrasal verb particles Use of prepositions Expressions with 'get' 'Used to' Phrasal verbs with 'go' Verbs and prepositions

Fawlty Towers: The Kipper and the Corpse

Now you all know that running a hotel is not an easy task!

Enjoy this classic scene from The Kipper and the Corpse:
One of the guests has died in his bed during the night. Basil thinks the kippers (which should have been thrown out weeks ago) might be responsible. Basil tries to hide the kippers from the doctor; then Basil, Polly and Manuel try to hide the body in the cupboard. But things get far more complicated...


Sybil: What were you talking to him Basil, car strikes, was it? Basil: Thank you, Sybil. Dr Price:I don't understand, he's been dead for about 10 hours. Basil: Yes it's so final isn't it. Sybil: Basil! Basil: Well, wouldn't you say it was final dear, I'd say it's pretty bloody final. Dr Price: You mean to tell me you didn't realise this man was dead! Basil: Well, people don't talk that much in the morning. Look, I'm just delivering a tray, right. If the guest isn't singing "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" I don't immediately think: "Oh, there's another snuffed it in the night. Another name in the "Fawlty Towers Book of Remembrance". I mean this is a hotel, not a Burma railway!
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Basil: What are you looking at me like that for? Sybil: Basil, there's a kipper sticking out of your jumper.
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Basil: Good morning, good morning. Miss Gatsby: Oh, you're very cheerful this morning, Mr Fawlty. Basil: Yes, well one of the guests has just died.
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Basil: Oh spiffing, absolutely spiffing... Two dead, twenty- five to go!
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Basil: (to Miss Tibbs) Now I've warned you about this before! You can hide in your own cupboard but not in other people's!
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Miss Tibbs: He's dead! Basil: (to the guests) Yes, it's her husband, she hasn't got over it. He died thirty years ago.
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Miss Tibbs: In the cupboard! Basil: No more today! You've had enough!

Are you a film buff?

It's time to put your film credentials to the test with these three (very) easy film quizzes. Good luck!

European Films - Quiz 1
Can You Name These Classic Movies? - Quiz 2
Best Films of the Century - Quiz 3

How good are you at trivia?

How good are you at trivia? Find out with these four (easy) quizzes in increasing level of difficulty.

Subjects: Science, Geography, Sports and Music.

General Knowledge Quiz 1
General Knowledge Quiz 2
General Knowledge Quiz 3
General Knowledge Quiz 4

Driving Test Quiz

Four out of five motorists would fail if they had to take their driving test again, a survey has revealed. How would you fare?

Would you pass your driving test (in Great Britain)?

Monty Python Job Interview

You've sent your cover letter and CV and have been invited to a job interview. You're closer to getting your dream job! Now you ask yourself how to handle a possibly difficult interview. How should you respond to tricky questions? Check this skit by Monty Python!

PS: What's the subtitled language?

Quiz time

Quiz time again!

Try first this motivating little quiz on Future Hopes and Plans.

And now, a bit of pronunciation warm-up. Check this easy Rhyming Pairs Quiz: Part 1, Part 2.

How well do you know the punctuation rules in English?
Check your knowledge with this Punctuation quiz.

Let's finish today's practice with this Grammar & Vocabulary Test.

Good luck!