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Gimnasio Oxford School

Rescatando Valores con Amor y Sabiduría


English – General Review – Sixth Grade

Name: _______________________________________ Date: _______________

Topics: future continuous, present continuous, short stories, past simple and past
continuous, when and while, present simple and present continuous, prefixes and
suffixes, modal verbs, past perfect.

I. Future Continuous

The future continuous is used to describe interrupted actions in the future or actions in
progress at a specific time in the future.

1. Rewrite each sentence to make it negative.

a. We will be using the Mont Blanc tunnel on our trip.

o We won´t be using the Mont Blanc tunnel on our trip

b. You are going to be traveling in June.

o you aren't going to be traveling in June

c. Sam is going to be researching ecoducts.

o Sam isn´t going to be researching ecoducts

d. I will be learning about bridges.

o I won´t be learning about bridges

e. She will be visiting the park next week.

o She won´t de visiting thr park next week

II. Present Continuous

It is used to describe actions happening now or to describe future arrangements.

2. Complete the sentences using the present progressive.

a. You are using (use) my mobile phone!


b. My dad is washing (wash) his car.
c. It isn´t raining (not rain) today.
d. Who is she chatting to now?
e. What did you do (you / do) at the moment?
f. We are sitting (sit) on the train.
g. The students are having (have) lunch at the restaurant.
h. She is listening(listen) to music.
III. Past simple and past continuous

The past simple is used to talk about completed actions, habits and facts in the past and
the past continuous is used to express interrupted actions or specific time as an
interruption and parallel actions.

3. Complete the chart writing the past and past participle of the verbs.

Verb Past Past participle


Be Was/were been
Buy bought bought
Do did done
Make made made
Eat ate eaten
Drink drank drunk
Write wrote written
Sell sold sold

4. Complete using when or while.

a. I was reading a book when suddenly I heard a noise.


b. while Rose was cooking dinner, her husband went to work.
c. Ben was playing in a basketball team when he was a kid.
d. Sharon came home while her brother was playing video games.
e. when Angela got home, she was making some coffee.
f. They were sleeping when the burglars broke in.
g. We were having a lesson when we heard a terrible noise.
h. while I was cycling, the rain started.
i. He broke his arm while he was playing basketball.

IV. Modal verbs

Modal verbs are used to expressability, possibility, permission, request, advice or offer.

1. The steam from that geyser must be ____e__ a. Necessity /


hot. obligation

2. You have to be careful near a geyser. ____a__ b. Ability


They’re dangerous.
3. May I take a picture of the geyser? ___f___ c. Request

4. I think that could be igneous rock. I’m ___d___ d. Possibility


not sure, though.
5. Could you explain how geysers work? ___c___ e. Deduction

6. Can you tell how old these rocks are by __b____ f. Permission
looking at them?

V. Prefixes and suffixes

Prefixes are particles that go at the beginning of a word and suffixes are particles that
go at the end of words. They change meaning.
5. Change the verbs to nouns to complete the sentences.

a. Our basketball team has a great trainer (train) who helps us keep fit and win
games.
b. A surveyor (survey) is someone who measures land and makes maps.
c. The faucet is leaking. We need a plumber (plumb).
d. You can talk to a counselor (counsel) if you need some advice.
e. Who was the inventor (invent) of the telescope?
f. Picasso is an example of a famous painter (paint).

VI. Past Perfect

The past perfect is used to express actions that happened before another action in the
past.

6. Complete the sentences using the past perfect.

a. The geyser had formed (form) many centuries ago.


b. No one in our class had heard (hear) of Yellowstone National Park.
c. The volcano had not erupted (not / erupt) for many years.
d. I had not seen(not / see) a fossil until our teacher showed us one.
e. After we had learned (learn) about magma, we started studying volcanoes.
f. The geologists had found(find) a very ancient type of fossil.
g. By the time the rescue services arrived, the flooding had started(start).
h. I noticed that the ice had melted (melt) several hours before.

7. Complete the chart.


Verb Past Past participle
Wash washed washed
Clean cleaned cleaned
Try tried tried
Study studied studied
Carry carried carried
Come came come
Do did did
8. Write 5 sentences using when.
when our mom arrives is going to see it
she gets sad when her dog isn´t there
I don´t know when is the event
When is your birthday
write some sentences using when
9. Write 5 sentences using while.
she cries while her mom doesn't see her
melissa is happy while her dog is sad
giovanni is concentrate while people it´s watching he
aleja draw while in social class, and also while she is in english class.

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