Initial Assessment YEAR 2 ADVANCED

1) What’s the difference?- My neighbour is chatting over the fence.- My neighbour is always chatting over the fence.

2) Speak for 60”: A remarkable person/ place.

3) VERBSPast and past participles of freeze, fly, lay, draw, choose, fall.

4) What’s the difference?- Jay would lounge on the sofa after school.- Jay would like to lounge on the sofa after school.

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8) Speak for 60”: If you were Prime Minister, what would you do to change your country?

7) What’s the difference?- I wish Karen gave me a ring.- I wish Karen had given me a ring.

6) VERBSGerund or infinitive? admit, arrange, let, put up with, stop, remember.

5) Speak for 60”: Plans you’ve made but which never carried out.

9) What’s the difference?- Neither of them knew the answer.- None of them knew the answer.

10) What’s the difference?- I take vitamins in case I get a cold.- I take vitamins when I get a cold.

11) Pronounce these words: insurance, fraud, genetically, hurt, flood, sweat,

12) Speak for 60”: The most frightening experience ever.

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13) What’s the difference?- I usually paint my house every three years - I usually have my house painted every three years

(adapted from Isabel Bastida)

14) What’s the difference?- He meant standing up for our rights. - He meant to stand up for our rights.

15) Pronounce these words: famine, instantaneously, counterfeit, drought, rough, advertisement.