Grade 7 English – LISTENING AND SPEAKING:CONSERVATION SKILLS Quiz
1. Choose the correct verb to complete the sentence: Many students ____ worried about peer pressure to try drugs.
The subject 'Many students' is plural, so the plural verb 'are' is required for subject-verb agreement.
2. Choose the correct pronoun: The teacher spoke to the pupil and asked if ____ understood the dangers of substance abuse.
'He' is the correct subject pronoun to follow 'if' in this reported question; 'him' is an object, 'his' is possessive, and 'they' would change the number.
3. Choose the correct tense: Yesterday the counsellor ____ a talk about the effects of alcohol on health.
The time marker 'Yesterday' requires the simple past tense 'gave' to show a completed action in the past.
4. Choose the correct modal verb for advice: If your friend is thinking of trying drugs, you ____ tell a trusted adult.
'Should' is the appropriate modal for giving advice or recommendation; it shows what is sensible to do.
5. Turn to passive voice: People in the community organise campaigns against substance abuse. -> Campaigns ____ by people in the community.
The active present simple 'organise' becomes passive present simple 'are organised' to show that campaigns are organised by people.
6. Choose the correct question tag: You know how to refuse peer pressure, ____?
The sentence is positive ('You know...'), so the question tag must be negative: 'don't you' matches the present simple verb 'know.'
7. Choose the correct form after 'enjoy': Some pupils ____ discussing how to say no to drugs during role-plays.
After 'enjoy' we use the gerund form (-ing): 'enjoy discussing' is correct; 'to' + infinitive is incorrect here.
8. Choose the correct comparative form: Peer support is often _____ effective than blaming someone who uses substances.
To compare two things we use the comparative 'more' before the adjective 'effective' ('more effective than').
9. Choose the correct conditional (first conditional): If a pupil sees someone about to take drugs, they ____ the teacher immediately.
First conditional (a real future possibility) uses 'If' + present tense, then 'will' + base verb: 'If ... sees ... will tell.'
10. Choose the correct reported speech form: The counsellor said, 'Smoking harms your lungs.' -> The counsellor said that smoking ____ lungs.
Because the statement is a general fact still true, we keep the present simple 'harms' in reported speech rather than shifting to past.
11. Choose the correct article: He joined ____ anti-drug club at his school to learn more about staying safe.
Before a word starting with a vowel sound ('anti-drug') we use 'an' as the indefinite article: 'an anti-drug club.'
12. Choose the correct noun form: How much ____ is needed when teaching pupils about substance abuse prevention?
'Information' is an uncountable noun and does not take a plural form; the correct form is 'information.'
13. Choose the correct conjunction: She attended the meeting ____ she was worried about a friend who might try drugs.
'Because' introduces a reason and correctly links her attendance to her concern; 'so that' would need a clause expressing purpose.
14. Choose the correct preposition: The talk about substance abuse will start ____ 10 o'clock in the hall.
We use 'at' for specific times: 'at 10 o'clock.' 'In' is for months/years/periods, 'on' for days/dates.
15. Choose the correct relative pronoun: The boy ____ warned his friend about drugs was praised by the teacher.
Use 'who' for people as a subject of the relative clause: 'The boy who warned his friend...'. 'Which' is for things.
16. Choose the correct adverb placement: She always ____ helps classmates resist pressure to use substances.
Adverbs of frequency like 'always' come before the main verb in simple tenses: 'always helps.'
17. Choose the correct negative form: The pupil ____ accept cigarettes when offered by older students.
To advise against something we use the negative modal 'shouldn't' (should not) before the base verb 'accept.'
18. Choose the correct possessive adjective: If someone finds a friend in trouble after taking drugs, ____ priority is the friend's safety.
'Your' is the possessive adjective used before the noun 'priority.' 'Yours' is a possessive pronoun and cannot modify a noun directly.
19. Choose the correct object pronoun: The teacher asked Sam and Aisha if ____ could explain how to refuse offers of drugs.
In this sentence 'if they could explain' uses the subject pronoun 'they' for Sam and Aisha. 'Them' would be an object, not correct here.
20. Choose the correct passive with agent omitted: Posters about drug prevention ____ in the classroom every term.
The present simple passive 'are put up' indicates a habitual action without mentioning who does it.
21. Choose the correct form: He ____ to the counselling sessions when he needed help resisting substance use.
'Used to' + base verb expresses a past habitual action: 'used to go' is correct for something he did regularly in the past.
22. Choose the correct reflexive pronoun: The group helped ____ prepare a short play about saying no to drugs.
For a plural subject 'the group' acting as individuals, 'themselves' is the correct reflexive pronoun to show they helped their own group.
23. Choose the correct quantifier: How ____ pupils attended the anti-drug workshop last week?
'Pupils' is countable plural, so we use 'many' to ask about number; 'much' is for uncountable nouns.
24. Choose the correct word order for emphasis: Rarely ____ a student ignore a warning about the dangers of substance abuse at our school.
With negative adverbs like 'Rarely' at the beginning, we use inversion: 'Rarely does a student...' so 'does' is correct for present simple singular.