Week 2: Grammar

 This week I started grammar practice from 
 http://www.world-english.org/diagnostic_grammar_1.htm

First of all, I took the test to check my basic grammar skills.

Here was my score

Section one : 16/20

Section two: 16/20

Section three: 7/10

Diagnostic Grammar Test - Section One 
The purpose of this English Language test is to enable you to spot your weak points as well as your strong points and remedy or practise any language points, where necessary. At the end of each test section you can total your score and get feedback. 

There are 50 questions in 3 sections.  Choose the correct answer from the drop down boxes or fill in the gaps. 
 
Section 1:

1. The sun........... in the East.
2. In Siberia............. cold all the time.
3. The British often talk about............ because it's so changeable.
4. English people carry umbrellas..... .... them dry.
5. In the monsoon season........... almost every day.
6. In the Gobi desert there isn't grass.
7. Places near the Equator have climate all year round.
8. In Northern Europe season is usually............... from December to February.
9. ............people don't have the opportunity to live outside their own country.
10. Very people can study abroad.
11. Hong Kong............ to China in 1997.
12. After  she............. the "Miss Universe" title she got a lot of lucrative offers.
13. Madonna's agent change her name at the start of her career.
14. If the world............. on 1st January 2000, some people wouldn't have been surprised.
15. Warsaw is famous as the capital of Poland and as a tourist destination.
16. He is becoming well known.......... the world.
17. Many  people............ that Nigel Kennedy is England's greatest violinist.
18. Getting to be the greatest violinist the world is not easy.
19. Like any top musician, he practice long and hard.
20. Even though Lady Diana is dead, people  remember her as a 'fairytale princess'.

Diagnostic English Grammar Test - Section 2 
The purpose of this English Language test is to enable you to spot your weak points as well as your strong points and remedy or practice where necessary. At the end of each test section you can total your score and get feedback. 
This test has 3 sections. Choose the correct answer from the drop down boxes or fill in the gaps. 
Section 2:
Put a suitable word into each box.  You may use negative abbreviations (hadn't, didn't, wouldn't etc)
There are 20 gapfill questions.
 

1. New Territories lie mainly on the Chinese coast north of Kowloon but
2. includes few outlying islands.
3. Before  acquiring the New Territories 1898, the British had tried to gain part of mainland
4. China but they succeeded.  They wanted to create a 'buffer zone' 
5.   Hong Kong island and China, but they were also worried about other colonial
6. powers, such   Japan and Russia, expanding into China.   
7. Hong Kong began developing in the early twentieth   
8. and    the 1950s, successive administrations have
9. succeeded   establishing planned communities, industrial zones and port facilities.
10.  A new airport     opened at  Chek Lap Kok in 1998
11. and connecting road and rail links   recently been completed.
12.     There are still nearly 2000 hectares of farmland ,   are mainly
13. used   chicken, duck  and egg production  and for growing
14. vegetables and flowers.  A new container terminal   planned for Lantau
15. Island; it  will connect    a river port to transport containers to Guangzhou by ship.
16. The Chinese University, founded in 1963, is   in Sha Tin, as is the racecourse.
17.     The New    have a population of around 3 million, nearly 50% of the total  of
18. Hong Kong, living in   land area of about 950 sq. km.
19. The  British    came in the 19th century  could hardly have imagined
20. such   high density of people a century later.
21. 
    

Diagnostic Grammar Test  - Section Three
The purpose of this test is to enable you to spot your weak points as well as your strong points in English. You can then use what you learn about your English from doing this test to remedy or practice where necessary. At the end of each test section you can total your score and get feedback. 
This is the third of three parts. Choose the correct answer from the drop down boxes or fill in the gaps. 

1. By 2008 there have been satellites in space for 50 years.
2. Hairdressers recommend that you  your hair cut every 6 weeks or so.
3. If North and South Korea reunited, it will be...
4. ...the first time families  able to communicate freely since the 1950s.
5.   the rain, the Handover of Hong Kong  from Britain to China...
6.                                                                                                 ...in 1997   went without a hitch.
7. Millions of people watched Chris Patten and Jiang Xemin their speeches.
8. The scene around the world .
9. I was in Holland at the time, but I wish I here to see it in person.
10. You didn't see it yourself,