English Quiz

How good is your vocabulary? Do you know the difference between words that have similar meanings? Take our vocabulary quiz to find out (yes, we wrote up the questions ourselves!) -Nidia, Svetlana, Flavio, Azzura, and Valentina

Choose the correct word to fill in the blank (write your answers on a piece of paper, and then insert them into the comments box! don't look at what the other people wrote first, though!).

Remember to change verb tenses/singular or plurals, as needed.

Vocabulary Quiz (spelling counts!) RECIPE or RECEIPT? 1. Can you give us some Mexican cuisine _________? 2. Here are the supermarket _____________. BRING or TAKE? 3. Please ______________ me some souvenirs from "La Sagrada Familia" when you come back from Barcelona. 4. Could you ____________ my children to school today? I can't because I'm busy. CHECK or CONTROL? 5. Jackie ____________ our work every day. 6. The policemen ___________ traffic in the street. FUNNY or FUN? 7. Making pizza is a lot of ______________ ! 8. Some people believe that clowns are quite ______________. I'm not one of them. REASON or CAUSE? 9 . If your friend tells you to jump off a bridge, would you? Don't you see that that isn't always a good ___________ to do something? 10 . I caught this cold from you. You are the ______________ of my illness! COLLECT or GATHER? 11. We are __________ dresses for the poor people in Africa. 12. Beppo Grillo ___________ a lot of people on V-Day last month.

Now, write the correct answers in the comment box (click on comments and just type in your answers, along with your name please!), and once we've got a good number of responses, we'll announces the CORRECT answers!

So get going--don't you want to ace this quiz?

Ah...almost forgot. Just in case you were wondering, WE took the above quiz as well. The results were quite good, but we did have one group stand out among the others. The top grades go to our winners:

 

AZZURRA AND NIDIA!

-Blowin' in the Wind Cast