First Certificate language practice with key 12. This book is designed to revise and consolidate grammar points at the level of First Certificate. It also provides practice in key lexical areas. There are regular consolidation units which include forms of testing commonly used in the First Certificate examination. | FIRST CERTIFICATE LANGUAGE PRACTICE 6 Look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct and some have a word which should not be there. Tick each correct line. If a line has a word which should not be there write the word in the space. Zoo escape shocks residents Residents in the Blackwood area complained last night that they should have had been warned about the escape of a dangerous snake. The snake a python is three metres long and can to kill pets. I heard about it on the radio said Mrs Agnes Bird. I had gone to lock my dog in the kitchen this morning because I thought the snake could easily have attack it. Now I am not sure what I ought to be do. The snake called Lulu disappeared from the Blackwood Zoo. It must be have found a hole in the wall or it might have been slipped out while the door was open said zoo director Basil Hart. Mr Hart said that people didn t needn t have been alarmed. A local radio station must have had mixed up its reports he went on. We found Lulu a few minutes after we missed her. We have had to climb a tree and bring her down. So you see you should have never believe silly stories you hear on the radio Key point . . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . 10 . ID . 12 . 13 . 14 . 15 . In speech have is often contracted with modals used in the past. You shouldn t ve done it. SEE ALSO Grammar 20 Consolidation 4 104 Explanations What are functions We can describe language by using words to talk about grammar grammatical description . But we can also describe language by saying how it is used. This is the function of the language functional description . If I were you I d leave now. grammatical description second conditional functional description giving advice Choosing what to say Our choice of words can be influenced by the situation we are in by the person we are talking to and by what we are talking about. Compare these different phrases for asking permission. Asking permission from a friend Is it all right if I use the phone .
