Lower Intermediate U 11-12

Listen to the conversations. Check the correct answers.

The Great Wall of China

Great Zimbabwe is

Easter Island

The city where the woman lived

Rewrite the sentences as passive sentences with by.

Example: Taylor Swift recorded the song “Bad Blood.” 
The song "Bad Blood" was recorded by Taylor Swift.

Michael Bay directed the Transformers movies.

Jack Dorsey developed Twitter.

Suzanne Collins wrote The Hunger Games novels.

Gustave Eiffel designed the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Complete the sentences. Use the passive form of the verbs.

English (speak) in Australia and New Zealand.

Japanese and Korean (teach) at this school.

Cattle (raised) in many South American countries.

Choose the correct word.

One of the crops grown in China is

are manufactured in California.

I thought I had lost my cell phone, but, ________________, I found it in my coat pocket.

I was looking for a job when, ___________________, I won the lottery and went on vacation instead.

Complete the conversation. Use the present perfect continuous of the verbs.

a: Hi, Jenny! I haven’t seen you since last summer. you (work) long hours?

b: Yes, I have. to work every day, and sometimes on weekends, too.

a: And at night?
b: Oh, my new dog me awake all night!

Read the article. Then check the correct answers.

Renzo Piano was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1937.
Renzo was born into a family of builders, including
his grandfather, father, several uncles, and his
brother. He graduated from Milan Polytechnic
Architecture School in 1964, and then he taught
architecture there. In 1969, he was awarded his first
important project. He designed the Italian Industry
Pavilion for Expo ‘70 in Osaka, Japan. An English
architect named Richard Rogers saw the pavilion and
liked Renzo’s work. Richard suggested that they work
together and enter an international competition to
create a design for the Georges Pompidou Center in
Paris. They won the competition.

Since then, Renzo Piano has designed many world-famous
buildings and landmarks. In 1982, he
was chosen by an art collector to design the Menil
Collection in Houston, Texas. Not only is this museum
large enough to hold more than 10,000 works of
primitive and modern art, it was also designed to be
a center for music, literature, theatre, and cultural
educational activities. In 1984, he was commissioned
to design an airport in Osaka, Japan. Because there is
very little open space available in Osaka, an artificial
island was built in the bay to hold the airport.
Kansai International Airport Terminal is the largest
building Piano has ever designed. It can handle up to
100,000 passengers a day.

Renzo Piano studied architecture in

In 1969, Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano was asked to design a building by

Renzo Piano’s largest building is