Language and Skills Test 1B

language and skills test 1b

Units 1&2

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&Grammar

Vocabulary 1

3 This house belonged to a woman. Her children emigrated to Australia. ______________________________________ 4 The hotel was very cheap. I found it on the internet. ______________________________________

Complete the expressions with the verbs below. There is one verb you don’t need. wear✓ score

0 1 2 3 4 5 6

get beat solve revise do

wear a uniform ________ ________ a competition ________ the other team ________ for an exam ________ your best ________ a pay rise ________ a problem

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Replace the underlined words. 0 My son’s education is free – he goes to a state private school. ________ 1 Did you make a good mark in your Maths test? ________ 2 I hope our team doesn’t fail the next match. ________ 3 It’s quite a small school – we’ve got only 200 subjects. ________ 4 I’m afraid everybody has to come to the meeting – it’s optional. ________ 5 To achieve what you want, you need to make yourself clear goals. ________ /5

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Rewrite the sentences using the words in bold. Do not change the meaning of the original sentences. 0 I can’t see why people collect stamps. point I______________________________________ can’t see the point of collecting stamps. 1 Tim thinks classical music is OK. mind ______________________________________ 2 I love playing rugby. passionate ______________________________________ 3 My brother loves windsurfing. into ______________________________________ /3

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Combine the two sentences. Leave out the relative pronoun where possible. 0 This is the street. My little brother got lost here. This is the street where my little brother ______________________________________ ______________________________________ got lost. 1 Can you bring me the school bag? It’s in Tina’s bedroom. ______________________________________ 2 A boy wants to go out with my sister. He studies law. ______________________________________

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Write positive, negative or interrogative sentences. Use the present simple, present continuous, present perfect or past simple. 0 Sandra/ever/be/to San Francisco (?) Has Sandra ever been to San Francisco? ______________________________________ 1 My brother/eat a lot of vegetables/when he was a child (✔) ______________________________________ 2 I/just/finish/my homework (✔) ______________________________________ 3 Simon/often/leave home before 7 a.m. (?) ______________________________________ 4 Ian and Renata/meet/in Rome/three years ago (✔) ______________________________________ 5 She/seem/very happy/these days (✗) ______________________________________ 6 You/do/anything interesting/tomorrow (?) ______________________________________ 7 They/serve hot lunches/at the moment (✗) ______________________________________ /7

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Choose the best word a, b or c to complete the text. Have you 0 ___ taken part in a sports competition? I haven’t but I 1 ___ I’d like to one day. I like most kinds of sport except for football and basketball. In fact, I 2 ___ all team sports really boring. Running and swimming are different. I 3 ___ running almost every day and swimming twice a week. I 4 ___ doing it regularly two months ago and for me it’s the best way to 5 ___ fit. You might ask if I am a fast runner. I don’t know – I 6 ___ any races yet. But does it really matter? 0 a never 1 a think c ’m thinking 2 a stand 3 a play 4 a have started 5 a make 6 a didn’t win

b ever c just b have thought b b b b b

see do started get don’t win

c c c c c

find go start do haven’t won /3

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Reading

Listening

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of the Year Awards

The Sports Personality of the Year is a British award that is given every year. It’s an unusual sports award because it is not just about being good at sport. Of course, it’s important to win competitions, but to win this award stars need to do more than that – they need to contribute to sport and be popular with the public. For this award, ordinary British people vote for their favourite sports stars. This year, over half a million people voted and footballer Ryan Giggs won the award with almost 30% of the votes. Racing champion Jenson Button was second with 19% of the votes, followed closely by world-champion athlete Jessica Ennis who got almost 16% of the votes. Giggs is still playing professional football at the age of 36 and he still plays for Manchester United, the team he started playing for 20 years ago! Recently he played his 800th match, scored his 150th goal and helped Manchester United reach the Champions League final. Giggs has won more medals than any other Premier League player – he won his 11th Premier League medal this year and he has also won several other sports awards, including the Player of the Year. Manchester United are so pleased with his performance that they have offered him a new contract for next year. ‘I’m passionate about football and I love playing for United,’ says Giggs. ‘I hope next year won’t be the last year.’ Other winners in the top ten included cyclist Mark Cavendish, gymnast Beth Tweddle and tennis player Andy Murray. The Young Sports Personality of the Year winner was diver Tom Daley. The special award went to TV star Eddie Izzard who ran 43 marathons in 51 days to raise money for the charity Sport Relief. Izzard raised over £200,000 to help poor people all over the world enjoy sport. © Pearson Education Limited 2010

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Communication 9

Choose the best response. 1 My name’s Pete. a Nice to meet you. b Who are you? 2 I like rock music. a Excuse me! b That’s amazing! 3 I see you’re reading an interesting book. a Yes, it’s cool. b I read books every day. 4 Is this your phone? a Sorry? What was that? b Seriously? 5 Excuse me. Is this your bag? a Really? b What was that? /5

10 Write questions for the answers. 1 ______________________________________ No, I’ve never won any competitions. 2 ______________________________________ I started playing tennis when I was five. 3 ______________________________________ My ambitions for the future? I’d like to win an Olympic medal. 4 ______________________________________ I get up early and I train for five hours every day. 5 ______________________________________ Yes, I broke my leg last year. But I haven’t had any other injuries. /5 Marks Vocabulary and Grammar Reading Listening Communication Total:

/25 marks /8 marks /7 marks /10 marks /50 marks

Units 1&2

Sports Personality

Listen to the radio interview and complete the sentences 1–7 with one word in each gap. 1 The population of Qatar is ________ and a half million people. 2 Qatar isn’t a big country, but it’s very _______ . 3 Education City has branches of ________ American universities. 4 Students at the American universities in Education City get the same ________ as students in America. 5 The Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development is a ________ organisation. 6 All the businesses in the Technology Park do research and try to ________ scientific problems. 7 At the Learning Centre students learn to ________ things that distract them. 2

language and skills test 1b

Read the text about the Sports Personality of the Year Awards. Tick (✔) true and cross (✗) false or write ? (no information). 1 You don’t have to be good at sports to win the Sport Personality of the Year Award. 2 Ordinary British people like many different sports stars. 3 Ryan Giggs won the award with almost a third of the votes. 4 Jenson Button got almost as many votes as Jessica Ennis. 5 Giggs has scored 150 goals for Manchester United. 6 Giggs has never won the Player of the Year. 7 Tom Daley won an award this year. 8 Eddie Izzard stars in a sports programme on TV. /8

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