End-of-term Test 3

Listening 5 Complete the sentences. (10 marks)

1 Welcome to The Big Quiz Show of the Year! And
1  Listen to Jim Stanton. Who is he? Who is he here is your __________ – Roy Carter!
talking to? Why? (3 marks) 2 When hiking in the countryside you should
________________________________________ always keep to the __________.
________________________________________ 3 My dad’s __________ died before I was born so
________________________________________ I’ve never known my grandpa or grandma.
4 Elephants are a __________ species of Africa
2  Listen again. Answer the questions. Write and Asia. They have always existed there.
complete sentences. (7 marks) 5 We spent the holidays visiting __________: my
1 What is Jim’s opinion on bringing bathroom cousins, aunties and uncles.
products camping? What is more important?
_______________________________________ Practical English
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2 What small thing frustrates Jim about people 6 Complete the dialogue. (10 marks)
who come camping?
Sasha OK everyone, let’s organize the party.
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Who’s (1) __________ be the DJ?
_______________________________________
Dan I will. I’ve DJ-ed at parties before.
3 What does Jim advise you do if you come into
Sasha Thanks. So that’s the music sorted.
physical contact with a bear?
Can (2) __________ bring any food?
_______________________________________
Dan Yes, I will. I live near a supermarket.
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Sasha Great. Chris, do you (3) ________ if
4 What is it essential not to do if you meet a
we have it at your house?
mountain lion?
Chris Of course I don’t. I asked my parents
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and they say it’s fine as long as we
aren’t too messy.
Sasha Great, that’s really (4) __________ of
Vocabulary them. Have we forgotten anything?
Dan Don’t worry, it’s all (5) __________.
3 Read the sentences. Does the word in brackets
have a similar meaning as the underlined word?
Write ‘Y’ for Yes and ‘N’ for No. (5 marks) Grammar
1 We saw bright yellow lights in the distance.
7 Add appropriate words to the prompts then use
(colourful) ___
them to write sentences. (10 marks)
2 There is a giant tree in our back garden.
1 Take my advice! / you / ________ / drink / so
(massive) ___
much / coffee. / bad / health.
3 The police banned the annual parade.
_______________________________________
(allow) ___
_______________________________________
4 The people in the village were very friendly to
2 I / going to / buy / ________ / new bike. / I / need
me. (nice) ___
/ one / get to / school.
5 Jason is serious about his studies. (worried) ___
_______________________________________
4 Read the definitions and write one word. _______________________________________
(5 marks)
1 overflow of water on normally dry land: 3 you / ________ / smoke / bars / restaurants /
__________ other public places. / against law.
2 single part of a TV series: __________ _______________________________________
3 part of a plant that is underground: __________ _______________________________________
4 way of getting to a destination: __________ 4 does / ________ / want / last biscuit?
5 not connected to the internet: __________ _______________________________________
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5 we / not have got / ________ / bread / left / Consolidation
make sandwiches. / need / get / more.
_______________________________________ 10 Complete the text. (10 marks)
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Last year I decided to set myself a challenge: to
8 Rewrite the second sentence so it means the give up my home comforts for a month. The first
same as the first. Use the correct form of the things I gave up were my skin and haircare
grammar in brackets. (10 marks)
products. I stopped washing (1) __________ with
1 Do you eat a lot of fruit every day? (quantifier) shower gel and putting (2) __________ on my skin.
____________ do you eat every day? That was really hard because I have naturally dry
2 Is there cheese in the fridge? (quantifier) skin. I didn’t feel as nice and clean as I normally do
Have we ____________ cheese? during that month! I also gave up using my
3 It’s not permitted to use your phone here. (3) __________. That was terrible! My hair took
(modal of prohibition) ages to dry naturally and it looked really wild and
You ____________ your phone here. messy. I remember, a group of boys at school
4 I think it’s a good idea to get out into the great laughed at my wet hair. My face went red and I felt
outdoors now and then. (modal of advice) really (4) __________ – it wasn’t nice. I also gave
We ____________ into the great outdoors now up my phone and the internet. Wow, I didn’t realise
and then. quite how difficult that was going to be! I often found
5 It’s not necessary to bring shower gel as I have myself reaching for my phone to text
lots. (modal of no obligation or necessity) (5) __________, without thinking who or why, or to
You ____________ bring shower gel. just look something up on the internet, but my
phone wasn’t there! When the challenge was over I
9 Add the correct question tags. (10 marks)
decided to limit the time I spend using gadgets and
1 Tom is very tall, __________? the time I spend online. It was a hard challenge but
2 You don’t like fish, __________? it taught me a lot about myself.
3 That film isn’t very interesting, __________?
4 Kay and Beth can come to the party,
__________?
5 Jane has got two sisters, __________?

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End-of-term Test 3
Reading The next experiment was a ‘Swap Box’. This was a
box that people could leave things in that they
11 Read the text. According to the writer, what was no longer wanted and ask for things they wanted.
the main achievement of the project? (2 marks)
Each object in the Swap Box had a paper tag
_______________________________________ attached with a short story about the history of
_______________________________________ the object and why the owner wanted to swap it.
This idea was quite successful and proved an
effective way of recycling objects and reducing
Designing in the street
waste.
A group of Design students from Sheffield Hallam
Another rather humorous idea that emerged as a
University in the UK did a research project
result of the research was the ‘Gossip Vehicle’.
about innovative street design. The purpose of
This is an electric car that could be shared by
their project was to explore how design can be
the people living on the street in an effort to
used to create interesting and innovative urban
reduce the number of cars in the area. In order
spaces. The students focused on a section of
to gain access to the car, the passenger has to
Gloucester Road in London. They considered the
whisper an exciting piece of news or gossip to
street in terms of the people who lived there
the car!
permanently, such as home owners and shop
owners, the people who passed through, such as ‘Street Furniture Pets’ was another proposal.
pedestrians, and those who regularly interacted The concept was that the people who live on the
in the street, such as post men, taxi drivers, street would be responsible for a piece of
bus drivers and rubbish collectors. At the time street furniture, such as a lamp post. They had
of the study there were plans to reduce the to keep track of how much electricity was used
number of vehicles in the street by only by the ‘pet’. The idea behind this was to raise
allowing electric cars. This was to lower the awareness of energy usage.
amount of pollution produced by them.
Although none of the ideas have become a
The students started the project by observing permanent feature of Gloucester Road, the
what went on in the street over a week. They students’ creative ideas helped to temporarily
also talked to people in the street, asking transform a typical London street into a
their opinions about what they would like to see friendly and helpful place and encouraged a real
made better and how they wanted the street to sense of community and fun.
change in the future. Then the students went
away and thought about how they could improve 12 Read the text again. Answer the questions. Write
the neighbourhood. They were not just focused on complete sentences. (8 marks)
design, but also on how they could encourage a 1 What was the researchers’ aim?
sense of community and sharing between _______________________________________
strangers. _______________________________________
2 What preparations did the students do in
One of the ideas they came up with was ‘Bus Stop
Gloucester Road?
Messaging’. They put a large notepad on a bus
_______________________________________
stop with the question, ‘What are you thinking
_______________________________________
about to pass the time?’ Many people on the
3 Which of the students’ experiments did not
street wrote their thoughts on the pad. The
involve written communication?
students discovered that people liked sharing
_______________________________________
their stories with each other and reading other
_______________________________________
people’s stories.
4 Why did the students want to promote a ‘Gossip
Vehicle’?
_______________________________________
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End-of-term Test 3
Writing
13 Write an article about one of the following
topics:
 the best or worst event in your life
 the best or worst holiday of your life
Use the prompts to help you. Remember to use
grammatical structures that you have learnt
from Units 7–9 and linking words to explain and
contrast your ideas. Write about 150 words.
(10 marks)
Paragraph 1: Introduce the topic. Say where and
when you went, who you were with and what you
did there.
Paragraph 2: Give further details about the event or
holiday. Explain what happened and what was great
or terrible about it.
Paragraph 3: Conclude the article. Say if you
enjoyed yourself in the end or not. Make a comment
on what you learned from the experience. If you are
writing about an event, can you give any advice to
the reader about it? If you are writing about a
holiday, give advice to someone considering that
type of holiday.

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Listening _____ / 10 Vocabulary _____ / 20 Practical English _____ / 10

Grammar _____ / 30 Consolidation _____ /10 Reading _____ / 10
Writing _____ / 10 TOTAL __________ / 100

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