Gateway A2 Test 8B

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Unit 8 Test B
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Grammar 3 Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences.

One sentence does not have a mistake.
1 Write the comparative and superlative forms of 1 Sandy is a best footballer in the team.
these adjectives.
1 difficult __________ __________ 2 Anna is thiner than she was because of her
2 bad __________ __________ illness.
3 dangerous __________ __________
4 near __________ __________
3 That’s the baddest programme on TV at the
5 good __________ __________ moment!
/5
4 Jenna is the most hard-working person in our
2 Make sentences with the prompts and family.
comparatives or superlatives.
1 My bedroom is/nice/room in the house.
5 Dave was the most good runner in the
competition.
2 I think Chinese is/difficult/ language in the
world to learn.
/5
3 The bank is/far/than the supermarket.
Vocabulary
4 Janet is /clever/than I am. 4 Complete the sentences with the correct
adjectives.
5 The ending of this film is/surprising/than the 1 I got up very early this morning. I’m
last one! t__________.
2 I can’t find my dog. I’m w__________.
3 The students didn’t finish their homework. The
teacher is a__________.
/5 4 We’re going on holiday to Italy tomorrow. I’m
e__________.
5 I feel good! I’m watching TV and I haven’t got
any work to do. I’m r__________.
/5
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5 Reorder the letters to find adjectives. Then

complete the sentences. Reading
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RULCEHEF INBROSSLEEP 7 Read the text from which some sentences have
been taken out. Choose the correct sentences
1 I work hard at school, but I’m not very A–D to fill the gaps.
__________. Do you have a home and a happy family?
2 __________ students don’t get good marks. Perhaps you go to school and you’re studying to
3 My daughter is more __________ than I was at go to university. You work hard and you hope to
her age. I never did what my parents said. have a good job in the future, get married and live
4 Cheryl was sick for three months last year, but in a nice house. You’ve probably got some
she was __________ all the time. hobbies too and do sports and go out with your
friends sometimes. But life is sometimes difficult
5 Turn off the music please. I can only work for you too. There’s a lot of work, and you don’t
when it’s __________.
have time to do everything you want. (1) ___
Well, give us just a moment of your time to think
/5 about something that is very important.
Some people don’t have the same life as you.
6 Complete the sentences with the social They didn’t go to university and they don’t have a
problems. good job. (2) ___ They don’t have a home. We see
1 When a river or sea is dirty: __________ these people every day in the big cities, but we
2 When people can’t find a job: __________ don’t want to see them. We don’t look at them
because we think they are dirty and lazy. We think
3 When people are very poor: __________ that they live on the streets because they don’t
4 When people have to sleep in the streets: want to work. That isn’t true. (3) ___ They had a
__________ life the same as us. But something happened and
5 When people use guns and knives: __________ they lost everything. Now they have to sleep on
6 When people don’t have anything to eat: the roads or under bridges and they have to ask us
__________ for food and money.
Here at Homes for All, we try to help these
/6 people. (4) ___ We also try to find work for them.
Can you help us? If your answer is yes, then
contact us on homesforall.com. Life is hard for all
of us sometimes.
A These people had everything a long time ago.
B They don’t have a family.
C We give them a bed for the night and some
food when it’s very cold outside.
D Is that true for you?
/4
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Listening (Tests CD, Track 10) Writing

8 You are going to hear an interview about life 10 Write an essay for your teacher about the
today. Listen and decide if the statements are differences between your parents’ lives when
true (T) or false (F). they were a teenager and your life now.
1 The woman thinks teenagers today T/F Write 60–80 words.

have a difficult life.
2 She thinks that teenagers today T/F
don’t look hard for jobs.
3 There are more things to buy today T/F
than when the woman was young.
4 The woman thinks adverts are a good T/F
thing for young people today.
/4
Use of English
9 Complete the text with one word in each gap.
We recently did a project and compared the
lives of students in our country with students in
England, and there (1) __________ some
surprising results. In England, children are a (2)
__________ younger when they start school than
in our country, and there are usually more children
in a class. Our school day is shorter than the
English students’ day, but they have a longer lunch
break! Lucky them! We do more homework than
they (3) __________ too! In both countries, the
boys’ results are worse than the girls’ when they
are young, but they get (4) __________ and are
about the same when they are older. In England, /5
some students want to start school later in the
morning so they can stay in bed longer. I think
that’s a good idea. But I’m (5) __________ laziest /50
person in my class, so the others probably don’t
agree! For English students, the most boring lesson
is maths, and I think that’s true here too. The best
lesson for English students is ICT. What
(6) __________ surprise! Perhaps they learn how
to win at computer games!
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Grammar 3 Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences.

5 Reorder the letters to find adjectives. Then

Listening (Tests CD, Track 10) Writing

1 The woman thinks teenagers today T/F Write 60–80 words.

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