Listening
1 Recording 7 Listen to the conversation
and write true (T) or false (F).
1 Judy is phoning Ralph from London. __T__
2 She has booked her flights to visit him.
3 Ralph is working on a film until 21st
May. ____
4 Judy is planning to go to Los Angeles
for a month. ____
5 Ralph invites Judy and her friends to stay
at his place.____
6 Judy will be able to go to Ralph’s party.____
.
2 Recording 8 Listen to the conversation
between a customer and a shop
assistant and complete the notes.
Techno Kings 3D printers
Printer 1: 1 M2 .
Made in: 2 _____.
Good quality / strong frame.
Weight: 3 _____ kg.
Speed: 4 _____ mm per second.
Cost: 5 _____ .
Printer 2: 6_____ .
Made in: The USA.
Weight: 18 kg.
Grammar
3 Underline the correct alternative.
1 He hasn’t heard if he’s passed his exam
just/yet.
2 They already have/’ve already eaten
three cakes. Don’t give them any more.
3 What does/’s the weather like here in
summer?
4 She was chosen/chose to swim in the
Olympic team.
5 You said/told us you’d be here by six
o’clock.
6 My son’s yet/just learnt to drive.
7 If she have/had more free time, she’d be
happier.
8 All our food is bought/bought locally.
9 When she finds out she’s got the job, she
’ll be/was so excited!
10 If you ’ll join/join a club, you’ll make
new friends.
11 If he ate/will eat less, he’d lose weight.
4 Complete the text with the correct
answer,
a), b) or c).
1_c_ a child, I always wanted to be an air
hostess. Now they 2 _____
flight
attendants. I had no idea
3 _____ the job was like but I dreamt of
travelling to faraway, romantic places.
When I was ten, I was 4 _____
keen to find out what qualifications
5 _____ for the job. I wrote
a letter to the national airline association
and was amazed when I got a reply. It said,
‘If you 6 _____ to be a flight attendant,
you
7 _____ get a good secondary education,
with good grades in English and maths. It
also helps if you
8_____ other languages. Please write to
us again when you are eighteen.’ I started
working harder at school and studied
French and Spanish as soon as I
9 _____. But when I was eighteen, I was
persuaded to go to university 10 _____
my parents. I never became a flight
attendant but I 11 _____ my life travelling
to faraway, romantic places.
1 a) Like b) When c) As
2 a) called b) are called c) are calling
3 a) how b) that c) what
4 a) already b) yet c) just
5 a) is needed b) were needed c) are
needing
6 a) ’ll want b) want c) wanted
7 a) ’d be able b) must c) ’ll have
8) a) speak b) ’ll speak c) are
speaking
9 a) can b) could c) would
10 a) for b) from c) by
11 a) spend b) was spent c) have spent.
Vocabulary
5 Complete the definitions.
1 _F r a u d_ is when you cheat someone to
make money from them.
2 Someone who steals things from a shop is
called a
s _____________.
3 A c_____________ is someone who is
famous.
4 If equipment is f_____________ , it doesn’t
work properly because it is broken.
5 If something is d_____________, it is
not safe.
6 A b_____________ is an informal website which
someone writes their experiences on
regularly.
6 Match sentences 1–7 with a)–g).
1 I have booked _c_
2 There are so many things to see. ___
3 If you like action ___
4 When her father retired, she took ___
5 He said he was worried ___
6 Our company updates ___
7 Could you recommend ___
a) about the level of crime in the city.
b) over the family business.
c) -a table for four.-
d) films, then go and see Spectre.
e) and do in New York.
f) a good restaurant?
g) its webpage every month.
.
7 Complete the sentences with the words
in the box.
_____________________
community historical jams
lonely
nervous networking rented
````````````````````````````````````
1 Sally and David have _rented_ a house by
the beach.
2 Traffic ______ will be reduced
if the public transport ______ is
improved.
3 His punishment was to do fifty hours of
service.
4 We can’t use social ______
sites at work.
5 Sam felt ______ when Karen
worked away from home.
6 She was given a fine, not a prison
.
7 Crowded places make Jane feel
______.
8 We use ______ engines to find
data online.
9 I never go to see ______
dramas. They never get the facts right.
Function
8 Complete the words in the
conversations.
1 A: Could you 1 r e c o m m e n d a good
French restaurant in the town?
B: 2 C______ . There’s a
lovely one on Evelyn Street.
2 A: 3 S______ I phone for a taxi?
B: No, that won’t be necessary, thank
you.
3 A: Excuse me. Could I 4 s______ to the
manager?
B: Just a 5 m______ . I’ll call her.
4 A: 6 W______ you be able to drive me
to the airport this afternoon?
B: Hold on. I’ll just 7 c______ in my
diary.
5 A: I 8 t______ children see too much
violence on television.
B: That’s 9 t______ , but is it really bad for
them?
6 A: Could you 10 h______ me?
B: Of course. What’s the 11p______.
9 Complete the conversations with a)–f).
Conversation one
A: I bought this laptop yesterday but it
doesn’t work.
B: 1_c_
A: Of course I have!
B: 2___
Conversation two
A: I thought the last James Blunt album
was terrible!
B: 3___
A: Really? What did you like about it?
B: 4___
Conversation three
A: Are there any tickets left for the concert
tonight?
B: 5___
A: That would be wonderful.
B: 6___
A: Just two, please.
a) How many would you like?
b) I thought the singing was much better
than in the earlier albums.
c) -Have you tried turning it on?-
d) OK. We’ll look into it right away.
e) Yes, of course. Do you want me to
reserve some for you?
f) I don’t agree at all!
.
Reading
10 Complete the article with sentences
a)–f).
1_d_ One example is Ashley Kerekes
from Massachusetts, America. She became
famous after her boyfriend gave her the
Twitter name of @theashes.
2_____. They certainly didn’t understand why
Ashley was receiving so many messages
about cricket. She also had a lot of
followers on Twitter, which she found
strange.
3_____. She had no idea what
this was, so she looked it up. She then
found out that The Ashes is a cricket
competition between England and
Australia, which takes place every year.
4_____. In the end, she decided
to send a simple tweet, which said that she
wasn’t a cricket match. Her message
became an internet hit and made her
famous. 5_____. She had a
great time there and loved watching the
match.
6_____. She has now become a
cricket fan herself and thinks many more
Americans will play cricket in the future.
a) In fact, she became so famous that the
Australian airline, Qantas, gave her a free
flight to Sydney, Australia to see The Ashes.
b) As they were not cricket fans, Ashley
and her boyfriend had no idea what her
Twitter name meant.
c) Gradually Ashley’s online following
grew and she received hundreds of tweets
from cricket fans.
d) These days, it is possible to become
famous for something as simple as your
online name.
e) She enjoyed it so much that after the
competition she decided to learn more
about the game.
f) Something she noticed was that many of
the messages were about an event called
‘The Ashes’.
11 Read the article and underline the
correct answer, a), b) or c).
1 Ashley’s _b _brought her a lot of
attention.
a) boyfriend
b) Twitter name
c) surname
2 She had no idea why people were___
a) asking her about her online name.
b) following her on the street.
c) messaging her about cricket.
3 ‘The Ashes’ is ___
a) not an old cricket competition.
b) only played between England and
Australia.
c) always played in Australia.
4 Ashley sent a message on Twitter to ___
a) stop people messaging her.
b) ask people about cricket
c) meet up with some of her followers.
5 As a result of her online fame, she was ___
a) invited to play in a cricket match.
b) flown to England to meet their cricket
team.
c) given the chance to watch The Ashes.
6 Ashley ___
a) believes cricket will become popular in
the USA.
b) now supports the Australian cricket
team.
c) is now learning to play cricket.
Writing
12 Replace words 1–11 with pronouns.
My friend Izzy lives in Vancouver. 1 Izzy
-She- moved there in 2014 after she married
Rich. I went to see
2 Izzy and Rich last summer. 3 Izzy and Rich
think that 4 Vancouver is the best city to live
in. 5 Izzy and Rich love 6 the city. 7 The city
is in the south-west of Canada: between
Vancouver Island and the mountains. Izzy
says people here look after the environment
and so 8 the environment is not polluted.
There’s a great public transport system, too.
9 The public transport system is very cheap
and reliable. The nightlife is wonderful,
with a lot of cinemas, theatres and clubs. I
really enjoyed 10 the nightlife when I was 11
in Vancouver. .
|
