SPEAKOUT ELEMENTARY.

UNITS 5 & 6 EXAM

LEVEL: ELEMENTARY
Name: ______________________________ Date______________

Each question is worth 10 points

1. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the nouns in the list.
Cheese – egg – milk – omelette – orange - rice – tomato
a) We don’t have enough ___________________ to make an__________________
b) ___________________ is made from ___________________.
c) Can you put some ___________________ in the salad, please?
d) ___________________ have lots of vitamin C.
e) In some countries people throw___________________ at weddings.

2. Complete the text with a /an , some or any .

Smart fridges
Fridges are becoming clever. With _________internet connection and _________computer, fridges know
how much food you have got and how much you need. They can give you _________recipe you want and
even connect to _________oven, then tell it how hot it needs to be and how much time it takes to cook
your food. How does it work? The fridge’s computer knows what you have got by scanning the barcodes
on the items you put into it. It can tell how much food you have got – how much milk you have got, if
you’ve got _________eggs, how many tomatoes you have got or when there isn’t _________butter.
_________fridges can even talk to you. Ask, ‘Is there _________cheese?’ and the fridge tells you, ‘Yes,
there is _________cheese,’ or ‘No, there isn’t _________.’ For people on _________diet, the fridge tells
you what you can or can’t eat. Perhaps you can’t have _________meat or cakes – unfortunately, the
fridge knows it and tells you!

3. Complete the conversation with some , any , a lot , how much, how many or (not)
much/many .
A: OK, here’s the recipe for vegetable tempura – my favourite Japanese food. Right, we need
____________flour and some cornflower. Have we got any cornflower?
B: Yes, there’s a box of cornflower here. And there’s ____________of flour too.
A: OK, good. Do we have any baking powder?
B: What’s baking powder?
A: It makes the tempura light and crispy.
B: Yes, here it is. But there’s ____________left
A: ____________is there?
B: Just this much.
A: That’s OK, we don’t need much. And eggs? ____________have we got?
B: We haven’t got ____________of eggs.
A: It doesn’t matter – we don’t really need ____________. But we do need icy-cold water.
B: Here’s some water – cold from the tap.
A: No, not tap water, sparkling water. Have we got any sparkling water?
B: Mmm, yes. There’s a bottle here.
A: OK. Mix the flour and the baking powder together and add ____________water. Don’t mix it too
much; it’s OK for some lumps to stay in it but ____________.
B: Now the vegetables?
A: Yes, which vegetables have we got?
B: We’ve got carrots and courgettes.
A: Have we got any cauliflower?
B: Yes, we’ve got cauliflower too.
A: OK – heat up the oil so we can start to cook.
B: Oh dear! We haven’t got ____________oil!

4. Complete the text with was / wasn’t or were / weren’t .

Jenny goes to the National University of Bogota in Colombia. She is an environmental scientist. She
____________ (not) born in Colombia, she was born in Calgary, in Canada. Her favourite subject at
school ____________art but she became interested in biology when she was on a painting trip to

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Colombia – there ____________so many different animals that ____________ (not) in Canada. Her
favourite animal was the spectacled bear. When Jenny learned that they ____________in danger, she
____________ (not) so interested in painting them – she was more interested in saving them.

5. Complete the text with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets.
My friend Maria ____________ (move) away twenty years ago. She ____________ (travel) from Poland
to Ireland and ____________ (work) in a factory. She ____________ (marry) someone there and
____________ (start) a family. We ____________ (try) to keep in touch and ____________ (call) each
other sometimes. But the days ____________ (pass) by and the letters ____________ (not arrive) and the
calls ____________ (stop). When her parents ____________ (die), she ____________ (not visit) her
hometown any more. Then last week I ____________ (receive) a text from her. She ____________
(invite) me to her wedding with her second husband.

6. Read the conversation. Find and correct ten mistakes with the past simple.
A: There aren’t many people here for the football match today. Where are Janos and Andras?
B: They go to a restaurant last night and eaten something bad.
A: And what about Jack? He doesn’t look very healthy today.
B: Yes, he decided to get fi t so he didn’t catched the bus today. He ranned here and hurted his leg.
A: And where’s Ahmed?
B: Oh, he crashed his car this morning. He didn’t saw a car in front of him and drived straight into it.
A: And what happened to you? I thinked you were at the cinema last night.
B: I’m just tired. I didn’t sleeped well last night and wake up very early this morning.

7. Put the words in the correct order to make questions.

a) your / how / weekend / was?
b) did / what / you / night / do / last?
c) did / where / go / you?
d) did / what / do / there / you?
e) with / did / who / you / go?

8. Choose a word from the box to answer each question.

Cow – chips – cookies – fridge – grill – melon – sheep – vegetarian
Which word …
1 is a way of cooking? __________ 5 is another word for fries? __________
2 is a place where you keep food cold? 6 is the animal beef comes from? __________
__________ 7 is another word for biscuits? __________
3 is a kind of fruit? __________ 8 is the animal lamb comes from? __________
4 is someone who doesn’t eat meat?
__________

9. Join each pair of sentences with so or because.

a) At school I liked art. I had a very good teacher. At school I liked art because I had a very good
teacher
b) I moved to Madrid. I got a job in Spain.
c) It rained all weekend. I stayed inside.
d) Sandro didn’t go to the party. He was sick.
e) I broke my phone. I had to buy a new one.
f) Kate wanted to help people. She became a doctor.

10. Write a profile of somebody you admire. It can be a friend, someone you know or a famous
person. Write about what they do/did and why you admire them.

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