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ENGLISH TEST UNITS 0 and 1

3º ESO
Listening (10%)

Read the statements. Then listen to the conversation and choose the correct option.
(10 marks)
1 Claire and Kyle are doing a magazine / online / newspaper quiz.
2 The last album / song / singer Kyle listened to was by Sam Smith.
3 He ate toast / fruit / cereal for breakfast this morning.
4 He went shopping with his friends on Saturday / Sunday / Monday.
5 The last event Kyle went to was an exhibition / a parade / a funfair.
6 Kyle got presents from four / five / six people on his birthday.
7 Kyle doesn’t watch videos / sport / films very often.
8 He went to the zoo with his sister / brother / parents last year.
9 He helped out at home last Friday / Saturday / Sunday.
10 Kyle usually cooks / tidies his room / listens to music at the weekend.

Grammar (30%)

Write object or subject questions to answer the bold text below. (5 marks)
1 _______________________________________
We went to the funfair.
2 _______________________________________
My dad drove me to the concert.
3 _______________________________________
I got home late because I missed the bus.
4 _______________________________________
There were about twenty of us on the school trip.
5 _______________________________________
They bought Laura a new bike.

Choose the correct verb form. (5 marks)

1 While I was walking / walked home, my uncle drove past and offered me a lift.
2 I wasn’t hearing / didn’t hear the doorbell because I was listening to music.
3 She wasn’t eating yesterday because she
had / was having a stomach ache.
4 I took / was taking the bus home because I was carrying too many shopping bags.
5 How was she feeling / did she feel last night when you saw her?
Translate the following sentences into English (10 marks)
1 No solía ir al cine cuando era niño.

2 ¿Quién vino a la fiesta ayer?

3 En los años 70, la música jazz no solía ser muy popular en Estados Unidos.

4 Esos vaqueros azules son ajustados.

5 ¿Sueles salir de fiesta los fines de semanas?

Complete the telephone conversation with the correct forms of the verbs in the box.
(10 marks)
do feel not usually watch relax rain

Lucy Hi Ian. How (1) __________________ today?

Ian I’m very well, thanks. What (2) __________________________ at the moment?
Lucy Not much. It’s Saturday so (3) ______________________ right now. What about you?
Are you watching videos?
Ian No, (4) __________________ videos in the mornings. I’m tidying my room now.
Lucy What ___________ yesterday then?
Ian I went shopping yesterday while it________________. You know, the shopping centre
is covered!
Lucy Haha, you are right!

Vocabulary (20%)

Complete the time expressions. (5 marks)

1 ____________ Mondays
2 ____________ seven o’clock
3 ____________ the evening
4 ____________ a week – Tuesdays and Fridays
5 ____________ Saturday in the summer

Choose the best option to complete the sentences. (5 marks)

1 A ___ is an activity which becomes very popular for a short time.
a view b craze c gadget
2 A lot of people share photos on ___.
a comics b games consoles c social media
3 Some singers have millions of Facebook ___.
a followers b games c apps
 4 Pokémon were some of the first ___ to
become a craze.
a apps b posts c toys
5 Before the invention of ___ like Playstation 4, toys like Rubik’s Cubes were very popular.
a fads b games consoles c followers

Complete the sentences with the words in the box. (10 marks)

baggy blouse boots hats jacket jeans skirts socks tight trainers
1 I don’t think you need to wear a ____________ today. It’s very warm!

2 After he lost 8 kg, his old clothes were very ____________.

3 During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, men wore tall ____________. They
looked very formal.
4 Linda wore a white, short-sleeved ____________ to her job interview.
5 We didn’t use to wear skinny ____________ when I was a teenager.
6 You need new ____________. I can see your toes!
7 This top is too ____________. I need a bigger size.
8 I forgot my ____________, so I couldn’t take part in the gym lesson.
9 Before the 1960s, women wore long, knee- or ankle-length ____________ and dresses.
10 I had to wear ____________ to keep my feet warm and dry in the snow last year.

Writing (10%)

Write about what you remember from your childhood in 80 words more or less. Use some of the ideas
in the box. Remember to use the past tenses you have studied until now (10 marks)

What did you use to do in your free time? What did you like at that time? Where did you study when you were in

Primary school? What was your favourite thing to do? What was your favourite toy?

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 Reading (15%)

Fads and crazes of the sixties An interview with Tony Swanson, a pop culture historian.
How were the 1960s different?
The 1960s was the decade of self-expression. People were breaking away from the more
conservative ways of the 1950s. Bright and colourful fashion, pop music and new technology
defined the era as a time of revolution. (1 ___)
What was one of the strangest crazes?
Ant farms probably. These started when ‘Uncle Milton’ Levine took a clear plastic box and
made it into a prototype for the ant farm. And what a prototype it was! (2 ___) People used to
buy the farm, and the ants were posted separately.
What did people use to wear?
This was the beginning of the hippie era. People wore flowers in their hair and floral prints on
their tops. Men used to wear tie-dye T-shirts and women wore miniskirts. (3 ___) Large,
oversized sunglasses were also very popular.
What did young people use to listen to?
Like fashion, music in the 1960s was varied and evolving. The era is famous as the decade
when The Beatles became incredibly popular. (4 ___) Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and
The Beach Boys were new and exciting. While their parents were at home, many teenagers
were out dancing at music festivals.
Did people have technology similar to today?
Well, not quite, but a lot of the technology we know today was first seen in or evolved from
the 1960s. One of the first digital computer games, Spacewar!, was created in 1961. (5 ___)
During this time, people used to listen to their favourite music on audio cassettes.

Read the interview and match sentences a–g to gaps 1–5. There are two extra sentences
which you do not need. (5 marks)
a The first games console was designed by Ralph Baer in 1966.
b Around this time, both men and women started wearing jeans.
c People used to compete in dance competitions.
d Surf and Motown music reflected the changes in culture.
e The 1960s saw a huge change in social and cultural behaviour.
f This music fad came and went very quickly.
g In ten years he sold over twelve million of them.

Read the interview again and complete the sentences with one or two words or numbers
from the text. (10 marks)
1 The 1960s was a decade of ________________ and change.
2 People used to wait to receive the ________________ in the post.
3 The band called ________________ became incredibly famous during the decade.
4 Young people used to go to ________________ to dance.
5 The first computer games were created around ________________.