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Review 1 Test A
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Grammar
1 Complete the sentences with the correct present
form of the verbs given.
1 That man __________ (look) just like his dog.
They’re both quite ugly!
2 The lesson never __________ (finish) before
3.35.
3 __________ you __________ (meet) Gary and
Dan this evening?
4 We __________ (live) in a small flat near the
school at the moment, but soon we’ll move
closer to my dad’s work.
5 Something __________ (smell) delicious in the
kitchen!
6 Sorry, I can’t talk right now as I __________
(have) dinner with the family.
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2 Choose the correct alternative to complete the
sentences.
1 What did you say/were you saying when I came
in just now?
2 Anna was angry because I wasn’t
inviting/hadn’t invited her to my birthday party.
3 As soon as I was getting/got home, I was
packing/packed my suitcase for the holiday.
4 Jackie couldn’t take us to the station because
her car broke/had broken down.
5 My brothers were playing/played a computer
game when I went into the bedroom.
6 When we were getting/got to the airport, Leo
and Mark already checked in/had already
checked in.
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3 Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences.
1 Did you have anything to eat yet?
2 I was working on this essay for two hours and I
still haven’t finished it yet.
3 Mr Kent was been our teacher since December.
4 Keira has spoken English for she was five years
old.
5 I didn’t used to enjoy maths, but I do now.
6 Who did you wait for when I saw you
yesterday?
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Vocabulary
4 Complete the sentences with the correct words.
1 A polite adjective for someone who is old is
e__________.
2 Someone who enjoys going out and meeting
people is s__________.
3 The cases you take on holiday are called
l__________.
4 When something is very dirty, it is
f__________.
5 When a house is not connected to another
house, it is d__________.
6 When you start a journey, you s__________
o__________.
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5 Choose the correct alternative to complete the 6 Complete the sentences with the correct words.
sentences.
flat outgoing factory motorbike van
1 My cousin is a bit ___ and needs to go on a coach
diet.
A slim 1 It’s strange that Lisa is so shy because her sister
B bright is so __________.
C overweight 2 My parents refused to allow my brother to buy
a __________ when he was a teenager.
2 I’ll try to ___ the 6.30 train tomorrow morning.
3 That white __________ has driven past three
A catch times in the last ten minutes.
B miss 4 My mum used to work in a __________ that
C delay produced furniture.
3 Where did your car break ___ at the weekend? 5 The football team is travelling on a
A up __________ to the match on Saturday.
B over 6 I didn’t like living in the __________ because
C down it was on the tenth floor!
4 The ___ to Rome is £400, and that’s a little too
expensive for us. /6
A cost
B fare
C departure
5 Amelia and Sam are getting married in the ___
on Tuesday.
A town hall
B square
C port
6 The hotel was ___; it had several hundred
rooms!
A ancient
B historic
C enormous

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Reading So, what will happen to the languages and

dialects of the UK over the next 100 years? (6) ___
Or will everyone sound the same? It will be
7 Read the article from which some sentences
interesting to see.
have been taken out. Choose the correct
sentences A–G to fill the gaps. There is one
sentence you do not need.
A However, it is much more complicated than
So where in the UK are you from?
that.
The UK has so many regional accents and
B Will we still keep a local identity?
dialects that it is often very difficult for visitors to
identify them. (1) ___ They usually know from a C Experts have studied dialects for a long time
person’s accent if he or she is from the south, the and their research has shown some important
midlands, the north or London. But you need to results.
know an area quite well to be more accurate. In D We must also not forget that, as well as
fact, language experts can sometimes guess the English, there are other completely different
area a person was born and brought up in to within languages that still exist in the UK.
five kilometres! The English language is very rich E The English of today is the result of different
in its variations, and most people are naturally languages that invaders and settlers brought to
proud of their local identity. England in the past.
Many people who live outside the UK think F This is how different dialects and accents
that there are basically two accents in English: develop.
posh and working class! (2) ___ If you watch a G Even British people themselves have problems!
night’s TV in the UK, you can hear many of our
regional accents in the popular soap operas! There
is the famous east end of London accent in
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EastEnders, the Yorkshire accent in Emmerdale
and the Lancashire accent in Coronation Street. Listening (Tests CD, Track 4)
There’s a Scottish detective series called Taggart
where you can hear the accent from Glasgow
(which is very different from the accent spoken by 8 Listen to the dialogues and choose the correct
the people from the capital, Edinburgh!). Many of answers.
the more famous accents have special names too – 1 What caused the doctor to lose his memory?
Cockney for the east end of London, Geordie for A an operation
Newcastle and Scouse for Liverpool.
B an accident
Regional accents have developed over the
centuries for a lot of different reasons. (3) ___ C a prisoner attacks him
Changes in language happen because people 2 Why is Gary phoning Lea?
communicate with each other. If a community A to make an arrangement
doesn’t have much contact with another B to change an arrangement
community, then those changes don’t happen.
C to cancel an arrangement
(4) ___ For example, the accents and dialects of
north and south Wales are different because of the 3 What was the problem on the man’s holiday?
mountains that divide them. A the weather wasn’t good
(5) ___ People are fighting to keep these alive. B his children got bored
The Welsh language is still very strong. It is C another family was very noisy
spoken throughout Wales and is taught in schools.
4 Where is the girl living at the moment?
There are TV programmes completely in Welsh
and the road signs are in both languages. Gaelic is A next door to the boy
still alive and well in Scotland, and there is even a B in Kennet Road
campaign to protect Cornish, a language that C near the leisure centre
people in the West of England spoke until about
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Use of English Writing

9 Complete the second sentence so it means the 10 Choose a city that you know well and write a
same as the first, using the word given. Do not description of it for a travel magazine.
change the word given. Use between two and
five words. Write 120–170 words.
1 We saw the film and then we had a meal at a
good restaurant.
AFTER
_______________ the film, we had a meal at a
good restaurant.

2 We always went on holiday to the beach when I

was very young.
USED
We _______________ holiday to the beach
when I was very young.

3 I’ve arranged for the taxi to pick us up at 6.30

tomorrow morning.
IS
The _______________ up at 6.30 tomorrow
morning.

4 I met Danielle when we started school together

in 1996.
KNOWN
I _______________ we started school together
in 1996.

5 I was playing tennis earlier and I’m really tired

now.
HAVE
I’m really tired because _______________.

6 I started work here in 2007. /5

SINCE
I _______________ 2007. /65
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