Pre-intermediate Progress Test 2

Grammar

1 Past Simple

Write complete sentences using the prompts.

What / you / buy / at the supermarket?

What did you buy at the supermarket?

1 We / not sell / our old car last year

We didn`t sell our old car last year .

2 I / see / a good film yesterday

I saw a good film yesterday.
3 Sarah / teach / English / for twenty years
Sarah teached English for twenty years.

4 Paul / be / a good ice hockey player

Paul was a good ice hockey player .

5 When / you / leave / the US?

When did you leave the US?
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2 Present Perfect Simple: experience

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs from the box.

do eat see not be read hear

We’ve done a lot of grammar exercises this week.

1 How you ever heared of a band called Midlake? They’re really good.

2 I haven`t been to many countries because I don’t like flying.

3 Jack seen Mariah Carey in concert three times.

4 I read all the Harry Potter books – I love fantasy books.

5 Have you ever eaten sushi?

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3 questions

Complete the dialogues with question words or phrases.

A: When did you go to Canada?

B: In 2005.

1 A: Why did you become a doctor?

B: I wanted to help people.

2 A: How much did your iPhone cost?

B: $400.

3 A: How long did the concert last?

B: Almost 3 hours.

4 A: how ofter do you go swimming?

B: Once a week.

5 A: Where were you born?

B: In Amsterdam

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Vocabulary

4 music

Put the letters in the correct order to make music words.

talin Latin

1 cheton techno

2 slaclasci classical

3 gragee reggae

4 avyeh latme heavy metal

5 tunryco country

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5 music

Complete the music words.

Ist Chris Martin the lead singer with Coldplay?

1 What are they singing about? I can’t understand any of the lyrics.

2 There are usually about twelve songs on an album.

3 Robbie Williams was in a band called Take That before he left and went solo.

4 Mozart is my favourite composer. I love the music he wrote for the piano.

5 Their last record was a f ail and didn’t sell many copies.

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6 achievements

Choose the correct words in italics.

I learned to speak/talk French and German when I was at school.

1 I’ve always made/done a lot of work for charity.

2 I wanted to earn/take a lot of money when I was young.

3 I passed/did my driving test yesterday. I’m so pleased.

4 I did/won an award for journalism when I was a student.

5 When I was twenty-five I said/gave a speech at an international conference.

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How to …

9 refer to past times

Complete each sentence with one word.

I was born on 15 March 1975.

1 We moved to London in 1977.

2 I started working for a record company15 years ago .

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3 I changed jobs last year.

4 After spending five years as a manager, I decided to go travelling.

5 I got married in the late nineties.

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Reading

10 Read the magazine article. Then write the questions.

Sing!

Today a lot of singers and actors use their fame to raise money for charity. You only
have to go on the internet and you can see just how many things they do. A celebrity
name at a charity event can raise thousands of dollars and it is a good way for these
people to give something back to the world that has made them rich and famous.

One such person is Scottish singer songwriter Annie Lennox. She was born on 25
December 1954 into a poor family. She grew up and went to school in Aberdeen and
when she was seventeen she moved to London and went to the Royal Academy of
Music where she studied the flute and classical music for three years.

A few years later she met Dave Stewart and between 1977 and 1980 they were in a
group, The Tourists, where she was the lead singer. When the band split up, Annie and
Dave formed a new band: Eurythmics. Together they recorded several albums. They
sold more than 75 million albums worldwide, with over twenty international hits. They
didn’t officially separate but Annie started a solo career in the 1990s. Her first solo
album, Diva, was released in 1992 and sold around six million copies. Since then she
has recorded several albums.

However, Annie Lennox isn’t just a successful singer and musician. She is a dynamic
charity fundraiser* and over the years has achieved many great results. In 2007, she
recorded a fundraising single called Sing with a 23-member choir of female celebrities
including Madonna, Shakira, kd lang, Dido and Celine Dion. The money they raised
went to Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), an organisation which works on the
African continent.

Multi-award winning Annie Lennox has come a long way since the 1980s when she was
the singer with Eurythmics. Since then, she has become a successful solo artist and has
raised money for many charities including Amnesty International, Greenpeace and
Nelson Mandela’s 46664 Foundation. She does a lot of her charity work through the
internet, which she calls ‘Laptop Activism’, and encourages everyone to do something
to make a difference.

*Fundraiser: someone who collects (or ‘raises’) money for charity by organising events

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Write the questions.

What do a lot of singers and actors do?

They use their fame to raise money for charity.

1 Who is Annie Lennox?

She’s a singer songwriter.

2 when she was born?

On 25 December 1954.

3 How many albums sold they sold worldwide ?

More than 75 million.

4 Whith whom Annie Lennox recorded a fundraising single?

Madonna, Shakira, kd lang, Dido and Celine Dion.

5 How She Does Her Charitable Activities?

Through the internet.

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