In your class, you have listened to a radio debate about how to encourage young people to

be more active. You have made the notes below:

Ideas for encouraging young people to be more active:

school sports
youth clubs
parental leadership

Some opinions expressed in the debate:

'Only a few sports are offered at school so if teens don't like these, they're put off doing
anything.'
'There just aren't enough local facilities for young people, so they end up staying at home.'
'Parents don't limit the time their children spend looking at a screen.'

Write an essay for your teacher discussing two of the ideas in your notes. You should explain
which idea for encouraging young people to be more active is more effective, giving reasons
in support of your answer. You may, if you wish, make use of the opinions expressed in the
debate, but you should use your own words as far as possible. Write your essay in 220-260
words.

EXAMPLE

Many young people do regular activities that keep them fit, but with the growing popularity of
online activities, some teenagers are becoming less active. Two potential ways of
addressing this issue are to increase the variety of sports offered at school and to fund more
youth clubs.

Offering a wider variety of sports at school is likely to be the best method of encouraging
young people to be more active. This is because currently, there are just a small number of
sports offered, which do not engage everyone. The majority of the sports are team sports
such as hockey. However, not everyone enjoys these so they stop playing. Offering activities
such as yoga or T'ai Chi may tempt more people to do sport.

A second option is to provide more youth facilities locally. As young people often stay home,
the purpose is to allow more opportunities for young people to leave home and participate in
arts and crafts and drama, as well as the kinds of sports mentioned above. These youth
clubs encourage young people to be active while pursuing their interests and socializing with
others. However, funding is required by the local government to facilitate these ideas.

In conclusion, both schools and local government can encourage young people to be more
active through more sports being offered at school and more youth club activities. The
former will probably have greater success as all school students are required to do school
sports, whereas youth clubs often attract younger teens. Older teens tend to feel they are
uncool and stop attending.
 Young people, spending too much time on the internet, became less active in their daily
lives, such as fulfilling their responsibilities or developing vital skills that have to be set early on in
their lives. To help children become more active again, school sports and youth clubs are possible
solutions.

Offering school sports clubs could be a way to let students become more active. Doing sports
can benefit students as they spend less time in front of a screen and can exercise with their
classmates, so it is not as dull and harmful. Being able to play sports with their friends can offer
children an alternative to becoming more active. Exercising holds many benefits and can help the
kids develop skills much faster and grow faster.

Another possible way to make children more active is by developing youth clubs. In this way,
children get to play and hang out with children similar to their age, and they get to attend different
activities with each other. However, some activities might not be engaging for older children who
spend more time on-screen activities. Youth clubs would be more efficient with younger populations,
in my opinion.

In conclusion, I believe youth clubs would be more limited and less effective for all younger
children. Sports can offer common interests to everyone, and a team could make children feel more
welcome and actively participate in those activities. Youth clubs are centered around playing and
hanging around with children your age, but actions there might not appeal to everyone. In my
opinion, school sports would be more effective than youth clubs to make children more active.

Test A 38/50
1. B
2. A
3. C
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. D
8. D
9. A
10. D
11. B
12. B
13. A
 14. A
15. B
16. C
17. C
18. D
19. D
20. A
21. B
22. D
23. A
24. A
25. D
26. A
27. A
28. A
29. C
30. B
31. C
32. A
33. D
34. C
35. D
36. D
37. A
38. A
39. D
40. B
41. A
42. A
43. B
44. A
45. C
46. A
47. C
48. D
49. C
50. B

Test B 38/50
1. C
2. C
3. B
4. D
5. A
6. B
7. B
8. A
9. A
 10. A
11. D
12. C
13. B
14. B
15. C
16. A
17. C
18. A
19. C
20. B
21. D
22. B
23. D
24. C
25. A
26. C
27. D
28. B
29. C
30. D
31. A
32. B
33. B
34. D
35. B
36. C
37. D
38. B
39. A
40. A
41. B
42. B
43. A
44. A
45. C
46. A
47. D
48. C
49. A
50. C

Diagnostic Test A
No Key Language Area

1 B past perfect continuous

2 A collocations

3 C past perfect simple

4 D collocations

5 B to infinitive

6 A modified nouns

7 D verb patterns: -ing forms

8 B collocations

9 A past modals

10 D inversion after adverbs

11 A present perfect continuous

12 B verb phrases + prepositions

13 C present simple

14 A quantifiers

15 B dependent prepositions
16 B linking expressions

17 C to infinitive

18 D to infinitive

19 D adverbs

20 A future perfect simple

21 B dependent prepositions

22 D past simple

23 A used to

24 B determiners

25 D to infinitive

26 A adverbs

27 C as

28 A reporting verbs

29 C collocations

30 B past perfect simple

31 C phrasal verbs
32 A linking expressions

33 D future simple

34 C present tenses for future with infinitive

35 B verb prefixes

36 D alternative conditional structures with should

37 B linking expressions

38 A adjectives

39 D would

40 C verb patterns: -ing forms and infinitives

41 B past perfect simple

42 A to infinitive

43 B collocations

44 A phrasal verbs

45 C collocations

46 D past simple

47 C wh- clefts
48 C collocations

49 C causative verbs

50 B determiners

Diagnostic Test B

No Key Language Area

1 C present perfect

2 C superlatives

3 B cleft sentences

4 D modified nouns

5 A to infinitive

6 B collocations

7 B inversion for emphasis

8 D collocations

9 A past modals

10 C adverbs
11 D present perfect continuous

12 C three-part phrasal verbs

13 B present simple

14 B verb patterns

15 C to infinitive

16 D conditionals

17 A to infinitive

18 A participle adjectives and dependent prepositions

19 C adverbs

20 B future continuous

21 D phrasal verbs

22 B present simple

23 D used to

24 C present continuous

25 A adjective modifiers

26 C present simple
27 D as

28 B past simple

29 A collocations

30 D present continuous

31 A three-part phrasal verbs

32 C quantifiers

33 B present simple with infinitive

34 B going to

35 A compound nouns

36 C conditionals

37 D linking expressions

38 B compound nouns

39 A conditional sentences

40 A past modals with need

41 C phrasal verbs

42 B modal sentences
43 A present continuous

44 D modified nouns

45 B collocations

46 C reported speech

47 D past continuous

48 B collocations

49 A cleft sentences

50 C linking expressions