Name_______________________________________ Class______________________________

LANGUAGE AND SKILLS TEST 5 A UNITS 9–10

VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

1 Complete the sentences with one word in each gap. You can see the first /6
letter of each word.

0 What’s your favourite TV channel? BBC World, it’s very interesting.

1 My friend’s a j_______________. He writes for The Times.

2 The Office is a great c_______________ series. It’s very funny.

3 What’s on TV tonight? I don’t know. Look in the TV g_______________.

4 Which search e_______________ do you use most? Google?

5 I like to know what’s happening in the world so I always read the i_______________ news.

6 I love listening to p_______________ -in shows. You never know what people will say.

2 Underline the correct answers: a, b or c. /6

Celebrity Big Brother

One of the most talked about TV programmes in Britain is Celebrity Big Brother. It is a
0
___________ TV show but with famous people. Usually they are people who have been
forgotten and want to get back into the 1____________ columns. The celebrities don’t often
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____________ with each other but they often 3____________ and sometimes have terrible
arguments, shouting at each other. I don’t know why they can’t 4____________ with each other.
Maybe they are just acting so that they are written about in the 5____________ newspapers. Some
people think these shows are stupid but a girl who I used to 6______________ loved them.

0 a soap b reality c documentary

1 a headline b newsagent’s c gossip

2 a fall in love b split up with c go out with

3 a fall out b fall down c fall in

4 a come on b get on c go on

5 a gossip b headline c tabloid

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 6 a get out with b fall out with c go out with

3 Complete the text with one word in each gap. /6

I listen to the radio a lot and I often listen to phone-in shows. They can be really funny. On the
other 0 _hand_ they can be really boring, too. I’ve 1 _______________ listened to one, it finished a
few minutes ago and I’ve 2 _______________ forgotten most of what was said. It was about
schools in England. I haven’t been to school 3 _______________ about twenty years but people
were still talking about the same problems. I don’t think anything 4 _______________ changed 5
_______________ I was at school. I’ve 6 _______________ telephoned to a phone-in show but
maybe one day I will.

4 Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form: active or passive. /8

One of the most popular TV shows in Britain is Dr Who. It 0 (show) has been shown on BBC
television since 1963 and there have been nine actors who 1 (play) _______________________
the part of the Doctor. It 2 (watch) _________________________ by millions of people each
week. The Doctor 3 (fight) ______________________________ many enemies; the most famous
are the Daleks, a kind of robot. The Doctor 4 (travel) _________________________ through time
but doesn’t usually know where he will stop. A lot of people say they 5 (watch)
____________________________ the programme from behind the sofa because it is very
frightening but it isn’t really frightening at all because it is obvious that the monsters 6 (make)
________________________ of plastic! I liked it best when the Doctor 7 (play)
_____________________________ by Tom Baker about thirty years ago. He 8 (act) very well
and was very funny.

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5 Underline the correct words. /4

0 I have never seen/ saw a better film than this.

1 Oh, no! Look what you have did / done!

2 Johnny isn’t here. Oh. Where has he been / gone?

3 Why haven’t you done / you haven’t done your essay?

4 Have you heard about Dennis?

Yes, I have / heard.

5 Has he eaten lunch?

No, he haven’t / hasn’t.

6 Ssh! We haven’t finished our test yet / still.

7 You’re late. Where have you been / gone?

8 Has your dog come / came home?

LISTENING SKILLS

Track 6

1 Listen to a man making a speech at his friend’s wedding. Underline the /6

correct answers: a, b or c .

1 Tony and Tina

a have been married for a long time.

b are going to be married soon.

c have just got married.

2 The speaker has known Tony

a for seven years.

b since they were seven.

c for a long time but we don’t know how long.

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3 Tony

a always did his own homework.

b never did any homework.

c copied his friend’s homework.

4 Tony invited

a one of his ex-girlfriends to the wedding.

b all of his ex-girlfriends to the wedding.

c none of his ex-girlfriends to the wedding.

5 The speaker has

a never had any problems.

b sometimes had problems.

c often had problems.

6 The speaker has learned

a that there is no secret to Tony and Tina’s relationship.

b that he can find someone as good as Tina.

c about Tina’s secrets.

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READING SKILLS
1 Read the description of the six radio stations. Match the questions (1-7) to /6
the correct station (A-F). There is one extra heading.

Which station should you listen to if you want to hear:

1 loud but not new rock music? 

2 cricket? 

3 music from different countries? 

4 new rock music? 

5 a documentary about old music? 

6 someone talking about a football match they saw? 

7 foreign language programmes? 

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COMMUNICATION
1 Complete the sentences with one word in each gap. /8

1 A Today, we’re going to talk about tabloid newspapers.

B What do you 1_______________ by tabloid?

A It’s a kind of small-sized newspaper often with lots of gossip in it.

2 A The Present Perfect is formed by using the verb ‘to have’ and the past participle.

B Could you 2 _______________ that, please?

A I said that the Present Perfect is formed by using the verb ‘to have’ and the past participle.

3 A I was talking to Karen. She used to go out with Johnny but they’ve split up now.

B Really, when was that?

A Well ...

C 3
_______________ me, can I
4
_______________ say that I think that gossiping about people is very rude.

4 A So, Sue, how was the exam?

B Well, 5 _______________ shall I

6
_______________ it? It was awful.

5 A Would you like to come to my party?

B Er, I’m not 7 _______________ really.

A What’s wrong?

B Well, you see. The 8_______________ is that I know Steve will be there and I don’t want
to see him.

Score / 50

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