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Part A
Vocabulary
Water sports

1 Add the missing vowels (a, e, i, o, u) to complete the water sports.

a) sw_mm_ng
b) w_nds_rf_ng
c) sc_b_ d_v_ng
d) f_sh_ng
e) s__l_ng

(5 points)

Time expressions

2 Complete with ago, in, or last.

a) I went to Spain _________ year.

b) Jack opened a store two years _________ .
c) My friends moved to the US _________ 2002.
d) Your letter arrived four days _________ .
e) I always go to the beach _________ the summer.

(5 points)

Time linkers

3 Complete with the time linkers in the box.

after at first eventually later one day suddenly

When I was eighteen, I went to Mexico with some friends. (1) _____________ we went on a long car trip.
(2) _____________ the car stopped in the middle of the road. We couldn’t start it again.
(3) _____________ , we sat and waited in the car, but (4) _____________ an hour, we decided to walk to
a town. We walked and walked, but the road was very quiet. We were alone, it was very hot and we had

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no water. Two hours (5) _____________ we stopped. We were beginning to get worried. (6)
_____________ a car came and the driver took us to the town.

(6 points)

Grammar
Simple past: regular and irregular affirmative forms

4 Write the simple past form of the verbs.

a) like ______________ e) chat ______________

b) call ______________ f) drive ______________
c) make ______________ g) study ______________
d) can ______________ h) sit ______________

(8 points)

5 Write sentences with the simple past form of the verbs.

a) Sara / do / her homework / last night

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b) I / wear / my new shoes / yesterday
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c) We / start / this book / last September
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d) The children / lose / their dog / in the park
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e) Brian / sell / his car / a week ago
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f) You / go / to New York / with your parents
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g) He / take / his girlfriend / to Paris / last summer
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(7 points)

Useful phrases
6 Choose the correct word to complete the phrases about the weather.

a) What’s / How’s the weather?

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b) It’s sun / sunny.
c) It’s / There’s cold.
d) It’s snow / snowing.

(4 points)

Part B
Pronunciation
Past forms of verbs

[Track 15]

7 Listen and underline the verb in each group which has an extra syllable in the past
form.

a) used loved started

b) called waited watched
c) pointed played worked
d) wanted asked washed
e) liked stopped shouted

(5 points)

Listening
[Track 16]

8 Listen to Matthew talking about his experience in Brazil. Underline the correct
word.

a) Matthew had a vacation / lived in Brazil when he was a child.

b) Matthew went fishing with his mother and father / brother and father.
c) The boat started rocking because a boat knocked it / it was windy.
d) Matthew’s mother and sister were on the beach / in the water.
e) Some people on the beach / in a boat helped them.

(5 points)

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Reading
9 Read the text. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?

a) On Bondi beach Valerie went windsurfing. ___

b) She watched beautiful people in Brazil. ___
c) In Thailand, the water was green. ___
d) There is a restaurant on Kalafatis beach. ___
e) She didn’t go shopping in France. ___

The top 5 beaches in the world by Valerie Crupp of Travel Today magazine
Last year I visited forty beaches to decide which were the top 5 beaches in the world. These were my favorites:
1 Bondi beach, Sydney, Australia. I went surfing and drank a beer with friendly people.
2 Ipanema beach, Rio de Janiero, Brazil. I played soccer and watched beautiful people.
3 Maya beach, Phi Phi Le, Thailand. I took a boat to this beach, and went swimming in the beautiful blue water.
4 Kalafatis beach, Mykonos, Greece. I went windsurfing and diving, and had lunch in a small beach restaurant.
5 Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France. I went shopping and drank wine in a café.

(5 points)

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