INSTITUTO CAMBRIDGE de Cultura Inglesa –Noviembre-Diciembre 2021

NAME:
1st Year
Mod
1 TIME: 2 hours

A B FINAL MARK SET

PART A

WRITE THE CATEGORY NUMBER IN THE BOXES. There are two extra words. 10 x 0.1 = 1 mark

PLACES FAMILY ADVERBS

① ② ③

daughter fast slowly

hard sun friendly
husband grandmother shop
theatre

MATCH A LINE FROM “A” WITH A LINE FROM “B”. Write the corresponding
4 x 0.25 = 1 mark
number from B in the box. There is one extra phrase in column B.

A B B
a Can you 1 yesterday?
b Where were you 2 air conditioning in the room?
c Have you got 3 ski?
d Is there 4 singing?
5 a bike?

COMPLETE THE DIALOGUES WITH THE CORRECT EXPRESSIONS. There is

4 x 0.25 = 1 mark
one extra expression in each box.

In a shop
Customer: Excuse me. 1) ___________________________________ ● Great. Thank you.
Shop assistant: Yes. They’re over there near the window. ● Where are they?
Customer: 2) ___________________________________ ● Do you have any vitamins?
Shop assistant: You’re welcome.

In the classroom
Nat: Excuse me. 3) ___________________________________ ● Nice to meet you.
Greg: Of course. I’m Greg. 4) ______________________________ ● What’s your name?
Nat: Nice to meet you, too. My name’s Nat. Am I late? ● Can I sit here?
Greg: No, the class starts in five minutes.

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CIRCLE THE CORRECT OPTION a, b or c. TO COMPLETE THE BLANKS. 4 x 0.25 = 1 mark

1- ‘What are _____ in English?’ ‘They’re keys.’ a) this b) that c) those

2- The hotel is nice, _____ it’s not near the city centre. a) but b) and c) or
3- My birthday is _____ January. a) in b) at c) on
4- Pat and Frank are from Australia. _____ are here on a) There b) They c) Their
holiday.

COMPLETE THE TEXT ABOUT A FAMILY HOLIDAY WITH THE CORRECT

10 x 0.2 =2 marks
TENSE OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS. Use the Simple Present or the Simple Past

My family and I always go to Villa Gesell on holiday. We 1) (usually go) ____________ there by car. It 2) (be)
____________ great because we drink mate, talk and listen to music on the way. We 3) (know) ____________
a lot of people there, too. My daughter, Lisa, 4) (love) ____________ going out with her friends at night. She
5) (go) ____________ running on the beach in the morning, too.
But last year we 6) (not go) ____________ to Villa Gesell, we went to Brazil. It 7) (be) ____________ our first
time there and we loved it. We were in a beautiful house near the sea, but we 8) (not stay) _____________ there
very often. Lisa was always at the beach and I was usually with her. Our neighbours were a family from Chile
with a young boy. My daughter 9) (love) ____________ playing video games with him. Sometimes they
10) (cook) ____________ a meal for us. They were really friendly!

COMPLETE THE QUESTIONS IN THIS CONVERSATION. Use the Simple

5 x 0.4 = 2 marks
Present or the Simple Past

Two friends speak about their last weekend:

Natt: How 1) _____________________________? (your last weekend / be)

James: Fantastic!
Natt: What 2) _____________________________? (you/do)
James: I ate out with my family.
Natt: 3) ____________________________ with you?? (Liz and Fiona/ be)
James: Yes, of course.
Natt: 4)____________________________expensive? (the restaurant/ be)
James: No, it wasn’t.
Natt: 5) ______________________________ there at weekends? (you / always/go)
James: No, I don’t. It was my first time there.

READING. Read this text and circle T for true or F for false 5 x 0.4 = 2 marks

Julia is 26 years old and she is a writer for a magazine. She likes reading and listening to music after a long day.
David is 30 and he is from Oxford and teaches at the university. After work, he usually goes to the gym for an hour.
They met at a party two weeks ago. Last Saturday they went for a meal in a French restaurant. David spoke French to
the waiter. Julia ate grilled vegetables and David had meat. They both drank red wine. For dessert, they had coffee
and cake. They talked about music and books. At about 11 p.m. David paid the bill and Julia phoned for a taxi to go
home. She said goodbye to him and got into the taxi. It was a nice evening and she was very happy. She wanted to see
him again.

1. The text is about the menu of a restaurant T F

2. David speaks a foreign language. T F
3. Julia saw David for the first time last Saturday. T F
4. They drank champagne. T F
5. They didn’t go home together. T F

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 PART B

WRITING 10 marks

Use 60 to 100 words to write an INFORMAL EMAIL to an e-pal about you.

YOU are Melissa

Paragraph 1 Name Melissa

Age 34
Nationality Brazilian
Job engineer
Paragraph 2 Flat small / 2 bedrooms / a kitchen
Family 2 brothers
Languages Speak /Portuguese / Spanish
Paragraph 3 On weekdays Work / from 9 to 5 / have / yoga class on Friday
At the weekend meet friends / go to the cinema
Free time draw pictures

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CATEGORY: 1-theatre, shop 2-daughter, husband, grandmother 3-hard, fast, slowly EW: sun, friendly
MATCH: a-3 b-1 c-5 d-2
DIALOGUES: 1-Do you have any vitamins? 2-Great. Thank you. 3-Can I sit here? 4-Nice to meet you.
CIRCLE: 1-c 2-a 3-a 4-b
TENSES: 1-usually go 2-is 3-know 4-loves 5-goes 6-didn’t go 7-was 8-didn’t stay 9-loved 10-cooked
QUESTIONS: 1-was your last weekend 2-did you do 3-were Liz and Fiona 4-was the restaurant 5-Do you always
go
READING: 1-F 2-T 3-F 4-F 5-T

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