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Skills Test 3B* (Units 7–9)

Listening Track 6
Track 5 3 Listen to an interview. Are the
1 Listen to the talk. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?
sentences true (T) or false (F)? 1 Most stunts aren’t created
1 Fairtrade companies make by computers. T/F
sure that people don’t 2 A lot of stuntmen and
work in dangerous women take part in some
conditions. T/F action films. T/F
2 Fairtrade products cost a 3 Some stunts cost a billion
lot more than other dollars. T/F
products. T/F 4 Naomi doesn’t make a
3 Cocoa trees grow in lot of money from her job. T / F
Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire 5 She would like to do
and China. T/F extreme sports, but she
4 Cocoa farmers only grow hasn’t got time. T/F
cocoa beans. T/F 6 She worked for eight hours
5 Fairtrade can help people in one day when she did
get clean water. T/F her first job. T/F
6 People can help poor 7 She was very tired when
farmers if they buy she finished this job. T/F
Fairtrade chocolate. T/F 8 She hardly ever practises
her stunts. T/F
9 She was jumping from a
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bridge when she hurt her
leg. T/F
2 Listen again and complete the 10 She thinks other people
sentences. Use one word in each have more dangerous
gap. jobs than her. T/F
1 Fairtrade companies help people
who work in factories and on ___/10 marks
.
2 They want people to have
enough money to send their Reading
children to . Text 1
3 Some companies pay cocoa
farmers less than fifty cents a 4 Read the article. Choose the
. correct answers.
4 People can help cocoa farmers if 1 Which sentence is true?
they start a . a The writer cares about how
food is produced.
b This article is about people who
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love eating.
2 Which is the best heading for the
text?
a LEARN MORE ABOUT TASTY
FOOD
b FOOD WHICH DOESN’T growers in your area. Here are some ways to do
DAMAGE THE ENVIRONMENT this:
• Make sure that 30 per cent of your food comes
from your local area – in other words, not more
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• When you go into shops, supermarkets and cafés,
ask for food which is produced locally.
5 Read the article again. Are the • Go shopping at your local market. It might sell
sentences true (T) or false (F)? wonderful, fresh, local products – cheese, meat,
1 More people are thinking bread, cakes, jam, fruit and vegetables.
about the food they eat. T / F Another way to help the environment is to grow
2 The food people like is your own food. Try growing fruit trees and
expensive at the vegetables like potatoes in your garden. If you
supermarket. T/F haven’t got a garden, you can grow tomatoes and
3 All the animals on farms herbs on your balcony. And if you haven’t got a
balcony, you can grow herbs like basil near your
live in bad conditions. T/F kitchen window.
4 It is good for the
environment to eat local If you haven’t got a garden, why don’t you join a
food. T/F food group? Is there a piece of land near your home
5 Some farmers get too which you and your neighbours can use? If there is,
you can plan a garden together, work in it together
much money for their in your free time, and share the fruit and vegetables
products. T/F which you grow.
6 Food which comes from
30 kilometres away is
local. T/F
7 You don’t need much Text 2
space to grow tomatoes. T / F 6 Read the text. Answer the
8 We can grow all our food questions. Use one, two or three
on our balconies. T/F words for each answer.
1 Which country is near
___/8 marks Washington?

2 How many big volcanoes does


What have you eaten today? How much of it was Washington have?
produced locally? How far did the milk
in your coffee travel? Where did those breakfast 3 When did scientists notice that
eggs come from? How much diesel did the lorry Mount St Helens was growing
use to bring those vegetables to your dinner table? bigger on the side?
More and more people are thinking about these
questions. 4 What did they tell people?
Large food companies and supermarkets have
controlled our food for a long time. They sell the 5 How far away was Mount St
food which we love cheaply, and they hope we will Helens from Jeff and Rachel’s
forget other important things. But customers are home?
slowly beginning to ask important questions about
the food which they buy. When they buy eggs or 6 How did Jeff and Rachel take
meat, for example, they think about where the their canoe to the Yakima River?
animals live and the food they eat. Do they live
comfortably? Do they have clean water to drink,
and do they eat good food? How far do the eggs, 7 What was the weather like on
milk or meat travel from the farm to the 18th May 1980?
supermarket? How much are the farmers paid?

If you worry about things like this, you can help.


The best way is to support local farmers and food
8 How did Jeff and Rachel feel Writing
when they heard Mount St
Helens was erupting? 7 Complete the letter with the words
in the box.
9 Did they get home safely? comment dear easy
example finally first
10 What did Jeff keep as a
if in in in kind
souvenir?
local says second
writing
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1 Green News,
Mount St Helens is in Washington State. It isn’t
anywhere near Washington DC, the capital city of I am 2 to 3 on the article
the USA. Washington DC is in the east of the about shopping in last month’s magazine.
country, but Washington State is in the north-west, 4 his article, John Harrison
near Canada. 5 that people can’t make a difference to
the environment. However, 6 my
Washington has six big volcanoes, and some of opinion, we can make a difference. Here are some
them are thousands of metres high. In 1980 things we can do.
scientists noticed that one volcano, Mount St
Helens, was growing bigger on one side. They were 7 , we can stop using so many plastic
worried because this was a sign that it was bags to carry our shopping. We can take our own
becoming more active. They watched the volcano bags with us from home. It is very 8 to
for many days and told people in the area to be make this simple change.
careful. However, it was hundreds of miles from
Jeff and Rachel’s home, so they weren’t worried. 9 , we can think about where our food
comes from and how it is produced. For
On 18th May, 1980 Jeff and Rachel went canoeing 10 , was it grown using large amounts
on the Yakima River, near the town of Ellensburg. of energy? Did it travel thousands of miles to reach
They parked their car, and then they hiked to the us? Is there some 11 food we could buy
river, carrying their canoe. It was a sunny morning, instead?
and they were enjoying their day.
12 , we can think about how we get to
After a while they noticed that the sky was getting the supermarket. Why do we have to go by car?
darker, and that a kind of sand was falling from the Can’t we walk or go by bike? This would help us
sky. Finally, it became dark, and they felt very buy less and save money too!
scared. They got out of the river and went back to
their car, an old Volkswagon. Other cars were 13 conclusion, we can protect the
coming down the valley road with their headlights environment in many ways. We just need to spend
on because it was so dark. Jeff and Rachel stopped some time thinking about small changes to our
one of the cars and the driver told them that Mount daily behaviour. 14 enough people do
St Helens was erupting. They were less scared this, it will make a big difference to our world.
when they heard this. They were a long way from
the mountain and they felt safe. 15 regards,
Annie Stewart
While Jeff and Rachel were driving home, grey ash
from the volcano was falling. Some cars didn’t get
out of the valley because the ash got into the ___/15 marks
engines of their cars, but Jeff and Rachel’s old car
continued to go. Their clothes and hair were full of
ash, but they arrived home safely. Jeff kept some of 8 Last week there was an article in
the ash in a glass jar, as a souvenir of a dramatic your local newspaper about
day. They heard later that, sadly, sixty people died teenagers in your town. The article
because of the volcanic eruption.
said that teenagers are lazy, they sit
in the park all day in the holidays
and they don’t do anything useful in
their free time. Write a formal letter
to the newspaper and give your
opinion.

Paragraph 1
Give your reason for writing and say
what the real problem is.

Paragraph 2
Say what actions we can take.

Paragraph 3
Write your conclusion.

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Total: ___/70 marks

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