UNIT 7: Skills

GROUP B

Name: ________________________ Listening

Class: ________________________
2 [WIDGB2_Utest_7_Listening.mp3] You will hear
Dictation part of a radio programme about money. Mark
the sentences TRUE, FALSE or DOESN’T SAY
1 [WIDGB2_Utest_7_Dictation.mp3] Listen and with a cross (X) in the correct column in the
write the sentences that you hear, including table.
the punctuation.
TRUE FALSE DOESN’T
_______________________________________ SAY

1 Boris gets £5 a week

_______________________________________
pocket money.
_______________________________________ 2 Boris spends over £30 a
_______________________________________ week at the shopping
centre.
_______________________________________ 3 Boris’s wallet is
always empty.
_______________________________________
4 Boris never checks
_______________________________________ other shops to see if
_______________________________________ things are cheaper
there.
_______________________________________ 5 Boris quite likes
borrowing money.
_______________________________________
6 Jonathan thinks saving
_______________________________________ money is a waste of
__________________________________________ time.
7 Jonathan thinks that
__________________________________________ people shouldn’t use
banks.
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Reading
3 For questions 1–7, complete the article about
Amazon by choosing the correct sentence, A–
J. There are two sentences you do not need to
use.
A He looked through a dictionary and decided on
‘Amazon’.
B He used this money to move out of his garage
into new offices.
C The report said that the number of sales online
would quickly grow by 2,300%!
D Now, you can choose from thousands of
products, from electronic technology and clothes
to sports equipment and jewellery.
E He finally decided that his new business would
sell books because people always wanted books.
F And it doesn’t even have any shops you can
actually walk into.
G And this was why they decided to send the
products quickly.
H He hoped his company would be the biggest too!
I The company was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos
in Washington State in America.
J After only two months, Amazon was making
$20,000/week.
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UNIT 7: Skills
GROUP B
From garage to the biggest American shop:
Amazon.
In 2015, Amazon became the biggest
retailer (shop) in the US. 0 F . It makes
all of its money through the internet.
1
_____. Bezos read a report about the future of
selling products on the internet. 2_____. So
Bezos created a list of five products that he
could sell online: CDs, computers, computer
software, DVDs, and books. 3_____. Bezos
started the company in his garage!
He wanted a name for his company that began
with ‘A’ so that it would appear early in
alphabetical order on internet searches.
4
_____. He chose this because it was ‘exotic
and different’ and it was the biggest river in
the world. 5_____. In its first two months of
business, Amazon sold to all 50 states in the
USA and over 45 countries. 6_____.
In the beginning, it specialised in only one
product, books. 7 . It has about 88,400
employees worldwide and has sales of tens of
billions of dollars every year.
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