UNIT 8: Skills

GROUP B

Name: ________________________
Class: ________________________

DICTATION
1 [WIDGB1_Utest_8_Dictation.mp3] Listen and
write the sentences that you hear, including
the punctuation.
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LISTENING
2 [WIDGB1_Utest_8_Listening.mp3] Listen to a
teacher and students talking about language
and say if these sentences are True (T), False
(F) or Doesn’t say (?).Put a cross (X) in the
correct place in the table.

_______________________________________ Use this key to help:

Sam = the teacher
_______________________________________ Rafa = the first student
Monika = the second student
_______________________________________ Anna = the third student
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Sentences T F ?
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1 Sam’s friend was from Spain.
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_______________________________________ 2 Sam’s friend had a baby.

_______________________________________ Rafa’s boss thought what he said

3
_______________________________________ was funny.

_______________________________________ 4 Rafa had a cold.

_______________________________________
Monika really enjoyed visiting
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_______________________________________ Manchester.

/7 Anna asked for help in a shop in

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Germany.

7 Anna asked for help with her dog.

/7

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 UNIT 8: Skills

GROUP B

READING The World’s Most Spoken Language

3 Read the article about the Mandarin Chinese
language and complete the notes below. Use There are about 6,900 languages spoken in the
a maximum of TWO words or a number in world. The number of speakers of these languages
each gap. goes from tiny to very large. One of those
languages which have a very large number of
speakers is Mandarin Chinese with nearly 1 billion
The Mandarin Language
speakers! It’s only one of 297 languages that
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Almost ________________ people have Mandarin people speak in China, but it’s by far the biggest.
as a native language. About 70% of the population speak it, compared to
the 6.5% that speak the next biggest language, Wu.
2
There are ________________ languages spoken in Language experts think that it spread to so many
China. people in China because it’s a language from the
3 north of the country. There aren’t as many
Around ________________% of Chinese people
mountains in the north so it was easier for people
speak Mandarin Chinese.
to travel and for the language to travel too.
Geography of China: The south of China has more The Chinese government uses Mandarin in most of
4
________________ than the north. the country, especially in the capital city, Beijing.
5
In Hong Kong and Macau, however, government
The Government uses ________________ official officials can also use Cantonese. No other
languages. languages are used by the government.
The vocabulary of Mandarin contains around The Mandarin vocabulary is quite large. It has
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________________ words. more words than French, for example (370,000
words compared to around 350,000), but fewer
/6 than English, which has around 470,000 words.
Many students of Mandarin find the grammar quite
/20 easy, but the pronunciation is more of a problem.

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