Unit Test 2

Specific Competences Test: Listening, Reading, Writing

Specific Competence 1: Listening
1 02 Listen to the radio news report and tick () the correct answers.
1 Where is Michael?
A ☐at home
B ☐at the beach
C ☐in a museum
2 What are the speakers talking about?
A ☐photographs
B ☐paintings
C ☐sculptures
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2 02 Listen again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?

1 The train sculpture was terrible. ___
2 Teenagers were making the mouse. ___
3 The castles are all huge. ___
4 Michael bought a burger at a restaurant. ___
5 There are about 500 people there. ___
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3 02 Listen again. Complete the sentences with scary, brilliant, colourful, enormous or incredible.
There is one extra adjective that you do not need to use.
1 The dinosaur was .
2 The shipwreck was .
3 The mouse was .
4 The dancers’ clothes are .
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4 02 Tick () the correct answer.

1 What is sand? Sand is … .
A ☐ usually white or yellow, and there is a lot of it on the beach
B ☐ usually brown, and it comes from trees
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5 02 Listen again to check your answers.

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Specific Competence 1: Reading
6 Read the text quickly and tick () the correct answers.
1 What kind of text is this?
A ☐ a blog
B ☐ a magazine article
C ☐ a news report
2 What kind of artist is Olivia Black?
A ☐ a sculptor
B ☐ a painter
C ☐ a photographer
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This month, I’m writing about young artists, and I found this incredible artist. I love her work!

Young Artists: Olivia Black

Olivia Black calls herself ‘Livi’. She wants her art to make people smile, laugh and feel happy.
Olivia likes telling a story with her art, and showing feelings in her art.

Olivia is from Cape Town, South Africa. She finished school at Fish Hoek High in 2020. Her
mother, Kim Black, is also an artist.

When she was at school, Olivia liked drawing, not painting. Then her cousin asked her to do
some paintings, and she realized that she loved the bright colours. Now all her paintings are very
colourful.

She often paints portraits and they are often in bright colours. She really loves pink! Sometimes
the pictures are all in one colour, like pink or green or blue. She painted portraits of famous
people, like Nelson Mandela and Albert Einstein, in lots of bright colours – yellow, blue, red,
green and orange!

Olivia loves painting pictures of her friends. In 2020, she asked her friends to send her a selfie,
and she used the selfie to paint their portraits. Her portrait of her friend, Chloe, is called ‘Red-
headed Goddess’, and her portrait of another friend is called ‘Candy Land’.

My favourite Olivia Black painting is ‘Personal Metamorphosis’. She painted this when she was
still at school, and it won an art competition.

Olivia knows that her art will change as she gets older, but she is sure that she will always love
bright colours. She loves looking at her old paintings. She says that her paintings are like time
capsules for her because she can go back to the past when she remembers painting them.

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7 Read again. Complete the summary with one or two words in each gap.
Olivia Black likes her art to make people feel 1 . She 2 showing her
feelings in her art.
She is a young artist: she 3 high school in 2020.
She sometimes paints portraits of 4 people. She often uses 5 colours.
Olivia loves painting her friends, and she asks her friends for 6 . She says paintings are
like 7 .

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8 Tick () the correct sentences. Correct the wrong ones.

1 ☐ Olivia is from the UK.
2 ☐ Her cousin is an artist.
3 ☐ She uses pink in a lot of paintings.
4 ☐ ‘Candy Land’ is a picture of her friend.
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9 Read the blog again to check your answers.

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Specific Competence 2: Writing
10 Imagine that the English Club at your school is organizing a story-writing competition. Write a short
story using the ideas below or your own ideas.
a Think and plan
First, think about your story.
• Main characters: you and your friend called .
• Setting: a street in the city where you live. Describe the street.

• You were looking for something (e.g. your football), and you walked into a building. Describe the
building.

• In the building, you found an unusual object, animal or piece of art. What did you find? Describe it.

• How did you feel when you saw it? What did you do? Did you or your friend say something?

• Decide on an ending for your story.

b Write
Now write your story on the lines below. Write 100–130 words.
Make sure you:
• use adjectives to describe places and things, and the characters’ feelings
• use exclamation marks (!) after dramatic events or words
• check your use of the past simple and past continuous
• check your spelling and punctuation
• check that the story has all the information from your plan

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Specific Competence 3: Interaction
11 Imagine you are sitting in a café. From the café windows you see the scenes in the photos below.
Write a message to a friend to tell them what you can see.

Scene 1 Scene 2

Describe each scene. Write 30–40 words. Use the words below or your own ideas.
• Say what you can see (e.g. I can see …, There is / are …).
• Say where things are (e.g. in the background, on the left, next to, in front of, behind, etc.).
• Say what is happening / what people are doing (e.g. The person on the (left / right) is …, They are -ing …).

Scene 1
Useful words: piano, shops, trees, music equipment

Scene 2
Useful words: food stall, hot dogs, traffic light, trees, park, monument

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Specific Competence 4: Mediation
12 Imagine your English-speaking friend is very interested in art. You read a blog about Olivia Black’s art
and you think he will like it. Write a short message telling him about her art.
• Say what kind of art Olivia Black does.
• Say two interesting facts about her or her art.

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