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    UNIT 8: Skills

    GROUP B

    Name: ________________________
    Class: ________________________
    Listening
    Dictation
    2 [WIDGB2_Utest_8_Listening.mp3] You will hear
    1 [WIDGB2_Utest_8_Dictation.mp3] Listen and part of a radio programme about a school. For
    write the sentences that you hear, including questions 1–7, complete the notes below.
    the punctuation.
    The City Montessori School
    _______________________________________ Started by: Doctor Jagdish Gandhi
    0
    When: 1959
    _______________________________________ Where: Lucknow, in the 1__________ of
    _______________________________________ India
    How: The Gandhis borrowed about
    2
    _______________________________________ __________.

    _______________________________________ Now
    Number of pupils: 47,000
    _______________________________________ 3
    Number of staff: __________
    _______________________________________ In the school: 20 sites
    _______________________________________ 3,700 4__________
    _______________________________________ Class size: Smallest: 5__________ pupils

    _______________________________________ Largest: 50 pupils


    Average size: 40
    _______________________________________
    Pupils: Each pupil has a form tutor
    __________________________________________
    Biggest problem: getting into a
    __________________________________________ school 6__________
    Fees: Younger students: £12 per month
    /6
    Older students: £7__________ per
    month

    /7

    Reading
    3 For questions 1–7, read the text about film
    stars and mark the sentences TRUE, FALSE or

    © 2017 Pearson PHOTOCOPIABLE 1


    UNIT 8: Skills

    GROUP B

    DOESN’T SAY by putting a cross (X) in the Most film stars become famous by working
    correct box.
    hard and being talented, but some stars are
    TRUE FALSE DOESN’T
    luckier than others!
    SAY

    1 Natalie Portman wasn’t Born in Jerusalem to an Israeli father and


    born in America. American mother, Natalie Portman moved to
    2 Portman was 11 when the eastern United States when she was three.
    she started learning how She was just another 11-year-old girl enjoying
    to act. pizza at a restaurant when someone who
    3 Portman wanted to worked for a make-up company saw her and
    become a model. said she would make a really good make-up
    4 Natalie loved dancing as model. Portman told him that she wanted to
    much as acting. act, not do modelling.
    The experience gave her confidence and she
    5 She was 14 when she
    immediately started studying dance and acting
    made her first film.
    in New York. Two years later, she starred in
    6 Portman starred in four her first big film, the 1994 feature, Leon: The
    Star Wars films. Professional. The following year, Portman had
    7 Natalie stopped acting to another major role, playing Al Pacino’s
    go to university. daughter in Heat. She is now most famous for
    playing Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars
    /7 films. She made the first of them, Star Wars:
    Episode I – The Phantom Menace, in 1997–8,
    /20 when she was still at secondary school. After
    leaving school, Portman enrolled at Harvard
    University to study psychology, but wanted to
    continue working as an actress. She completed
    her university degree in 2003. During her
    studies she starred in a second Star Wars film.
    She went on to make a large number of major
    movies and she is still a popular actress today.
    It’s amazing what can happen when you go for
    a pizza!
    ;

    Becoming Famous by Accident

    © 2017 Pearson PHOTOCOPIABLE 2

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