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Skills Test 1A (Units 1–3)

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Listening 2 Who saw Alien Wars last week?
a Eric b Eric’s dad
Track 1
c Eric’s mum
1 Listen to Lisa and Eric. Circle true (T) or 3 What kind of film is Kings and
false (F). Queens?
1 Lisa and Eric came to the sports a a war film b a historical film
centre together. T/F c a documentary
2 Lisa’s sister loves archery. T/F 4 When did Eric see Kings and Queens?
3 Eric’s brother is playing football. T / F a last night b last week
4 Eric often plays tennis and basketball. c last month
 T/F 5 What did Eric think of Kings and
5 Lisa plays ice hockey at the weekend. Queens?
 T/F a He loved it. b He didn’t mind it.
6 Eric wants to go ice-skating with Lisa. c He hated it.
 T/F 6 Who liked Kings and Queens?
/6 a Lisa b Eric’s mum
c Lisa’s mum
2 Listen again. Write Lisa (L) or Eric (E). 7 What do Lisa and Eric want to eat?
Who … a pizza b popcorn c burgers
1 always goes to the sports centre on
Wednesdays? /7
2 likes watching tennis?
3 thinks the other person is lucky? Writing
1 Put the correct punctuation in the
4 wants to do a sport with the other sentences.
person?
1 do you like basketball
/4 2 yes I do its my favourite sport
Track 2 3 I play basketball with my school team
on tuesdays thursdays and saturdays
3 Listen to Lisa and Eric. Answer the
questions. 4 my favourite basketball player is pau
gasol
1 Where are Lisa and Eric?
5 hes fantastic
2 Did they have a good time there?
/5
3 Where does Lisa want to go?
2 Complete the sentences with and, but
or because.
/3 1 Tennis is an exciting game
I love it.
4 Listen again. Choose the correct
answers. 2 I like football I can play it
with my friends.
1 What kind of film is Alien Wars?
3 I can’t ride a horse, I
a science fiction b war want to learn.
c historical
4 I can run I can’t swim.

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5 They didn’t win the match a in Shakespeare’s time.
they didn’t play well. b a famous actor.
/5 c three Oscars in 1999.
d not a new film.
3 Write about your favourite sport. Make e from a rich family.
sentences with linking words and
f Shakespeare can’t marry Viola.
correct punctuation.
g a famous British writer.
Paragraph 1
h there is a woman called Viola.
What is your favourite sport?
i a poor man.
Do you play it or watch it?
When do you play/watch it. /9
Who do you play/watch it with?
Shakespeare in Love
Paragraph 2
My favourite film is Shakespeare in Love.
Why do you like it? It isn’t a new film, but my parents have the
Paragraph 3 DVD, and I love watching it. Tom Stoppard, a
famous British writer, wrote it together with an
Who is your favourite player?/Which is American, Marc Norman. There are also some
your favourite team? famous actors in the film: Joseph Fiennes,
Why is he/she/it your favourite? Gwyneth Paltrow, Colin Firth and Judi Dench.
Shakespeare in Love isn’t really a historical
/ 10 film. It’s a love story. In the film, Shakespeare is
a young man. He is poor, but he wants to make
money and he is trying to write a play: Romeo
Reading and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter. He finds
Text 1 a fantastic actor, Thomas Kent, for the part
of Romeo, but Thomas isn’t the actor’s real
1 Read the text quickly. Then choose the name. In fact, Thomas isn’t a man. ‘He’ is a girl
correct answer. from a rich family, and ‘his’ real name is Viola
de Lesseps. In Shakespeare’s time, there were
1 What kind of text is it? no women actors. Young men played all the
a a biography b a film review girls and women, so Viola doesn’t want people
c an email to know she is a girl. But Shakespeare learns
Viola’s secret, and they fall in love.
/1 In my opinion, Shakespeare in Love is a
brilliant film. It won three Oscars in 1999.
2 Read the text again. Match the It’s sometimes very funny, but it’s also sad,
sentence beginnings (1–9) with the because Shakespeare and Viola can’t get
endings (a–i). married. At the end of the film, Viola marries a
rich man and she goes with him to America.
1 Shakespeare in Love is But Shakespeare never forgets her, and he
2 Tom Stoppard is writes a play about a woman called Viola:
Twelfth Night.
3 Judi Dench is
4 In the film, Shakespeare is
5 Viola de Lesseps is
6 Women didn’t become actors
7 Shakespeare in Love won
8 Shakespeare in Love is sad because
9 In the play Twelfth Night,

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Text 2 Logged in
3 Read the text and answer the
questions. Mary Richards was my great-grandmother,
my mum’s grandmother. I never knew
1 Was Mary the writer’s grandmother? her, but Mum says she was a very
special person. Mary was born in a
small town in England in 1914. She
2 Did the writer know Mary? was a clever girl, and she wanted to
be a doctor, but girls hardly ever
went to university in those days.
3 Where was Mary born? Mary’s family were poor, so Mary left
school when she was only 14 to find a
job in the kitchen of a big London
4 When was she born? restaurant.
One day, a young man called Larry
came to the restaurant. He saw Mary
5 What did she want to become? and they fell in love. But they were
both very poor and very young, so they
didn’t get married for a long time.
6 How old was she when she left
Finally, in 1935, Larry and Mary
school? got married. Two years later, they
had a baby girl, my grandmother,
and then they had another baby, a
7 Where did she find a job? little boy this time. Larry worked
hard to make money for his family,
and after the Second World War he and
8 How many children did Mary and Larry his family lived in a big house with
have? servants. And that’s when Mary said
to him one day: ‘Larry, I want to go
back to school, and then I want to go
9 What did Larry buy after the Second to university.’
World War? Mary was 33 years old, but she went
to night school and studied hard. She
had excellent marks, and so she went
10 What year did Mary retire? to university and became a doctor. She
retired in 1980 and died in 1989, ten
years before I was born.
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