EXAM: Reading and Writing Exam: Christmas 2020 Teachers:

Chris and Susan

Class: B1 Open World Date: 9/12/20

1. What are the OCCUPATIONS? Write them down.

1. The person who helps you in a shop. …………………

2. The person who cooks in a restaurant. ………………..

3. The person who cuts your hair………………….

4. The person who fixes your car……………………

5. The person who looks after your flowers and trees…………………..

6. The person who makes your neighbourhood safe……………………

7. The person who serves you in a restaurant………………………

2. Complete the sentences with THE SENSES. They CAN BE REPEATED!

1. Blue cheese tastes great but it __________________________ disgusting!

2. Mmm, what are you cooking? It __________________________ absolutely delicious.

3. A new Marvel film? That __________________________ interesting to me.

4. Come and touch my dog he __________________________ really soft.

5. That soup smells nice, but it __________________________ even better mmmmmmm!

6. That new Justin Bieber and David Bisbal song ________________ terrible

3. Add the correct word to the sentences below.

MAKE EAT HANGS OUT WITH HAVE WORK OUT GOES MEET

1. Sandra usually …………………….friends at the weekend.

2. Miguel ………………… at the gym every Friday.

3. How often does Alberto ………….. dinner for his family?

4. Nobody in Spain …………….. to college on Saturdays.

5. We like to ……………. a shower before we go to bed.

6. Do you want to ……………… up with me at Parquesur this evening?

7. I rarely ……………. out because restaurants are too expensive in Leganés Norte.

4. Complete the sentences with PRESENT PERFECT or PAST SIMPLE of the verbs in
brackets.

1. Laura and Sandra _________________________ _________________________ in the

same house since they were children. (live)

2. Who _________________________ _________________________

_________________________ (Alberto) to when I saw him yesterday? (talk)

3. Donald _________________________ _________________________

_________________________ (never eat) tapas before.

4. Clara _________________________ her leg while she was on holiday so she is at home.
(break)

5. Miguel _________________________ _________________________ the last season of

Game of Thrones yet. (not see), He doesn´t know that ………

6. PRESENT PERFECT KEYWORDS:

YET/ALREADY/SINCE/FOR/EVER/NEVER

1. Have you ……………been to a music festival?

2. I’ve ……………… seen this film so I don’t want to see it again.

3. We’ve lived here ………………. 2010.

4. Mark has played the piano every day ……………. years.

5. I’ve ……………. been interested in modern art. I just don’t understand it.

6. Haven’t you finished that book ………….? You’ve had it for ages!

7. We’ve known Paula ………….. she was little.

8. I haven’t listened to Ed Sheeran’s latest album ………….

5. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the

COMPARATIVES or SUPERLATIVES

1. The train station is ____FURTHER____ from the hotel _THAN__ you

think.(FAR)

2. . German is not ___AS EASY AS_____ Spanish. In fact I think it’s very
hard to learn. (EASY)

3.What’s __ ___ way to get to the airport? (GOOD)

4. That was _________________ meal I’ve ever had. It was really

disgusting! (BAD)

5. The streets in the city centre are much ____________ at night

_______________ during the day because all the bars are open. (NOISY)

6. I don’t think Paris is as _________________ _________________ London,

where everything costs so much. (EXPENSIVE)

7. Cycling around the city is _______________________

_______________________ way to travel, but be careful! (GREEN)

8. Your suitcase is _______________________ _______________________ mine!

Why have you packed so much stuff? (BIG)
6. Complete the sentences with the words below.
BUY SOUVENIRS | HIKING | TAKING PHOTOS | SIGHTSEEING | SUNBATHING
JOURNEY | TOUR | TRANSPORT | TRAVEL | TRIP

1. My _______________________ to college takes over an hour.

2. Air ____________________ is expensive, but fast.

3. We always ______________ ________________ to remind us of our holidays.

4. David enjoys ____________ ___________________ with his new camera.

5. My parents are going on a ___________________ to the USA this summer.

6. The easiest way to get to the city centre is on public _______________________.

7. I think lying in the sun and _________________________ for hours is really boring.

8. I’d like to go on a _______________________ of the Alhambra this autumn.

9. Do you want to go ____________________ in the mountains next weekend?

10. I don’t want to go _____________ again today because all the museums are so crowded.

7. THE WEATHER

1. It’s quite …………… today, so I’ll take a jacket with me.

2. The ………………… in the UK is wetter

than in Spain.
CHILLY FINE
3. It feels very hot and ……………. today. BREEZE CLIMATE
Do you think it’s going to rain? HUMID COOL
LIGHTNING SUN
4. There was a storm last night and the …………. lit up SHOWERS DULL
the sky.

5. Can you hear the …………… blowing through the trees?

6. The forecast says it’s going to be ……….….. tomorrow so let’s go to the beach.

7. After a heavy ………………. the garden looks so green.

8. I always wear a hat when I sit in the ………………….

8. Complete the sentences with the words below. USE THE PRESENT SIMPLE
GRAMMAR!

BOTHERED | CRAZY | ENJOY | FAN | INTO | MIND

1. Victor is ______________________ about FIFA but he can get stressed with it sometimes.

2. Clara´s not ______________________ about football she prefers swimming.

3. José doesn´t ______________________ staying at home in the evenings, it´s no problem

for him

4. Judd is really ______________________ binge watching her favourite series on Netflix.

5. Alice isn’t a ______________________ of studying Russian literature.

6. Leticia really ______________________ going to the theatre.

9. SO or SUCH?

1. Tenet is …………. an exciting film but the plot is a bit complicated.

2. I’m ………….. tired after all the exams at school this week.

3. Christmas time is ……………. a great holiday.

4. Miguel is ……………… a great dancer, he moves like Michael

Jackson!

5. We’re …………….. pleased with the result, Barcelona lost 5-1 to

Leganés.

6. San Nicasio is ………………… a popular tourist destination.

10. Complete the sentences with the words below.

ATMOSPHERE | CHEERFUL | FAMILY | HOME | JUNK | VALUE

1. Our local café is cheap and ________________________ and always busy.

2. I think ________________________-cooked food is much healthier than ready-made
meals.

3. Gino’s is a ________________________ run restaurant. Gino opened it 50 years ago and

now his son is the chef.

4. The daily specials are really good ________________________ for

money.

5. The restaurant has a very welcoming ________________________ and

the staff are all really friendly.

6. You eat far too much ________________________ food. You know it’s
not good for you.

11. FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD

Write the answers to the definitions.
STARTER TIP
1. The money you give the waiter for good service………….
BILL MIX
2. You eat soup from one of these………….. BOWL POUR

3. This is the first course of a meal………….. GRILL PLATE

HEAT WAITER
4. You put your food on one of these. …………..
POUR DISHES

5. You ask for this at the end of your meal in a restaurant……………

FRY GRATE

PUT
6. A restaurant usually has several of these for each
course…………….

7.. …………….. cream to the soup before serving.

8. ……………. all the ingredients together.

9. First you need to ……………….. half a litre of milk into a large

saucepan.
10. ……………….. the water until it boils.
11. I always ………………. meat because there isn’t so much fat.

12. ………………… the cheese and then put it on the pasta

13. You need a lot of oil when you ……………… chips.
14. ……………….. the water into the saucepan.
18. Complete the sentences with too, to or enough.

1. It was ____________________ cold to go out yesterday.

2. My English isn’t good ____________________ to understand.

3. Have you got ____________________ money for the train ticket?

4. I’m too busy ____________________ help you today.

5. You’re not old ____________________ to watch this film.

6. Sarah was ____________________ excited to sleep before her trip.

19. Complete the sentences with the correct form of used to.

1. _________________________ watch a lot of TV when you were younger?

(you)

2. I _________________________ enjoy going to the theatre, but now I love

it.

3. We _________________________ go to a lot of concerts with our parents

because they loved music.

4. Paul _________________________ read many books, but now he does.

5. _________________________ play the guitar in the college band? (your

brother)

6. My sister _________________________ spend a lot of time listening to

music.
READING
1. Read the texts and decide if the sentences are correct. Put a tick  in the box under A for
YES or a tick under B for NO.
NEW TECHNOLOGY FINDS OLD HISTORY
History professor Indiana Sánchez has discovered almost two thousand ancient sites in
Arroyo Culebro, despite being in Australia. Instead of using traditional tools, he found the
underground sites from space using satellite technology available to everyone.

To find the sites, Indiana looked at hundreds of images and compared them to pictures of
known sites. As well as that, he asked a friend who lives in Arroyo Culebro to visit two
locations and take photos. These confirmed his results. The professor believes the sites could
be over 8,000 years old, although he cannot be sure without tests on the ground.

Traditionally, this kind of technology was expensive and only available to scientists.
However, these days an internet connection is enough and ordinary people can also get
involved. In fact, thousands of people have joined in the search since satellite images of Earth
appeared online, so we can expect more discoveries like this in the future.
IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME
The Egypt Exploration Society and the University of San Nicasio in Leganés have put
thousands of pieces of valuable documents, all written in ancient Greek, online as part of a
project called Ancient Lives. They want people at home to help them translate them. The texts
were written almost 2,000 years ago when Egypt was under the control of Greece. Two
students discovered them in 1896 buried under sand in an ancient rubbish dump. It took them
ten years to collect almost 200,000 pieces. Since that time, the university has looked after the
documents, which include literature and letters that tell us about life 2,000 years ago.

Students have studied the texts for decades but they haven’t translated them all yet. In fact,
they’ve examined just two per cent. The University of San Nicasio says you shouldn’t worry
if you’ve never studied Greek. You just need to match the characters the computer shows you.
So anyone can have a go.
A B
YES NO
1 Professor Indiana Sanchez lives in Saudi Arabia.  
2 He discovered the new sites using specialised university equipment.  
3 Indiana's friend checked his discoveries by going to the sites.  
4 There is a possibility that the sites are more than 8,000 years old.  
5 More examination of the sites is needed to confirm their age.  
6 Satellite technology can be used by everyone today.  
7 The future may bring more interesting discoveries.  
8 The Ancient Lives exhibition has many texts written in Egyptian.  
9 The general public are being asked to translate the texts.  
10 In 1896 two students found the texts among rubbish.  
11 Ten years ago all 200,000 pieces of text were put together.  
12 The documents tell us about life 20,000 years ago.  
13 You can help translate the texts even if you don't know ancient Greek.  