UNIT 7: Skills

GROUP A

Name: ________________________

Class: ________________________

DICTATION
1 [WIDGB1_Utest_7_Dictation.mp3] Listen and
write the sentences that you hear, including
the punctuation.

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_______________________________________ LISTENING

_______________________________________ 2 [WIDGB1_Utest_7_Listening.mp3] Listen to the

radio programme about the things that people
didn’t like in the past and choose the correct
_______________________________________
answer (A, B or C).

_______________________________________ 1 Speaker 1 says the vegetables her Grandma

cooked were
_______________________________________
_______________________________________ A too hard.

_______________________________________ B very soft.

C almost black.
_______________________________________
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2 Speaker 1’s parents
_______________________________________
A didn’t like any of Grandma’s cooking.
_______________________________________
B liked her Grandma’s meat and vegetables.
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C didn’t really like Grandma’s cakes.

3 What does Speaker 2’s dad think is boring?

A country music

B techno music

C pop music

4 What type of TV programmes does Speaker 2

like?

A music

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B comedy READING

C science fiction
5 Which of these things did Speaker 3 dislike most?
3 Read the article about living like people 150
years ago and say if the sentences are True
(T), False (F) or Doesn’t say (?).Put a cross (X)
in the correct place in the table.

A taking the doctor’s medicine

Sentences T F ?
B going to the dentist
The family lived like people in the
C seeing the doctor 1
nineteenth century.

They stayed in the house for two

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6 Speaker 3 says that the medicine they got at weeks.
home
Albert loved playing the games they
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A made him feel better. played as families in the past.

B had a good taste. Albert really missed playing on the

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computer.
C was horrible.
Albert likes learning at school more
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Albert worked as well as learning

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during the filming.

Albert’s mum preferred life back then

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to life now.

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GROUP A

Life in a Nineteenth-Century House

As part of a recent TV programme, a twenty-first-

century family spent one month living in the same
way as people in the 1850s. Two weeks after
filming in the specially-designed house finished,
we talk to Albert, one of the children, about his
experience.

Q: What was the best thing about the experience?

A: I think it was finding lots of new (or maybe that

should be old!) and exciting things to do. I
climbed a lot of trees and made lots of things.
Normally, we play games together or I find
things to do on the computer, but I really
enjoyed doing different stuff and didn’t really
think about using my laptop or smartphone.

Q: And what about the worst thing?

A: The education! We learnt everything at home

with Mum and Dad. Not all children had to go
to school until 1880 and even then it was only
children aged 5–10. Most young people my age
already had jobs. I felt very happy to have a
good school! Mum tried her best, but she was
too busy with other things. Women in those
days had to do everything in the home, so I
think Mum wasn’t too unhappy when we
returned to the twenty-first century!

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