UNIT 7: Skills

GROUP B

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 meat her grandma cooked

was
_______________________________________
_______________________________________ A like soup.

_______________________________________ B very soft.

C almost black.
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
2 Speaker 1’s parents
_______________________________________
A disliked Grandma’s meat and her cakes.
_______________________________________
B liked her grandma’s cooking of meat.
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C thought her grandma’s cakes were delicious.

3 Which kind of music does Speaker 2 like?

A techno

B country

C pop

4 What type of TV programmes does Speaker 2’s

dad like?

A game shows

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GROUP B

B comedy READING

C science fiction
5 Speaker 3 says that going to the dentist‘s
3 Read the article about living like people sixty
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 was worse than going to the doctor’s.

Sentences T F ?
B was better than taking medicine they got at
home. The family lived like people in the
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nineteenth century.
C was better than visiting the doctor’s.
They stayed in the house for two
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weeks.
6 Speaker 3 says that the medicine from the doctor
Emily hated the TV programmes
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A had a good taste. because they were black and white.

B made him feel better. Emily watched a lot of comedy

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programmes.
C tasted better than medicine at home.
Emily’s favourite part of the
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/6 experience was going to school.

Emily loved the food because the

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ingredients were all fresh.

Emily thought that the fast food they

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ate was delicious.

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GROUP B

Life in a Nineteen-Fifties House

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

century family spent two weeks living in the same
way as people in the 1950s. One month after
filming in the specially designed house finished,
we talk to Emily, one of the children, about her
experience.

Q: What was the most difficult part of the

experience?

A: I think it was the TV. I know it sounds strange,

but the TV was very small and the picture was
black and white, not colour. I didn’t mind that,
really – I didn’t notice it after a while, but the
programmes themselves weren’t great.
Compared to today’s shows, they seemed very
boring. My dad watched loads of the comedy
shows and loved them. They didn’t seem very
funny to me.

Q: And what about the best thing?

A: The school was fun and it seemed easier than

my normal school, but I suppose what was most
enjoyable was the food! I know that Mum and
Dad had to spend a lot of time making it, but
what we ate was so healthy. We had very little
fast food, just a few chips, and there was no
tinned or frozen food either, really. I felt so
good after eating it.

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