UNIT 7: Skills

GROUP A

Name: ________________________
Class: ________________________

DICTATION LISTENING
1 [WIDGB1_Utest_7_Dictation.mp3] Listen and 2 [WIDGB1_Utest_7_Listening.mp3] Listen to the
write the sentences that you hear, including radio programme about the things that people
the punctuation. 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.
_______________________________________
_______________________________________ 2 Speaker 1’s parents
A didn’t like any of Grandma’s cooking.
_______________________________________ B liked her Grandma’s meat and vegetables.
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
_______________________________________ B comedy
C science fiction
_______________________________________
5 Which of these things did Speaker 3 dislike most?
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A taking the doctor’s medicine
B going to the dentist
C seeing the doctor

6 Speaker 3 says that the medicine they got at

home
A made him feel better.
B had a good taste.
C was horrible.
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 UNIT 7: Skills

GROUP A

READING Life in a Nineteenth-Century House

3 Read the article about living like people 150
years ago and say if the sentences are True As part of a recent TV programme, a twenty-first-
(T), False (F) or Doesn’t say (?).Put a cross (X) century family spent one month living in the same
in the correct place in the table. way as people in the 1850s. Two weeks after
filming in the specially-designed house finished,
Sentences T F ? we talk to Albert, one of the children, about his
The family lived like people in the experience.
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nineteenth century.
Q: What was the best thing about the experience?
They stayed in the house for two
2
weeks.
A: I think it was finding lots of new (or maybe that
Albert loved playing the games they should be old!) and exciting things to do. I
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played as families in the past. climbed a lot of trees and made lots of things.
Normally, we play games together or I find
Albert really missed playing on the things to do on the computer, but I really
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computer.
enjoyed doing different stuff and didn’t really
Albert likes learning at school more think about using my laptop or smartphone.
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than learning at home.
Q: And what about the worst thing?
Albert worked as well as learning
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during the filming.
A: The education! We learnt everything at home
Albert’s mum preferred life back then with Mum and Dad. Not all children had to go
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to life now. to school until 1880 and even then it was only
children aged 5–10. Most young people my age
/7
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
/20
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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