UNIT 7: Skills

GROUP B

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 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.
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
_______________________________________ B comedy
C science fiction
_______________________________________
5 Speaker 3 says that going to the dentist‘s
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A was worse than going to the doctor’s.
B was better than taking medicine they got at
home.
C was better than visiting the doctor’s.

6 Speaker 3 says that the medicine from the doctor

A had a good taste.
B made him feel better.
C tasted better than medicine at home.
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 UNIT 7: Skills

GROUP B

READING Life in a Nineteen-Fifties House

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.
Sentences T F
The family lived like people in the
1
nineteenth century.
They stayed in the house for two
2
weeks.
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?

Emily hated the TV programmes
3
because they were black and white.
Emily watched a lot of comedy
4
programmes.
Emily’s favourite part of the
5
experience was going to school.
Emily loved the food because the
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ingredients were all fresh.
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.

Emily thought that the fast food they Q: And what about the best thing?
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ate was delicious.
A: The school was fun and it seemed easier than
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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
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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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