Units 1 & 2 Test 1

NAME: .........................................................................................................................................

A. USE OF ENGLISH

1. Match the words. There’s an extra word.

1. wavy a. password 1.

2. primary b. a bus 2.

3. enter your c. a form 3.

4. catch d. school 4.

5. post e. hair 5.

f. office out of 5

2. Fill in the gaps. We have started the words for you.

1. He does a lot of sports. He is very at ...................................... .

2. I don’t like climbing stairs. Let’s take the es...................................... .

3. Google is the most popular s................................. e...................................... .

4. We can cross the road now. The t...................................... l...................................... are green.

5. Budapest is the c...................................... of Hungary. out of 5

3. Fill the gaps with “it”, “they”,“there” and the right form of “to be (not)”.

1. ............................ any girls in my father’s old school. ............................ a boys-only school.

2. What do you think? ............................ a laptop for every student in every school in the future?

3. ............................ a nice park here when my grandpa was young.

out of 5
Now ............................ a shopping mall.

4. Put the verbs in the right tenses.

I think I’m a very average person. I (1) ................................................. (not start) reading before
I went to school. I (2) ................................................. (write) my first name at the age of three first, but
I (3) ................................................. (not write) anything else before I was nearly seven.
In general I (4) ................................................. (not study) too much, but tomorrow there’s an important
history test, so I (5) ................................................. (study) for it quite hard now.
out of 5

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5. Write the questions.

1. A: ........................................................................................................................................... ?
B: Yes, a very good summer, thanks. How about you?

2. A: ........................................................................................................................................... ?
B: Do you mean Áron from Bloggers? He was born in Pécs.

3. A: ........................................................................................................................................... ?
B: There isn’t, I’m afraid. The nearest metro station is 2 kilometres from here.

4. A: ........................................................................................................................................... ?
B: To the museum.
A: But the museum isn’t this way.

5. A: ........................................................................................................................................... ?
B: Johnny’s new girlfriend? She looks really pretty.
out of 5

Marks for Use of English out of 25

B. SKILLS

6. Listening – Listen to the recording and complete the directions to the museum.

Just walk down this road as far as (1) ..................................... . Turn (2) ..................................... .
Find the shopping mall (3) ..................................... . The bus stop is (4) .....................................
the shopping mall. Get on the (5) ..................................... and get off at
out of 6
the (6) ..................................... .

7. Reading – Read the text and tick (✓) T for true, F for false or NI if there’s no information in
the text about it.
CNBC.com has ranked Austin the best
city for young people in the USA. What
makes the capital city of Texas a cool place?
If you are in Austin and you don’t know a
party to go to, just stop for a moment and
listen. Pretty soon, you’ll hear some music
playing. Just follow it and join in the fun.
Austin officially became the “Live Music
Capital of the World”® in 1991. There are
nearly 200 live music venues there, and it is
home to more than 1,900 musicians. This
means that you can catch a show any day
of the week, at almost any time and some-
times at unusual places like the City Hall,
food markets or the airport. Of course it
hasn’t always been like this in Austin. There
wasn’t a single live music venue in Austin
before 1933.

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People in Austin don’t only play hard, they also work hard.
There are many jobs for people in the film, tourist, music and
high-tech industries as well as in education. There are excellent
schools in Austin and a famous university, the University of Texas.
In 2009, MSN voted Austin the “Greenest City in America”.
There are miles of hiking and bike trails, more than 200 parks,
three lakes, more than 50 public swimming pools in the city,
as well as a large river, the Colorado. Austin is also often called
“the clean air city”, and we can imagine that there will be fresh-
er air here in the future than in many other American cities, as a
lot of people cycle or take a pedicab (a bicycle taxi). Also, people
don’t smoke at all in Austin’s public places.
According to Travel & Leisure magazine, Austin ranks No. 1
in another way. It has the “best people”. Best in what way? As
Sandra Bullock, part-time Austin resident puts it, “There is an
open-mindedness that does not exist other places. That’s why
I’m here.”
And finally, a quick note: there are more bloggers in Austin
than anywhere else in the USA J!
Sources: http://www.cnbc.com/id/43025148/Top_10_U_S_Cities_for_Young_People?slide=11
http://www.austintexas.org/; http://en.wikipedia.org

T F NI
1. There’s nearly always a concert in Austin.
2. There weren’t live music places in Austin a hundred years ago.
3. There are few jobs for teachers in Austin.
4. There won’t be any taxis in Austin in the future.
5. There are few smokers in Austin.
6. Sandra Bullock doesn’t like the people in Austin.
out of 6

8. Writing – It is the beginning of the school year. Your friend is ill and (s)he is missing
classes.
Write an email. Include the following:
••Ask how (s)he is.
••See the picture
Tell your classmate about the new art teacher. Describe him and give all the information you have.
and information below.
••Give news about changes to the school building and what you think about them. See table below.

Information

Mr William Brown, 32
Married with a son
Highest level of education: master’s degree
Full time job: art teacher
Part-time job: illustrator

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Changes at your school

Last year Now Next year

very small and dark gym big and bright new gym a swimming pool, too
only three computers for three more computers a new computer centre with
students twenty computers
big school yard smaller school yard (because of very small school yard (because
bigger gym) of computer centre and
swimming pool)

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Content Language Organisation

Task
Clarity Range Accuracy Appropriacy Format Paragraphing
fulfilment

/3 /2 /2 /2 /1 /2 /1

Total for
out of 13
writing

Marks for Skills out of 25

TOTAL MARKS out of 50 % GRADE