Gold Experience A2 Progress test 6

Name Class

Grammar
1 What are these people going to do after school today? Complete the sentences with one
word only.
1 He is going to listen to music.

2 ________ they going to play tennis this afternoon?

3 ________ am going to read a book.

4 They are ________ to watch TV.

5 Is ________ going to ride his bike?

6 They ________ going to surf the Internet.

2 Correct the mistake in each sentence.

1 What you going to do tomorrow night?
What are you going to do tomorrow night?
2 I think is going to rain next week.
____________________________________________
3 We wont miss the long journey to school!
____________________________________________
4 We meeting at five o’clock in front of the cinema tomorrow.
____________________________________________
5 They going shopping this weekend.
____________________________________________
6 The sky is grey! It going to rain!
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 Vocabulary
3 Complete the transport words.
1 bike

2 c___ ___c___

3 h___ ___ ___c___ ___ ___ ___ ___

4 t___a___ ___

5 p___ ___ ___e

6 f___ ___ ___ ___

4 Match the verbs (1–6) with the types of transport (A–F).

1 go A A on foot
2 sail ____ B a plane
3 ride ____ C a boat
4 fly ____ D a bus
5 drive ____ E a motorbike
6 catch ____ F a car

Listening
5 Bobby is going on a school trip. Listen to the conversation between Bobby and her teacher

and complete the table.

Who is Bobby going with? 1) Mr Hargreaves and other school pupils

What kind of trip is it? 2)

Where are they going? 3)

How are they travelling? 4)

When are they meeting? 5)

Where are they meeting? 6)

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6 Listen to the conversation again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?
1 Bobby thinks the ski trip will be boring. F
2 Mr Hargreaves is going to send a letter out to parents next week. ____
3 It will be a long journey. ____
4 They aren’t going to ski every day. ____
5 The weather will be hot and sunny. ____
6 Bobby will need warm clothes. ____

Reading

Green teens cycle!

1) He usually travels to school by bus, but this week is going to be different. For the next month, Nick
and his friends are all going to cycle to school. 2) ‘But we want people to see that we think it is
important to stop going by car everywhere. The roads here are very dangerous for students walking to
school.’
Nick and his friends meet at Lucy’s house. 3) ‘It’s great because there’s a big group of us,’ says Lucy.
‘The cars can see us easily so we will be safe.’ On the way to school, it rains, but the students are
wearing rain jackets so they don’t get wet. ‘People think that the weather is too bad to travel by bike,’
says Nick. ‘It does rain a lot here – I’ll be happy to get to school!’
Will the students miss their safe cars? 4) ‘When I cycle to school, I arrive feeling great! It’s much better
than travelling by car.’ Lucy agrees. ‘It’s a good start to the day,’ she says. ‘I love the cycle journey in
the morning. 5) It’s more fun than standing at a bus stop or sitting in a car. I think people drive too
much.’
Nick and his friends are going to travel to school by bike for one month. 6)

7 Read the text. Where do these sentences go?

a Nick lives five kilometres from his school. 1
b Together the ten students cycle to school. ____
c ‘No, I don’t think so,’ says Nick. ____
d ‘This is not going to be easy,’ he says. ____
e After that, they might decide to cycle every day! ____
f It takes only half an hour. ____

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 8 Read the text again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?
1 Nick’s school is five kilometres from his house. T
2 Nick usually travels to school by car. ____
3 The roads near Nick’s house are very safe. ____
4 The students take half an hour to cycle to school. ____
5 Lucy thinks it’s better to travel by car. ____
6 Nick and his friends are going to travel to school by bike for one year. ____

9 Complete the sentences with these words.

a good start to the day bad busy bus difficult it is safer Lucy’s house
travelling by
1 The roads in Nick’s city are busy.

2 Nick meets his friends at ____________________ .

3 Nick will not miss ____________________ .

4 Lucy thinks going by bike is ____________________ .

5 In Nick’s city the weather is usually ____________________ .

6 Nick thinks cycling to school will be ____________________ .

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 Writing

Trip to Paris!
Sunday 2 May – Friday 10 May
Five nights in the Mont Blanc Hotel. Visit the Eiffel Tower.
Visit art galleries! Go shopping!
Travel by coach. (Leave Sunday 8 p.m.) Cost: £200
Don’t forget your camera!

10 Write an email to a friend about the school trip to Paris. Write 25–35 words. Use these
questions to help you.
 Where are you going?
 When are you going?
 How many nights are you going to stay in the Mont Blanc hotel?
 How are you getting there?
 What will you take with you?
 What are you going to do?

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Total: 55

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