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Vocabulary 3 Complete the mini-dialogues. Use make or do in the

correct form.
1 Complete the sentences with the languages or
countries in bold in the correct form.
1 I’ve lived in Portugal for a long time, but I don’t
speak ____________.
2 We speak Swiss German in this part of
____________.
3 I’m learning Bulgarian because my dad’s got a job
in ____________.
4 I’d like to learn ____________ because I want to
visit Poland.
5 I went to a language school in Italy to improve my
____________.
1 Ali: Have you really finished your homework?
Ben: Yes, I ____________ it in the bus on the way
home this afternoon.
2 Sam: Aren’t you worried about ____________
mistakes when you speak?
Lea: Not really, I think fluency is more important
than accuracy.
3 Dan: Which question did you answer in the writing
test?
Bob: I ____________ the essay about living in the
city or country.

Score __/5 4 Amy: What’s tonight’s English homework?

Max: We’ve got to ____________ exercise 4 and
2 Change the words in the box into the correct form learn the vocab.
to complete the sentences. There is one word you
do not need. 5 Tom: Is your sister planning to go to university?
Mia: Yes, she’s going to ____________ French and
accuracy fluent memorisation practice
German.
revise translation
Score __/5
1 I can’t come out – I’ve got to do a lot of
____________ for my exam on Monday. 4 Think about how the negative forms of these words
2 Emma’s completely bilingual – she speaks English are written. Which is the odd one out?
and French ____________. 1 happy comfortable formal
3 You need to check your written work carefully and 2 polite regular responsible
make sure it’s ____________.
3 correct official visible
4 What techniques do you use to ____________ any
new words you come across? 4 possible formal polite

5 I’ll be home a bit late because I’ve got football 5 legal logical usual
____________ after school. Score __/5
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Grammar
5 Correct the mistake in these sentences. Write the
correct sentence.
1 I’m so tired of watching the news – they are all so
depressing.
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
2 Claudia has lovely long, blonde hairs, doesn’t she?
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
3 Do you have a nice weather in the summer?
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
4 You must be patient – it takes times to learn the
violin.
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
5 Check the website again – I think your information
were wrong.
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
6 My aunt gave me some money for my birthday, and
I used some of them to buy a book.
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
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6 Rewrite these sentences using the word given in
bold.
1 My problem is that I have no money.
ANY
My problem is that I ________________________
money.
2 There’s only a bit of chocolate left.
MUCH
There ________________________ chocolate left.
3 I don’t know very many people in the village.
FEW
I only ________________________ people in the
village.
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4 You can get to London quite quickly.
TIME
It doesn’t ________________________ to get to
London.
5 There are many things you can do to help you
remember words.
OF
There ________________________ you can do to
help you remember words.
6 We’ve got some time before the plane goes, so let’s
have a coffee.
LITTLE
We ________________________ time before the
plane goes, so let’s have a coffee.
7 I only go to a few parties – I don’t really like them.
MANY
I ________________________ parties – I don’t
really like them.
Score __/7
7 Complete the dialogue with who, which, whose,
where or when. Use one of the words twice.
Alex: Have you got any photos of your holiday?
Jason: Yeah, I’ve got some (a) ____________ are
quite good. Come and have a look. OK, so this
is me on the day (b) ____________ I got
there.
Alex: Oh, right. Was that your house?
Jason: Yeah – nice isn’t it?
Alex: Very. Now, next photo … let me guess. That’s
not your friend Harry, is it?
Jason: No, that’s Bill. He’s a Swedish guy
(c) ____________ lives out there.
Alex: Is he the guy you told me about? The guy
(d) ____________ boat you went on?
Jason: Yeah, that’s him. And look, this is the beach
(e) ____________ we went that day.
Alex: Wow, it looks amazing.
Jason: It was. And this is Sofia. She’s the woman
(f) ____________ owns the café.
Alex: Wow, lucky you. It looks like a really nice
place.
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8 Rewrite the two sentences as one sentence using

non-defining relative clauses.
1 I go to the supermarket in the evening. It is quieter
in the evening.
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
2 My grandmother goes for a walk every day. She is
83.
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
3 My youngest brother works on a farm. He lives in
Australia.
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
4 Peter Jackson is going to be Head Boy. You met his
mother last week.
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
5 English is now my favourite subject. I never used to
like it.
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
6 Windward Park is now a conference centre. I used
to go to school there.
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
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Use of English
9 Read the text below and think of the word that best
fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.
THE FUTURE OF ENGLISH
We know that languages change when they
come into contact with other people and
cultures. English, (a) ____________ example, has
lots of words from Latin, (b) ____________ is the
language that the Romans used to
(c) ____________. They came to Britain in 55 BC
and stayed for hundreds of years. In later times,
words from German and French came into the
language, but the changes were all very slow.
st
In the 21 century, the world is a different place
and changes (d) ____________ happening very
fast. We travel and (e) ____________ business
with each other, the news is available 24 hours a
day and we watch the same movies. We are in
contact with each other all the time. We use a
(f) ____________ of the same words in different
languages – mama, taxi, coffee, OK, metro and so
on. We are all connected to each other – so
where will it end?
Experts (g) ____________ study languages say
it’s not impossible that everyone will speak the
same language, but it is not likely. However,
there may be some kind of ‘International
English’, a very simple form of English
(h) ____________ some of the strange and
illogical things that can make normal English
difficult to learn.
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Listening
10 XðListen to three people talking about different
languages. Answer the questions. Write 1, 2 or 3.
Which speaker …
1 questions the value of learning languages?
____
2 gives reasons for wanting to learn a new language?
____
3 describes the methods they use to learn a
language? ____
4 mentions the importance of being able to speak
English? ____
5 talks about how they changed their mind about
something? ____
6 describes a situation where clear communication
was important? ____
Score __/6
11 Listen again. Answer the questions and write
complete sentences.
Speaker 1
1 What was Speaker 1 able to do with the language
she had learned?
_________________________________________
2 Was it essential for Speaker 1 to speak Croatian?
_________________________________________
Speaker 2
3 According to Speaker 2, how did two people solve a
language problem?
_________________________________________
4 What does Speaker 2 think about the importance of
language learning?
_________________________________________
Speaker 3
5 Why did Speaker 3 think it was a bad idea to have
schools that taught in Welsh?
_________________________________________
6 What does Speaker 3 say about Patagonia?
_________________________________________
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Reading 12 Read the article. Then match the headings (A–G)

with the paragraphs (1–6). There is one extra
heading that you do not need.
AN EXCEPTIONAL LANGUAGE
1 Make the most of technology ____________
LEARNER
2 Anything’s fine, as long as it’s fun ____________
A
3 I’m nothing special ____________
When Lýdia Machová recently gave a TED Talk about
learning languages, she did not speak Slovakian, which is 4 Take your time ____________
her first language. Instead, she decided to give the talk in 5 A multilingual woman ____________
English, which she speaks perfectly. Lýdia, however, is
6 What to do – and what not to do ____________
not bilingual – she told her audience that she speaks
another seven languages, all of them fluently, and that 7 Personal experience ____________
she likes to learn a new language every two years. Score __/6
B
To many people, that probably sounds almost impossible. 13 Read the article again. Then answer the questions.
However, Lýdia says that she is not particularly Write complete sentences.
intelligent or talented – and that almost anyone can learn
1 What is the most surprising fact about Lýdia
a new language easily. From her own experience and
Machová?
from meeting other polyglots (people like her who speak
lots of languages), she has worked out some important _________________________________________
tips. 2 Does Lýdia think she has a special talent for
C learning languages?
She explains that there are lots of different ways of
_________________________________________
learning. You can start with the 500 most common words
or study the grammar. You can pick up a cookery book or 3 What methods do polyglots seem to use?
listen to podcasts. Almost any method is OK as long as _________________________________________
it’s something that you really enjoy.
4 Why does Lýdia mention the TV programme Friends
D and the Harry Potter books?
She gives the example of when she was learning German;
she started watching the German version of Friends on _________________________________________
TV. At first, she didn’t understand a word, but she was a 5 What advice does Lýdia give about learning
fan of the show and she kept watching it, and in the end, vocabulary?
she could understand almost everything. She did _________________________________________
something similar with Spanish. As a child, she loved
6 How can the Internet help you to learn a language?
Harry Potter, so she read Harry Potter books in Spanish,
and that allowed her to learn much more quickly. _________________________________________
E Score __/6
There are a few study techniques that she recommends.
When you learn vocabulary, it’s easy to learn 50 words 14 Think about your own experience of learning a
one day and then forget them next week. The important language. Choose three of Lýdia’s points and say
thing is to revise them after a day, a week and a month – whether you agree or disagree with her.
and that is how you remember them. Another piece of
_______________________________________________
advice is to give yourself time – maybe half an hour every
day – and to make 100% sure that you never miss a day. _______________________________________________
F
_______________________________________________
One final piece of advice is to talk as much as possible
with native speakers. Talking is an important part of _______________________________________________
language learning, and it doesn’t matter if you make
_______________________________________________
mistakes – everybody does, and mistakes can help you to
learn faster. And the great thing is that if you’re learning _______________________________________________
Russian, for example, you don’t have to travel to Russia.
Thanks to the Internet, it’s easy to find forums and chat Score __/3
sites where you can practise any language in the world –
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Writing
15 You want to write to a student magazine about a
special ‘Language Day’ you had at your school.
This was last weekend, and on the day, you only
read things in that language, you watched a TV
programme or film in the afternoon in that
language, and in the evening, you had food from
that country.
In your article you should have three main paragraphs
that talk about:
• the things you read
• the things you watched
• the things you ate
Write an article of 100–125 words.
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
Speaking
16 Work in pairs to act out a role-play.
Student A:
You have seen an advertisement for a campsite. You
and your friends want to go, so you are calling to get
some information.
• Ring them and say when you are calling.
• Check availability.
• Check the price.
• Check the facilities.
• Check travel arrangements.
• Check opening/closing times of the campsite office.
Student B:
You work in the campsite office. Answer Student A’s
questions.
• Greet Student A and ask how you can help.
• Say whether there are any places available.
• Tell them how much it will cost.
• Tell them what is available at the campsite.

_______________________________________________ • Give them directions to the campsite.

_______________________________________________ • Tell them when your office is open.

_______________________________________________ Score __/10

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Vocabulary __/20
_______________________________________________
Grammar __/25
_______________________________________________
Use of English __/8
_______________________________________________ Listening __/12
_______________________________________________ Reading __/15
_______________________________________________ Writing __/10
Speaking __/10
_______________________________________________

_______________________________________________ TOTAL __/100

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