Gold Experience B1 Progress test 2

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Class

Grammar
1

Complete the sentences with the past simple form of these verbs.
get

go play see speak watch

What film did you watch last night?

When _______ you last _______ Mary?

I _______ up early because I had to finish my homework before school.

_______ you _______ to Tom at the party?

We _______ on holiday to Greece last year.

What _______ you _______ with when you were a child?

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Complete the sentences with the past simple or past continuous form of the verb in
brackets.

I worked (work) very hard yesterday.

Where were you yesterday? I _______________ (not see) you at school.

I _______________ (do) my homework when my mum called me for dinner.

Why _______________ (be) you late for school yesterday?

I _______________ (do) my homework when the telephone rang.

I _______________ (not have) any friends before I met you.

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Complete the text with the past simple or past continuous form of the verb in brackets.

I 1) was playing (play) football with my friends when I 2) _______________ (break) my leg. Luckily,
my friends mum 3) _______________ (be) there and she 4) _______________ (take) me to hospital by
car. My mum 5) _______________ (work) that afternoon, but when my friends
mum 6) _______________ (phone) her she 7) _______________ (come) to the hospital straight away.
I 8) _______________ (not stay) in hospital I 9) _______________ (go) home the same day. That
night I 10) _______________ (watch) TV when all my friends 11) _______________ (arrive) to visit
me. They brought me lots of chocolates and a card!
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Vocabulary
4

Complete the sentences with these words.

explains mean pronounce

say translate

understand

What does this word mean? I don't know. Look it up in the dictionary.

Youre speaking too fast I can't _______________ you!

Our teacher _______________ English grammar really well.

Can you _______________ the word, chien? Yes, it means dog.

I think that the word crisps is really difficult to _______________ .

How do you _______________ hello in Turkish? Its Merhaba.

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Complete the sentences with the correct form of these verbs.

pronounce listen not understand repeat speak
translate

The whole film was in Japanese and I didnt understand anything.

Our teacher asked us to listen and _______________ the words after her.

My sisters really clever she _______________ Turkish songs into English in her free time.

Today were going to _______________ to a CD so we can improve our pronunciation.

Nobody understands Dad on holiday. He can read Spanish but he cant _______________ the
words very well.

A foreign language is really useful if you want to _______________ to people from other
countries.
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Choose the correct option for each sentence.

My English teacher is great! She lived in the UK for a year and she often speaks to us 1) on/about life
there. She always speaks 2) to/about us in English and that really helps us too. We do lots of interesting
things in class sometimes we 3) translate/listen English pop songs. We do the easy bits and our
teacher 4) explains/means the difficult bits to us. Sometimes our teacher invites her English-speaking
friends into our class to talk 5) to/at us about different things. We cant always 6) understand/hear
everything they say but we enjoy it anyway. Last year she invited a Scottish friend to the classroom
he 7) pronounced/meant words in a very interesting way! I think there are a lot of English words which
are difficult to 8) say/speak. Our teacher often asks us to listen and 9) repeat/understand. I think its
really useful to 10) speak/say a foreign language because then you can talk 11) to/about people in their
own language.
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Listening
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Listen to an interview with Patricia. Are the sentences (16) true (T) or false (F)?

Patricia went to an international camp last summer.

She went because she wanted to try some new sports.

____

The camp was for a week in August.

____

The young people at the camp usually spoke English together.

____

At the end of each day the groups got together and had a big party.

____

Patricia was really excited about going home at the end of the camp.

____
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Listen to the conversation again and complete the sentences.

Well, I thought it sounded great.

I was _______________ a group with four other students.

We _______________ all between fourteen and sixteen years old.

We went on trips together to interesting _______________ nearby.

I _______________ so much!

I made new friends and we all _______________ each other really well.
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Speaking
9

Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.

on / the / Just / TVs / a second,

Just a second, the TVs on.

cut / off / were / We

_______________________________

on, / Hang / its / here / a bit / noisy

_______________________________

a signal / got / havent / I

_______________________________

for / calling / Thanks

_______________________________

couldnt / hear / I / you / Sorry,

_______________________________
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10

Complete the conversation with the sentences from Exercise 9.

Liz:

Hi, is that you Ben?

Ben:

Yes. 1) Just a second, the TVs on. My sisters watching a cartoon. Thats better Im in the
kitchen now.

Liz:

Great. How are you?

Ben:

Fine, Im 2) _______________ . My mums singing. OK. 3) _______________ I can hear

you now though go on! Liz?

(Phone rings again)

Liz:

Sorry. 4) _______________ .

Ben:

This phone call isnt going well, is it?

Liz:

Not really. Do you want to come to my birthday party tomorrow?

Ben:

Yes, Id love to!

Liz:

Great. Its tomorrow at my house. Eight oclock.

Ben:

Brilliant! 5) _______________ . Oh and Liz, do I need to any

Liz:

Oh no! 6) _______________ .
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Reading

How languages can change your life!

Only a year ago, Roxana Trandafir wasnt keen on school. I was terrible at maths and bad at science. I
wasnt interested in sport either. Also I was very shy and didnt have many friends. My family were
worried about me because I didnt want to go to school in the morning.
Then one day something changed. Roxana was coming out of school when she saw an advert for an
evening class in Spanish. Why not, I thought. I was bored and didnt have anything else to do.
On the first night of the class, Roxana didnt feel very confident. When she walked into the Spanish
class, her classmates were talking and laughing. They all looked very clever and had lots to say,
Roxana says. I just wanted to go home.
Roxanas feelings soon changed. Her Spanish teacher was very lively and really good at explaining the
new language. Roxana quickly learnt to pronounce Spanish words. A week later she could repeat short
sentences in Spanish. Now she can understand her teacher when she speaks in Spanish. This summer
my mum and dad took me to Spain. It was great I could translate the menu for my parents and I
could tell my parents what people were saying to us. For the first time in my life I felt like I was good at
something!
Roxana thinks she was lucky to see the advert for the class. Now I feel more confident in school
because I know theres something Im good at. I can speak to people from other countries too! I learn
Spanish every day and Im learning French now, too.

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Are the sentences (111) true (T) or false (F)?

Roxana didnt like school.

Her family thought she was very happy at school.

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Roxanas friend told her about the Spanish evening class.

____

Roxana went to the class because she was interested in languages.

____

Roxana was very excited about meeting her new classmates.

____

Roxana felt nervous at the beginning of her first Spanish class.

____

Roxana had a very good Spanish teacher.

____

Roxanas mum and dad can both speak Spanish well.

____

Roxanas parents took her to Spain on holiday.

____

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Roxana is happy she saw the advert for the Spanish class.

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Roxana is learning Spanish and French now.

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12

Match the bold words in the text with their meanings.

making something clear to someone

explaining

intelligent

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to express the meaning of a word (or words) in another language _______________

to say something again after someone else has said it

_______________

when you feel fed up because you have nothing to do

_______________

to make the sound of a word in the correct way

_______________
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13

Read the text again and answer the questions.

Why did Roxana not have many friends?

Because she was shy.

Why were Roxanas family worried about her?

________________________________________________________________

Why did Roxana decide to go to the Spanish night class?

________________________________________________________________

Why was Roxanas teacher good?

________________________________________________________________

Who translated the menu when Roxanas family went to Spain?

________________________________________________________________

How often does Roxana learn Spanish?

________________________________________________________________
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Writing
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Complete Julies story with these words.

awful delicious

extremely furious hilarious

wonderful

Last year I went on holiday to France with my big brother. I was looking forward to a 1) wonderful
holiday and eating lots of 2) _______________ food! However, things went very wrong at the airport in
Paris. Unfortunately, my bag with all my clothes got lost on the plane. I was 3) _______________
because some of my favourite clothes were in that bag. I didnt have anything to wear on holiday! I met
an 4) _______________ kind woman in the airport. She saw me crying and asked me what was wrong.
When she heard my story, she gave me some of her clothes. The trouble is that the clothes were huge on
me my brother thought I looked 5) _______________ . He didn't stop laughing for a week! I really
enjoyed my holiday in the end but I think I looked 6) _______________ most of the time!
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15

Read the story again and answer the questions.

When did it happen?

last year

Where did it happen?

______________________________

Who was there?

______________________________

What was the problem?

______________________________

How did the writer feel?

______________________________

What happened in the end?

______________________________
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16

Write a funny story about something which happened to you on holiday. Write about 100
words. Use the questions in Exercise 15 to help you. Remember to use strong adjectives to
make your writing more interesting.

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