Unit 3 test
2 Many students will _______________ from
Listening university with a degree.
1 1.04 Listen to Matt and Anna talking about 3 We _______________ exams every summer.
their first schools. What are Matt and Anna 4 I want to be a businessman and
mainly talking about? (2 marks)
_______________ my own business.
a typical days at their first schools
5 You need to pass these exams if you want to
b their first days at school
_______________ a professional journalist.
c what they liked about their first schools
d their first school teachers
5 Complete the sentences with life event verbs.
2 Choose the correct answers. (8 marks) Use the present simple. (4 marks)
1 What does Anna say about her first school? Babies are born in hospital every day.
a It was in a big city. 1 If you _______________ the competition, you’ll
b There were about 80 children at the school. get the first prize.
c There was only one school in her town. 2 After you ______________ to drive, you can drive
d There were 800 children in her school year.
a car by yourself.
2 The story that Anna’s teacher read was 3 After they graduate, they _____________ jobs.
a scary. b boring. c funny. d sad.
4 In this country, many teenagers ______________
3 How did Matt feel when he started school? home and move into a flat or house when they’re
a upset b lonely c lucky d excited eighteen.
4 What does Matt say about his first school?
a It was small.
b There were 100 children in his school year.
Language focus
c Students couldn’t eat sweets at school.
6 Complete the sentences. Use the past simple of
d It was in a town. be. (8 marks)
1 Lara ______________ a student in my class last
Vocabulary year. I sat next to her.
3 Complete the sentences. Write adjectives to 2 ______________ your parents upset?
describe feelings and events. (10 marks) 3 They ______________ late. They arrived early.
1 Look at that pretty baby! It’s very 4 We watched a horror film, but I ______________
c_____________. scared.
2 Our teacher was u_____________ because we 7 Complete the sentences. Use the affirmative or
were very noisy. negative form of the past simple. (16 marks)
3 I didn’t have any friends. I was very buy do go (x2) live pass play watch
l_____________.
1 We ______________ TV yesterday. ()
4 Ali is really n_____________ about the exam.
2 I went shopping yesterday, but I ______________
5 I won the lottery! I’m really l_____________.
anything. ()
4 Complete the sentences with five of the verbs in 3 My parents ______________ in Edinburgh. ()
the box. (5 marks) 4 I ______________ to the cinema last night. I
become do get go graduate move start stayed at home. ()
5 We ______________ shopping last Saturday. ()
1 Pedro and Louise are going to _______________
6 I ______________ the exam. I failed. ()
married in July.
7 He ______________ basketball yesterday. ()
Unit 3 test
8 I ______________ all my homework last night. ()
ALEXANDRA BURKE
8 Write past simple questions. (8 marks) Alexandra Burke was born in London in 1988,
and she started singing when she was only five.
What time did you get up this morning? She first appeared on stage in Bahrain at the age
I got up at eight o’clock this morning. of nine. She sang with her mother, who was also
a professional singer. Alexandra enjoyed
1 __________________________________________ singing on stage and she wanted to become a
I went to school in Madrid. singer.
2 __________________________________________ She left school when she was sixteen and started
a professional career in music. She worked very
Yes, they ate sandwiches for lunch.
hard, and she also performed in some big
3 __________________________________________ concerts to raise money for charity.
He left school in 2005. She first entered the TV talent competition
4 __________________________________________ The X Factor in 2005. She didn’t win because the
judges thought that she was too young to be a
No, we didn’t visit our grandparents. successful pop star. But they said that she was a
great singer, so Alexandra entered the
9 Complete the time expressions using ago. Then competition again in 2008. This time she won!
write sentences about what you did at these Her first song, ‘Hallelujah’, was number one in
times. (8 marks) Britain for three weeks, and more than a million
people bought it. Once again, The X Factor had
11.00 – two hours ago
found a star, and, like Will Young and Leona
I had a break two hours ago. Lewis, who were also winners of this
1 8.00 – ______ hours _______ competition, Alexandra Burke became famous!
__________________________________________
2 on Sunday – ______ days _______ 11 What have Alexandra Burke, Leona Lewis and
__________________________________________ Will Young got in common? Complete the
3 last week – ______ week _______ sentence. (6 marks)
__________________________________________ They all ___________________________________
4 in August – ______ months _______ ___________________________________________
__________________________________________
Communication
Reading 12 Complete the dialogue. (10 marks)
10 Read the text on the right. Then write true or A (1) ___________ was your weekend?
false. Correct the false sentences. (8 marks)
B Not (2) ___________, thanks.
1 Alexandra first sang on stage when she was five.
A What (3) ___________ you do?
___________________________________________
B I went surfing.
2 Another family relative was also a singer.
A (4) ___________ it good?
___________________________________________
B Yes, it was. When did you (5) ___________ you
3 She didn’t go to school when she was
go surfing?
seventeen.
___________________________________________
Writing
4 She didn’t win the 2005 X Factor competition
because she wasn’t very good. 13 Write about the first day of the summer holidays
last year. Write about what you did and how you
___________________________________________
felt. Use time linkers and at least two examples
___________________________________________ of there was(n’t) / were(n’t). Write about 80–100
words. (10 marks)
Total marks: Listening _______ / 10 Vocabulary _______ / 20 Language focus _______ / 40
Reading _______ / 10 Communication _______ / 10 Writing _______ / 10 TOTAL _______ / 100
