Unit 5  Basic Test 

Listening Language focus

1 [1.06] Listen to a conversation about music. 6 Complete the sentences using the comparative
What are Angela and Mike talking about? or superlative form of the adjectives in brackets.
Choose the correct answer A or B. (2 marks)
(5 marks)
They are talking about ________.
Simon is lazier than his brother. (lazy)
A their favourite music
1 Usain Bolt is _________man in the world. (fast).
B two musicians with amazing abilities
2 London is ___________ than Madrid. (big)
2 Listen again. Choose the correct words in the 3 Lions are ____________than dogs. (dangerous)
sentences. (8 marks) 4 What is the _____________ animal? (intelligent)
1 Rodrigo couldn’t see / hear when he wrote the 5 I am a _______ swimmer than my sister. (good)
guitar music.
2 Rodrigo could / couldn’t play the guitar. 7 Choose the correct words to complete the
sentences. (10 marks)
3 When he was about twenty, Beethoven started
to go deaf / blind. Speak louder! I can’t / couldn’t hear you.

4 Beethoven died at the age of 44 / 56. 1 My dad is a musician. He can / could play the
piano really well.
2 I don’t go to the swimming pool because I can’t /
Vocabulary
couldn’t swim.
3 Match 1–6 with a–e. (5 marks) 3 My mum can’t / couldn’t cook when she was
1 decade a ¼ young, but she’s a very good cook now.

2 century b 10 years 4 My brother can / could read when he was two!

He was very clever.
3 quarter c 1000 metres
5 Rosa is good at speaking Japanese, but she
4 minute d 60 minutes
can’t / couldn’t read it very well.
5 kilometre e 100 years
6 hour f 60 seconds 8 Complete the questions with the words in the
box. (10 marks)
4 Complete the words. (5 marks)
One billio n is 1000 million. fast high long far much often
1 A m_ _ _ _t is a small measure of time.
How high is Mount Everest?
2 Clara weighs 50 k_ _ _s.
8,848 metres
3 Mont Blanc is a high mountain. It’s
1 How ________ is the Amazon River?
4,810 m_ _ _ _s.
6,000 kilometres
4 There are 365 days in a y_ _r.
2 How _______ can dolphins swim?
5 May is my favourite m_ _ _h.
10 kilometres an hour
5 Write the people for the verbs. (5 marks) 3 How _______ do you play tennis?
Programme programmer Every day
1 write – w_______________ 4 How _______ chocolate do you eat?
2 win – w______________ Not a lot. I don’t like it really.
3 play – p______________ 5 How _________is it from London to Edinburgh?
4 compose – c______________ About 650 kilometres
5 invent – i______________
Unit 5  Basic Test 
Reading Communication
9 Read the text. Then choose the correct answer 10 Choose the correct words in the dialogue.
(a or b). (10 marks) (10 marks)
A MEDICAL PRODIGY A I really want to learn how / what to make
Akrit Jaswal was born in India in 1993. His parents could soon chocolate cake.
see that he was more intelligent than other children. He could
talk when he was only ten months old and he could read and B Yeah?
write at the age of two. He started reading adult books when A What’s 1 the better / best way to learn?
he was five. Medicine was one of his favourite interests, and
B You 2 look / can look in a cookbook. I’m sure
he decided to become a doctor. When he was six years old,
doctors in a hospital said he could watch them. He spent many your mum’s got one.
hours watching them and he also read a lot of books about A I 3 suppose / know so. But they’re usually
medicine.
difficult to understand.
Akrit went to university in India at the age of eleven to study
medicine. He was younger than any other student there. He B Well you 4 can watch / watch videos on
wants to finish his studies in India and then go to Harvard YouTube.
University in America. When he was a small child, he saw
A That’s a good 5 thing / idea.
people dying in the streets in India. They couldn’t go to
hospital because they were poor and didn’t have any money.
Akrit wants to help people like these in the future. Writing
11 Look at the information about the author J.K.
Akrit Jaswal comes from ________ Rowling. Then write a biography of her. Use the
questions to help you. (10 marks)
a India b America
1 He could _____ before he was a year old. Born 1965, England
a read b talk Education Went to Exeter University 1983
and work (studied French), moved to
2 When he was a child, Akrit was interested in __. London (worked in an office),
a medicine b writing moved to Portugal 1990 (taught
English)
3 Akrit started university when he was _____. Famous Harry Potter books (published first
a six b eleven for in 1997). Wrote 7 books
4 He wants to _________ in the US. 1 When was J.K. Rowling born?
a work b study 2 Where was she born?
5 Akrit wants to help ________ in the future. 3 Where did she go to university?
a poor people b doctors 4 What did she study at university?
5 What did she do after university?
6 When did she move to Portugal?
7 What work did she do in Portugal?
8 Why is she famous?
9 When did she write the first Harry Potter book?
10 How many Harry Potter books did she write?

Total marks: Listening _______ / 10 Vocabulary _______ / 15 Language focus _______ / 25

Reading _______ / 10 Communication _______ / 10 Writing _______ / 10 TOTAL _______ / 80