Unit 3 Test: Standard
Name: __________________________________ Result: __/100
Vocabulary 3 Complete the sentences with do or make in the
correct form
1 Choose the correct alternative.
1 When are you going to ____________ your
1 I learned Japan/Japanese when I was living in homework?
Tokyo.
2 My aunt ____________ English at university, and
2 How many times has Argentinian/Argentina won now she’s a teacher.
the World Cup?
3 Don’t worry – everybody ____________ mistakes.
3 Next year, we’re going to go to Turkey/Turkish for
our summer holiday. 4 We’ve got to ____________ an exam at the end of
the year.
4 I got quite good at Thai/Thailand when I was living
in Bangkok. 5 My sister’s very shy and she finds it hard to
____________ friends.
5 I’d love to visit Scotland/Scottish in the winter Score __/5
when it's really cold.
Score __/5 4 Complete the sentences with the negative form of
the words given.
2 Choose the best answers.
1 You can’t just take something from a shop and not
1 We’ve got to write an ____________ about saving pay for it – that’s ____________. (legal)
the environment.
2 I find all these ____________ verbs really difficult to
A essay B exercise C exam learn. (regular)
2 Look, you can use your phone to ____________ 3 I don’t like these shoes – they’re very
things into French. ____________. (comfortable)
A revise B translate C memorise 4 Nobody can stay underwater for five minutes – it’s
3 My sister wants to ____________ Modern ____________. (possible)
Languages at university. 5 If you’re writing to a friend, it’s best to use
A practise B revise C study ____________ words and phrases. (formal)
Score __/5
4 I’m not worried about mistakes, and I think
____________ is more important than accuracy.
A fluency B practice C translation
5 Sarah worked hard and passed the end of term
____________.
A exercise B memorisation C exam
Score __/5
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Unit 3 Test: Standard
Grammar 7 Complete the dialogue. Choose the correct
alternative.
5 Choose the correct alternative. Mike: Have you got any photos of your holiday?
1 My cousin has lovely long blonde hair/hairs. David: Yeah, come and have a look. Ok, so this is me
on the day (a) when/where I got there.
2 Can you get me a bar of chocolate/chocolates
when you go to the shop? Mike: Oh, right. And is that the house (b)
which/where you stayed in?
3 Mum’s watching TV. The news is/are on if you’re
interested. David: Yeah – nice isn’t it?
4 If there’s a strawberry yoghurt/strawberry Mike: Yes, very. That’s not your friend Harry, is it?
yoghurt in the fridge, could you bring me one? David: No, that’s Bill. He’s a Swedish guy (c)
5 It takes time/a time to learn to play the piano well. who/which lives out there.
6 Thanks for the advice you gave me – it was/they Mike: Is he the guy (d) that/which you told me
were very useful. about? The guy (e) who/whose boat you went
on?
7 Could we have two coffee/coffees, please?
Score __/7 David: Yeah, that’s him. And look, this is the beach
(f) when/where we went that day.
6 Complete the sentences with the words in the box. Mike: Wow, it looks amazing.
a few any many much some very little David: It was.
Score __/6
1 It doesn’t usually take me ____________ time to
finish my homework.
8 Match sentences (1–6) with the extra information
2 We moved here last month, so we only know (A–F).
____________ people.
1 Maths, which ____________, is now my best
3 We didn’t have ____________ fruit at all, but there subject.
was lots of cake.
2 Paxos, where ____________, is my favourite Greek
4 I spent far too much on holiday, and afterwards, I island.
had ____________ money left.
3 Helen Jenkins, whose ____________, is going to be
5 We need ____________ bread – can you go to the Head Girl.
shop for me?
4 My best shoes, which ____________, got spoiled in
6 The party was nice but quiet; there weren’t the rain.
____________ people there.
5 My grandad, who ____________, still plays tennis
Score __/6
every day.
6 My mum prefers to go to the shop in the evening,
when ____________.
A will be 70 next month
B were very expensive
C she says it is quieter.
D I was never very good at
E mother you met last week
F we went on holiday last year
Score __/6
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Unit 3 Test: Standard
Use of English Listening
9 Read the text and decide which answer (A, B, C or 10 XðListen to three people talking about different
D) best fits each gap. languages. Decide if the sentences are True (T) or
False (F).
THE FUTURE OF ENGLISH
Speaker 1 …
Languages change when they come into contact 1 found it difficult to say anything in Croatian. T / F
with other people and cultures. English, for 2 spent a lot of time learning grammar. T / F
example, has lots of words from Latin, 1 ________ Speaker 2 …
is the language that the Romans spoke. For similar 3 talks about a problem during a journey back from
reasons, English has 2 ________ words that come France. T / F
from German and French – but these changes 4 thinks we will use technology more and more. T / F
took place very slowly. Speaker 3 …
5 disagreed with a friend about something. T / F
In the 21st century, the world is a different place,
and changes are happening very fast. We travel 6 learned that people in Wales can speak two
languages.
and 3 ____________ business with each other, T/F
our news 4 ____________ to us on our Score __/6
smartphones, and we watch 5 ____________
same movies. We also use more and more of the 11 Listen again. Complete the sentences using one or
two words.
same words in different languages.
1 Speaker 1 learned some Croatian ____________
Experts who 6 ____________ languages say it’s going on holiday.
not 7 ____________ that everyone will speak the 2 Speaker 1 was able to ____________ to people in
shops.
same language, but it is not very likely. However,
there may be some kind of ‘International 3 Speaker 2 went to France on a ____________ trip.
English’, a very simple form of English which 4 Speaker 2 says the ____________ couldn’t speak
English.
doesn’t have 8 _______________ of the
problems of normal English like irregular verbs 5 Speaker 3 says her friend went to school in
____________.
and difficult spelling.
6 Speaker 3 mentions some Welsh people who went
But everyone’s own language is important for to Patagonia in ____________.
Score __/6
their culture, and people will always work very
hard to keep it alive.
1 A when B which C where D who
2 A much B many C lots D a little
3 A make B do C have D let
4 A come B comes C coming D came
5 A all Ba C the D that
6 A study B memorise C practice D revise
7 A informal B incorrect
C irregular D impossible
8 any B few C some D a little
Score __/8
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Unit 3 Test: Standard
Reading 12 Read the article. Then match the paragraphs (1–6)
to the descriptions (A–F).
AN AMAZING LANGUAGE 1 explains how to remember the words you learn
____________
LEARNER
2 explains that technology can help you find people to
A talk to ____________
When Lýdia Machová recently gave a TED Talk about
learning languages, she did not speak in Slovakian, which 3 is about a woman who can speak a lot of languages
is her first language. Instead, she spoke in perfect ____________
English, and she also told the audience that she can speak 4 mentions two things Lýdia enjoyed doing when she
another seven languages – and she learns a new language was learning ____________
every two years.
5 says that anyone can learn a language
B
____________
To many people, that sounds impossible. However, Lýdia
says that she is not particularly intelligent or talented – 6 says that different people like to learn in different
anyone can learn a new language easily. From her own ways ____________
experience and from meeting other people like her, she Score __/6
has worked out some important rules.
C 13 Read the article again. Choose the best answer.
She says that there are lots of different ways of learning.
1 The text says that Lýdia …
You can learn the 500 most common words or study the
grammar. You can pick up a phrase book or listen to A is learning several languages.
podcasts. Almost any method is OK – the most important B wants to study Slovakian.
thing is that it’s fun and you enjoy it.
C is excellent at speaking English.
D
She gives the example of when she was having German 2 Lýdia seems to believe that …
lessons, she also started watching Friends on TV – but in A she is not good at learning languages.
German. At first, she didn’t understand a word, but she
B her level of intelligence is fairly normal.
kept watching, and in the end, she could understand
almost everything. She did the same sort of thing with C some people are better at language learning than
Spanish. When she was a child she used to love Harry she is.
Potter. So she read Harry Potter books in Spanish and 3 Lýdia says that if you want to learn a language, you
learned much more quickly. must …
E A make sure that you enjoy it.
There are a few other suggestions. When you learn
vocabulary, it’s easy to learn 50 words one day and then B concentrate on the most important words.
forget them next week. The important thing is to revise C get lots of listening practice.
them after maybe a day, a week and a month – and that is 4 When Lýdia was learning German, she …
how you remember them. Another piece of advice is to
give yourself time – maybe half an hour every day – and A watched TV instead of having German lessons.
to make 100% sure that you never miss a day. B learned a lot by watching Friends in German.
F C read a lot of books in German.
Finally, she says that talking is an important part of
language learning. It doesn’t matter if you make mistakes 5 Lýdia advises people …
– everybody does, and mistakes can help you learn faster. A to learn new vocabulary every day.
And the great thing is that if you’re learning French for B to have a regular time for studying.
example, you don’t have to travel to France. Thanks to the
Internet, it’s easy to find forums and chat sites where you C to spend as long as possible studying.
can practise any language in the world – and you don’t 6 Lýdia also says it is important …
even have to leave home. A to travel to different countries.
B to get lots of speaking practice.
C to be as accurate as possible.
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Unit 3 Test: Standard
14 Give three reasons why you think it is a good idea
to learn English.
_______________________________________________
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Unit 3 Test: Standard
Writing Checklist
You can begin like this: Last weekend, we had a …
15 You want to write to a student magazine about a
special ‘Language Day’ you had at your school. You can begin the three paragraphs like this:
This was last weekend, and on the day, you only
read things in that language, you watched a TV 1 In the morning, our teacher …
programme or film in the afternoon in that 2 In the afternoon, we watched …
language, and in the evening, you had food from 3 In the evening, our teacher made … he/she is an
that country. amazing cook …
In your article you should have three main paragraphs
that talk about:
• the things you read
Speaking
• the things you watched 16 Work in pairs to act out a role-play.
• the things you ate Student A:
Write a post of 80–100 words. 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
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________ Vocabulary __/20
_______________________________________________ Grammar __/25
_______________________________________________ Use of English __/8
Listening __/12
Score __/10
Reading __/15
Writing __/10
Speaking __/10
TOTAL __/100
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