Language Test A

Name: ____________________________________________ Class:___

Listening

1 [AUDIO 7] You will hear a part of a radio programme about money. Listen and decide if the sentences
are True (T) or False (F).

1 Boris gets £4 pocket money. ______

2 Boris works at the café on Saturdays. ______
3 Boris saves some money every month. ______
4 Boris enjoys buying clothes. ______
5 Boris tries to buy the cheapest things. ______
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Vocabulary

2 Match a word from Column A with one from Column B to make a phrase. There are two extra
words in Column B.

Column A Column B

0 public C A cinema
1 a loaf ____ B of matches
2 multi-screen ____ C toilets
3 a bottle ____ D store
4 shoe ____ E of bread
5 a box ____ F of shampoo
G money
H shop

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3 Choose the correct answers to complete the sentences.

0 You can buy sausages at the .

A bakery B butcher’s C bookshop
1 You put your shopping in a at the supermarket.
A court B jar C trolley
2 You can buy cola and lemonade in .
A cans B bars C bunches
3 Women often keep their money in a .
A purse B wallet C box
4 Children like to keep their money in something called a .
A piggy wallet B piggy bank C pig money box
5 The shop where you can buy all kinds of fruit and vegetables is called a .
A florist’s B greengrocer’s C butcher’s

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Grammar

4 Complete the sentences with the comparative or superlative forms of the adjectives in brackets.

0 Isobel is the tallest (tall) person in our class.

1 My brother is a much __________________________ (fast) runner than me.

2 Chinese is __________________________ (difficult) to learn than English.

3 My dad bought __________________________ (expensive) laptop in the whole shop – it was over £500!

4 I think Science is __________________________ (bad) school subject – I hate it!

5 The food in this café is __________________________ (nice) than in the café near my house.

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5 Going to or the Present Continuous? Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.

0 going / I’m / now / have / a shower / to

I’m going to have a shower now.

1 cook / is / to / dinner / dad / going

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2 tomorrow / tennis / Alex / playing / is / with his brother

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3 do / to / this afternoon / going / we’re / some shopping

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4 coming / my house / my best friend / is / to / this morning

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5 her children / Debbie / tomorrow / to the zoo / is / taking

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Speaking

6 Choose the best responses to complete the short dialogues.

Speaker A Speaker B

0 Can I help you? A Have you got a size seven?

B I’m looking for a new shirt.

C This one’s on sale.

1 What size are you? A Blue, please.

B £18.99.

C Forty.

2 Can I try it on, please? A Yes, those ones are very popular.

B Of course. The changing rooms are over there.

C You want to try a bigger one then.

3 It’s too big! A Try this larger one, then.

B This one isn’t as expensive.

C We’ve got them in a smaller size, too.

4 I’m looking for some new shoes. A These ones are on sale.

B They’re too small.

C They’re the wrong size.

5 Have you got these in blue, please? A Do you want to try them on?

B Yes, they look too big.

C Here you are.

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Reading

7 Read the article about Amazon. Then complete the notes below. Use one word in each gap.

0 Amazon became the biggest American shop in 2015.

1 Amazon sells all the products on the __________________________.
2 Jeff Bezos got the idea for the online shop from a __________________________.
3 He found the name for his company in a __________________________.
4 At first Amazon sold only __________________________.
5 Amazon sells __________________________ of products now, including jewellery and sports equipment.

From garage to the biggest American shop: Amazon

In 2015, Amazon became the biggest shop in the USA. And you can’t even walk into it.
It makes all of its money through the internet!

It all started in 1994 in Washington State in America. Jeff Bezos read a report about the future of
selling products on the internet. The report said that the number of sales online would quickly grow
by 2,300%! So Bezos created a list of five products that he could sell online: CDs, computers,
computer software, DVDs, and books. He finally decided to sell books because people always
wanted books.
Bezos started the company in his garage! He wanted a name for his company that began with ‘A’ so
that it would appear early in alphabetical order on internet searches. He looked through a dictionary
and decided on ‘Amazon’. He chose this because it was ‘exotic and different’ and it was the biggest
river in the world.
In its first two months of business, Amazon sold to all 50 states in the USA and over 45 countries.
In the beginning, it specialised in only one product, books. Now, you can choose from thousands of
products, from electronic technology and clothes to sports equipment and jewellery.

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Writing

8 You are having a birthday party. Write a note to a friend and invite him or her.
• inform about your party;

• ask your friend if she or he can come;

• inform your friend what time the party is starting.

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