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Unit 3 Test A
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3 Complete the sentences with these relative

Grammar pronouns. Write 0 if it’s possible to leave out
the pronoun.
1 Are the underlined words countable or
uncountable? Choose countable (C) or who which whose where
uncountable (U).
1 That’s a mistake _____ people often make!
1 My brother’s very strange. He doesn’t like
chocolate C/U! 2 Avatar is the film _____ won a lot of awards
last year.
2 Adolescence C/U can be a very difficult time
for many teenagers. 3 Miss Franks is the teacher _____ first taught
me English.
3 I learned an interesting piece C/U of
information from a TV game show yesterday. 4 I remember the day _____ Charlie brought his
cat to school in his bag!
4 I like Rita’s new furniture C/U. I think it suits
the flat perfectly. 5 The film is about a couple _____ young son
can speak four languages.
5 The bank robbery C/U in the town centre was
on the news C/U last night. 6 There are now houses in the field _____ we
played when we were children.
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2 Choose the correct alternatives to complete the
sentences. Vocabulary
1 How much/many new verbs did you learn last
week? 4 Complete the sentences with one word.
2 I’m afraid there are only a few/a little biscuits 1 People in Wales speak __________.
left. I ate most of them last week. 2 People in Brazil speak __________.
3 I was worried about mistakes in my English 3 People in Poland speak __________.
homework, but there weren’t a lot/a lot of. 4 People in the Netherlands speak __________.
4 The teacher didn’t give us much/many time to 5 People in Japan speak __________.
finish the test.
6 People in Germany speak __________.
5 A few/little people at our school studied
Mandarin Chinese instead of French!
6 I didn’t get some/any sleep last night and I’m
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5 Choose the correct alternatives to complete the 6 Add the correct negative prefix to these words.
sentences. Use dis-, in-, il-, ir- and im-. Use them to
complete the sentences.
1 Do you have to ___ a special exam to go to
university? regular honest correct visible legal
A make
B take 1 Harry Potter has a cloak that makes him
__________.
C write
2 In our country it’s __________ to drive at 16.
3 It’s __________ to cheat in an exam!
2 Dan never ___ mistakes when he speaks
English. He’s very good. 4 I must memorize my list of __________ verbs
for tomorrow’s test.
A makes
5 It’s __________ to start a formal letter with the
B does words ‘Hello Mr Brown.’
C puts
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3 It’s a good idea to ___ new words into your
own language in your vocabulary notebook.
A write
B translate
C revise

4 In the competition, people have to ___ more

than 20 objects in a list.
A revise
B memorize
C practise

5 I usually ___ for exams the day before. I know

that’s not enough time!
A memorize
B practise
C revise

6 We have to ___ a lot of grammar exercises in

class and I hate them!
A make
B do
C memorize

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1 I think it’s important to have fun when

Reading you’re learning a new language. ___
7 Read the texts about when people started 2 I’m not the only one in my family who can
learning English. Match the comments in 1–6 speak two languages. ___
with the people in A–D. You can choose the 3 I didn’t learn much in my first English
people more than once. lessons. ___
4 My parents are different nationalities. ___
5 It’s important to have a real reason to learn a
language. ___
6 It didn’t take me long to learn English. ___

A I can’t remember when I first started

learning English because it was – and still is
– the language my family speaks at home.
You see, my mum is English and she and
my dad (who’s French) thought it was a
good idea for their children to speak English
at home and French at school. It worked!
My sisters and I speak both languages well,
and I can go from one to the other without
thinking.
B I never learned English at school because
our second language was Spanish. I think
today the children learn English, but not
when I was young. I learned English when I
worked in London for a year after
university. I was so worried about the
language! But I found that after a few weeks
I knew what people were saying and I could
say quite a lot. I think you learn a language
best when you really need to, not just for
passing exams at school.
C My first English lessons were when I was
about seven, at school, but we didn’t do very
much! I don’t remember anything from
those lessons. We had one lesson every
week and I forgot everything between the
lessons. The only lesson that is still in my
memory is when we imagined we were
different fruits. I was a banana and I walked
round the room saying ‘I am a banana!’ I
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D I didn’t start learning English until I was 11

and it was so difficult. There were 30
students in my class and we never said
anything in English. The teacher taught us
grammar rules and we learned long lists of
vocabulary for tests. I didn’t understand why
I was learning this strange language. The
teacher didn’t show us English films or
magazines and we never played any games.
The lessons were boring, so I didn’t learn
anything. I don’t think our teacher was very
good!

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Listening (Tests CD, Track 3)
8 You are going to hear part of an interview with
a writer. Listen and decide if the statements are
true (T), false (F) or not mentioned (NM).

1 The book teaches people how to speak T/F/NM

a new secret language.
2 Children can make up their own T/F/NM
languages.
3 The development of secret languages T/F/NM
is quite a new thing.
4 You need to be very clever to speak a T/F/NM
secret language.
5 Adults’ secret languages are very T/F/NM
different from children’s.

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Writing
Use of English
10 You are going to an after-school English
9 Choose the correct alternatives to complete the language club with your friend. Text your
text. friend. In your text, you should

 arrange to meet outside the school

Can dogs (1) ___ language? (2) ___ animal
lovers believe that their doggy friends can  ask him to bring his dictionary
understand every word they (3) ___ to them, but is
this really true? It is more probable that dogs  remind him about the homework from last
generally understand the way we say things and week.
not the words (4) ___ we say. So, for example, we
can say ‘Walkies!’ and they get excited, but it’s Write 30–50 words.
not (5) ___ word ‘Walkies!’ that they recognize,
it’s the lift in our voice – the intonation. We can
say another word with the same intonation and
they get excited again! However, there are (6) ___
types of dog that can understand separate words.
We can train these dogs to understand a lot of
different words. There is one dog in Germany
(7) ___ can identify over 200 different toys. The
owner says the name of (8) ___ toy and the dog
finds the correct one from a big group of toys.
That is more than young children can (9) ___! This
shows that doggy brains can give meaning to
language.

1 A know B understand C translate D listen

2 A Lots B Little C Much D Many
3 A tell B make C say D give
4 A that B what C who D when
5 Aa B the C some D all /5
6 A any B few C some D much
7 A what B who C it D he
8 A the Ba C its D an
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9 A make B do C say D have

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