End-of-term Test 1

Specific Competences Test: Listening, Reading, Writing

Specific Competence 1: Listening
1 09 Listen to three people each talking about a product. Complete the sentences with Speaker A,
Speaker B or Speaker C.
1 talks about the design of a chair.

2 talks about a device for reading books.

3 talks about the design of a mobile phone.

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2 09 Listen again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?

1 Speaker A thinks that the product is difficult to use. ___

2 Speaker A mentions a library. ___

3 Speaker B thinks that the product is the best invention of this century. ___

4 Speaker B says that the company sold all of the products in one hour. ___

5 Everyone in Speaker C’s house likes this product. ___

6 A Japanese person designed Speaker C’s product. ___

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3 09 Listen again. Tick (ü) the correct answers.

1 … talks about a product from 1976.

A ☐ Speaker A B ☐ Speaker B C ☐ Speaker C

2 … talks about using your fingers to change the size of a picture or text.

A ☐ Speaker A B ☐ Speaker B C ☐ Speaker C

3 … thinks that the product is good for the environment.

A ☐ Speaker A B ☐ Speaker B C ☐ Speaker C

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4 09 Listen again to check your answers.

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Specific Competence 1: Reading
5 Read the article quickly and tick (ü) the correct answer.
1 What is the article about?

A ☐ a place

B ☐ a type of animal

C ☐ a painting

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Angkor Wat
In the middle of Cambodia, a few kilometres away from a city called Siem Reap, there’s
a famous temple called Angkor Wat. Angkor Wat means ‘temple city’, and it really is like
a small city. It’s not just one building: it’s more than 1,000 buildings. It’s the largest
religious monument in the world. A picture of Angkor Wat is on the Cambodian flag.

1 _____

Angkor Wat was the capital of a kingdom called the Khmer Empire. King Suryavarman II built it
in the 12th century. It took more than 30 years to build it.

2 _____

The temple city is famous because it’s enormous, but also because it’s very beautiful. Angkor Wat
is about 1.6 kilometres long and 1.4 kilometres wide. There’s a wall around it that is 3.6
kilometres long and about 5 metres high. There’s water (a moat) all around the temple city – this
moat is nearly 5 kilometres long and 200 metres wide. There are five towers. The largest tower is
in the middle. There are paintings and sculptures all over the walls. There’s a story that says that
the large tower in the middle is the imaginary mountain called Mount Meru and the moat is the
ocean.

3 _____

Millions of tourists visit Angkor Wat every year. They walk around, or go on a bike or in a tuk-
tuk (a small car with three wheels). Others can visit Angkor Wat from GoogleTM Maps. They can
imagine that they are walking around the temple city, or looking at the beautiful moat and the
amazing buildings.

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6 Read again. Match the headings to the gaps. There are two extra headings that you not need to use.

A Tourism
B Flag
C History
D Design
E Art

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7 Read again. Tick (ü) the correct answers.
1 There is a picture of Angkor Wat on the flag of … .

A ☐ Cambodia B ☐ Siem Reap C ☐ King Suryavarman II

2 The wall around Angkor Wat is about … kilometres long.

A ☐5 B ☐ 1.4 C ☐ 3.6

3 A moat is similar to … .

A ☐ a river B ☐ a mountain C ☐ a building

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8 Complete the text with the words in the box. There are six extra words that you do not need to use.

buildings built city climb famous is mountain people saw small visit was

This time yesterday, I was on Google Maps, and I was imagining that I was walking around Angkor Wat.
It’s a 1 temple complex in Cambodia. The name means ‘temple 2 ‘ because there are
3 4
more than one thousand . A king it thousands of years ago and it 5 the
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capital of a kingdom. These days, millions of people it every year. And others use Google
Maps like me!

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9 Read the article again to check your answers.

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Specific Competence 2: Writing
10 Imagine you visited an interesting place recently, e.g. an art gallery, a historical place, a shopping
centre or a small town. Write a message to an English-speaking friend to tell them about the visit.
a Think and plan

 First, think of an interesting place.

 Where did you go? Describe the place with adjectives.

 Who did you go with?

 What did you do?

 How did you feel (e.g. excited, relaxed, surprised, etc.)?

b Write

Now write your message on the lines below. Write 100–130 words.

Make sure you:

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  use linkers (e.g. First of all, Next, Finally, etc.) to describe the order of events

 write two or three paragraphs about the visit

 start and end your message in a friendly way (e.g. Hi / Hello, Best wishes / Write soon!)

 check your spelling, grammar and punctuation

 check that the message contains all the information from your plan

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Specific Competence 3: Interaction

11 Complete the suggestions about buying a gift for a friend.
1 How getting her a book?

2 Why you get her some flowers?

3 I’m not so on that idea.

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12 Complete the online dialogue with key phrases for responding to suggestions.
A Let’s get Alexia a dog for her birthday.

B (Disagree with the suggestion.)

A Maybe a plant.

B (Agree with the suggestion.)

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13 Complete the description with the words in the box. There are four extra words that you do not need
to use.

background behind left looking person photo sculpture under watching

‘This is a 1 of an art gallery. In the 2 , there are paintings on the walls. In the
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foreground, there’s a of a horse. On the 4 , there are two women. They’re
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at the sculpture.’

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Specific Competence 4: Mediation

14 Imagine that an older family member is interested in historical places. Using the article on page 2,
write a short message telling them about Angkor Wat in your own language.
 Tell them two interesting facts about Angkor Wat.

 Explain how they can visit Angkor Wat online.

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