Life, Beginner, Unit 8 Test

Vocabulary
1 Complete the sentences with the correct pair of words. Here is an example (0).
students/university students/books pen/notebook answer/board teacher/college
school/classmate pencil/pen school/university classmates/pen classroom/teacher
teacher/board

0 Good morning ___students___ . Please open your ___ books___ at page 7.

1 Ten thousand ____________ go to ____________ in this city.
2 I can’t find my ____________ . I can’t write in my ____________ .
3 Please ____________ the question on the ____________ .
4 My mother is a ____________ at the ____________ in the centre of town.
5 Every day I walk to ____________ with a ____________ who lives near my house.
6 I usually write with a ____________ , not a ____________ because I make many mistakes.
7 My sister walks to ____________ every day, and I study at ____________ on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.
8 One of my ____________ has an expensive new ____________ .
9 When the lesson finishes, we leave the ____________ with the ____________ .
10 Our ____________ often writes a lot of questions on the ____________ for us.
(10 points)

2 Read the descriptions of some words about jobs. What is the word for each one? The first letter is
already there. There is one space for each other letter in the word. Here is an example (0).
0 A place where many people work. office
1 This person works with a camera. p___________
2 The place where doctors work. h_______
3 The person who serves you in a restaurant or café. w_____
4 This is what a shop assistant does in shops. s____
5 This is the first person you see in an office or hotel. r___________
6 This person helps sick people. d_____
7 This person can change the colour of your house. p______
8 These people build things and work with computers. e________
9 This person makes a train or bus move. d_____
10 They work in schools. t_______
(10 points)

Grammar
3 Complete the conversation. What does Amelia say to Ethan? For questions 1–10, choose the correct
letter A–K. Here is an example (0).
Ethan: Do you have a brother?
Amelia: (0) _____C______
Ethan: Is your brother a teacher at school?
Amelia: (1) ____________
Ethan: Oh. What does he do?
Amelia: (2) ____________
Ethan: I see. Does he walk a lot?
Amelia: (3) ____________
Ethan: Who does he work with?
Amelia: (4) ____________
Ethan: And does he enjoy his job?
Amelia: (5) ____________
Ethan: Why? Because he helps people?
Amelia: (6) ____________
Ethan: Why? What doesn’t he like?
Amelia: (7) ____________
Ethan: Ah, I understand. Does he live with you?
Amelia: (8) ____________
Ethan: So how often do you see him?
Amelia: (9) ____________
Ethan: Before he goes to work?
Amelia: (10) ____________

A No, he doesn’t. His house is in the centre.

B Well, he sometimes works at night.
C Yes, I do.
D He’s a police officer in the city.
E No, after he finishes work.
F No, he drives a car.
G Normally on Saturdays or Sundays.
H Yes, that’s right. But it’s not always good.
I Yes, he does. He likes it a lot.
J He has lots of different colleagues.
K No, he’s not.
(10 points)

4 Read the article about elephants. Choose the best word (A, B or C) for each gap. There is an example
at the beginning (0).
Elephants (0) ____________ in both Africa and Asia. They are (1) ____________ the same. Asian
elephants (2) ____________ small ears, but African elephants (3) ____________ . Their ears are big.
They (4) ____________ live alone. They live (5) ____________ family groups of 3–25 members. The
family groups are (6) ____________ the mother, (7) ____________ sisters and all their babies. They are
big! An African elephant can be 4 metres tall. (8) ____________ about the Indian elephants? Well, they
are (9) ____________ about 3 metres and sometimes 3.5 metres tall. A mother elephant is a good
teacher. She (10) ____________ her children what to eat. Elephants eat grass and plants, and they often
eat fruits like bananas, too. When they are hungry they can eat 150 kilos of food a day. That’s a lot of
bananas!
0 A live B have C do
1 A don’t B not C doesn’t
2 A have B are C has
3 A do B doesn’t C don’t
4 A doesn’t B don’t C aren’t
5 A on B in C at
6 A with B like C often
7 A his B its C her
8 A When B How C Where
9 A never B usually C always
10 A teach B teachs C teaches
(10 points)

Reading
5 Read the article about a farmer. Are sentences 1–5 ‘Right’ (A) or ‘Wrong’ (B)? If there is not enough
information to answer ‘Right’ or ‘Wrong’, choose ‘Doesn’t say’ (C). Here is an example (0).
A farmer’s life
David Ackroyd is a farmer and he loves his job, but it’s not easy. He gets up at 5.00 in the morning,
summer, autumn, winter and spring, because he has lots of work to do, and it’s sometimes difficult for
him and his wife Jane to have a holiday.
David is outside from morning to evening. He has 350 cows, and he milks them at 6 am and at 6 pm
every day. ‘I love the fresh air’, he says. ‘I don’t like jobs in offices. That’s not for me. It often rains here,
but that’s not a problem. But I don’t like the snow and ice we sometimes have in January and February
because it’s very cold for me and it’s cold for the cows, and they are sometimes sick.’
David works seven days a week. His wife, Jane, often helps with the work on the farm. Jane also studies
at college, so she sometimes works in the evening. ‘Jane enjoys her college study. She goes to bed at
midnight when she has college work to do. I don’t,’ says David. ‘I go to bed at 10 pm.’

0 David’s job isn’t difficult.

A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
1 David gets up at the same time all year.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
2 The Ackroyds never go on holiday.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
3 David milks his cows at different times when it’s cold.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
4 David doesn’t like rainy days.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
5 David never feels ill.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
6 David works on Saturdays and Sundays.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
7 Jane doesn’t like her work on the farm.
A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say
(7 points)

Listening
6 [Track 199] Listen to Harry talking to a friend about his work. For questions 1–5, tick (√) A, B or C.
Here is an example (0).
0 Harry is a student at
 A college.
 B school.
 C university.
1 What does he do on Saturdays?
 A He studies.
 B He works.
 C He plays sport.
2 Where does he work?
 A in a hotel
 B in a school
 C in an office
3 Harry’s job is
 A near the Tube.
 B next to a hotel.
 C near the airport.
4 What does he do in his job?
 A He asks questions.
 B He does different things.
  C He makes tea and coffee.
5 When does he help people with problems?
 A always
 B sometimes
 C never
(5 points)

Writing
7 Read the task below.
Your brother has started going to a new college. Write an email to your English friend, Lucy, and tell her
the news.
Write your email (25–35 words). Make sure you:
• say where the college is.
• describe what your brother does there.
• say why he likes the college.
(10 points)

Speaking
8 Work in pairs. Student A: Here is some information about extra English classes. Student B, you don’t
know anything about the classes, so ask A some questions about them. Now B, ask A your questions
about the classes and A, you answer them.

Student A
Extra English Speaking Classes
Start in September!
Come and practise with Jeanne Woods, our new teacher from New York.
Room 215b
every Monday
September – December
1–2 pm
For all students
Student B
Extra Speaking Classes
• when / start?
• who / teacher?
• where?
• every day?
• time?
10 points