ROADMAP™ A2 Achievement test 3 (Units 5–6)

Listening

1 Recording 1 Listen to the conversation. Tick ( ü) the correct answers, a or b.

1 When was Eva’s birthday?

a last Saturday b last Sunday ü

2 Who did Eva have breakfast with?

a her parents b her friend

3 What did she do after breakfast?

a swam in the sea b visited her parents

4 What did her family buy her?

a earrings b new clothes

5 What did Eva’s friends give her?

a a ticket for a concert b some music

6 Where did Eva and her family have dinner?

a a pizza restaurant b a French restaurant

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2 Recording 2 Listen to the conversation. What can Mani and Claire do? Write M or C.

1 speak Arabic M

2 speak French ___

3 cook well ___

4 swim ___

5 drive a car ___

6 play the guitar ___

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3 Listen to Recording 2 again. Write true (T) or false (F).

1 Claire’s first visit to Dubai was last year. F

2 Claire liked Dubai a lot. ___

3 Their hotel was by the beach. ___

4 Mani enjoyed cooking on holiday. ___

5 They liked driving in the desert. ___

6 Claire bought some sunglasses. ___

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Grammar

4 Choose the correct alternatives.

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My mum is tall very / very tall and she’s got
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hair dark / dark hair. She young looks /
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looks young. My dad has got eyes blue / blue eyes. My mum can to /can sing really well. She likes to sing pop
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songs. My parents are a little unusual. My mum drives because my dad can / can’t drive. But he can to cook /
cook. We all love dad’s meals! Mum hates cooking!
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5 Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets.

1 We stayed (stay) in a fantastic hotel in Italy.

2 Last year I ________ (study) hard for my exams.

3 A lot of people ________ (go) to the concert.

4 The footballers ________ (be) amazing.

5 Josie ________ (make) breakfast for all the family last Sunday.

6 We ________ (drive) to the mountains yesterday.

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6 Complete the conversations with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets.
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A: Hi, Natasha. Where were (be) you yesterday?
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I ____________ (not see) you at work.
B: I was sick so I stayed at home.
A: I’m sorry.
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A: What ________ you ________ (do) last Sunday, Malik?
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B: I ____________ (wake up) late and then I ____________ (meet) my friends for breakfast. We went
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shopping, but I ____________ (not buy) anything.
A: Why not? You love shopping.
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B: There ____________ (not be) anything nice in the shops.
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A: Last weekend I ____________ (buy) a new mobile phone. It’s great.
B: Can I see it?
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A: Oh sorry! I ____________ (bring) it to school yesterday, but I ____________ (leave) it at home this morning.
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Vocabulary

7 Complete the sentences with the correct word. The first letter is given.

1 Freya’s got s h o r t hair.

2 They like to b_ _ _ cakes.

3 I can c _ _ _ _ to ten in Arabic.

4 Nathan is quite t _ _ _. He’s nearly two metres.

5 Our teacher is y _ _ _ _. She’s 24.

6 The children like to c _ _ _ _ trees in the park.

7 Emma can p _ _ _ the guitar.

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8 Choose the correct alternatives.

1 This book is excellent / horrible. I think it’s your kind of book.

2 We went to the new restaurant, but the food was awful / great. We won’t go again.

3 Safia is a lovely / boring person. We like her a lot.

4 Everything on our holiday was very good. It was OK / perfect.

5 The shop assistants here are nice / awful. They always help the customers.

6 I hated that TV programme. It was perfect / boring.

7 We like our history teacher. Her classes are always interesting / terrible.

8 The mountains in Russia are horrible / amazing. They’re really lovely to look at.
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9 Complete the sentences with the prepositions in the box.

as at in inside next to outside to
with

1 My bedroom is _ next to _ the bathroom in our house.

2 Let’s meet ________ 11 o’clock.

3 We’ve got a new table and chairs ________ the house, in the garden. We can sit there in summer.

4 Goran works ________ an engineer. He loves his job.

5 We meet up ________ our cousins in the summer holidays.

6 ________ the evening, they like relaxing at home.

7 Lori moved ________ Madrid when she was young.

8 There is a cinema ________ the shopping centre.

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Function

10 Complete the conversations with the words in the box.

I OK really sorry sure that’s you
A: Could you help me with the washing up?
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B: Sure , no problem.
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A: I’m ________ sorry, I broke your mobile phone.
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B: That’s ________. It’s very old.
A: Can you lend me your charger?
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B: Of course, ________ can. Here you are.
A: I’m afraid I didn’t tidy the house.
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B: ________ fine.
A: Can I borrow your umbrella?
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B: Of course ________ can.
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A: I’m ________ that I’m late.
B: No problem.
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11 Tick ( ü) the correct responses, a or b.

1 Could you open the window?

a Of course I can. ü b That’s all right.

2 Can I borrow £10?

a I can’t, I’m sorry. b I’m sorry, I need it.

3 I’m sorry I’m late.

a That’s all right. b I’m afraid not.

4 Can I sit here?

a I’m sorry I can’t. b Sure, no problem.

5 Could you lend me your phone?

a That’s all right. b Of course I can.

6 Can I borrow your car?

a I’m sorry, I need it. b I’m sorry, I can’t.

7 Could you help me with my homework?

a I’m sorry, I need it. b Of course I can.

8 I’m afraid I didn’t do the laundry.

a No problem. b I’m afraid not.

9 Can you drive me to the station?

a I’m afraid not. b Of course you can.

10 Can you move your chair?

a Sure, no problem. b That’s all right.

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Reading
12 Complete the article with sentences a–i.
Then and now
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When my parents were young, life in London was very different to now. d People usually lived in houses.
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My mum and dad lived in a small house in east London. ___ My mum needed to wash their clothes by hand.
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Working life was different then too. My dad worked in a furniture company and my mum was a secretary. ___
They worked from nine in the morning until five in the afternoon. My dad sometimes worked at the weekends
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to earn more money. ___ It was a cheap way to travel. Not many people owned cars then. They were very
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expensive. ___
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There weren’t many shops at that time. ___ There were no supermarkets back then. The first supermarket
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opened in south London in 1951. There weren’t many clothes shops either. ___
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In their free time, my parents liked listening to music. ___ They didn’t like playing sport, but my dad liked to
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go to football matches. At that time, people didn’t travel to other countries for their holidays. ___

a My dad bought a car when he was 30 years old.

b She worked in an office.

c My mum made a lot of her clothes.

d There weren’t lots of flats like there are today.

e They didn’t have a TV or a washing machine.

f They often went to concerts.

g They usually went to stay with their families.

h Many people took the bus to work.

i My parents bought food from the market.

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13 Complete the sentences with one word from the text.

1 People in London didn’t live in _flats_ in the past.

2 The writer’s mother cleaned their ________.

3 The writer’s father had a job in a ________ company.

4 The writer’s parents finished work at ________ o’clock.

5 Not many people had ________ at that time.

6 In the 1950s a ________ opened in London.

7 The writer’s father liked watching ________ matches.

8 For holidays, people didn’t go to other________.

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Writing
14 Find and correct the mistakes with pronouns in the sentences.

1 My parents visit at weekends and my parents always bring some cake. __they__

2 We went to the supermarket and we bought some vegetables. ________

3 Hakan took me to the cinema and he had a great time together.________

4 Roberto and Sonia met at work. Roberto and Sonia got married last year.________

5 I like music. Play the piano and guitar.________

6 My mother she gave me a new bag.________

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15 Write a story about when you met someone. Make notes about the points below. Then write your story.
•• when and where you met
•• why you were there
•• other people there
•• what you did
•• what you talked about

Write 50–80 words.

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