Venture First Schools Unit Test 3a

Name: _______________
Venture into First

Class: _______________
for Schools
Unit 3 Test A Date: _______________
• Vocabulary
1 Complete the sentences using a phrasal verb with up and say, speak,
talk or tell.
1 I’ve ____________________ up listening to her. She ____________________ so many
lies.
2 How do you ____________________ up with him? He always ____________________
back to you like that.
3 Ever since Erica ____________________ up with the solution to that impossible
problem, the boss has ____________________ very highly of her.
4 If you don’t ____________________ your mind you’ll ____________________ up
regretting it. It’s important to express yourself.
5 ‘I ____________________ hi but she didn’t reply. ’ ‘She probably didn’t hear you.
You’ll have to ____________________ up.’
/10
2 Complete the sentences with the -ing or -ed form of the verbs and
words about writers and writing.
1 The p____________________ of the film wasn’t very ____________________
(interest), so we turned the TV off and went to bed.
2 Molly was so ____________________ (horrify) when her favourite
c____________________ died that she stopped reading the book.
3 The entire s____________________ was set in a ____________________ (charm)
little village by the sea.
4 Let’s go and see this play. The c____________________ say that it’s
____________________ (amuse), and I want to see something that makes me
laugh.
5 I was so ____________________ (frustrate) by the e____________________ of the
story. I hate it when you don’t know how the story finishes.
/10
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Name: _______________
Venture into First
Class: _______________
for Schools
Unit 3 Test A Date: _______________
• Grammar
3 Write a sentence about each situation using a modal of deduction
(past or present).
1 I’m certain that Tim likes soap operas. He watches them all the time.
Tim ____________________________________________________________
2 Rob and Mia are late. Maybe they’re stuck in traffic.
Rob and Mia ____________________________________________________________.
3 That’s not Jennifer’s bike. Hers is red.
That ____________________________________________________________.
4 They definitely weren’t happy together. They got divorced.
They ____________________________________________________________.
5 I can’t find my mobile. Perhaps it fell out of my bag in the taxi.
My mobile ____________________________________________________________.
6 Everyone is talking about Sarah’s party. It sounds like it was a lot of fun.
Sarah’s party ____________________________________________________________.
/12
4 Write sentences using the prompts and the correct narrative tenses.
1 Kay/play/a lot of sport/while/live/Rome
_________________________________________________________________________
2 Max and Nina/live together/five years before/get married
_________________________________________________________________________
3 Pete/work too hard/when/fall ill
_________________________________________________________________________
4 after/get home/we/notice/something missing
_________________________________________________________________________
5 I/not know/Anna/long time/when/find out/truth about her
_________________________________________________________________________
/10
Name: _______________
Venture into First
Class: _______________
for Schools
Unit 3 Test A Date: _______________
5 Complete the sentences with the correct narrative tense form of the
verbs below.
1become see arrive

____________________ finish after
(Ed) famous takehe ____________________ those five
detective novels?
2 By the time we ____________________, they ____________________ (already)
dinner.
3 Julie ____________________ an accident while she ____________________ to work
this morning.
4 I ____________________ Tim until he ____________________ off his hat.
/8
• Fluency
6 Write complete answers to the questions (around 50 words each).
1 What’s the most entertaining thing that’s ever happened to you?
2 Have you ever forgotten to do something important? What?
3 What is your favourite book? Describe it.
4 Describe a mysterious situation that interests you. Make deductions about it.
5 Has anyone ever talked you into doing something? What happened?
/30
7 Write a story in 150–190 words. Your story must begin with this
sentence:
Tom got off the train and as the train left, he realised he was holding
the wrong suitcase…
Include:
• where Tom was going and why
• a deduction
• what had happened to the suitcase and how the owner got it back.
/20
Total: /100

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