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1B GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY

TEST
NAME
MODULE 1

1 Complete the text with the Present Simple, Present 3 Complete the text with one word in each gap.
Continuous or Present Perfect form of the verbs in
brackets. My friend Alan is really keen 0 on fashion. He’s
passionate 1 designer labels and he’s proud
I live in a small town near London. I 0have lived (live) 2
his clothes. He’s 3 shopping and he and
here all my life, but my family roots are in Poland. My his friends hang out in the shopping centre on Saturday
grandmother 1 (live) in Poland and she 2 mornings. He’s also keen 4 music, and he loves
(not speak) English, so when I visit her I always speak clubbing on Saturday nights. He’s an outgoing 5 of
Polish. My father 3 (be) in England since he was person and he has lots of good friends.
twenty-two. He 4 (work) in London, but at the
moment he is in the USA. He 5 (travel) around the
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country on business. My mum 6 (not like) it when
he is away. She 7 (want) to go to Poland while he
is in the USA. At the moment she 8 (try) to find 4 Complete the sentences with the words below. There
some cheap plane tickets on the internet. She 9
are two extra words.
(not buy) plane tickets on the internet before, so she is a
bit nervous. She wants me to help her. I 10
(not mind). I like using the computer. creative fashion-conscious laid-back
nice-looking outgoing shy
/10 well-known well-off

0 Tom is nervous about meeting new people. He’s quite


2 Use the cues to write questions and answers. Use shy .
the Present Simple, Present Continuous or Present
1 Marlene is very and loves meeting new
Perfect.
people.
A: 0 Where does your grandmother live? 2 Adrian isn’t very , but he doesn’t mind
(where / your grandmother / live?) not having much money.
B: 1 3 Lily is really and won’t wear anything
(she / live / in Glasgow) that she hasn’t seen in a magazine.
A: 2 4 Cathy is very and makes beautiful
(she / live / there / all her life?) jewellery from things she finds on the beach.
B: No, but 3 5 Sammy is relaxed and doesn’t worry about anything.
(she / live / there / for twenty years) Sometimes he’s a bit too .
A: 4
(she / like / Glasgow?) /5
B: Yes, very much.
A: 5 TOTAL SCORE /30
(you / like / tattoos?)
B: Yes, 6
(I / think / of getting one). My dad’s got lots.
A: 7
(how long / he / have / them?)
B: 8

(he / have / them / for years)


A: 9
(your mum / like / tattoos?)
B: No. 10
(she / hate / them)

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NAME SKILLS
MODULE 1 1B
Reading Listening
1 Read the article. Are the statements true (T) or 2 2 Listen to six dialogues. Choose the best answer to

false (F)? the questions.

1 No one lived on Tierra del Fuego until the Europeans 1 The boy thinks of himself as
arrived. a British. b Jamaican. c having two nationalities.
2 The tribes on the islands all had a very different 2 The girl wants to learn Italian because she is going to
appearance.
a visit family in Italy. b Italy on holiday.
3 Tierra del Fuego gets its name from its climate. c a fashion show in Milan.
4 Not all the speakers of Kawesqar live on Tierra del 3 The girl doesn’t know
Fuego.
a who Captain Haddock is.
5 Cristina Calderón is the only Yaghan speaker left. b why Marcel chose his avatar. c the Tintin books.
6 Hai Kur Mamashu Shis is about Cristina Calderón. 4 The girl’s brother and his friends
7 You can see some words from the Ona language on the a are much cooler than they were. b always act
internet. like Emos. c are still basically the same people.
8 Tehuelche is the only Chon language still spoken as a 5 The girl
first language.
a sometimes watches football on television.
b sometimes plays football. c hates football.
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6 The girl
a doesn’t want to have a pierced nose.
Tierra del Fuego is a group of islands at the southern tip b wants another tattoo.
of South America. Half of the main island, Isla Grande de c doesn’t know anyone with a pierced nose.
Tierra del Fuego, belongs to Chile and the other half to
Argentina. When the first Europeans arrived on the islands, /6
there were several groups of people living there. These
tribes were hunters. They didn’t wear clothes before the
Europeans arrived even though the climate of the islands
is very cold. They kept warm by covering their bodies in Communication
animal fat and by lighting fires. This is how the islands got
3 Choose the correct responses.
their name: Tierra del Fuego means ‘Land of Fire’.
The four main tribes of Tierra del Fuego looked similar to
the Europeans, but they spoke different languages. One of 0 A: I’m proud of my roots.
these is Kawesqar, and it is now an endangered language. B: a So am I. b So do I. c I am.
There are only about ten speakers on Tierra del Fuego
and another ten on Wellington Island, south-west of Chile. 1 A: I love buying clothes.
However, Kawesqar is in a much healthier position than B: a Me too. b I do. c So am I.
Yaghan. In 2002, there were about 1,685 Yaghan people
2 A: Our family roots are in Germany.
living in Chile, but most of them don’t speak the Yaghan
language any more. In fact, in 2002 there were only two B: a So do ours. b Ours aren’t. c So are we.
native speakers of this language. One of them died in
3 A: I’m not interested in modern music.
2005; this means that a woman called Cristina Calderón
is now the last Yaghan speaker in the world. In 2005 she B: a Neither am I. b I’m not. c Me too.
published a book of Yaghan stories called Hai Kur
4 A: Our school doesn’t allow us to have piercings.
Mamashu Shis, which means ‘I want to tell you a story’.
The other two Fuegian languages, Ona and Haush, are B: a Ours does. b So does ours. c Neither do I.
related and they are very similar to each other. They are
5 A: I hang out with my friends in the shopping centre.
both part of the Chon group of languages. The last native
speaker of Ona died in about 2003, so Ona is now a dead B: a I do. b So am I. c So do I.
language. However, you can see examples of Ona words 6 A: I want to have tattoos when I’m older.
in online dictionaries and there are still a few people who
understand it even though it isn’t their first language. B: a I’m not. b Me neither. c I don’t.
Haush died a long time ago and not much is known about
it now. There is a third member of the Chon language /6
family, Tehuelche, and experts think there are only four
native speakers left. They don’t live on Tierra del Fuego,
but in Patagonia in Argentina. TOTAL SCORE /20

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