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Foundation Tests

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7 It’s good to a break when you’re tired.

8 I often mistakes with my Englishgrammar!

9 We usually dinner at seven o’clock

10 It’s important to friends when you go

to a new school

1 mark for each correct answer

3 Complete the sentences.

1 I swimming every Saturday

2 My mother always the radio in thekitchen

3 I don’t TV every evening

4 I usually my book before I go to bed

5 At school we tennis on Fridays

4 Unjumble the letters to find the correct words to complete these sentences.

1 I (veren) drink coffee I don’t like it.

2 I like a lot of sleep so I (lyasluu) go to

5 I am (walasy) hungry after swimming.

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Reading

1 Read the text and decide if the statements are true (T)

or false (F).

Under the bridge

An old man sits on a box under a bridge in the centre of

London In summer the bridge is his home He lives by

the river with two boxes and his old guitar At night it is

quiet and dark It’s uncomfortable and sometimes cold

In the daytime it’s noisy A lot of people walk by the river

and they often talk to him

The old man’s name is Danny He doesn’t have another

name He doesn’t have a warm house or a bedroom

either Danny is a street person Every day he gets up

early and goes to the park He usually plays his old guitar

and sings songs for people They often give him some

money for food There is a café near the park and at

lunchtime the man from the café makes Danny a

sandwich and a cup of tea He likes Danny He’s Danny’s

best friend

In winter it’s too cold to live under the bridge Danny

usually sleeps in a special house for street people

He has hot food and a comfortable bed But Danny

likes to live under the bridge It is his home

1 Danny sleeps under the bridge in summer and winter.

2 Danny has a good job

3 Danny can play music.

4 Danny has lunch every day.

5 Danny doesn’t like his life

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Preparation time: one minute Work in pairs.

Read the roles below You have about two minutes for your conversation.

Student A You are going to stay with your friend Talk to her/him about the room you will be in Ask about:

• big or small

• things in it

• colour and decoration

Student B Your friend is going to stay with you

He/she is going to ask you some questions about the room The room is:

5 Choose the correct alternative in each sentence.

1 I’m sorry I can/can’t help you

2 Can/Can’t you learn English at your school?

3 My brother can/can’t swim very well He’s very fast.

4 My dad can/can’t cook My mum always cooks the meals.

5 Can/can’t your sister drive?

1 How/Which do you spell that word?

2 When/What does he go to bed?

3 Who/How is your best friend?

4 Who/Where do you go for your holidays?

5 Which/How magazines does your brother read?

6 What/How do you get home after school?

7 When/Which TV programmes do you watch?

8 Who/How does the shopping in your family?

9 Where/Which do you go with your friends?

10 Where/When is Peter’s birthday?

Writing

7 You are staying with your English friend in England.

Write a short letter to your American friend and tell her

what you do every day Include:

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ticket card book room

1 I have a lot of things in my backpack It’s heavy/crowded.

2 I don’t have much money I want to stay at a big/cheap

hotel

3 I love Paris at night It’s so ugly/beautiful.

4 The hotel is near the motorway It’s noisy/small.

5 On Saturdays the shops are very heavy/crowded.

Grammar

4 Complete the sentences with a, an, some, or any.

1 There are sweets on the table

2 I haven’t got money today

3 Would you like apple? They’re lovely

4 I always take hairdryer on holiday

5 Have a look Are there people in therestaurant?

6 Do you have map of the town?

7 I’m sorry I haven’t got suncream

8 We have guidebook of Rome

9 I usually have water with my dinner

10 I’m really hungry Have you got bread?

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Reading

1 Read the text and answer the questions.

A letter to Blanka

Dear Blanka,

Bournemouth is wonderful! It’s a very sunny town and

the hotel is great Mum and Dad have one bedroom and

Jane and I have another It’s really big and it has a

bathroom too There were some flowers and fruit in the

rooms for us, and a bottle of wine for mum and dad

They were really happy!

There are two swimming pools – one in the hotel and

one in the garden The inside pool is always crowded

but the garden pool is usually quiet In the morning we

swim in the sea because the beach is beautiful

Sometimes it’s very crowded and there aren’t any places

to sit down! The sun is very hot but I don’t have any

suncream so I am pink today!

There is a lot to do and see here in Bournemouth

During the day it’s a quiet beach town but at night it’s

very noisy There are some good nightclubs and lots of

restaurants In the restaurants you can eat food from

many different countries – France, Italy, Greece …

but there aren’t any Hungarian restaurants

After the beach we usually sit in the park and listen to

some music For this evening mum and dad have some

concert tickets but Jane and I are going to a party at the

youth hostel I think it will be fun We can go by bus or

taxi It’s not a long way

Well, see you next week

Lots of love,

Maria

1 What was in Maria’s hotel bedroom?

2 Where are the swimming pools?

3 Why is Maria pink?

4 What sort of food can they eat in Bournemouth?

5 How can they get to the party?

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Read the roles below You have about one minute each

to do your tasks.

Student A You arrive at college on your first day You don’t know where the cafeteria is Ask your partner to direct you.

Now your partner will ask you for some directions Use the map to direct him/her.

Student B Your partner will ask you for some directions

Use the map to direct him/her.

Now you’re looking for the library Ask your partner

to direct you

5 Complete the sentences with much or many.

1 How people are there in the shop?

2 How money have you got?

3 How cars are there in the car park?

4 How T-shirts do you have in your

backpack?

5 How milk do you like in your coffee?

1 Were/Was there many people on the bus this morning?

2 There wasn’t/weren’t a shower in the hotel bathroom.

3 There was/wasn’t some suncream in the bottle but now

it’s empty

4 There was/were one person in the swimming pool this

morning

5 It was/were very quiet last night.

Writing

7 You are going on holiday Write a note to your (English)

friend in your home town:

• ask him/her to feed your cat every day

• offer to buy him/her some chocolates on holiday

• suggest you meet when you return

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ENTRANCE

YOU AREHERE

FITNESSCENTRE

LIBRARY

SHOP BANK BOOK SHOP

CLASSROOMBLOCK 2

OFFICESRECEPTION

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2 Complete the sentences with these words.

develop •give •learn •make •solve

1 Can you me some help with thishomework please I don’t understand it

2 these grammar rules for homeworktonight and do exercise four

3 He’s very clever He can any puzzle

4 They are going to a computer program

to help students learn a new language quickly

5 Do you want your party at home or in a restaurant?

Please a decision

1 My brother rides/surfs the Internet every evening.

2 I always send/post e-mails to my friends when I’m on

holiday

3 My friends often use/download music from the Internet.

4 You have to enter/write your password to use the Internet.

5 When you finish, type/click on ‘turn off computer’.

6 My friend developed her own website/screen

7 Use your keyboard/mouse to click on the right picture.

8 I want some new sounds/speakers for my birthday I can’t

hear anything from these

9 I’d like a computer with a big screen/picture.

10 Your keyboard/printer needs some more black ink.

a don’t use b am not using

3 Quiet a moment! I the Internet for theinformation

a ’m searching b search

4 I never trainers to school

a am wearing b wear

5 We usually fish on Fridays

a eat b are eating

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Reading

or false (F).

Houses of the future

An interesting exhibition is opening at the Newport

Centre this weekend called ‘Houses of the Future’ It

shows different buildings and designs which use

unusual materials and colours We can also learn about

new technology and how this can change the houses we

live in Designers, builders and scientists will be at the

exhibition to talk about these things

There is one special house at the exhibition It is a very

strange shape and colour and is made of types of grass

and earth but it is modern and very strong! We can go

inside this house to look around Everything in the

house is on a computer programme The computer does

everything It opens the doors and switches on the lights

when we ask it to It does the shopping when the fridge

is empty! The computer knows when someone is walking

in the house and garden and can telephone the police

It can make your bed warm and can cook your meals

When you are watching television it asks you if you want

to change programme because it knows what you like to

watch! It’s a very interesting house but I don’t think I

would like to live there Would you?

1 This exhibition is new.

2 The house is different from most houses today.

3 We can go inside all the houses.

4 The computer phones the police when the fridge

is empty

5 The writer wants to buy a house like this

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Student A You agree to go to the cinema with your friend

Talk to him/her and ask about these things.

• what films are on

• suggest which film you see

• ask what time to meet

Student B You agree to go to the cinema with your friend

Use this information to answer his/her questions.

• a comedy, a love story and a detective film

• agree to see your friend’s choice

• arrange to meet at 6.00pm

5 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb

in brackets.

1 Don’t move! I the photo now (take)

2 My sister always with one finger! (type)

3 My friend and I our next holiday at the

moment (plan)

4 ? Let’s stay in (rain)

5 Where do you to eat? The Italian

restaurant is good (want)

6 Complete the text with the correct form of the words in

the box.

be (x2) •do •find •have •like •read

think •understand •write

I often (1) problems with my French

homework I (2) French and I can

(3) letters in French quite well but

sometimes I can’t (4) the right word At

the moment I (5) an exercise about

tenses It (6) quite difficult but I

(7) I can do it I (8)

easy conversations and the stories in our book We

(9) one about Paris at the moment and

it (10) very good

Writing

7 You are at a friend’s house on Saturday morning E-mail

your sister and arrange for the three of you to go

shopping this afternoon.

• tell her where you are

• tell her when and where you want to meet

• tell her what you want to buy

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2 Unjumble the letters to find the correct words to complete these sentences.

1 The film was about an enormous

(stromen) that lived in the forest.

2 I would like to live on an (sdalin) in

the middle of the sea

3 When I tell my sister a (koje) she never

3 Complete the sentences.

1 Many people believe in/on ghosts.

2 My friend and I often argue on/about pop music.

3 My brother always asks at/for more ice cream at dinner.

4 You go I’m waiting at/for a phone call.

5 Everyone laughs on/at me when I wear that hat!

Grammar

5 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

1 I (find) this box in the garden yesterday

2 My sister (leave) the party very earlybecause she was tired

3 My friend (meet) his girlfriend lastmonth

4 I (hear) a strange noise last night

5 My parents (see) that film two weeks ago

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Reading

1 Read the text and match headings a–f to paragraphs

1–5 There is one heading you do not need.

f The loch museum

The Loch Ness Monster

1

One of the most famous natural mysteries in Great

Britain is the ‘Loch Ness Monster’ People all over the

world know about it There are books, films and

television programmes about it but it is still a great

mystery Is ‘Nessie’ real or not?

2

Loch Ness is a large lake in Scotland The water is very

cold and very deep Around the lake there are

mountains, forests and farms It is a beautiful part of

Scotland and many people go there for holidays and to

walk in the countryside

3

People say that a large monster lives in the loch and

there are lots of photographs of it The people who

believe in the monster think it is like a sea dinosaur

and lives at the bottom of the loch When it’s hungry

it comes up and takes sheep and cows from the farms

Some people think it has a family of little monsters

that it gives food to

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The people who live near the loch say that it is real

But ‘Nessie’ is good for tourists A lot of people come

to Loch Ness to try to see the monster and spend lots

of money there You can buy everything from clothes

to towels with ‘Nessie’ on them! This is good for the

area

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Most scientists don’t believe in ‘Nessie’ A few years

ago some scientists looked at the bottom of the loch

with special cameras but they didn’t find anything

They say it’s all a joke Who is right? People like

mysteries It’s good to know that nature still has some

secrets!

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Student A You want to go swimming with your friend Have a conversation with your friend.

• greet him/her

• suggest you go swimming

• arrange a day and a time

Here is your diary for the weekend:

Saturday

9 – 12 Shopping with Mary

3 – 5 Ben’s football matchSunday

1 – 3 lunch at Gran’s

5 – 6 homework

Student B Your friend is going to make a suggestion Have a conversation with your friend.

• greet your friend

• agree with the suggestion

• arrange a day and a time

Here is your diary for the weekend:

1 Did you do your homework ?

a a day ago b yesterday

2 How did they leave?

a long ago b long time

3 We watched a good programme on television

a yesterday b an evening ago

4 The new teacher started

a three weeks ago b last three weeks

5 The accident happened a

a long time ago b long time

7 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the

words in brackets.

1 When (the accident happen?)

2 I (not wait for) my friend after school

3 He (not put) petrol in the car this

morning

4 The teacher (tell) us to be quiet

5 On holiday we (camp) near the sea

6 Yesterday his car (wake up me) at five

o’clock in the morning

7 (you know) Tom when he was a child?

8 (you ask) your parents for some money?

9 I (run) home after the cinema because

8 You are on holiday with your friend in your country.

Write a postcard to your English teacher Tell him/ her:

• where you are at the moment

• what the place is like

• what you did yesterday

• what you’re planning to do tomorrow

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4 Mary and Edward are Jenny’s

5 Sue and Peter are Jenny’s

confident •fit •generous •hard-working •intelligentlazy •mean •nervous •popular •relaxed

1 Peter is always before exams

2 My best friend’s father is so He givesher £50 a week to spend!

3 Jim is so He hates spending money

4 Everyone likes my cousin She’s very

5 My friend studies all the time She’s

6 I’m not very because I don’t do muchexercise

7 Get out of bed – it’s lunchtime! You are so

Jenna and Beth met when they were three years old

Now they are both 24 and they are still best friends

This is what they say about each other

Jenna

I liked Beth a lot when we were at school She was very

relaxed, and she was the prettiest girl in the school!

She was also very good and hard-working Not like me!

Today we’re still very different Beth is more artistic

than I am and she works for a photographer Every

day she has the same routine She’s married and has

her own house She likes staying at home with her

husband or going for walks with her dog She’s still

very pretty and popular and she’s still my best friend

Beth

Jenna is an intelligent girl She’s also more active than

I am I’m the laziest person in my family! Jenna goes

swimming and does a lot of exercise I sometimes go for

a walk with my dog but that’s all Jenna has a dog too

but she’s so busy that she doesn’t have time to go for

walks – her mum takes the dog out She lives at home

with her mum and dad Jenna is always out She likes

dancing and going out with her friends She’s very

popular and more confident than I am She’s also very

kind and I can talk to her about my problems I think

we’ll be friends until we’re very old grandmothers!

1 Who uses a camera in her work? Jenna / Beth / both

2 Who isn’t home very much? Jenna / Beth / both

3 Who has a dog? Jenna / Beth / both

4 Who isn’t married? Jenna / Beth / both

5 Who wasn’t good at school? Jenna / Beth / both

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1 Janet is more/most confident than her brother.

2 Our house is not as tidy than/as my grandparents’ house.

3 My friend is lazier as/than I am.

4 My mother is the more/most intelligent person in our

family

5 Computers are less/least expensive now than they were

last year

6 He’s terrible! He’s the worse/worst driver I know.

7 It’s the cheaper/cheapest magazine in the shop.

8 No one watches it It’s the less/least popular programme

on TV

9 My aunt is a better/best cook than my mother.

10 Mandy’s happy She got the better/best results in the class.

5 Complete this text with the/a/an/-.

I went to (1) town centre this morning

and I saw (2) lovely blue dress in

(3) ‘Coolclothes’ window I met my friend

and we went in and looked at (4) dress

It wasn’t very expensive so I bought it I also bought

(5) new shirt for school

(6) School shirts have to be white so

it wasn’t difficult to choose one! My friend was thirsty so

we had (7) cup of tea in

(8) ‘Barnes’s Cake Shop’ We’re both

on (9) diet so, unfortunately, we can’t

• something you like about him/her

• something about his/her physical appearance

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Speaking

Student A

You are a customer at Barnes’s Cake Shop Look at

the menu Student B is the waiter/waitress and will take your order

• choose a drink, a sandwich and a cake

• ask for the bill

Student B

You are a waiter/waitress at Barnes’s Cake Shop.

Look at the menu Student A is a customer Take his/her order.

Drinks

Tea 60pCoffee 95pCoke £1.00Orange juice 70pHot chocolate £1.50

Sandwiches

Chicken £2.50Cheese £2.00Sausage £1.50

Cakes

Chocolate £2.00Apple £2.00Cherry £2.00

Barnes’s Cake Shop

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active •cheap •confident •crowded •healthyheavy •lazy •noisy •popular •tidy

1 Someone phoned the police because the party was too

6 My cat is very He sleeps all day

7 My grandfather is still quite He walksevery day

8 People who want to be actors are usually

people

9 My mum gets angry if my room isn’t

10 I can’t carry these books They’re too

1 My keyboard/computer is broken I can’t use letters ‘r’ or ‘t’.

2 I can’t find my credit ticket/card I must phone the bank.

3 I bought a guide notebook/book when I went to Paris.

4 Tony won two plane tickets/cards for New York!

5 I like living on a(n) island/forest It’s good to be near

the sea

6 No one can solve the story/mystery of the dead horses.

7 I spent two hours surfing the computer/net last night.

8 Can you type/download the information from the website

and send it to me?

9 I lost my bookcase/backpack when I was on holiday

10 Children are often frightened of monsters/fish, but they’re

not real

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Test 1

Reading

or false (F).

Transport in the future

People are getting very worried about how we can travel

in the future In England a lot of people live in a small

area and so there are lots of motorways and main roads

More and more cars are using these roads every day and

they are so crowded that there are always traffic jams

and accidents

Thirty years ago, many families had a car Now, families

often have three or four, and the cars are getting bigger

and faster It’s not a surprise that our roads are so

crowded

So, what will happen in the future? Perhaps people can

travel together, sharing one car rather than taking two

Perhaps we can walk or cycle more and get fitter!

Perhaps we can have a better public transport system

so that people can travel to work by bus or train and

not by car For this, the trains and buses need to be

faster, bigger and cleaner than they are now and we

need more of them The trains today are dirty, crowded

and expensive They are also often late so people don’t

want to travel on them

We can’t continue to put more cars on the roads If we

do, one day in the future England will be just one big

traffic jam and no one will move!

1 A lot of people drive cars in England

2 Most families don’t have a car.

3 More people can go in one car.

4 The trains in England are very cheap

5 The trains in England are often late

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4 Put these words into the correct order to make

sentences.

1 for / have / What / you / do / usually / breakfast?

2 fruit / Was / any / in / there / hotel room?/ your

3 books / you / Did / holiday? / on / read / any

4 you / buy / Did / computer / town / in / today? / a

5 my / did / long / brother? / How / you / ago / meet

5 Complete the sentences with the correct form,

comparative or superlative, of the words in brackets.

1 It was the (cheap) meal on the menu

2 My writing is (bad) than yours

3 Jane is (lazy) than her sister

4 Mrs Marks is the (popular) teacher in

the school

5 The weather in England is (warm) than

in Scotland

6 Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the

verbs in brackets.

1 Wendy (return) from holiday two days ago

2 (you find) your backpack yesterday?

3 Tony (not go) swimming on Saturday

4 The teacher (be) late this morning

5 Where (you usually play) tennis at the

weekends?

6 What (you do) at the moment?

7 I’m sorry, I (not understand) his jokes

8 He (send) me an e-mail a week ago

9 This exercise (be) difficult Please

help me!

10 Why (you change) schools?

1 Anna and Lucy are going shopping this afternoon

2 Anna wants to buy a new television.

3 Lucy’s parents want a new computer.

4 ‘Exelectrics’ sells televisions.

5 The girls arrange to meet at the post office

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