Gold Experience A1 Progress test 7

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Grammar
1 Put the words in the correct order.
1 My / ill / yesterday. / cat / was

My cat was ill yesterday.

2 teacher / nice. / Our / was

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3 gran / a / Was / doctor. / your?

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4 werent / at / We / school / on Sunday.

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5 9 oclock. / at / was / at / school / I

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6 Were / many / there / bikes / 1883. / in?

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2 Complete the text with was/wasnt, were or werent.

Ian 1) was (+) at summer school last July. The school 2) ____________ (+) very big, but there
3) ____________ () many students. There 4) ____________ (+) lessons every morning but there
5) ____________ () any lessons in the afternoons. There 6) ____________ (+) activities from 2
oclock to 4 oclock every day. In the evenings there 7) ____________ (+) always a film after dinner.
There 8) ____________ () a cinema in town, but on Saturday evenings there 9) ____________ (+)
often a party and sometimes there 10) ____________ (+) a disco in town. On Sundays there
11) ____________ (+) usually a trip to London or Oxford.

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 3 Write sentences about Laura and Charles. Use the past simple.
1 cook / dinner (Laura , Charles )

Laura didnt cook dinner, but Charles cooked dinner.

2 talk / to friends (Laura , Charles )

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3 play / tennis (Laura , Charles )

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4 watch / TV (Laura , Charles )

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5 travel / by car (Laura , Charles )

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6 arrive / at 9.00 (Laura , Charles )

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Vocabulary
4 Match the numbers (16) with the dates (AF).
1 25 B A twenty-first

2 1 ____ B twenty-fifth

3 7 ____ C first

4 30 ____ D second

5 2 ____ E seventh

6 21 ____ F thirtieth

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 5 Write the dates.
1 8/6 the eighth of June

2 10/7 ____________________________________

3 26/2 ____________________________________

4 3/12 ____________________________________

5 17/4 ____________________________________

6 31/10 ____________________________________

6 Complete the sentences with these verbs.

clean help like live stay talk tidies travel visits wash works
1 My mums a teacher. She works in a school.

2 I _____________ in a house in Church Street.

3 My gran _____________ me every summer.

4 I always _____________ my teeth in the morning and evening.

5 I usually _____________ my hair in the shower with shampoo.

6 My friends _____________ to school by bus.

7 I _____________ to my friends on the phone every evening.

8 My brother and I often _____________ our mum and dad in the kitchen.

9 Julie and Sue sometimes _____________ with me at the weekend.

10 I _____________ maths. Its my favourite subject.

11 My brother never _____________ his room.

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 Listening
7 Listen to Molly talking to her grandfather and tick () the six things they talk about.

school

TV ____

mobile phones ____

football ____

weekends ____

a farm ____

a ghost ____

animals ____

8 Listen again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?

1 Mollys grandfather didnt study at school. F

2 The fourteen-, fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds were in one class. ____

3 Mollys grandfather walked to school with his brother. ____

4 They arrived at school at 8 oclock. ____

5 They played football with their father. ____

6 Mollys grandfather helped his father at weekends. ____

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 Speaking
9 Complete the conversation with these words.
about you dinner yesterday Monday what about you yesterday yesterday
A: I washed my hair (1) yesterday. What 2) _____________________ ?
B: I washed my hair on 3) _____________________ .

A: I cooked dinner 4) _____________________ . 5) _____________________ ?

B: I didnt cook (6) _____________________ .

10 Put the conversation in the correct order (16).

____ Correct! Well done.

____ People watched the first DVD in 1991. True or false?

1 Lets check the answers to the quiz.

____ Um I think its false.

____ Is it 1997?

____ Whats the right answer?

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 Reading
11 Read the text. Match the headings (15) with the paragraphs (AE).
1 How they helped their aunt

2 Where they travelled to

3 The village and the woods

4 The evenings

5 How they travelled

A ____
Last summer, Claire and her brother Ben travelled to a very small village in Thailand for a holiday.
They stayed for two weeks with their aunt. She was an English teacher in the village.
B ____
They travelled first by plane and then by bus. Then they walked to the village because there werent any
roads in the village.
C ____
They helped their aunt in her school every day. They played games with the schoolchildren and they
talked to them in English. They enjoyed this a lot.
D ____
A lot of people in the village watched television in the evenings. There was a TV in their aunts house,
but Claire and Ben didnt watch TV. They usually played outside in the park with the village children
after school.
E ____
In the village there were twenty houses and the school. All the houses were very small. There were
woods around the village and there were a lot of wild animals in the woods. The village children
showed Claire and Ben the monkeys and parrots in the trees. It was great!

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 12 Read the text again. Are the sentences true (T), false (F) or is there no information
in the text (NI)?
1 Claire and Ben stayed in a city. F

2 Their aunt worked in the village. ____

3 Their aunt was a nurse. ____

4 They travelled by plane, bus and car. ____

5 They liked the food at the school. ____

6 Claire and Ben texted their friends every day. ____

7 There werent any televisions in the village. ____

8 They sometimes visited the village children at the weekends. ____

9 There were some apartments in the village. ____

10 There were trees near the village. ____

11 Claire and Ben liked the animals. ____

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13 Find these things in the text.

1 a country Thailand

2 two people in the family ________________________________

3 a job ________________________________

4 a language ________________________________

5 two numbers ________________________________

6 two animals ________________________________

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 Writing
14 Read the beginning of a story and complete it with these words.
answered arrived asked listened stayed was
Last summer, Sam, Joe and Lily 1) stayed with their grandma for four weeks in the summer holiday.
Their grandmas house 2) ______________ very big and very old.

When they 3) ______________ , it was very late. Their grandma showed them their bedroom. It was
big and cold. There were three beds, two wardrobes and a sofa in the room. Grandma walked to the
door. Good night, she said.

Whats that noise? 4) ______________ Joe.

It isnt Grandma. Shes in bed now. 5) ______________ Sam.

The children 6) ______________ . Sam and Joe opened the door. Lily stayed under the bed.

15 Write the end of the story in Exercise 14. Write about 3550 words. Use speech marks in
your writing. Choose a final sentence from this list or use your own ideas.
1 Look! shouted Joe. Grandmas playing computer games!
2 It was grandmas old dog, Nick.
3 You can come out now, Lily, said Sam.

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Total: 100

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