End-of-year Test

Listening 5 The words in bold are in the wrong sentences.

Write them in the correct sentences. (5 marks)
1  Listen to an interview with environmentalist 1 I fell unfit on the sofa while I was watching TV.
and author Joel Kuder talking about his book on ________
ecovillages. What two main types of ecovillage 2 I’ve got a constant groom in my left arm.
does he mention? (2 marks) ________
_________________________________________ 3 The cure was wearing a white shirt and a black
suit. ________
2  Listen again. Complete the sentences with 4 Scientists have found a pain for this terrible
one or more words. (8 marks)
disease. ________
1 Joel has ____________ environmental issues, 5 Howard is very asleep. He doesn’t do enough
so he already has experience of writing. exercise. ________
2 During his trip, Joel found it difficult to live
without ___________, ___________ and
___________.
Practical English
3 Joel has a ___________ opinion of the
6 Complete the dialogue with the words. There are
American ecovillage. four extra words that you do not need.
4 Joel was impressed by the ___________ from (10 marks)
the ___________ in the Nepalese ecovillage. always could deal don’t far
5 According to Joel, ecovillages ____________ in kind long never fair
popularity in the future.
Esther (1) ________ I use the computer
please?
Vocabulary Ali Not right now. I’m using it.
Esther That’s not (2) ________!
3 Complete the adjectives of personality and Ali I won’t be (3) ________
feeling in the table. Then write the adjectives
below in the correct column. (10 marks) Esther You (4) ________ say that.
Ali I promise! I’ll give it to you in ten
angry calm energetic mean polite
rude minutes. Deal?
Esther OK … it’s a (5) ________.
Positive Negative
Grammar
c__v_r i_p_t___t
b___e t_r_d 7 Complete the sentences with the words. Make
changes and additions to the words if
necessary. (10 marks)
allow arrive be buy continue
1 When did you __________?
4 Match the verbs 1–6 to the definitions A–E.
There is one verb you do not need. 2 I __________ a new bag yesterday.
(5 marks) 3 Have you ever __________ to Turkey?
1 transform ___ A provide food or drink 4 I’m __________ get up late on Saturdays.
2 serve ___ B change the time on a 5 Unless we change our lifestyles, global warming
3 set ___ clock or controls on a ____________ get worse.
4 survive ___ piece of equipment
5 graduate ___ C request a job
6 apply ___ D change something
completely in a positive
way
E stay alive despite injury or
illness

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End-of-year Test
8 Use the prompts and the tense in brackets to
write sentences. (10 marks)
1 Alejandro / walk / along / beach / when / see /
whale. (past continuous)
_______________________________________
2 Juliet / run / park? (past continuous)
_______________________________________
3 what / happen / if / continue / use / fossil fuels?
(first conditional)
_______________________________________
4 David / cinema / tonight. (not going to)
_______________________________________
5 they / begin / project / Monday. (past simple)
_______________________________________
9 Complete the sentences with the correct present
perfect form of the verbs. There are two verbs
you do not need. (10 marks)
answer eat have make
organize shout work
1 Paul ____________ five jobs in the last year.
2 I ________ never ________ Thai food.
3 Sally ____________ several events for her
school.
4 ________ you ever ________ anything from
wood?
5 How long ________ Rajesh ________ here?
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Consolidation
10 Complete the text. (10 marks)
Meet Aelita Andre, the ‘Little Picasso’. She is an
Australian artist who is famous for her abstract art
and for being very young. Aelita learned to paint
before she (1) c_______ walk. Her parents are both
artists and saw the potential in her work from an
early age. Art critics compare her work to Picasso
and Jackson Pollack and many of her works
(2) s_______ for up to £30,000. She was born in
2007 and is the world’s youngest professional artist.
She started showing her work to the public when
she was two years old. People immediately
embraced it. Her paintings are colourful and
energetic. She uses paints and also pieces of tree
branches and birds’ feathers in her paintings. She
has even had an art show in New York. When
interviewed by a (3) j_______ she said, ‘I love
painting – (4) I___ g_______ to paint for 24 hours
without stopping!’ The public and the media are
fascinated by this young artist and her fame
continues to grow all over the world. Many predict
that as Aelita gets older her paintings will
(5) i_______ in value.
End-of-year Test
Reading The final part of our trip was spent in Spain, where I
worked as an assistant to an events organizer in
11 Read the text. What job did both Phoebe and Barcelona. Ella taught English at a private language
Ella find difficult? What positive change did they school and really liked it. My job was quite stressful,
both experience from doing this job? (2 marks) as there were so many things to think about and the
_________________________________________ woman I worked for was the rudest person I have
ever met. But it did make me stronger as a person.
www.nottingham.ac.gb After we returned home, I didn’t know what to do
Careers » Students » Taking a year out » with myself. I read through my blog and realised
Read about what our students have done something. The one thing I loved doing was writing
and talking to people. So I applied for a job as a
Name: Phoebe Coulson Age: 24 journalist. Six months later, I got a job at an online
From: York, England magazine as a junior travel writer. Next month I’m
When I graduated from Nottingham University with going back to Spain to do research for an article on
a degree in Modern Languages I didn’t know what I the top ten cities in Spain. I have been very
wanted to do! So when my best friend Ella asked fortunate to have visited so many amazing places
me to travel around the world with her I immediately and I feel very lucky to have finally got my dream
said yes! Travelling around the world is something I job!
used to dream about doing. We got jobs as
waitresses in a café in York and we saved up
enough money to get us to Australia. While we were 12 Read the text again. Complete the sentences
working in the café we planned out the stages of our with one or more words. (8 marks)
trip. I decided to write a blog about my travels so 1 Phoebe felt ___________ about her best friend’s
that my friends and relatives could follow what I was idea because she had never _______________
doing. ______________________________________.
2 Phoebe gained several new _______________
We started our journey in Sydney, Australia. I got a
while she was working in Sydney. Ella, however,
job as a sales assistant in a shoe shop and Ella
_______________ working in telesales.
worked for a telesales company. We did this for
3 Phoebe’s last job on the trip was as a(n) _____
about three months. The experience taught me how
_________________________. The worst thing
to deal with customers, solve problems and operate
about this job was _______________________.
a cash register. I was good at the job but I didn’t feel
4 It was only when Phoebe _________________
particularly excited by it. I always looked forward to
that she came to understand that she really
coming back to our apartment and writing funny
wanted to be a ____________.
stories and reflections about my day. Ella hated
having to sell things over the phone and felt bored
and miserable the whole time.
After Sydney, we moved on to Thailand and then
Argentina where we (eventually) found work on a
farm. We had to wake up at 5 a.m. every morning to
pick fruit and vegetables. It was physically hard and,
to be honest, we both hated it. We became quite fit
and healthy but we were constantly tired. At the end
of each day I crawled into bed, opened my laptop
and wrote about the day and what I was going to do
on the next stage of the trip. It was the only thing I
looked forward to. One other benefit of this
experience was that it gave me a chance to use my
Spanish.

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End-of-year Test
Writing
13 Write an autobiographical article about your life
so far. Use the questions and the prompts to
help you. Remember to use a variety of
grammatical structures and vocabulary that you
have learned over the year. Write about 125
words. (10 marks)
Paragraph 1: Introduce yourself. What’s your
name? How old are you? Where do you live? What
school do you go to? What’s it like? What do you
like doing in your free time?
Paragraph 2: Describe your life when you were
younger. What do you remember about life then?
What were the best and worst things about life at
that time? Where did you live? What did you use to
do?
Paragraph 3: Describe what you have and haven’t
done in your life so far. Is life better now than it was
when you were younger? Why? / Why not? What
are your hopes, plans and intentions for the future?

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Listening _____ / 10 Vocabulary _____ / 20 Practical English _____ / 10

Grammar _____ / 30 Consolidation _____ /10 Reading _____ / 10
Writing _____ / 10 TOTAL __________ / 100

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