Name __________ Class ____________

TEST A

GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY NAME ___________________

MID-YEAR
1 Read the text. For gaps 1-7, use the correct form of the word in capitals.
A Shocking Event

1 One of my ______ memories is of the EARLY

nuclear disaster at the Three Mile Island

2 Nuclear Station When it ______ HAPPEN

3 my big brother, Joseph, and I ______ WATCH

television at our grandmother’s house.

4 We ______ eating dinner and we were JUST FINISH

watching an important football match.

Our team had just kicked off when my

5 grandmother ______ into the living RUN

room. She used to have a radio in the

kitchen and she had just heard that a

nuclear accident had occurred in America.

6 We ______ by a journalist reporting on TELL

the situation that the atmosphere near the

Station was very tense. I remember that

7 time like it was yesterday. We ______ FORGET

shocking events like that easily, do we?T

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2 Read the text. For gaps I-VII, choose 1, 2, 3 or 4 to complete each gap correctly. Circle the answer
you choose.
My Hero!

The word ‘hero’ means different things to different people. For some, a hero must be a 1__________ who
has done something to change the world, like campaign for 2__________ rights or fight against
discrimination.

My hero is my Uncle Max. He was born 3__________ a poor working class family in 1932.
Unfortunately, however, because his family didn’t have 4__________ money he had to leave school when
he was thirteen.

His first job was in a little restaurant in Manchester. While working there, he 5__________ the washing up
and cleaned the floors—sometimes he worked fourteen hours a day. My uncle 6__________ very well
with the chef at the restaurant and he taught my uncle how to cook.

My Uncle Max is now a well-known chef in a glamorous 7__________ restaurant in London.

I 1 somebody 2 person 3 personality 4 human

II 1 people 2 man 3 human 4 woman

III 1 into 2 inside 3 along 4 onto

IV 1 lot 2 some 3 a bit 4 much

V 1 made 2 got 3 had 4 did

VI 1 got on 2 met up 3 joined in 4 got together

VII 1 fast-food 2 take-away 3 seafood 4 self-service

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3 Choose the correct answers.
0 My brother __________ be a punk.

a     used to b    would c    have to d     liked

1 The students’ tests __________ at the moment.

a     marked b    are being marked

c     have been marked d     are marking

2 The earthquake __________ terrible for the local people.

a     can’t be b     must be

c     can’t have been d     must have been

3 I have to __________ my bike repaired before the summer.

a     make b     ask c    get d    take

4 We __________ here for three hours and I’m tired.

a     have been waiting b     had been waiting

c     are waiting d    wait

5 You were asleep when I phoned, __________ you?

a    were b    did c    weren’t d    didn’t

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4 Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.
0 I’m not well-off/laid-back/ready-made, but I’m not poor.

1 The castle is one of our most famous landscapes/ lifestyles/landmarks.

2 I’m not keen about/on/of foreign food.

3 Let’s meet up/off/out one day after school.

4 Would you like to pay for/in/on cash or by credit card?

5 We live in a terraced/detached/bungalow house and our nearest neighbours are twenty metres away.

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5 Read the text. For gaps 1-6, use the correct form of the word in capitals.
Online Avatars

Online you can create an avatar and make it

1 look __________ like you want it to! What does my avatar look like? Well, EXACT
I’m good-looking

2 but he is really __________! He's got a large round face and a low forehead. He’s got ATTRACT

3 __________ arms and legs but he’s really MUSCLE

4 tall and __________. He has also got black SKIN

5 __________ hair that he doesn’t wash very often. WAVE

Like me, my avatar isn’t very fashion-conscious;

6 he doesn’t care about being __________. When he goes out in his virtual world he STYLE
likes to wear jeans, a T-shirt and his favourite baseball cap.

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NAME ______________________________ SKILLS MID YEAR A
Reading
1 Read the article. Are the statements true (T) or false (F)?
1 Not everyone from Wallonia is a Walloon. ______

2 Walloon is spoken only in Belgium. ______

3 Kashubian is the only minority language in Poland. ______

4 Kashubian is similar to Polish. ______

5 The Griko people don’t all live near each other. ______

6 Not many young people speak Griko. ______

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Europe is full of minority language speakers. Some, such as the Basques, Catalans, Welsh and Corsicans,
are large groups and well known all over the world. Others are less well known. Here are a few you might
not have heard about.
The Walloons live in the southern half of Belgium in an area called Wallonia. Everyone from Wallonia is a
Walloon. However, they don’t all speak the Walloon language. The majority of the population speak
French. Others speak other minority languages such as Picard or Lorraine. Walloon itself is now almost a
dead language with only 10 percent of the population speaking it as their first language. Most of the
speakers are old people, and when they die, Walloon probably won't exist in Wallonia. However, it is also
the FIrst language in a few villages in northern France and it may survive there.
The area of northern Poland near Gdansk is home to the Kashubians. About 300,000 people call themselves
Kashubian and speak Kashubian. Poland also has another minority language in the south of the country:
Silesian. Some words in Kashubian and Silesian are the same in Polish and Poles can understand both
languages. So are Kashubian and Silesian actually different languages or a form of Polish? Different people
have different opinions, but the Kashubians and Silesians agree that they have got their own language and
that this language is definitely not Polish. A much smaller group of people are the Grikos of Italy. There are
about 40,000 Grikos in total and they live in two different parts of southern Italy. One group live in the far
south-west, near the island of Sicily, while the other group live in the far south-east, on the Adriatic coast.
Their roots are in the Greek communities who lived in the area thousands of years ago. About 20,000 of
these people speak Griko as their first language. Unfortunately, most of them are older people; the younger
generation want to speak Italian. However, even the Italian speakers are proud of their Griko roots, and the
Griko people celebrate their culture every year with a night of singing and dancing in the town of
Melpignano.

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Listening
2 14 Listen to six people and choose the correct answers.
1 The meal:
a    is difficult to make. b     is unhealthy.
c     isn’t very tasty.
2 The girl:
a     has moved to a different home.
b     has had something done to her room.
c     has been living somewhere else for a while.
3 The boy:
a     has changed from one urban tribe to another.
b     has joined an urban tribe for the first time.
c     has stopped being in an urban tribe.
4 The event:
a     is celebrated every year.
b     is being celebrated for the first time.
c     has been celebrated once before.
5 Constance Lytton:
a     did something illegal. b     saved someone’s life.
c     stopped a crime.
6 The girl wasn’t disappointed by the boy’s:
a     face. b     body. c     clothes.

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Communication
3 Complete the dialogue with one word in each gap. The first letter of each word has been given.
Boy: Here we are. This is the restaurant I was telling you about.

Girl: It 0looks very nice. 1L___________ sit down and look at the menu. What’s calamari?

Boy: It’s a 2k___________ of seafood, I 3t___________ .

Girl: I love seafood.

Boy: Me 4t___________ .

Girl: 5
S___________ we have some?

Boy: Okay. Here's the waiter. Excuse me, we’re 6r___________ to order. We’ll both have calamari,
please.

Waiter: I’m sorry, but I’m 7a___________ we’re out of seafood.

Boy: Oh dear.

Girl: 8
N___________ mind. Let’s have chicken instead.

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