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1  Listen and underline the two key words in 3 Complete the dialogue between Boubacar (B)
each sentence. and Rosie (R) with words from the box.

1 I really like shopping for clothes on the internet. about According concerned
2 Fabio buys all his music online. convinced far If people views
3 The first thing to do is create an account. What (x 2)
4 I only check my emails once a day.
5 Sarah designs websites and she loves her job. B Hi, Rosie. What are you reading?
R Oh, it’s an article about e-books. 1 __________ to
2 points for each correct answer 10
recent research, sales are falling and traditional
2  Listen to two friends talking about books are becoming more popular again. 2
smartphones. Are the underlined words key __________ are your 3 __________ on e-books?
words? Choose ‘yes’ or ‘no’. B 4
__________ you ask me, e-books are much more
convenient. Who wants to carry lots of heavy
Lucia Is that your new 1 smartphone?
books on holiday, for example? With an e-reader,
Jorge Yes, it is. Do you like it? you can have as many books as you like – that’s the
main reason why they’re so popular. 5 __________
Lucia Yes, I do. It 2 looks great. Are you pleased
do you think 6 __________ that?
with it?
R Good point, but some 7 __________ like the feel of
Jorge Yes, I am. I absolutely love it!
a book in their hands, and others say they can read
Lucia Why do 3 you like it so much? more easily from a page than from a screen.
Jorge Mainly because I can listen to 4 music on it B As 8 __________ as I’m 9 __________ people like
on my way to work. that are just old-fashioned! Everyone needs to be
Lucia I think I 5 might get one soon. I still have an able to read from a screen nowadays.
old-fashioned mobile. R Well I’m 10 __________ that both traditional books
1 Yes / No and e-books will continue to be part of everyone’s
2 Yes / No lives, so maybe we can have the best of both
3 Yes / No worlds.
4 Yes / No
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5 Yes / No

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4 Complete the sentences with the correct form of 5 Complete the sentences with a word/phrase from
the words from the box. the box and the correct form of the verb in
brackets.
EXAMPLE:
I want to join a gym but the membership price is a lot in common in touch on well
£40 per month! That’s a lot of money! out up

able achieve communicate connect 1 Nina is very popular so she

employ fit friend happy ____________________ with everybody in her
inform member secure language class. (get)
2 We try to ____________________ with our best
1 It can be difficult to keep a __________ going if friends every weekend to have dinner together.
you live a long way from each other. (meet)
2 Some people believe that money can buy 3 I ____________________ with my brother; he
__________, but for me it’s about good health and loves sport and music but I prefer reading and the
the people you love. cinema. (have)
3 Karl hasn’t had a job for three months, so he’s 4 Pat is feeling sad because he
learning a new language to help him find ____________________ with his friend Raul. (fall)
__________. 5 Since my girlfriend has been away, I
4 Nearly all airports carry out a number of ____________________ with her every day by
__________ checks nowadays – apart from a email. (keep)
passport check, your luggage will be examined and
X-rayed. 2 points for each correct answer 10
5 A slow internet __________ is really annoying as it
can take ages to do anything.
6 You’ll find your __________ levels improve if you
do regular exercise like walking or cycling.
7 Margot’s __________ to type has improved a lot
since she did an online course.
8 Some older forms of __________, like writing
letters, have largely been replaced by more modern
technology.
9 Hiro’s greatest __________ at school was coming
top of his year in maths.
10 You should find all the __________ you need in
this document, but let me know if you need more
help.

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6 Complete the sentences with the present simple, 7 Choose the correct option a–c to complete the
present continuous or present perfect form of sentences.
the verb in brackets.
1 Last week this shirt cost £12, but today it was
1 I ____________________ (know) Ahmet for three __________, so I only paid £6.
years. We met when we were at school together.
a bargain
2 Tariq isn’t at home because he
b half-price
____________________ (spend) all day at the
c deal
beach and won’t be back until later.
3 Ana’s quite shy and so she
____________________ (not/like) loud people. 2 Why don’t you get this tablet? There’s a 20%
4 Our friend Yun travels a lot for his new job and __________ on it at the moment.
____________________ (go) to eight different a discount
countries since he started. b consumer
5 Some people ____________________ (talk) with c purchase
their friends every day, even if it’s only through
social media sites.
6 Sorry, but you’ve missed Daniel – he 3 Would you like me to help you carry your
____________________ (just/go) for lunch with __________? It looks heavy!
his brother. a special offer
7 Ellen ____________________ (call) last night to b item
say that unfortunately she can’t come to the cinema c shopping
tomorrow.
8 Piotr and Yulia had an argument yesterday and they
4 They didn’t spend long in the shop as they only
____________________ (not/speak) to each other
needed four __________.
since.
9 I ____________________ (not/meet) my colleague a deals
Johanne because we only communicate through b purchasers
email so I don’t know what he looks like. c items
10 Fernando is at his French class. He
____________________ (learn) the language for 5 Sadiq bought three books for the price of one –
his trip to France next month. what a __________!
1 point for each correct answer 10 a bargain
b customer
c consumer

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8 Read the article about meeting people on the assumed that her real mother didn’t want to know her
internet. Decide if the sentences are true (T) or or have any contact with her, but nearly seventy years
false (F). If there is no information about this, later she received a friend request on Facebook …
choose ‘not given’ (NG). from an eighty-four-year-old! After many years, Annie
had finally managed to find her daughter by searching
Meeting again… on the internet! the internet, and using the few details she knew about
For most people, the internet is part of our daily lives. the family who had given her a new home. They have
There are so many things it can be used for; from now met several times and are in regular contact. The
shopping online to studying for a degree, or lost letters cannot be replaced, but they can now talk
researching your family history. But for some people, about all the lost years.
sites like Facebook or YouTube have had a much more 1 The internet has helped thousands of people find
dramatic effect. Here are the stories of two people lost friends and relatives.
whose lives have been dramatically changed through T / F / NG
the power of the internet. 2 Tomoko has made a video to try to find her sister.
Tomoko’s story T / F / NG
3 It isn’t certain yet if Jade is Tomoko’s twin.
Tomoko was one of two twin girls born in Tokyo in T / F / NG
1987, but separated at birth and adopted by two 4 Annie had been looking for her daughter for a long
different families. When she was four years old, time.
Tomoko moved with her new parents to Scotland. T / F / NG
Years later, while she was studying there at university, 5 Fiona found her real mother through reading a
she received a strange phone call from one of her letter.
friends. It turned out that he’d had seen a girl that he’d T / F / NG
thought was Tomoko on a YouTube video. The
similarities were astonishing, apart from the fact that 2 points for each correct answer 10
the other girl spoke with an Australian accent. When
9 Read the article again and complete the
Tomoko watched the video for herself, she was
sentences. Use one, two or three words from the
amazed, and decided to find out more about this
text for each answer.
intriguing ‘double’. She eventually discovered that
Jade, the girl in the film, is a singer, and had recently 1 Tomoko has spent most of her life living in
moved to the United States. Like Tomoko, she had ____________________.
been born in Tokyo, on exactly the same day. The girls 2 The girl in the video looked like Tomoko but her
finally met up in London a few months later, and ____________________ was different.
medical tests proved that they are actually sisters. 3 Jade travelled from ____________________ to
Annie’s story meet Tomoko.
4 Fiona’s ____________________ didn’t let her read
Imagine meeting your daughter again after a gap of Annie’s letters.
sixty-eight years. Hard to believe, but that’s exactly 5 It wasn’t true that Annie wanted no
what happened to Annie Walberg from Connecticut, ____________________ with her daughter.
USA. Annie was only sixteen when she gave birth to
her precious daughter and was unable to keep her, so 2 points for each correct answer 10
one-day-old Fiona was given to another family in
1945. For the next twenty-five years, Annie wrote
hundreds of letters to the daughter she missed so badly,
but Fiona’s new family thought it was best not to pass
them on to her. Naturally, as she grew up, Fiona
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10 Choose the correct answer from the words in

italics.

1 Excuse me, but that bag belongs / is belonging to

me!
2 We asked several people but none of them was
knowing / knew where the post office was.
3 Unfortunately, most local shops are / are being
more expensive than supermarkets.
4 A How was your trip to Venice last month?
B It was fabulous! We really loved / were really
loving it!
5 If you think / are thinking about getting a new car,
you should take advice from someone first.
6 She bought the red shirt because the blue one didn’t
feel / wasn’t feeling as comfortable to wear.
7 I might be at the shops for most of tomorrow
because I’ll be looking / look for some new shoes
for work.
8 A Why didn’t you answer when I called you
earlier?
B Sorry, I must have been studying and I didn’t
hear / wasn’t hearing the phone ring.
9 Doesn’t it seem / Isn’t it seeming unusual that no
one else has turned up for the meeting?
10 If we owned / were owning a bigger house, I’d fill it
with beautiful furniture!

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