MiniMatura Unit 5

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Name: ______________________________________ Class: ____
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LISTENING

1 TRACK 6 You will hear five people talking about domestic chores and
household rules. Match statements A-F with speakers 1-5. There is one extra
statement.

A A rule I disagreed with was changed.

B Some rules are unfair in my opinion.
C It’s annoying that not everyone follows the rules.
D The rules have caused some arguments.
E The chores we have to do are not gender neutral.
F Our rules have led to more quality time as a family.

Speaker 1 2 3 4 5

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VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

2 Match the words in A and B to make collocations. Then complete the sentences.
You may need to change the form of the verbs and pronouns. There is one extra
word in A.

A increase part- find gradual apply enter career

B decline path the job market timer one’s output one’s niche

My boss has asked me to come up with ways our team can increase our output.

1 It’s difficult to _____________________________

enter the job market if you don’t have any qualifications.
2 There’s been a _____________________________
gradual decline in the number of students going
abroad to study.
3 For a long time I didn’t know what to do but eventually I
_____________________________.
found my niche

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4 My sister is a _____________________________,
part-timers she only works Monday to
Wednesday.
5 Marketing is a _____________________________
career path that I have considered.
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3 Complete the sentences with the missing words. The first letters are given.

My mother had a vocation. She worked in medicine all her life.

1 If she’s not careful, she’s going to b____________

urn out. She hasn’t had a holiday in
years and she’s exhausted.
2 There’s been a steady i____________
ncrease in sales but we need to do better if we want to
make a profit.
3 Make sure you focus on your s____________
trenghts in the interview. You need to show
what you’re good at.
4 He’s always lacked p____________
urpose and changes his job at least two or three times
a year.
5 It’s a huge organisation with a w____________
orkforce of over five thousand.
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4 Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first. Use
reported speech.

'I will be there on time!' Greg told me.

Greg told me that he would be there on time.

1 'Don’t take another day off!' said my boss.

My boss warned ________________________________________________
me not to take another day off.
2 'Why don’t you ask Meg about it?' suggested Dave.
Dave suggested _______________________________________________
asking Meg about it.
3 'I’m not going to accept a poorly-paid job,' said Janet.
Janet refused _____________________________________________________
to accept a poorly-paid job.
4 'Sue hasn’t applied for any other jobs,' Mark told me.
Mark said _______________________________________________
Sue hadn’t applied for any other jobs.

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5 'Will you be staying with us one more night?' he asked.

He asked _______________________________________________
if I would be staying with them one more night.
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5 Complete the sentences so that they make sense using appropriate forms of
the words in brackets. Add any necessary words. Use no more than six words.

Greg told me to be (tell/I/be) there on time.

1 I talked to a careers advisor and she

recommended looking for a new job
__________________________________________ (recommend/look for/new job).
2 During the last conference the owners of the factory
__________________________________________
persuaded the workers to sign (persuade/workers/sign) the
new contracts.
3 The boss __________________________________________
begged her not to quit (beg/she/not/quit) her
job but she wouldn’t listen.
4 Everyone _____________________________________________
accused him of stealing (accuse/he/steal)
although no one had any proof.
5 The man ____________________________________________
thanked us for completing (thank/we/complete)
the project on time and we appreciated his words.
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USE OF ENGLISH

6 Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first. Use
between two and five words including the word in capitals. Do not change the
word given.

I’m trying to avoid helping my dad with the gardening. GET

I’m trying to get out of helping my dad with the gardening.

1 We faced many problems when we first went to live abroad. UP

We _________________________
came up against many problems when we first went to live abroad.
2 She bought me a new phone, which compensated for the one she broke. FOR
She bought me a new phone, which ________________________
made up for the one she broke.

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3 I defended my brother when he was having problems with bullies. STOOD

I _______________________
stood up for my brother when he was having problems with bullies.
4 Have you started checking my homework? ROUND
Have you _____________________________
got round to checking my homework?
5 I’ve never liked people who think they are better than me. DOWN
I’ve never liked people who ______________________________
look down on me.
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7 Translate the phrases in brackets into English. Use no more than six words.

We all congratulated him on getting (pogratulowaliśmy mu zdobycia) a new job.

1 My parents ____________________________________
urged me to finish (ponaglili mnie, żebym
skończył) school rather than get a job when I was sixteen.
2 She ______________________________________
explained she had come back (wyjaśniła, że wróciła) only the
day before.
3 The boy ____________________________________
didn’t admit to doing (nie przyznał się do zrobienia)
anything wrong.
4 The prices of houses will ___________________________________
remain constant (utrzymają się
na stałym poziomie) for the next year or two.
5 I can’t believe I ____________________________________
came up with such a (wpadłem na taki) great
idea when I was just a kid. WOW!
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READING

8 Read two texts about teaching certain skills and choose the correct answer, A,
B, C or D.

Text 1.
WORKING IN GRANGETON
Grangeton in Derbyshire isn’t actually a real town but it has most things that you might
expect to find in one. When a new head teacher took over at the Grange Primary
School, he found that both students and staff had become demotivated and disinterested.
He knew that the school needed something special and Grangeton certainly is.

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Grangeton has businesses and services like any other town but these are all run by
and for the school’s students, five days a week, every week of the school year. There is
a town council and a mayor, who is elected each year from the Year 6 students. The
council makes all the important decisions on how the town is run, just like in any normal
town.
So, what can you find in Grangeton? There is a newspaper, a museum and two shops.
A café opens on two mornings a week but it is a Parisian café and French is the only
language that customers can use when ordering food there. There is another reason for
Grangeton, apart from motivating the students. Although they are only primary students,
with a maximum age of eleven, the school believes that they are the right age to gain
some early work experience. Normally, students have to wait until they are fourteen
before getting any work related experience, and even then, it depends on the school.
The students of Grange School are too young to go to companies to work but, with
their own businesses to run, they don’t have to leave the school premises. The school
also invites guests to talk to the students and help them. The BBC helped them to set up
a TV and radio station and local politicians talked to them about democracy and decision
making.
The school is able to find the time to do all this because the work the students are doing
is closely related to the school’s education curriculum. As well as practising a foreign
language in the café, the students use Maths when running their businesses, English
when writing their newspaper and even History in special projects such as when the
council voted that the shops should sell food from different past times.
Grangeton is now considered a great success and a model of how to use children’s
creativity to involve them in the learning process. Even people who you may expect
to be critical of such non-traditional education methods are unable to find fault with what
the students do.
1 Students at Grange Primary School
A leave the school to work in Grangeton.
B show a lack of interest in Grangeton.
C are responsible for what happens in Grangeton.
D only work in Grangeton when they reach Year 6.

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2 Students at Grange School benefit from

A advice from local business leaders.
B more opportunities to visit companies than other primary students.
C earlier work experience than other students.
D the chance to learn a number of different foreign language

3 The businesses and services in Grangeton

A give the students a chance to practise their normal school subjects.
B take up time that could be spent learning.
C will provide employment for students when they finish their education.
D have received criticism from some people.

Text 2.
A WORRYING LACK OF BASIC SKILLS
A recent survey of 3,000 companies has found that employers have a major concern.
They say that more and more young people do not have the basic skills necessary to
get on as employees. These skills include such things as being able to communicate
effectively and work as part of a team. Because of this, many employers think it is
risky to offer work to inexperienced young people, preferring to hire staff who have
already had experience of a working environment somewhere else.
In order to help to prepare young people for work, business leaders and employers are
asking the government to include work experience as part of the curriculum in all
secondary schools. Some schools do offer work experience to their older students but
they don’t have to. As it can cause problems with timetabling and because schools
are judged on exam results rather than how well their students do once they leave
education, work experience is not seen as a priority by many head teachers.
Politicians of all parties have come out in support of these proposals and schools are
encouraged to invite business people to talk to their students and to offer more
careers advice but, so far, no laws have been changed. Not surprisingly, opposition
party politicians have promised bigger changes if they are voted back into power in the
next election.

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Whoever is in charge, it is clear that businesses are no longer willing to spend time and
money teaching young people how to communicate and cooperate with their
colleagues. Youngsters need help before they apply for their first job and schools and
the government should be doing all they can to provide this assistance.

4 Which of these is not true?

A Schools can refuse to offer work experience to their students if they wish.
B Political parties disagree about the importance of work experience for school
students.
C Companies are often unwilling to take on young people who lack work experience.
D Academic achievement is the most important factor in determining whether a
school is performing well.

5 Both texts are about

A motivating school students to learn.
B the importance of work experience for school students.
C what business people think about young people they employ.
D school students running their own businesses.
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WRITING

9 Do the writing task.

Absolwenci szkół średnich coraz częściej szukają pracy zaraz po egzaminach

końcowych. Czy, twoim zdaniem, lepiej jest kontynuować naukę na studiach
bezpośrednio po szkole średniej, czy też najpierw zdobyć pewne doświadczenie
zawodowe, a potem podjąć decyzję, czy studiować, i jeśli tak – to na jakim kierunku?
Napisz rozprawkę na ten temat, w której uwzględnisz różne aspekty (np. koszt i czas
trwania studiów, trafność wyboru kierunku studiów, doświadczenie zawodowe, rynek
pracy).
Wypowiedź powinna zawierać od 200 do 250 słów i spełniać wszystkie wymogi
typowe dla formy wskazanej w poleceniu.

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