LISTENING
Time: 10 minutes
Task 1
For questions 1-5, listen to the dialogue and decide whether the information in the sentences is true (A) or false (B). Write the correct letter (A or B) in your answer sheet.
1. The children didn’t go to the Theme Park because it was raining.
2. The children are allowed to do whatever they want.
3. There are no dinosaurs in the museum.
4. Kevin can feed the snakes hotdogs with ketchup.
5. The children are expected to be back at the bus at 4.30.
Task 2
Listen to the dialogue between Tom and his friend Sally. For each question, 6 – 10, choose the right answer (A, B or C). You will hear the conversation twice.
Example: 0 Tom is going to do ….
A) the cleaning
B) the cooking
C) the shopping
6. He needs a present for his … birthday.
A) grandfather’s
B) father’s
C) friend’s
7. Tom’s father is … Tom’s friend’s father.
A) older than
B) younger than
C) of the same age as….
8. … is giving a CD as a present.
A) Tom’s sister
B) Nobody
C) Tom
9. Tom thinks a … will be a good present.
A) cookery book
B) DVD
C) fishing book
10. Tom’s friend wants to take a … kitten.
A) white
B) black
C) grey
Transfer your answers into the answer sheet!
READING
Time: 20 minutes
Task 1
Match the texts (A-D) and the questions (11-15).
A. Naill
Naill is Irish. There are eight people in his family. They live on a farm in the west of Ireland. There are nine rooms in the farmhouse.
B. Alex
Alex is Greek. He lives in a villa near the sea with his parents and his brother. There are six rooms in their home.
C. Pedro
Pedro is Spanish. He lives in a block of flats with his parents and grandparents. The flat is in the centre of the city next to the train station. It’s got five rooms and a small balcony.
D. Tiffany
Tiffany is English. She lives with her mother in a small house. The house is one floor-it’s a bungalow. It’s got four rooms and a garden.
11 Who lives near the sea?
12 Who lives with one parent?
13 Who can hear trains from his home?
14 Who lives in a house with one floor?
15 Whose father and mother are farmers?
Task 2
Make one text putting the paragraphs A-E into the correct order from 16-20 in your answer sheet.
16 –
17 –
18 –
19 –
20 –
A Finally, the wonderful school has the wonderful director, Ant de Boer. He wants his students to learn that it is very important to care for nature. The school motto says: Southern Cross aims to be a ‘School for the Planet’. And it really does!
B In one lesson, students apply the principles of mathematics to the study of local wildlife. Younger students count how many kinds of animals drank at the nearby river during the night. Older students measure how much water the animals drank.
C Look around your classroom. Do you see students sitting at desks? Are teachers writing on a board and giving lectures? At Southern Cross School, near the famous Kruger National Park in South Africa, things are different.
D After math, in language classes students usually talk. In one recent debate, students discussed an important question: should people give water to wild animals during a dry season?
E Both the park and the school are home to wild animals such as giraffes, impalas, and wild pigs. Students at the school study the same subjects as other students in South Africa. But at Southern Cross the teachers and students go out into the wild to learn.
Task 3
Read the text and choose the correct answer.
A man from silent films
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in 1889 in south London. His father died when he was a child, and the family didn't have much money. Charlie first performed on the theatre stage at the age of five.
After he joined Frank Karno's company, he went to the USA in 1914 and in his first year there he acted in 35 of Hollywood's early films. These were 'silent films', before the invention of cinema sound the actors couldn't speak, but acted out their feelings in their faces and movements. Charlie Chaplin became one of the most famous actors in the world, and everyone knew and loved the role he played: a man with a black hat, big shoes, a little moustache and unusual walk.
With other actors, Chaplin formed a film company, and he started to direct his own films. Later, after sound arrived, he began to talk on screen and he wrote the music for one of his last films, "Limelight". Twenty-five years before his death in 1977, he had political problems in the USA and moved away to live in Switzerland. Most people still like his films today.
21 Chaplin was born more than 100 years ago.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Doesn't say.
22 Не lived in London before he moved to the USA.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Doesn't say.
23 Не was 35 when he got his first role.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Doesn't say.
24 Не never spoke in his films.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Doesn't say.
25 Chaplin had his film company and was a very rich man.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Doesn't say.
Transfer your answers into the answer sheet!
USE OF ENGLISH
Time: 15 minutes
Task 1
For questions 26 – 35 read the text below and decide which word (A or B) fits
the space best. There is an example (0) done for you.
To the top of the world
The coldest walk in the (0)__A__ is probably the one Alan Chambers and Charlie Paton did a few years (26)_____ when they walked to the North Pole. To prepare for the trip they (27) _____ a day in a freezer at a temperature of – 30 ° C. But they were more comfortable there than at the North Pole (28)_____ they weren’t tired or hungry.
They began their 1,126 km walk (29) _____ 8 March 2000 and (30)_____ at the North Pole 70 days later. A plane took them straight home from there. Charlie had his 30th (31) ____ during the trip and he was surprised when Alan gave him (32)_____ small cake with a candle on it. Alan said the (33)_____ moment for him was Charlie’s face when he (34)_____ that cake.
The strange thing is that more men (35)_____ walked on the moon than on the North Pole.
0 A world B planet
26 A ago B since
27 A passed B spent
28 A because B but
29 A at B on
30 A reached B arrived
31 A celebration B birthday
32 A the B a
33 A best B better
34 A saw B watched
35 A did B have
Task 2
