END-OF-TERM I REVISION GUIDELINES – GE5

School year: 2022 – 2023

Student’s name: _____________________________________ Class:_________
A. MUST- COVERED CONTENT
I. Listening
 Understand a range of questions which ask for information.
 Understand specific information and detail of short talks.
 Understand, with little or no support, a range of instructions.
 Understand, with little or no support, most of the main points and specific information and detail
of short talk.
 Deduce meaning from short talks.  
II. Reading
 Understand most specific information and detail in short texts.
 Understand, with little or no support, most of the main points of short texts.
 Deduce meaning from context in short texts.  
III. Vocabulary
 Personal adjectives
 Common illness and symptoms
 Food classifiers
 Food groups
 City, town and country
 Descriptive adjectives
 Describe celebrations and festivals
 Birthday/ special day vocabulary
IV. Grammar
1. Adjectives and prepositions

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2. Present simple

3. Quantifiers

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4. Modal verbs

5. Comparatives and superlatives

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6. Past simple

7. Defining relative clauses

8. Present continuous for future meaning

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V. Writing
 Write about an inspirational person
 Write a blog/ food diary
 Write about a fictional place
 Write about a celebration
VI. Speaking
Talk about things related to the following topics:
 People
 Food and health
 Places
 Special occasions

B. TEST FORMAT

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 Grammar Writing
Content Listening Reading Speaking
& Vocab paragraph
Number of
10 40 15 1
Questions
Mark
2 4 2 2 2
Distribution

C. PRACTICE
I. Listening
Task 1: Listen to Dawn talking about her trip to California. Choose the correct answer for
questions 1-3, then answer the questions 4-5. You will hear the conversation twice.
Example: 0. Dawn went to California
A. last week
B. last month
C. last year
Question 1: Dawn booked the concert ticket
A. on the internet
B. over the phone
C. by post
Question 2: Dawn’s plan ticket cost
A. £230
B. £300
C. £350
Question 3: Dawn stayed in
A. a student hotel
B. a family friend’s home
C. a campsite
Question 4. Dawn thought the music was great and very ____________.
Question 5. Dawn spent most days buying _______________.

Task 2: Listen to Joe asking about a French language course. Choose the correct answer for
questions 1-3, then answer the questions 4-5. You will hear the conversation twice.
Example: 0. Lessons for beginners are on
A. Monday
B. Wednesday
C. Friday
Question 1: The best class for Joe is
A. French Conversation
B. Business French
C. French for Tourists
Question 2: Joe’s class begins at
A. 6.30
B. 7.15
C. 8.30
Question 3: How many other students will there be in Joe’s class?
A. 9
B. 14
C. 15
Question 4. Joe should take ___________________ to his first class.
Question 5. Joe will pay £_____________.

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Task 3: You will hear André telling a friend about his tennis lessons. Listen and complete
questions 16-20. You will hear the conversation twice.

Task 4: You will hear a girl asking for information about going to Kendal by bus. Listen and
complete questions 16-20. You will hear the conversation twice.

II. Grammar & Vocabulary

Task 1. Choose the correct answer

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1. There are fields and forests in the _____________.
a village b country c city
2. My mother works in an office _____________ on Pham Hung Street.
a buildings b mountains c hospitals
3. Vehicles must stop at _____________ lights.
a zebra b traffic c crossing
4. You should not walk along the _____________ through the forest at night.
a path b crossing c pavement
5. I’ve got a blocked nose and a sore throat. I must have a ______________.  
a shiver b cold c chest  
6. My little brother has always got a ______________ nose! 
a lost b sick c runny  
7. Giorgio can’t speak because he has ______________ his voice. 
a hurt b lost c         blocked
8. The _____________ displays last New Year’s Eve were amazing.
a lights b firework c lantern
9. On Chinese New Year celebrations there are dragon’s _____________ on the streets.
a rides b files c parades
10. I think my cousins are ____________ because they never help their parents at home. 
a shy b lazy c nervous 
11. Dan is often ____________ when he wakes up, but he is usually cheerful after breakfast! 
a selfish b outgoing c bad-tempered
12. Hania loves giving presents to her friends because she is very ____________. 
a confident b generous c talkative
Task 2. Choose the correct word in each sentence
1. My city has the more/ most spectacular street art in the world.
2. My town is further/ the furthest from the sea than the mountains.
3. We need to look after the city parks better/ best.
4. My grandad rode/ rided his bike to work.
5. He lived/ lives in a wooden house in 1990.
6. They travel/ travelled by horse and cart in the 1970s.
7. They boy who/ which is singing is my friend.
8. Grapes are the fruit which/ where the Spanish eat at midnight.
9. Louis is excited in / about his birthday party next week.  
10. You must / need eat foods that contain vitamins.  
11. You need / should to have some protein every day.
12. The guests is coming/ are coming at 6 pm.
Task 3. Read and complete the words. There is one space for each letter in the word. Two or three
letters are already there.
1 Lots of people can watch this in the street.
p __ __ __ __ __
2 People can carry these lights or hang them from trees.

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 l __ __ __ __ __ __ s
3 People eat a lot of food at this.
f __ __ __ __
4 You can dress up in this at a party for fun.
c __ __ __ __ __ __
5 These sometimes make a loud noise and look beautiful in the night sky.
f __ __ __ __ __ __ __ s
6 These make the street or people’s houses look pretty.
d __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ s
7 In the book, there’s an i __ c __ __ __ __ __ __ e island full of dinosaurs and the children have
lots of adventures there.
8 This is a very e __ c __ __ __ __ g theme park! There’s nothing boring here!
9 The animals here can all fly and talk, it’s a m __ g __ __ __ l place!
10 This mountain is h __ g __ !
Task 4. Look at the pictures and complete the words.
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e/m/u/t/s/o/c
2

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t/s/a/e/f
3

__________

n/o/i/t/a/r/o/c/e/d
4

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t/n/i/a/p

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t/n/e/m/e/v/a/p
6

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r/e/v/i/r
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d/l/e/i/f
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h/t/a/p
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a/r/b/e/z – g/n/i/s/s/o/r/c
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g/n/i/d/l/i/u/b

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Task 5. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb in brackets (past simple tense.
present simple or present continuous tense).
1. In the 1980s, my dad ______________ (walk) to school.
2. One hundred years ago, families often ______________ (live) all together in one house.
3. People ______________ (not use) mobile phones 40 years ago.
4. In the past, children ______________ (play) in the street more than they do now.
5. My mum ______________ (go) to a school in a nearby village when she was a child.
6. They ______________ (travel) by train to the celebration tomorrow.
7. We ______________ (cook) traditional food for the party next weekend.
8. ____________ she come from Finland? No, she ____________not.   
She (come) ____________ from Hungary.   
9. ____________ (be) the window broken? Yes, it ____________ (be).  
____________ the caretaker know about it?  
10. Jenny ____________ not get up late on Fridays. She ____________ (get) up very early.  
Task 6. Write the correct comparative or superlative form of the adjectives.
1. This is ___________________ park in our city. (small)
2. The sports centre is ___________________ than the park near the river. (busy)
3. This is ___________________ part of the town. (noisy)
4. The park near my house is ___________________ than this park. (beautiful)
5. The butterflies in this garden are ___________________ than the ants! (pretty)
6. This is ___________________ building in my city. (ancient)
7. My school is ___________________ than yours. (big)
8. It’s ___________________ city I’ve ever visited. (cold)
9. She is ___________________ at math than me. (good)
10. Summer is ___________________ than other seasons of the year. (hot)
Task 7. Complete each sentence with the correct defining clause (who/ which/ where).
1. They are the lanterns _____________ we hang in our windows.
2. They are the boys _____________ dance through the streets with the dragon.
3. Venice is the other city _____________ has a big carnival celebration.
4. I like the costumes _____________ people wear during the celebration.
5. Tourists _____________come to watch the Carnival are amazed!
6. The school children are gymnasts _____________ perform in the parade.
7. Lanterns are decorations _____________ we hang in our windows.
8. The firework display _____________ ends the celebration lights up the sky.

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III. Reading
Task 1. Which notice (A-H) says this (1-4)? Match sentences 1-4 with notice A-H.

Task 2. Which notice (A-H) says this (1-4)? Match sentences 1-4 with notice A-H.

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Task 3.

Task 4.

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Task 5. Read the article about a man who swam across New Zealand’s Cook Strait. Fill in the missing
information in the space.
David swims the Cook Strait

David Johnson has loved swimming all his life. When he was 27, he swam in a race near his home in the
USA. The sea was very cold and David started to feel unwell. He was taken to hospital but he soon got better
and started swimming again. In 1983, he became the first person to swim from Santa Cruz Island to the
Californian coast.

In January 2004, at the age of 52, David crossed New Zealand's Cook Strait in 9 hours and 38 minutes. The
oldest swimmer before David was only 42 years old. David spent over a year getting ready to swim the
Strait. Then, he and his wife flew to New Zealand so that David could practise for a few weeks there. But,
only days after they arrived, the weather improved so David decided to start his swim. He did it with the help
of a team. 'They were great' David said. 'They were in a boat next to me all the time! After a few hours, I
thought about stopping but I didn't and went on swimming.'

Afterwards, David and his wife travelled around New Zealand before returning to the USA.

1. David Johnson has always enjoyed ________________.

2. David Johnson had problems during a swimming competition in ________________.
3. At ________________ , David crossed the Cook Strait.
4. David spent ________________ practicing swimming across the Cook Strait.
5. David flew to New Zealand with ________________ to practice swimming the Strait.
6. David thought about ________________ while swimming the Cook Strait.

Task 6. Read the article about two strange meetings. Fill in the missing information in the space.
We met twice
My name is Anna King and I was born in a small town called Madison in Wyoming in the centre of the
USA. When I was twenty, I moved to the east coast, to a town just south of New York, to start a job in a
department store. One day, a young man with short brown hair who was shopping in the store looked at me
and asked, 'Are you Michelle Golden?'

'No,' I said. 'But do you mean Michelle Golden from Madison?' He did. I told him that I was at school with

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Michelle. She wasn't much older than me and people often said that we looked just like each other. Then the
young man told me that Michelle was in the same history class at university as he was.

Six months later, I got a better job with another department store and moved to the west coast to work at
their San Francisco store. One day on my way home from work, a young man with short brown hair passed
me in the street and asked, 'Are you Michelle Golden?'

'No,' I answered. 'You asked me that when we met in a shop several thousand miles away, near New York.'

1. Anna was born in a ________________ town.

2. Anna left home and began working in a ________________.
3. Anna was ________________ than Michelle.
4. Both Michelle and the young man went to a ________________ class.
5. Anna got a better job in ________________.
6. Anna was on ________________ when she met the young man for the second time.

IV. Writing
Topic 1: Write about a celebration in your culture.
You should include:
 Name of the festival
 What does it mark?
 A traditional food
 How do they celebrate?

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Topic 2: Write a description (about 60-80 words) of your favourite fictional place.
You should include:

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  The name of the place
 Location
 Description
 Give your personal opinion

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